This year’s Pioneer Award, which will be given out Friday night during the GCAs, goes to underground comics creator Larry Fuller. Unfortunately, there’s not a great deal on the web about him. The following is from the ECBACC press release:

“This year’s Pioneer Award recipient is Larry Fuller, an artist and creator who is credited with producing ‘underground’ comics, books that celebrate racial and sexual independence and are often political in nature. Past recipients include creative artist and educator Turtel Onli (2006), Bertram Fitzgerald of Golden Legacy Comics (2005) and cartoonist Samuel Joyner (2004).” Here’s a bit more about him from the ECBACC site.

I expect to learn more about him Friday night, but as of now this is the most I can tell you about him. Sorry.