#eisner award winners

[colleendoran]

NEIL GAIMAN'S CHIVALRY WINS THE EISNER AWARD

Very happy to announce that NEIL GAIMAN'S CHIVALRY won the Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium at last night's ceremony at San Diego Comic Con. Presenter was Batman producer Michael Uslan.

We're incredibly grateful and pleased, and no one is more surprised than I am.

This book is for all ages, it is gentle, it is a fairy story, it is about an old lady and a knight in shining armor, and the kind of King Arthur who lives in my dreams and not in blockbuster movies, and I am so grateful it has been so well-received.

I waited decades for this.

I cannot thank you all enough.

Neil Gaiman's Chivalry is based on an original short story by Neil Gaiman. Adapted and illustrated by me. Lettering by Todd Klein and me. Published by Dark Horse Comics. Editor Daniel Chabon.

Photo courtesy Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award winner Scott Dunbier.

[genericpuff]

breathe

okay, because I don't want to give Smythe any more attention tonight, let's acknowledge the comics that came this far, seeing as the winner likely isn't going to. So from me to y'all, a big congrats to the nominees for their hard work that got them to where they were today! It's a damn shame none of you walked home with the award for Best Webcomic tonight, but you're all making great efforts in the medium of webcomics and deserve to have those efforts recognized and celebrated. Please keep creating, keep writing, keep fighting.

Y'all, please go read the comics that got nominated, send them all your love and support, I hope you find a new favorite! If you do wind up enjoying any of them (or all of them) please feel free to reblog this post with some of your favorite pages or positive vibes!

[spiraphobia]

The Liminal Zone 2 - Junji Ito

Four-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito presents brand-new nightmares! Welcome to the liminal zone, where things beyond your wildest imagination await. What fate awaits when death is not the end? A group of four university students stumbles upon a deserted, decaying village deep in the mountains only to find an enormous perpetual motion machine still at work there. Before they can answer the questions of who made it and to what end, the friends begin to disappear, one after the other. Another story sees the return of the strange Hikizuri siblings! A girl weighed down since birth by an invisible burden meets the odd siblings and moves in with them in order to understand the truth about herself. But after a string of bizarre occurrences, the siblings’ uncle appears on the scene… The Liminal Zone, Vol. 2, releases Spring 2025. (Source)

First of all, that cover is gorgeous! Second, it feels like just yesterday we were all struggling to gather raws and scanlations for every new Junji Ito story that came out. Now, Viz just announces a new one every now and then filling my shelf with these wonderful hard copies. And I could just stare at them forever! I’m so excited to have this and read more of this collection. 2025 can't come soon enough!

[maxprentisvisual]

Big ol' announcement.

I've been on working on a comic for Pete Townshend of the Who!

I worked on the art and colours for the comic the Life House.

'Based on the scripts and writing of Pete Townshend, this original 172 page graphic novel is written by James Harvey and David Hine (co-creator, Spider-Man Noir) with art by Harvey and Australian visual artist, Max Prentis. Additionally, the book was edited by former Bleeding Cool Editor-in-Chief, Hannah Means-Shannon with letters by Micah Myers and inks by Eisner Award winner, Mick Gray'

Such a monumental honour to be part of a crack team on my first ever comic!

More to come.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Good Omens: The Official (and Ineffable) Graphic Novel takes fans on a virtual treasure hunt before the launch of its campaign. ❤ 🐍😊

The upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's beloved book of the same name is about to launch a Kickstarter campaign on August 1, 2023. To celebrate, the Pratchett Estate set up a "virtual treasure hunt" where fans can find tidbits from Good Omens: The Official (and Ineffable) Graphic Novel across many platforms. And, CBR can exclusively reveal the first clue.

Good Omens: The Official (and Ineffable) Graphic Novel will be the very first comic book adaptation of the best-selling novel. The comedic tale follows the demon Crowley and the angel Aziraphale who try to sabotage the son of Satan in England, in an attempt to stop the apocalypse. This iconic story will be adapted by Eisner Award winner, Colleen Doran. The illustrator has worked with Gaiman before on projects such as The Sandman. Doran has also won many other awards, including the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

The Pratchett Estate said that fans already "spotted an early preview of the cover’s initial linework at ‘Colleen Doran illustrates Neil Gaiman’, an exhibition that showcases her work on titles including Snow Glass Apples, Chivalry and The Sandman, and runs until 29 July." However, the estate adds "But that is only one piece of the puzzle." Now, CBR is here to offer the project's first prophecy and a sneak peek at the upcoming comic.

