Friends of Lulu president Valerie D’Orazio posted a press release on her blog today about the annual Lulu Awards moving from the San Diego Comic-Con to the MoCCA Art Festival in New York. This means the awards will be given out more than a month earlier than usual on Saturday, June 7 at 8:30 p.m.

The quote from treasurer Marion Vitus sums up why they’re moving: “We are excited to bring an award event to MoCCA Artfest, and just as excited not to be competing with the multitude of great events at San Diego Comic-Con this July. We are able to reach a larger group of people eager to see wonderful creators recognized for their hard work in this field.”

It makes sense they’d want to move it to a smaller, more intimate and more comic-focused event like MoCCA, versus trying to compete with the plethora of big events that make up SDCC nowadays.

Check out the organization’s website for more info on them.

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