With the epic San Diego Comic Con on the horizon, so are the comic industry’s own sort of “Oscar” awards: the Eisner Awards!  One of the biggest awards goes to premiere retailers from around the U.S. that are really high points in promoting the industry.  While the awards themselves won’t be released until San Diego Comic Con actually happens, here are the finalists, chosen from a large nominee list,  for the 2015 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award:

• Collector’s Corner, Randy Myers Jr., Baltimore, MD
• Packrat Comics, Jamie Colegrove and Teresa Colegrove, Hilliard, OH
• A Shop Called Quest, Lee Raymundo, Claremont, CA
• Travelling Man, Nabil Homsi, Leeds, United Kingdom
• TR!CKSTER, Anita Coulter, Berkeley, CA