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 Bitter Root, The Good Asian, Monsters, Run, Something Is Killing The Children, and more. You can find a tutorial about getting started with Hoopla here.
Bitter Root: Family Business
Best Continuing Series (TIE)
In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by tragedies and conflicting moral codes. A terrible tragedy has claimed most of the family, leaving the surviving cousins divided between by the desire to cure monsters or to kill them; they must heal the wounds of the past and move beyond their differences ... or sit back and watch a force of unimaginable evil ravage the human race.
Something is killing the children. Volume one
Best Continuing Series (TIE)
Best Writer
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.
The Good Asian
Best Limited Series
Following Edison Harkï, a haunted, self-loathing Chinese-American detective on the trail of a killer in 1936 Chinatown, THE GOOD ASIAN is Chinatown noir starring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban, the Chinese, as they're besieged by rampant murders, abusive police, and a world that seemingly never changes.
The nice house on the lake
Best New Series
Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter--well, they know him a little, anyway. Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago. And Walter's always been a little...off. But after the hardest year of their lives, nobody was going to turn down Walter's invitation to an astonishingly beautiful house in the woods, overlooking an enormous sylvan lake. It's beautiful, it's opulent, it's private--so a week of putting up with Walter's weird little schemes and nicknames in exchange for the vacationof a lifetime? Why not? All of them were at that moment in their lives when they could feel themselves pulling away from their other friends; wouldn't a chance to reconnect be...nice? In The Nice House on the Lake, the overriding anxieties of the 21st century get a terrifying new face-and it might just be the face of the person you once trusted most.
Chibi Usagi : attack of the Heebie Chibis
Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)
While fishing for freshwater eels, Chibi Usagi, Tomoe, and Gen rescue a Dogu, a clay creature from Japan's prehistory. The Dogu's village has been enslaved by the Salamander King and his Heebie-Chibi minions and are forced to work in their mines. Chibi Usagi and his friends must rescue the Dogu people and eliminate the threat of the Salamander King forever in this feature-length story of adventure, humor, and slippery eels.
Salt magic
Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)
Twelve-year-old Vonceil Taggart, willing to risk everything to set things right, leaves her family's Oklahoma farm in 1919 seeking the salt witch who cast a spell that turned their spring to saltwater.
The legend of auntie Po
Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)
Not All Robots
Best Humor Publication
You Died : An Anthology of the Afterlife
Best Anthology
The Black Panther Party : a graphic novel history
Best Reality-Based Work
A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the Black Panther Party.
Run: Book one
Best Graphic Memoir
Monsters
Best Graphic Album—New
Best Writer/Artist
The complete American gods
Best Graphic Album—Reprint
1984 : the graphic novel
Best Adaptation from Another Medium
With evocative, immersive art from Fido Nesti, this vision of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece provides a new perspective for longtime fans but is also an accessible entry point for young readers and adults who have yet to discover the iconic storythat is still so relevant today.
The shadow of a man
Best U.S. Edition of International Material
Lovesickness : Junji Ito story collection
Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia
Popeye : Olive Oyl & Her Sweety
Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips
Monstress : Volume six, The vow
Best Painter/Multimedia Artist, Sana Takeda
Undiscovered country. Volume one, Destiny
Best Coloring, Matt Wilson
More than a century after what had once been the United States was cut off from the rest of the world by a wall, an unexpected summons brings an expedition into this unknown land where its members must struggle to survive and to understand what they find.
All of the marvels : a journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told
Best Comics-Related Book
Lore Olympus. Volume one
Best Webcomic