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[Comic-Con recipient archive](https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/past-recipients/past-recipients-1980s/)", "Distinguish an annual category award from the program as a whole and from a physical trophy.", "Treat hosting of Kirby records within an Eisner archive as archival placement, not evidence that a Kirby win was an Eisner win.", "Require category-specific attribution before interpreting a credited creator, publisher, or team member as an award recipient." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Program identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Registry anchor vr.tr.kirby-awards; attested names linked to their sources", "why_it_matters": "Prevents namesake references and successor programs from becoming duplicate or merged identities." }, { "name": "Award edition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "1985, 1986, or 1987 for documented Kirby editions", "why_it_matters": "Locates recognition within the historical program rather than a successor's chronology." }, { "name": "Eligibility interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Publication dates or year, with the governing rule and uncertainty recorded", "why_it_matters": "Separates the award year from the period of work being evaluated." }, { "name": "Recognition target", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Issue, series, album, comics publication, individual, creative team, or career recognition", "why_it_matters": "Controls what entity an award claim can legitimately describe." }, { "name": "Historical category label", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Exact edition-specific wording, with any normalized comparison label kept separately", "why_it_matters": "Avoids silently imposing later category names or equivalences." }, { "name": "Recognition status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Nominated, awarded, inducted, disputed, or unverified; 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[Comic-Con history](https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/history/)", "questions": [ { "text": "What responsibilities did Fantagraphics and Olbrich each hold in each Kirby edition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-organizing-roles-q01" }, { "text": "Which records distinguish Jack Kirby's ceremonial participation from any decision-making authority?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-organizing-roles-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "editions-and-selection", "name": "Editions and selection", "description": "Reconstruct award cycles and the procedures producing their results.", "rationale": "An agent cannot infer eligibility or selection rules from a winner list or from modern successor procedures.", "layers": [ { "id": "award-and-publication-time", "name": "Award and publication time", "description": "Distinguish edition labels from eligible publication periods and ceremony dates.", "findings": [ { "id": "separate-award-year", "name": "Separate award year", "description": "Comic-Con's archive labels the 1985-1987 Kirby editions against the preceding publication years; exact eligibility cutoffs require separate evidence. [Comic-Con recipient archive](https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/past-recipients/past-recipients-1980s/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which award edition and eligible publication interval does this record concern?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "separate-award-year-q01" }, { "text": "How did the edition handle cover dates, actual release dates, and series spanning multiple years?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "separate-award-year-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "nomination-and-voting", "name": "Nomination and voting", "description": "Record the evidenced route from eligibility to nomination and selection.", "findings": [ { "id": "edition-specific-selection-rules", "name": "Edition-specific selection rules", "description": "Treat nominator eligibility, voter eligibility, ballot construction, and counting rules as research requirements rather than importing Eisner or Harvey procedures.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who could nominate and vote in this Kirby edition, and which contemporary rule or ballot establishes that?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "edition-specific-selection-rules-q01" }, { "text": "What selection stages and tie-resolution rules were actually used?", "kind": "definition", "id": "edition-specific-selection-rules-q02" }, { "text": "What can an agent validate when the result survives but the governing ballot or rules do not?", "kind": "action", "id": "edition-specific-selection-rules-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "categories-and-recognition-targets", "name": "Categories and recognition targets", "description": "Represent what each Kirby category recognized without flattening distinct kinds of achievement.", "rationale": "Awards for an issue, series, creative contribution, and career establish different claims.", "layers": [ { "id": "category-history", "name": "Category history", "description": "Preserve category wording and presence by edition.", "findings": [ { "id": "category-continuity-needs-evidence", "name": "Category continuity needs evidence", "description": "Maintain original labels and require evidence before treating renamed or apparently similar categories as continuous.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact Kirby category label appears in the edition's ballot or announcement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "category-continuity-needs-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does a wording change indicate a renamed category, changed eligibility, or inconsistent transcription?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "category-continuity-needs-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-craft-and-career", "name": "Work, craft, and career", "description": "Distinguish the recognized object and achievement.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-target-boundaries", "name": "Recognition target boundaries", "description": "Record whether recognition concerns a particular publication, a creator's contribution, a team, or a career; the archive includes a Kirby Hall of Fame category in 1987. [Comic-Con recipient archive](https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/past-recipients/past-recipients-1980s/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the category recognize the comic, named contributors, or an individual's career?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recognition-target-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "What supports classifying this recognition as a competitive award or Hall of Fame induction?