It’s award season, and we’ve just heard that Marian Churchland is a finalist for the 2010 Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award, which will be presented in July as part of the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards ceremony in San Diego, CA.

Marian’s graphic novel Beast also received quite a bit of consideration as a potential nominee in the very loaded Joe Shuster Cartoonist category this year.

Congratulations Marian!