Eisner Awards Thread

The Eisners show has just started. Any predictions?

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books Sup Forums likes don't win

books Sup Forums hates wins

Sup Forums ignores 75% of the eisners because all they know are big two and popular image books by former big two writers

Best Lettering

Dan Clowes, Patience (Fantagraphics)
Brecht Evens, Panther (Drawn & Quarterly)
Tom Gauld, Mooncop (Drawn & Quarterly)
Nick Hayes, Woody Guthrie (Abrams)
>Todd Klein, Clean Room, Dark Night, Lucifer (Vertigo/DC); Black Hammer (Dark Horse)
Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)

Best Digital Comic

>Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
Edison Rex, by Chris Roberson and Dennis Culver (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
Helm, by Jehanzeb Hasan and Mauricio Caballero, www.crookshaw.com/helm/
On a Sunbeam, by Tillie Walden, www.onasunbeam.com
Universe!, by Albert Monteys (Panel Syndicate)

Alright, I'm putting you on the spot. What shit is up for awards, that hasn't been storytimed here, that is SO fucking awesome that it will make my pants expode?

Failing a full explosion, the title or two that will leave the most wood in my shorts.

Noah Van Sciver wins something

Best Webcomic

>Bird Boy,by Anne Szabla,bird-boy.com
Deja Brew,by Taneka Stotts and Sara DuVall (Stela.com)
Jaeger, by Ibrahim Moustafa (Stela.com)
The Middle Age, by Steve Conley, steveconley.com/the-middle-age
On Beauty, by Christina Tran, sodelightful.com/comics/beauty/

Vaughn is no way a better writer than Busiek

Ive lost respect for the whole ceremony when they gave an award to Avengers Arena

Best Writer

Ed Brubaker, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed, Velvet (Image)
Kurt Busiek, Astro City (Vertigo/DC)
Chelsea Cain, Mockingbird (Marvel)
Max Landis, Green Valley (Image/Skybound); Superman: American Alien (DC)
Jeff Lemire, Black Hammer (Dark Horse); Descender, Plutona (Image); Bloodshot Reborn (Valiant)
>Brian K. Vaughan, Paper Girls, Saga (Image)

Much like the Oscars, things that people enjoy a d rave about (say Rebirth Superman ) are ignored and pretentious hipster trash that sneers at fun Super hero comics wins.

Best Writer/Artist

Jessica Abel, Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars (Papercutz/Super Genius)
Box Brown, Tetris: The Games People Play (First Second)
Tom Gauld, Mooncop (Drawn & Quarterly)
Tom Hart, Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir (St. Martin’s)
>Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)

Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)

Mike Del Mundo, Avengers, Carnage, Mosaic, The Vision (Marvel)
David Mack, Abe Sapien, BPRD Hell on Earth, Fight Club 2, Hellboy and the BPRD 1953 (Dark Horse)
Sean Phillips, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed (Image)
>Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)
Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)

2salty4me

It's because superhero comics are genuinely shit. A superhero comic winning an award would e like giving a McDonald's five Michelin Stars. You can enjoy cheap assembly line entertainment but at some point you're going to have to accept that it's not art.

Tomasi is a shitty writer
but Yang should've been nominated

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

Equinoxes, by Cyril Pedrosa, translated by Joe Johnson (NBM)
Irmina, by Barbara Yelin, translated by Michael Waaler (SelfMadeHero)
Love: The Lion, by Frédéric Brémaud and Federico Bertolucci (Magnetic)
>Moebius Library: The World of Edena, by Jean “Moebius” Giraud et al. (Dark Horse)
Wrinkles, by Paco Roca, translated by Erica Mena (Fantagraphics)

I get that, but they should at least be nominating the BEST quality hipster trash.

And the capeshit that DOES get nominated is complete garbage. Mockingbird for best writing?