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognition-target-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "results-and-attribution", "name": "Results and attribution", "description": "Turn historical award records into defensible recognition claims.", "rationale": "Compressed credits and incomplete lists can inflate recipient counts or turn mentions into wins.", "layers": [ { "id": "recipient-resolution", "name": "Recipient resolution", "description": "Connect award wording to the correct publication and contributors.", "findings": [ { "id": "credit-is-not-automatically-recipient-status", "name": "Credit is not automatically recipient status", "description": "Preserve title, issue, named contributors, and publisher as distinct roles until the category and announcement establish who or what received recognition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which work, issue, edition, or creative team does the abbreviated Kirby result identify?", "kind": "definition", "id": "credit-is-not-automatically-recipient-status-q01" }, { "text": "Which names are explicitly recipients, and which appear only as bibliographic credits?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "credit-is-not-automatically-recipient-status-q02" }, { "text": "Can this record support a personal award claim for every credited collaborator?", "kind": "action", "id": "credit-is-not-automatically-recipient-status-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "claim-evidence", "name": "Claim evidence", "description": "Assess the support and completeness of nomination and result records.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-recognition-status", "name": "Documented recognition status", "description": "Attach each nomination, win, or induction claim to the relevant source passage; absence from a winners-only list does not establish absence from the ballot.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source document a nomination, final result, induction, or later recollection?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-recognition-status-q01" }, { "text": "Is the surviving list complete enough to support this proposed count or negative claim?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-recognition-status-q02" }, { "text": "How should an agent retain conflicting credits or results while awaiting stronger evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "documented-recognition-status-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "closure-and-successor-boundaries", "name": "Closure and successor boundaries", "description": "Represent the program's ending and the relationships that followed it.", "rationale": "Historical succession and shared archival presentation can otherwise erase the Kirby program's separate identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "termination-chronology", "name": "Termination chronology", "description": "Separate the final award cycle from decisions ending the program.", "findings": [ { "id": "closure-date-qualification", "name": "Closure date qualification", "description": "Comic-Con's narrative places the ending with Olbrich's 1987 departure, while its recipient archive describes disbandment in 1988; retain these as differently framed accounts until reconciled. [Comic-Con history](https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/history/), [recipient archive](https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/past-recipients/past-recipients-1980s/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which date marks the final presentation, the decision to discontinue, and any formal dissolution announcement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "closure-date-qualification-q01" }, { "text": "Which contemporary records explain the transition without conflating these events?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "closure-date-qualification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "successor-program-relations", "name": "Successor program relations", "description": "Link subsequent programs without transferring award identities.", "findings": [ { "id": "two-distinct-successors", "name": "Two distinct successors", "description": "Comic-Con identifies the Harvey and Eisner programs as emerging after the Kirbys ended, associating Fantagraphics with the Harveys and Olbrich with the Eisners. [Comic-Con history](https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/history/)", "questions": [ { "text": "What administrative, category, or archival continuity is documented separately for each successor?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "two-distinct-successors-q01" }, { "text": "How should an agent present combined historical recognition while retaining each award's original program identity?", "kind": "action", "id": "two-distinct-successors-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This description is based on recall; no sources were consulted.", "Exact category names, eligibility rules and voting arrangements should be checked against contemporary award records.", "The organisational dispute preceding the establishment of the Eisner and Harvey Awards requires source verification before describing its details." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Kirby Awards this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Recognising achievement in comic-book works and their creators.", "Documenting the reception and professional recognition of comics published during the mid-1980s.", "Providing award credits in creator biographies and publication histories." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Kirby Awards this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Confusing the Kirby Awards with the later Jack Kirby Hall of Fame.", "Treating Kirby, Eisner and Harvey award wins as interchangeable.", "Confusing the year an award was presented with the publication year of the recognised work." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Kirby Awards this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Eisner Awards", "difference": "A distinct comics award programme established in 1988 following the end of the Kirby Awards." }, { "name": "Harvey Awards", "difference": "A distinct comics award programme established in 1988 and named after Harvey Kurtzman rather than Jack Kirby." }, { "name": "Jack Kirby Hall of Fame", "difference": "A hall-of-fame honour associated with the Harvey Awards, rather than the Kirby Awards programme of 1985-1987." }, { "name": "Jack Kirby", "difference": "The comics creator commemorated by the award's name, rather than the award programme itself." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Kirby Awards this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "What contemporary ballots and rules establish nomination rights, voter eligibility, selection stages, and tie handling for each Kirby edition?", "What publication cutoff rules governed issues and series, and how were cover-date or release-date discrepancies handled?", "Which category differences across editions reflect formal changes rather than later archival wording?", "Can contemporary announcements reconcile the 1987 ending narrative with the archive's 1988 disbandment statement?", "Which complete nominee lists and original recipient announcements survive to verify attribution, Hall of Fame procedure, and disputed credits?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 14, "questions": 27 } }