The 2018 Eisner Award nominations are out, and it’s a MONSTROUS years, with Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters continuing its awards rampage with five nominations and Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda also garnering five nods. Image and Fantagraphics led the way with 16 nominations each. This year’s nominations have some deep cuts […]
2018 Eisner Judges announced: Mack, McMillan, Ottati, Serrano, Simmons and Wilson
The 2018 Eisner judging panel has just been announced, consisting, as is tradition, of representatives from the creative, retail, library and fan community. The judges will convene sometime early next year to asses the year in comics – submissions to the panel are still possible. More details here. Winners will be announced the Friday […]
SDCC ’17: 2017 Eisner Awards live-blog
The Beat is live at the 2017 Eisner Awards, it’s another incredible group of nominees! Let’s get straight to the winners! Todd Klein just came away with a well deserved win for Best Lettering (for Dark Night, Black Hammer and others) Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover’s Bandette takes Best Digital Comic. Paul Tobin called their […]
SDCC ’17: Eisner Awards announce presenters and Will Eisner Centenniel theme
The pageantry and ceremony of the the 29th Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards will take place, as is tradition, Friday July 21st in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront. This year’s ceremony will include a special tribute to Will Eisner’s Centennial. Details on presenters and the rest of the ceremony, are below: Presenters: • Actor/writer […]
Eisner Watch 2017: KIM & KIM strikes a giant blow for fun…and more
In the week leading up to the 2017 Will Eisner Awards voting deadline this Friday, the Comics Beat will feature a series of “For Your Consideration” posts highlighting a number of the nominees as a celebration of their well-deserved acknowledgement. We’ll feature some never-before-seen behind the scenes content and some of the books’ gorgeous interiors. We encourage […]
Gross, Peter, Prohias and Seda selected for the Eisner Hall of Fame
As is tradition, this year’s Eisner Award judges have selected four cartoonists for entry into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. They are: Milt Gross (early newspaper cartoonist known for such strips as Count Screwloose of Tooloose, Nize Baby, andThat’s My Pop!), H. G. Peter (original Wonder Woman artist), Antonio Prohias (creator of MAD’s “Spy […]
2017 Eisner Judges Announced: Campbell, Clough, Newbold, Peaslee, Rutherford and Thomases
The slate of judges for the 2017 Eisner Awards have been announced and it’s a strong slate with a wide range of knowledge. These six brave souls will gather in a room for two days to go over piles and piles of comics eventually releasing a list of nominees that will make some people overjoyed, and […]
SDCC ’16: Liveblogging the 2016 Eisner Awards: Barrowman in the House
Hey hey hey I’ve found some dwindling Wi-fi and we’ll be doing this for as long as we can. The night begins with Jackie Estrada telling us interest in the Eisners has soared this year, buoyed by the strength of the nominees. We’re in for an interesting night with John Barrowman hosting. Barrowman bounds on […]
2016 Eisner Nominations: women receive a record 61 nominations
The nominations are out! This year’s Eisners are a pretty diverse bunch, and this year’s panel REALLY broke away from thye Marvel/DC axis, with Fantagraphics and Image getting the most nominations. ONly a handful of books garnered more than one nod, as the jury seemed to go with the “lets honor as many as possible” model. Four […]
The 2013 Eisner Award Winners Are…
Congratulations to all the winners! Steve MorrisTalking bunny, Little Mix enthusiast and co-publisher of The MNT, which you can find here. http://stardarkcity.wordpress.com/