>Creepax wasn't nominated
why

>implying capeshit artists have not won for art countless times

it was more creative than Rebirth Superman

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

>The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
Goodnight Punpun, vols. 1–4, by Inio Asano, translated by JN PRoductions (VIZ Media)
orange: The Complete Collection, vols. 1–2, by Ichigo Takano, translated by Amber Tamosaitis, adaptation by Shannon Fay (Seven Seas)
The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime, by Toshio Ban and Tezuka Productions, translated by Frederik L. Schodt (Stone Bridge Press)
Princess Jellyfish, vols. 1–3, by Akiko Higashimura, translated by Sarah Alys Lindholm (Kodansha)
Wandering Island, vol. 1, by Kenji Tsuruta, translated by Dana Lewis (Dark Horse)

Best Humor Publication

The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp, by Lee Marrs (Marrs Books)
Hot Dog Taste Test, by Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn & Quarterly)
>Jughead, by Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm (Archie)
Man, I Hate Cursive, by Jim Benton (Andrews McMeel)
Yuge! 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump, by G. B. Trudeau (Andrews McMeel)

you wouldn't know art if it fucked your mother

Shade not getting nominated for anything proves the Eisners are a farce

Boy you sure do sound like a pretentious hipster. Real success is a panel of people giving you a cheaply made plaque. Real success isn't creating something widely consumed and loved by hundreds of thousands.

Busiek should win but I bet it's going to go to BKV

Issue 7 of Rebirth Superman is probably the best, most genuinely Superman comic in a decade.

>not Superman Beyond 3D #2

casual pls

New Super-Man #7 is better
Keatinge's Adventures of Superman #16 is better
read more books

The Bill Finger Excellence in Comics Writing Award goes to William Mesner-Loeb & Jack Kirby

that's awesome
maybe DC will reprint some of Messner-Loebs' Flash
>never get an omnibus of Jonny Quest and Jezebel Jade

What order are they announcing these in?

This one is fine. Clean Room has some great lettering, but I would have preferred an independent cartoonist like Gauld or Evens get it.
Based on the books listed, should have been Brubaker, possibly Busiek or Lemire.
Del Mundo was robbed.

Saga is a good comic, but it doesn't deserve to win for its 2016 issues.

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
Comic Riffs blog, by Michael Cavna and David Betancourt, www.washingtonpost.com/new/comic-riffs/
Critical Chips, edited by Zainab Akhtar (Comics & Cola)
PanelPatter.com, edited by Rob McMonigal
WomenWriteAboutComics.com, edited by Megan Purdy and Claire Napier

Best Comics-Related Book

blanc et noir: takeshi obata illustrations, by Takeshi Obata (VIZ Media)
Ditko Unleashed: An American Hero, by Florentino Flórez and Frédéric Manzano (IDW/Editions Déesse)
>Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, by Michael Tisserand (Harper)
The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood, vol. 1, edited by Bhob Stewart and J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)
More Heroes of the Comics, by Drew Friedman (Fantagraphics)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Brighter Than You Think: Ten Short Works by Alan Moore, with essays by Marc Sobel (Uncivilized)
Forging the Past: Set and the Art of Memory, by Daniel Marrone (University Press of Mississippi)
Frank Miller’s Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism, by Paul Young (Rutgers University Press)
Pioneering Cartoonists of Color, by Tim Jackson (University Press of Mississippi)
>Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation, by Carolyn Cocca (Bloomsbury)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

Mark Brooks, Han Solo (Marvel)
Dan Mora, Klaus (BOOM! Studios)
Greg Ruth, Indeh (Grand Central Publishing)
Francois Schuiten, The Theory of the Grain of Sand (IDW)
>Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)
Brian Stelfreeze, Black Panther (Marvel)

>blanc et noir: takeshi obata illustrations, by Takeshi Obata (VIZ Media)
Why was the Death Note artbook nominated? Did literally no other book related to comics come out?

Best Coloring

Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Green Valley (Image/Skybound)
Elizabeth Breitweiser, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed, Velvet (Image); Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta (Image/Skybound)
Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)
Laura Martin, Wonder Woman (DC); Ragnorak (IDW); Black Panther (Marvel)
>Matt Wilson, Cry Havoc, Paper Girls, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); Black Widow, The Mighty Thor, Star-Lord (Marvel)

Better yet why the fuck is it coming out now? I bought the Japanese one nearly a decade ago, back when Death Note was still hip and new.

My money's on Saga winning best comic again.

Wait, no, that's the CBR Top 100. Never mind.

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

Federico Bertolucci, Love: The Lion (Magnetic)
Brecht Evens, Panther (Drawn & Quarterly)
Manuele Fior, 5,000 km per Second (Fantagraphics)
Dave McKean, Black Dog (Dark Horse)
Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)
>Jill Thompson, Wonder Woman: The True Amazon (DC); Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In (Dark Horse)

These awards are bullshit, but I hope Tom King wins his category.