The first clue in Good Omens: The Official (and Ineffable) Graphic Novel's treasure hunt is "The towne square of omens most pleasant / We crye in excitement / For come pale moonlight or glorious sun / All news of angels and demons are collated as one." More clues will be unveiled in the days leading up to Good Omens' Kickstarter launch.

This treasure hunt isn't the first time that one of Pratchett's stories has inspired an interactive experience. His Discworld story, Death and What Comes Next, was written for TimeHunt (a former online game). The story was designed to be a puzzle and if the reader solves it, they will receive the codeword for the virtual game. And, Good Omens continuing this tradition is very fitting.

Good Omens: The Official (and Ineffable) Graphic Novel's Kickstarter campaign will begin on August 1, 2023. Fans can sign up for the Kickstarter to be first to hear when the project is launched, and what treats and rarities will be available.

Follow @GoodOmensHQ, @neilhimself, @pratchettonline, @ColleenDoran, @terryandrob, @kickstarter on twitter for more details and up-to-date information.

(here on tumblr: :) @goodomenshq, @neil-gaiman, @colleendoran)

[jeff-the-landshark]

Jeff, did you know you won a fancy award?

(Link is all the winners, Jeff’s is best humor publication) https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/

mrrrrrr 🥰🥇

[Jeff says he always knew he was destined to win awards 🥰]

[indiepressrevolution]

Now at IPR: The Details of Our Escape

The Details of Our Escape is a new roleplaying game from ENnie Award-winning game designer Tyler Crumrine, two-time Eisner-nominated comics artist Linnea Sterte, and Windham-Campbell Prize winner in fiction Renee Gladman. Played with a standard 28-tile set of dominos instead of dice, players control a caravan of over 2000 people in search of a new home.

What they're leaving and what kinds of strange & wonderful sights they encounter along their journey is up to you. Which groups continue all the way to the caravan's final destination is up to fate.

The Details of our Escape can be played as a single-session one-shot, spread over multiple sessions to create a campaign, or used as a session-zero to create characters and settings to play in an alternate system.

https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/The-Details-of-Our-Escape-Print-PDF.html

[maddness-time-bby]

Has anyone else noticed that a lot of the time LO stans will constaintly shift the goalposts as to why you can't criticize the comic?

"You can't criticize the comic, Smythe is an indie creator!"

No she's not, her comic's the face of webtoon, and she has both multiple books released and merch being sold.

"You're just jealous that she's a bigger creator than you! That she's an Eisner award winner and you're not!"

If anything I'm just frustrated that Lore Olympus of all the god damned webcomics is the one being chosen to represent the medium. Why not Homestuck? For as confusing and full of flaws as it may be, it unironically revolutionized how/what the webcomic could be. If you want me to take LO seriously, as both a webcomic and an award winning book, than both fans and Smythe have to start acting like it.

"Smythe doesn't like criticism" fucking so??? You know who else didn't take criticism well?

Jim Henson.

Henson quite literally would not have gotten the fame that he did had he plugged his ears every time he got criticism. As funny as it is to imagine a world where Henson got famous off of one of his earlier specials "Muppets Sex and Violence", it ultimately wasn't what made him so beloved in the eyes of many. It was only through criticism that "Muppets Sex and Violence" became "The Muppet Show".

I get not taking criticism well, I really do. When I got my comic criticized in a youtube video, I was unironically Howl Pendragon for the next half hour.

Yes I knew that my comic was going to be criticized. Yes I was still dramatic over someone saying that my coloring and shading needed to be improved. After I was done sulking, however, I was able to grow as an artist, and ultimately improve my comic. Getting criticism can be hard, I get it. It can be especially hard when the criticism isn't some made up problem. It is still something that everyone has to go through. Smythe is not above criticism, no one is, but constaintly making up excuses as to why your favorite webcomic can't be criticized isn't going to help anyone.

[celepom]

Plain Jane and the Mermaid

by Vera Brosgol

From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner beauty.

Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so: her parents, the villagers, and her horrible cousin who kicks her out of her own house. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to the princely Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father. It’s a good plan! Or it would’ve been, if he wasn’t kidnapped by a mermaid. With her last shot at happiness lost in the deep blue sea, Jane must venture to the underwater world to rescue her maybe-fiancé. But the depths of the ocean hold beautiful mysteries and dangerous creatures. What good can a plain Jane do? From Vera Brosgol, the author of Anya's Ghost and Be Prepared, comes an instant classic that flips every fairy tale you know, and shows one girl's crusade for the only thing that matters—her own independence.

[colleendoran]

My art from Neil Gaiman's SNOW GLASS APPLES published by Dark Horse Comics. Adapted by me. Letters by Todd Klein. Winner of the Eisner, Ringo, and Bram Stoker Award. Pen and ink with digital color. A dark twist on a classic fairy tale, NOT FOR CHILDREN. 40% off right now at link, or ask for it at your comic shop or bookstore. The perfect dark gift for the ghoul you love.

The German edition from Splitter is at right!

[justiceleague]

HBO has given an 8-episode, straight-to-series order for Lanterns. Chris Mundy (Ozark, True Detective: Night Country) will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, Lost) and Tom King (Mister Miracle, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) will co-write the series with Mundy.

The series follows new recruit John Stewart and Lantern legend Hal Jordan, two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.

[bookmaven]

In case you missed it

THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF FRANK FRAZETTA (Cologne: Taschen, 2022)

Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed lord of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 12 years since his death. His high energy oils of Tarzan, Conan, Vampirella and his signature Death Dealer define not just fantasy worlds, but the bodies that occupy them: fleshy, muscular, tactile and sensual. Winner of a 2023 Eisner Award.

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[ultrameganicolaokay]

Cruel Universe #1 by Corinna Bechko, Matt Kindt, Chris Condon, Caitlin Yarsky, Jonathan Case, Kano and more. Cover by Greg Smallwood. Variant covers by (2) J. H. Williams III and (3) Jay Stephens. Out in August.

"Compelled to OBLIVION, driven to ENTROPY, all life in our cosmos can only end in one place: COMPLETE ANNIHILATION! For the first time in 70 years, the limitless fury of EC Comics rages back to life to shred the very fabric of the universe itself—and wrench bizarre tales of time and space into our dimensional plane! Our guides across this double-sized, 40-page introduction to a cosmic maelstrom of strange extraterrestrial entities, malevolent scientists, and terrifying technological catastrophe? Learn to fear the void with the irradiated imaginations of Hugo Award nominee Corinna Bechko (Invisible Republic), rising star Chris Condon (That Texas Blood), Eisner Award nominee Matt Kindt (BRZRKR, Mind MGMT), and Edgar Award winner Ben H. Winters (The Last Policeman) as they collide with the wondrously destructive visions of artists Jonathan Case (Green River Killer), Kano (Immortal Iron Fist), Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place), and Caitlin Yarsky (Black Hammer: Reborn)! The unpredictable return of EC Comics continues here with the quantum comics event of the millennium! Galaxies will collapse. Space-time will be distorted. And your very will to exist, too, shall be broken... Just remember: it's all in the name of SCIENCE!"

[smashpages]

Batman the Barbarian is a brutal and remarkable retelling of Batman’s origin set against a rugged, medieval Earth, written, and drawn by Eisner Award-winner Greg Smallwood (The Human Target).

Coming from DC in 2024 as part of their relaunched Elseworlds line

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Raina Telgemeier

Raina Telgemeier was born in 1977 in San Francisco, California. Telgemeier is among her generations' most successful and critically acclaimed graphic novelists. Her graphic novels Smile, Guts, Ghosts, Sisters, and Drama were all #1 New York Times bestsellers. Telgemeier is a five-time Eisner Award winner with over 15 million books in print. Her work has been frequently challenged and censored, often for including LGBTQ content, with Drama appearing on the ALA's Top 10 Most Challenged Books list for multiple years.

Image: Library of Congress

[stevelieber]

Hey #portfolioday. I draw comic books and I'm a multiple Eisner Award winner. I take storytelling seriously, and my specialties are humor, crime, and adventure.