An updated and corrected list — congrats to all the winners.
Best Short Story “The Seventh,” by Darwyn Cooke, in Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition(IDW)
Best Single Issue (or One-Shot) Daredevil #7, by Mark Waid, Paolo Rivera, and Joe Rivera (Marvel)
Best Continuing Series Daredevil, by Mark Waid, Marcos Martin, Paolo Rivera, and Joe Rivera (Marvel)
Best Limited Series Criminal: The Last of the Innocent, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Marvel Icon)
Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 7) Dragon Puncher Island, by James Kochalka (Top Shelf)
Best Publication for Kids (ages 8–12) Snarked, by Roger Langridge (kaboom!)
Best Publication for Young Adults (Ages 12–17) Anya’s Ghost, by Vera Brosgol (First Second)
Best Anthology Dark Horse Presents, edited by Mike Richardson (Dark Horse)
Best Humor Publication Milk & Cheese: Dairy Products Gone Bad, by Evan Dorkin (Dark Horse Books)
Best Digital Comic Battlepug, by Mike Norton, www.battlepug.com
Best Reality-Based Work Green River Killer: A True Detective Story, by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case (Dark Horse Books)
Best Graphic Album – New Jim Hensons Tale of Sand, adapted by Ramón K. Pérez (Archaia)
Best Graphic Album – Reprint Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition, by Darwyn Cooke (IDW)
Best Archival Collection/Project – Comic Strips Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse vols. 1-2, by Floyd Gottfredson, edited by David Gerstein and Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
Best Archival Collection/Project – Comic Books Walt Simonson’s The Mighty Thor Artist’s Edition (IDW)
Best U.S. Edition of International Material The Manara Library, vol. 1: Indian Summer and Other Stories, by Milo Manara with Hugo Pratt (Dark Horse Books)
Best U.S. Edition of International Material – Asia Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Best Writer Mark Waid, Irredeemable, Incorruptible (BOOM!); Daredevil (Marvel)
Best Writer/Artist Craig Thompson, Habibi (Pantheon)
Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team Ramón K. Pérez, Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand (Archaia)
Best Cover Artist
Francesco Francavilla, Black Panther (Marvel); Lone Ranger, Lone Ranger/Zorro, Dark Shadows, Warlord of Mars (Dynamite); Archie Meets
Kiss (Archie)
Best Coloring Laura Allred, iZombie (Vertigo/DC); Madman All-New Giant-Size Super-Ginchy Special (Image)
Best Lettering Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (Dark Horse)
Best Comics-Related Journalism The Comics Reporter, produced by Tom Spurgeon, www.comicsreporter.com
Best Educational/Academic Work (tie)
Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice, by Ivan Brunetti (Yale University Press)
Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, by Charles Hatfield (University Press of Mississippi)
Best Comics-Related Book MetaMaus, by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon)
Best Publication Design Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand, designed by Eric Skillman (Archaia)
Hall of Fame
Judges’ Choices: Rudolf Dirks, Harry Lucey
Bill Blackbeard, Richard Corben, Katsuhiro Otomo, Gilbert Shelton
Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award: Tyler Crook
Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award: Morrie Turner
Bill Finger Excellence in Comic Book Writing Award: Frank Doyle, Steve Skeates
Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award: Akira Comics, Madrid, Spain – Jesus Marugan Escobar and The Dragon, Guelph, ON, Canada – Jennifer Haines
Congrats to all the winners. I’ve read some of these and, looking at the ones I haven’t read, I’m thinking…”Hmm, not a bad reading list for the rest of the summer.”
Congratulations to all the winners!
Congrats to all but especially Tom Spurgeon, way to go!
Congrats to the winners, esp. Evan Dorkin!
“Best comics related book: Beat archival Comic Strip Mickey Mouse”
Looks like an error there. It looks like the winner of “Best Comics-Related Book” was METAMAUS.
http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_eisners_main.php/
Well… I hope IDW rereleases the Best Short Story winner in a different volume so that those of us that loyally bought the first two Parker books don’t have to rebuy that material just to read it.
So, comics publishers and/or CCI:
When will you publish an Eisner Awards anthology?
It sure would be nice to hand someone a volume of great comics.
DC… Warner Brothers Home Entertainment collected all of their Oscar nominated and winning animated shorts onto a DVD. Why can’t you do the same with your comics in book form?
Isn’t that what awards are created to do? Honor the best of a specific medium or genre, and garner more attention for the medium or genre?
I can understand if Marvel or DC are too snooty to have their work appear with those from other publishers (although it bit DC in the ass with Year 100 and Best American Comics). What I can’t understand is DC or Marvel not publicizing their award winners!
Well, I can understand it… DC took some twenty years to place the Hugo Award notice on “Watchmen”. Marvel barely acts like a book publisher, so ignoring honors isn’t too surprising.
We call the Eisners “the Oscars of comics”, but it’s more like the “Golden Globes”…
@Torsten Adair: That’s a great idea.
The Oscars of comics? Hahahaha..
So the best comic of the year is DAREDEVIL ISSUE EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY F… I mean, DAREDEVIL ISSUE SEVEN (yeah right)… that’s the exact equivalent of the latest JAMES BOND flick getting the Oscar for better movie, best director and best actor.
No wonder the US comic industry is a joke.