31 Days of Comic-Con: More Eisners

There are a bunch of Eisner Awards handed out each year and while I covered some of the heavy hitters the other day, here are the rest.  Brian K. Vaughan took the Best Writer award and his accomplice on Saga took the Best Penciler/Inker and Cover Artist.  Really, if you haven’t taken the opportunity to read Saga, you really should – it’s really good and these are not the first awards they’ve won, and probably won’t be the last.  But there are more good comics in the nominee and winner lists below.

Best Graphic Album—New
Wonder Woman: The True Amazon by Jill Thompson (DC Comics)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint
Demon, by Jason Shiga (First Second)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material
Moebius Library: The World of Edena, by Jean “Moebius” Giraud et al. (Dark Horse)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips (at least 20 years old)
Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Colorful Cases of the 1930s, edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books (at least 20 Years Old)
The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, edited by Trina Robbins, Gary Groth, and J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)

Best Writer
Brian K. Vaughan, Paper Girls, Saga (Image)

Best Writer/Artist
Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team
Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)
Jill Thompson, Wonder Woman: The True Amazon (DC); Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In (Dark Horse)

Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)
Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)

Best Coloring
Matt Wilson, Cry Havoc, Paper Girls, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); Black Widow, The Mighty Thor, Star-Lord (Marvel)

Best Lettering
Todd Klein, Clean Room, Dark Night, Lucifer (Vertigo/DC); Black Hammer (Dark Horse)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism
The A.V. Club comics coverage, including Comics Panel, Back Issues, and Big Issues, by Oliver Sava et al., www.avclub.com

Best Comics-Related Book
Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, by Michael Tisserand (Harper)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation, by Carolyn Cocca (Bloomsbury)

Best Publication Design
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, designed by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)

Best Webcomic
Bird Boy, by Anne Szabla

Best Digital Comic
Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)

Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award:
Anne Szabla

Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing:
Jack Kirby, William Messner-Loebs

Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award:
Mark Andreyko, Joe Ferrara

Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award:
Comicazi: Robert Howard, David Lockwood, Michael Burke, Somerville, MA