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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Who's the man?
Arnold Drake is the man.
Read Tom Spurgeon's minute-by-minute coverage of the Eisners
Here's the Pulse with the Golden/Silver Age panel, where Drake premiered his song
Seeing Drake at the Bill Finger Award panel was pretty cool, too. Mark Evanier and Jerry Robinson start things off pretty quietly. Drake comes in not even five minutes late and he walks very slowly to the dais with his hands behind his back. I wonder how this is going to shape up. Then the Doom Patrol co-creator proves he's as quick as anyone else in the room with his take on Siegel & Shuster, Mort Weisinger, Jack Schiffer, Bill Finger, Marvel, DC and the whole way this industry treats its creators. I even learned Otto Premigner was a comic book fan. I've always enjoyed Drake's original Doom Patrol stories (he was wearing a DP shirt at the panel and then a different one at the Eisners) but now I have even more respect for him. One Hell of a raconteur and someone who proves he loves the industry by holding it to a higher standard than most.
I don't really have much to add regarding the Eisners ceremony. The only thing of note that I can think of is that on the other side of the aisles there were two guys in their 30's who were really excited when their favorites won. I mean, they went nuts. They'd hoot, holler, high five each other and start ripping up their program because they were just so enthusiastic. I don't think the people who win Eisners remember anything about them by Sunday but I guess these guys still took it pretty serious. I don't begrudge them but it was quite a sight.
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