Image Comics Soars with Eagle Awards!

Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Posted By: Kevin Powers

Image Comics sweeps nominations for 2007 Eagle Awards!

Fans from across the pond have honored Image Comics with an overwhelming amount of nominations in their annual Eagle Awards, the most prestigious comic book award in the United Kingdom.

"Receiving this many nominations is an unprecedented honor," said Image Comics Executive Director Eric Stephenson. "Everyone at Image is very happy with the nominations and thanks all of our fans who participated."

Nominations range from Image Central creators such as Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman, Jamie McKelvie, Jay Faerber and Robert Kirkman to titles such as Proof and The Walking Dead. In addition, Image founder Jim Valentino's imprint, Shadowline, has specifically received an immense amount of support for everything from their editor, Kris Simon, to titles such as Bomb Queen and Cemetery Blues.

Fans can still vote for their favorite creators at www.eagleawards.co.uk. For more information on the Image Comics nominated, please see www.imagecomics.com.

Image Comics is a comics and graphic novels publisher formed in1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Since that time,Image has gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers inthe United States . There are currently four partners in ImageComics (Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and JimValentino), and Image is currently divided into four major houses(Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline andImage Central). Image comics and graphic novels cover nearly everygenre, sub-genre and style imaginable, offering science fiction,romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and moreby the finest artists and writers working in the medium today.Visit www.imagecomics.com.

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