San Diego Comic Con saw the announcement of this year’s Eisner Award winners – and it was good news for Britain’s Sean Phillips, artist on The Fade Out, who co-won the award for Best Limited Series which is written by Ed Brubaker, earning him plenty of deserved kudos on Twitter; publisher SelfMadeHero for their edition of Ruins by Peter Kuper; and London’s brilliant Orbital Comics, which won the award for Spirit of Comics Retailer.
A deluxe edition of The Fade Out will be released in October by Image Comics, collecting all 12 issues and including behind-the-scenes art and stories, sketches and layouts, illustrations, and several historical essays.
The Winners
- Best New Series: Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
- Best Limited Series: The Fade Out, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
- Best Continuing Series: Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron and Jason LaTour
- Best Reality-Based Work: March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
- Best Graphic Album — Reprint: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
- Best Graphic Album — New: Ruins by Peter Kuper
- Best Short Story: “Killing and Dying,” by Adrian Tomine in Optic Nerve #14
- Best Single Issue/One-Shot: Silver Surfer #11: “Never After” by Dan Slott and Michael Allred
- Best Anthology: Drawn & Quarterly, Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary, Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels edited by Tom Devlin
- Best Digital/Webcomic: Bandette by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover
- Best Publication Design: Sandman Gallery Edition, designed by Josh Beatman
- Best Lettering: Derf Backderf (Trashed)
- Best Colouring: Jordie Bellaire (The Autumnlands, Injection, Plutona, Pretty Deadly, The Surface, They’re Not Like Us, Zero, The X-Files, The Massive, Magneto, Vision)
- Best Penciller: Cliff Chiang (Paper Girls)
- Best Painter/Multimedia Artist: Dustin Nguyen (Descender)
- Best Writer: Jason Aaron (Southern Bastards, Men of Wrath, Doctor Strange, Star Wars, Thor)
- Best Writer/Artist: Bill Griffith (Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist)
- Best Cover Artist: David Aja
- The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award: Dan Mora
- Bill Finger Award for Comic Book Writing: Elliot Maggin
- Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism: Hogan’s Alley, edited by Tom Heintjes
- Best Comics-Related Book: Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America by Bill Schelly
- Best Academic/Scholarly Work: The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings
- Best US Edition of International Material: The Realist by Asaf Hanuka
- Best US Edition of International Material — Asia: Showa, 1953–1989: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki
- Best Adaptation from Another Medium: Two Brothers by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba
- Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award: Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal
- Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8): Little Robot by Ben Hatke
- Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12): Over the Garden Wall by Pat McHale, Amalia Levari, and Jim Campbell
- Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17): SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
- Best Archival Collection/Project — Strips: The Eternaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Alberto Breccia and Francisco Solano Lòpez, edited by Gary Groth and Kristy Valenti
- Best Archival Collection/Project — Comic Books: Walt Kelly’s Fairy Tales edited by Craig Yoe
- Best Humour Publication: Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection! by Kate Beaton
- The Spirit of Comics Retailer Award: Orbital Comics
Congratulations to all the winners!
What a night! We won … we actually won! @OrbitalComics has the Eisner Spirit of Comics Retail for 2016. So proud! pic.twitter.com/Itn7OBukOb
— Chris Thompson (@PopCultureHound) July 23, 2016
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