The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are presented annually at San Diego Comic-Con (or this year in a virtual ceremony) to the best comics creators of the year. You can read more about the Eisner Awards, including a full list of this year's nominees, on the Comic-Con website. Here are this year's winners. PS: Did you know that Hoopla has a great collection of digital comics with no waitlist, including some of this year's Eisner winners like Superman Smashes the Klan, Usagi Yojimbo, Something Is Killing the Children, Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? and Black Widow: The Ties That Bind? It's true! You can find a tutorial about getting started with Hoopla here.
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Best Anthology and Best Short Story: “When the Menopausal Carnival Comes to Town,” by Mimi Pond A collection of comics presenting diverse views of menopause. Contributors address a range of life experiences, ages, gender identities, ethnicities, and health conditions. |
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After her city wins the Super Bowl for the first time, Tea is separated from her friend during a riot and joins a small clique fighting its way through armed groups of football fanatics to met a star receiver that just might end the civil war or become the city's new oppressive leader. |
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Follows the adventures of a masterless rabbit samurai, Miyamoto Usagi, in Japan at the turn of the seventeenth century, as he stands up for justice and truth in a time of social and political unrest. |
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Best Limited Series and Best Humor Publication Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen is a weird and wild trip throughout the DC Universe, with Silver Age energy and a distinctly modern sensibility courtesy of writer Matt Fraction and artist Steve Lieber! Jimmy Olsen must die! Wait, we're getting ahead of ourselves. Jimmy Olsen lives! Superman's best friend and Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen tours the bizarre underbelly of the DC Universe in this new series featuring death, destruction, giant turtles, and more! It's a centuries-spanning whirlwind of weird that starts in Metropolis and ends in Gotham City. |
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The Widow has been a spy almost as long as she's been alive. But now something is very wrong with Natasha: she's...happy?! Retirement definitely agrees with the world's deadliest woman, as she revels in the perfect life that she never dreamed she could have. But scratch the surface of that perfect life and you'll find something very wrong lurking beneath it...and a woman like Nat just can't help but scratch. Beyond San Francisco's Golden Gate lies a mystery that only the Marvel Universe's greatest spy can solve! |
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A crew of resourceful neighbors comes together to prepare a meal for their community. Includes a recipe and an author's note about the volunteering experience that inspired the book. |
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Superman smashes the Klan : the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang Best Publication for Kids and Best Adaptation from Another Medium When her family is targeted by the KKK after moving from Chinatown to 1946 Downtown Metropolis, misfit Roberta Lee uses her keen skills of observation to help Superman thwart a string of terrorist attacks. Original. Illustrations. |
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An introverted reader starts understanding local enthusiasm about sports in his school when he gets to know some of his talented athletic peers and discovers that their stories are just as thrilling as the comics he loves. By the award-winning author of American Born Chinese. |
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A commemorative 50th anniversary graphic-novel account of the May 4, 1970 shootings of Vietnam War college student protesters by the Ohio National Guard draws on in-depth interviews to profile the tragedy’s four victims. By the award-winning author of Trashed. |
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The loneliness of the long-distance cartoonist by Adrian Tomine Best Graphic Memoir and Best Publication Design: Adrian Tomine and Tracy Huron What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine's funniest and most revealing foray into autobiography, offers an array of unexpected answers. When a sudden medical incident lands Tomine in the emergency room, he begins to question if it was really all worthwhile. |
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Best Graphic Album - New Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word--tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past? |
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In 2016, Hanselmann began producing Xeroxed zines starring the depressive Megg (a green-skinned witch), her abusive boyfriend Mogg (an actual cat), their submissive roommate Owl (a vaguely humanoid owl), and the self-destructively hedonistic Werewolf Jones (half human, half wolf) in print runs of 300 to 500 copies, with hand-painted covers, custom stamps and hologram security stickers. Seeds and Stems collects all of these out-of-print, self-published stories produced by the artist between 2016-2019, along with a generous smattering of rarities from various anthologies and magazines. Megg and Mogg and friends explore the worlds of lucid dreaming, banking scams, cinema, mixed drinks, alien invasions, and budget vasectomies in this varied collection of rare and often experimental adventures, designed and curated entirely by the artist. |
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When Moa matches with a celebrity on a popular dating site, he offers to become her patron, but she soon discovers that his sympathy and too good to be true offer hides his manipulative behavior. |
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An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Oguro, christens the body "Remina" after his own daughter. His finding is met with great fanfare, and Remina herself rises to fame. However, the object picks up speed as it moves along in its curious course, eliminating planets and stars one after another, until finally Earth itself faces extinction... Is the girl Remina the true cause of the catastrophe? A masterwork of horror from Junji Ito, unfolding on a universal scale. |
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The Flapper Queens : Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age by Trina Robbins Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips The world of comic strips always reflected the fashion of the time-- from R.F. Outcault's nightie-clad 'Yellow Kid' to Grace Drayton's 'Campbell Kids'. By the 1920s all the little roly-poly girls depicted in those early strips had grown up, bobbed their curls, and become flappers. Women got the vote in 1920, and suddenly they were equal to the boys-- at least in the voting booth. They smoked and drank bootleg hootch, they shortened their hair and skirts, and tossed out their corsets. It was a revolution, a time of excess and ebullience, and the flapper was the new queen-- and scores of women cartoonists chronicled her in the pages of America's newspapers. Fantagraphics celebrates that revolution with 'The Flapper Queens', a gorgeous oversized hardcover collection of full-color comic strips. |
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The Complete Hate is a three-volume set that includes the original 1990-1998 30-issue run, the nine subsequent Hate Annuals, and tons of other Hate-related comics, illustrations, and ephemera created for books, magazines, comics, toys, and other merchandise. Bagge combined his cartoony drawing style with uncomfortably real Gen X characters, and the comic books resonated with readers. Book One (Hate 1-15), focuses on young Buddy Bradley's travails in early 1990s Seattle. Book Two focuses on Buddy and his girlfriend Lisa Leavenworth's move back to Buddy's native New Jersey (and a switch from black-and-white to full color). Book Three features the final arc of Bagge's magnum opus, as Buddy and Lisa become parents (and buy a garbage dump). Each volume, along with the slipcase, contains new covers, endpapers, title pages, and other surprises by Bagge. |
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When the children of Archer's Peak, a sleepy town in the heart of America, begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories, impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see. |
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Bowie : stardust, rayguns & moonage daydreams
by Steve Horton Best Penciller/Inker: Michael Allred Best Coloring: Laura Allred Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams chronicles the rise of Bowie’s career from obscurity to fame; and paralleled by the rise and fall of his alter ego as well as the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust. As the Spiders from Mars slowly implode, Bowie wrestles with his Ziggy persona. The outcome of this internal conflict will change not only David Bowie, but also, the world. |
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Invisible men : the trailblazing Black artists of comic books by Ken Quattro Best Academic/Scholarly Work Drawing on primary source material from World War II-era Black newspapers and magazines, this powerful book profiles the Black artists who drew – mostly covertly behind the scenes – superhero, horror and romance comics in the early years of the industry. |