Eisner Awards

Industry professionals new and old gathered last night for the 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards at Comic-Con International in San Diego, and it proved to be a big night for Chris Ware, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Ware's Building Stories took home four awards, including Best Writer/Artist and Best Publication Design, while Vaughan and Staples' Saga swept its three categories: Best Con

Not sure if the newest superhero comics-to-prose book, Hero from Hyperion Books will attract the praise from fanboys/girls that Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay or Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible did, but I suspect folks will be talking about it, particularly after Monday's New York Times piece ...

Imagine my surprise leafing through Saturday's edition of the Wall Street Journal to discover a short feature lauding the work of a trio of 2007 Eisner Award nominees in their Pursuits section. Sounds like no big deal, until you dig deeper into the details ...

Press Release The 2007 Eisner Award nominations announced last week are old news here in the blog-o-blob by now [for a complete list of nominees, go here: //comicsalliance.com/2007/04/20/2007-eisner-award-nominees-announced/, but we want to pass on our hearty congratulations to all the nominees ...

Press Release NBM Publishing congratulates graphic novelists Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas De Crecy for their nominations in the annual Eisner Awards. Trondheim, writer-artist of the dark comedy Mr. I and co-writer (with Joann Sfar) of the popular series Dungeon, is a nominee for Best Writer/Artist - Humor ...

Press Release The nominees for the 2007 Eisner Awards have been announced, and DC Comics projects and creators received a total of 24 nominations from the DCU, Vertigo and WildStorm. DC Comics would like to thank the Eisner Awards committee and congratulates all those who were nominated ...

The 2007 Eisner Award Nominees were announced yesterday, and that means that everyone connected with comics will do one of three things: Get excited about this listing of some of the great comics released in 2006 Complain that they don't see their favorite comic on the list Ignore the announcement and/or generally be oblivious about the whole thing Now, sadly, the third option is probably the