True Amazon was quite pretty

The Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award goes to Joe Ferrera

Is Fiona Staples like the "I win" button for the Eisners? How many does she have at this point? It's a little embarrassing how eager they are to suck her dick.

>These awards are bullshit
Please explain to me what's wrong with "The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye", "Moebius Library: The World of Edena" and "Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White".

Second Bob Clampett Humanitarian award goes to Marc Andreyko

That's like saying the Oscars are okay because their sound editing picks are on point. One or two categories doesn't excuse an overall pattern of stupidity.

I think it's more that the Eisners appear to go towards more mainstream/popular candidates rather than taking in everything at face value.

It's how "The Flintstones" was given the shaft.

Best Writer/Artist isn't an important category to you?

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

Ape and Armadillo Take Over the World, by James Sturm (Toon)
Burt’s Way Home, by John Martz (Koyama)
The Creeps, Book 2: The Trolls Will Feast! by Chris Schweizer (Abrams)
I’m Grumpy (My First Comics), by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (Random House Books for Young Readers)
>Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, by Ben Clanton (Tundra)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)

The Drawing Lesson, by Mark Crilley (Watson-Guptill)
>Ghosts, by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic)
Hilda and the Stone Forest, by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye Books)
Rikki, adapted by Norm Harper and Matthew Foltz-Gray (Karate Petshop)
Science Comics: Dinosaurs, by MK Reed and Joe Flood (First Second)

Daily Reminder to all Sup Forumsmrades that you and your comics will never ever EVER be as successful as Raina Telgemeier and hers.

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

Bad Machinery, vol. 5: The Case of the Fire Inside, by John Allison (Oni)
Batgirl, by Hope Larson and Rafael Albuquerque (DC)
Jughead, by Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm (Archie)
Monstress, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image)
Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars, by Jessica Abel (Papercutz/Super Genius)
>The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, by Ryan North and Erica Henderson (Marvel)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAA

Who?

The #1 best-selling creator in American comics at the moment.

Milt Gross inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame

Makes OGN's targeted at tweens that sell INSANELY well.

She's secretly the biggest success in comics.

H.G. Peter also inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame

Is her shit any good?

I have an urge to make a list, showing the best artists who have never won an eisner, next to SG.

Feminist, SJW bullshit ruins another pop culture fandom.

Antonio Prohias and Dori Seda also inducted into the Hall of Fame

Pretty sure teens don't really like Squirrel Girl, seems like more of a kids thing honestly

thats the spy vs spy dude right? heard he made a really great graphic novel.

Yes.

Here's one of them:
mediafire.com/file/4jbdg4cm4bp4icv/Smile (2010) (repack).cbz

It's only a secret on Sup Forums, where people don't know jack shit about comics.

The books are fine.
They're all just slice-of-life stories about being a young girl, even the one with ghosts running around.
Two were autobiographical.

She also did a few Babysitters Club adaptations and wrote a retarded X-Men "manga."

No, he's THE Golden Age Wonder Woman artist.

oh my bad, got confused by a live blog im reading on the ceremony, It's Prohias and he just said something of when he and aragones where at Mad.

le mediocre white man

First Eisner Hall of Fame Inductee chosen by the voters is Gilbert Hernandez

I don't understand how they can induct one but not the other.

Next Hall of Fame Inductee is Jaime Hernandez

Much better.

I wonder who would win a Sup Forums comics award? What artist, what writer, what comic, what best new character, what webcomic, colorist, letterer, best adult webcomic, etc. There would probably also be negative awards too, like worst comic, worst writer, worst webcomic, etc.

it would be a nightmare, 4 passable comics, 20 mediocre ones and bones/whoever flavor of the month comes around

Next person to be inducted into the hall of fame is George Pérez

Daily Reminder that we already tried out The Sup Forums Awards.

Daily Reminder that Sup Forums voted Forever Evil as the Best Graphic Novel of 2013.

