Sunday, July 23, 2006

Eisner Awards

If you didn't know, the Eisner Awards are the most prestigious of comic book awards. It is similar to winning an Oscar award, only people don't mock you from their living rooms while you do something incredibly silly on network TV. To see who won what, click here.

If you'd rather just have the short version, here are the highlights:

  • Best Digital Comic went to Scott Kurtz for "PVP"
  • The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award was presented to "Night Fisher" creator R. Kikuo Johnson.
  • Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition was given to Aaron Renier for "Spiral-Bound."
  • Best Reality-Based Work went to Kyle Baker for "Nat Turner"
  • The Best Penciller/Inker Award went to John Cassaday for "Astonishing X-Men" and "Planetary."
  • Ladronn received the Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art) Eisner for his work on "Hip Flask: Mystery City,"
  • James Jean was selected as Best Cover Artist for "Fables" and "Runaways."
  • Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award to Zeus Comics of Dallas, Texas. (Be sure to nominate Neptune Comics for this award next year!! Nomination forms can be found this winter in Wizard magazine)
  • Best Graphic Album - New, to "Top Ten: The Forty-Niners."
  • The Best Writer Eisner was given to Alan Moore for "Promethea" and "Top Ten: The Forty-Niners"
  • Best Writer/Artist went to Geof Darrow for "Shaolin Cowboy"
  • Best Writer/Artist - Humor was awarded to Kyle Baker for "Plastic Man" and "The Bakers."
  • The Best New Series "All-Star Superman" (Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely)
  • Best Limited Series "Seven Soldiers" (Grant Morrison and various artists
  • Best Continuing Series "Astonishing X-Men" (Joss Whedon & John Cassaday)Best Short Story was given to Paul Pope for "Teenage Sidekick" from "Solo" #3
  • Best Serialized Story was awarded to "Fables" #36-38, 40-41: "Return to the Homelands," by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, and Steve Leialoha
  • The winner of Best Single Issue was "Solo" #5 by Darwyn Cooke.

5 comments:

Von Allan said...

'Cuz I'm a nosey beggar: how do award winners in general fair in your store? Awards are unbelievably huge in the book trade (when I was running the bookstore I just couldn't believe how much of an impact a shortlisted title could have - let alone the actual award winner) and I'm curious if an Eisner or Harvey award win spikes your sales at all? Any demand from customers?

Colour me curious! :)

Von

Lisa said...

Short-term the awards don't do too much. We label them in the store for a few months, but usually don't see any kind of increase in sales. However, over the long-term they do seem to give the writer/artist/book some heat and credibility that makes a bit of a difference over time.

Anonymous said...

What would happen if you created a small Award Winning section and "spike" it with all kinds of different award winners? I did this with a great deal of success at the bookstore (the Pulitzers, the Governor-General Awards, the Booker, etc...) and I'm wondering if customers would react in a similar fashion. Can't call it an original idea, of course - I stole it from video stores. It did work extremely well for me and better than just having shelf talkers or labels incorporated into different sections. But, of course, your mileage may vary.

Von

Lisa said...

That is an excellent idea, and now that we've got more space and more shelves coming soon, we should be able to do that. More than just Eisners is a great idea too. I know we've highlighted comics that were featured in the media and that did seem to grab people's attention.

Von Allan said...

Heya,

I'm a big believer in trying things out. It may not work, but it's worth a shot. Here's a good link for all kinds of comic book awards (US based here and then you could always get creative if you wanted to):

http://users.rcn.com/aardy/comics/awards/american.html

(Oh, and I have no idea why it made me anonymous last time...!)

Von