Eisner Winners

The Eisner Awards were announced at Comic Con San Diego on July 22. Below are the winners.

• Best Short Story: “Post Mortem,” by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark
• Best Single Issue (or One-Shot): Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil, by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben
• Best Continuing Series: Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory
• Best Limited Series: Daytripper, by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
• Best New Series: American Vampire, by Scott Snyder, Stephen King, and Rafael Albuquerque
• Best Publication for Kids: Tiny Titans, by Art Baltazar and Franco
• Best Publication for Teens: Smile, by Raina Telgemeier
• Best Humor Publication: I Thought You Would Be Funnier, by Shannon Wheeler
• Best Anthology: Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, edited by Paul Morrissey and David Petersen
• Best Digital Comic: Abominable Charles Christopher, by Karl Kerschl
• Best Reality-Based Work: It Was the War of the Trenches, by Jacques Tardi
• Best Graphic Album-New: Return of the Dapper Men, by Jim McCann and Janet Lee
• Best Graphic Album-Reprint: Wednesday Comics, edited by Mark Chiarello
• Best Adaptation from Another Work:The Marvelous Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young
• Best Archival Collection/Project-Strips: Archie: The Complete Daily Newspaper Strips, 1946–1948, by Bob Montana, edited by Greg Goldstein
• Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic Books: Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer Artist’s Edition, edited by Scott Dunbier
• Best U.S. Edition of International Material: It Was the War of the Trenches, by Jacques Tardi
• Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Asia: Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa
• Best Writer: Joe Hill, Locke & Key
• Best Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit
• Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team:
• Skottie Young, The Marvelous Land of Oz

• Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art): Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad
• Best Cover Artist: Mike Mignola, Hellboy, Baltimore: The Plague Ships
• Best Coloring: Dave Stewart, Hellboy, BPRD, Baltimore, Let Me In, Detective Comics, Neil Young’s Greendale, Daytripper, Joe the Barbarian
• Best Lettering: Todd Klein, Fables, The Unwritten, Joe the Barbarian, iZombie, Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom, SHIELD, Driver for the Dead
• Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism: ComicBookResources, produced by Jonah Weiland
• Best Comics-Related Book: 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, by Paul Levitz
• Best Publication Design:
• Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer Artist’s Edition, designed by Randall Dahlk

• Hall of Fame
  • Judges’ Choices: Ernie Bushmiller, Jack Jackson, Martin Nodell, Lynd Ward
  • Elected: Mort Drucker, Harvey Pekar, Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman
• Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award: Nate Simpson
• Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award: Patrick McDonnell
• Bill Finger Excellence in Comic Book Writing Award: Del Connell, Bob Haney
• Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award: Comics & Vegetables, Tel Aviv, Israel, Yuval Sharon & Danny Amitai

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