The fourth hall of fame recipient is Walter Simonson

Next Hall of Fame Inductee is Jim Starlin

The Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award goes to Comicazi in Sommerville, MA

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips (at least 20 years old)

Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings, by Glen Baxter (NYR Comics)
Barnaby, vol. 3, by Crockett Johnson, edited by Philip Nel and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
>Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Colorful Cases of the 1930s, edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press)
The Realist Cartoons, edited by Paul Krassner and Ethan Persoff (Fantagraphics)
Walt & Skeezix 1931–1932, by Frank King, edited by Jeet Heer and Chris Ware (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books (at least 20 Years Old)

The Complete Neat Stuff, by Peter Bagge, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
>The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, edited by Trina Robbins, Gary Groth, and J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)
Fables and Funnies, by Walt Kelly, compiled by David W. Tosh (Dark Horse)
Trump: The Complete Collection, by Harvey Kurtzman et al., edited by Denis Kitchen and John Lind (Dark Horse)
U.S.S. Stevens: The Collected Stories, by Sam Glanzman, edited by Drew Ford (Dover)

Best Publication Design

>The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, designed by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, designed by Keeli McCarthy (Fantagraphics)
Frank in the Third Dimension, designed by Jacob Covey, 3D conversions by Charles Barnard (Fantagraphics)
The Realist Cartoons, designed by Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics)
Si Lewen’s Parade: An Artist’s Odyssey, designed by Art Spiegelman (Abrams)

Best Short Story

“The Comics Wedding of the Century,” by Simon Hanselmann, in We Told You So: Comics as Art (Fantagraphics)
“The Dark Nothing,” by Jordan Crane, in Uptight #5 (Fantagraphics)
>“Good Boy,” by Tom King and David Finch, in Batman Annual #1 (DC)
“Monday,” by W. Maxwell Prince and John Amor, in One Week in the Library (Image)
“Mostly Saturn,” by Michael DeForge, in Island Magazine #8 (Image)
“Shrine of the Monkey God!” by Kim Deitch, in Kramers Ergot 9 (Fantagraphics)

To be fair, the person who made it gave 0 shits about the comics categories and grouped all sorts of dumb shit together, so limited series were competing against OGNs were competing against trades. Not entirely the voters' fault.

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

Babybel Wax Bodysuit, by Eric Kostiuk Williams (Retrofit/Big Planet)
>Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In, by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, and Jill Thompson (Dark Horse)
Blammo #9, by Noah Van Sciver (Kilgore Books)
Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
Sir Alfred #3, by Tim Hensley (Pigeon Press)
Your Black Friend, by Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket)

She isn't even fucking good. Years from now people are going to look back on the Staples Dynasty and wonder what the hell we were smoking in the 2010s.

Best Anthology

Baltic Comics Anthology š! #26: dADa, edited by David Schilter and Sanita Muizniece (kuš!)
Island Magazine, edited by Brandon Graham and Emma Rios (Image)
Kramers Ergot 9, edited by Sammy Harkham (Fantagraphics)
>Love Is Love, edited by Sarah Gaydos and Jamie S. Rich (IDW/DC)
Spanish Fever: Stories by the New Spanish Cartoonists, edited by Santiago Garcia (Fantagraphics)

While I appreciate the sentiment behind Love is Love, it's honestly so bad that it's probably Storytime of Pain worthy.

I haven't read BoB in years, I'm always scared that I'll never stop crying if I do.

The Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award goes to Anne Szabla

I would not call it complete SOP worthy like the best part of that book is the bit with Extrano, but that Deathstroke story is one of the most tone deaf things I've ever seen in comics.

Best New Series

>Black Hammer, by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston (Dark Horse)
Clean Room, by Gail Simone and Jon Davis-Hunt (Vertigo/DC)
Deathstroke: Rebirth, by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, et al. (DC)
Faith, by Jody Houser, Pere Pérez, and Marguerite Sauvage (Valiant)
Mockingbird, by Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk (Marvel)

Best Limited Series

Archangel, by William Gibson, Michael St. John Smith, Butch Guice, and Tom Palmer (IDW)
Briggs Land, by Brian Wood and Mack Chater (Dark Horse)
Han Solo, by Marjorie Liu and Mark Brooks (Marvel)
Kim and Kim, by Magdalene Visaggio and Eva Cabrera (Black Mask)
>The Vision, by Tom King and Gabriel Walta (Marvel)

Literally every other nomination was better.

>Half of Sup Forums just relaxed, thinking "at least it wasn't Mockingbird
>The other half got angry that it was not Deathstroke

Kind of a weak set of nominees. Black Hammer is the best of those and it's nice to see Clean Room get at least a little love before it's cancelled though.

Best Continuing Series

Astro City, by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson (Vertigo/DC)
Kill or Be Killed, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
The Mighty Thor, by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman (Marvel)
Paper Girls, by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (Image)
>Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)