2015 Eisner Awards

The 2015 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced at Comic-Con International in San Diego, July 10, 2015. Winners of SF/F interest include:

Best Short Story

• When the Darkness Presses, Emily Carroll (emcarroll.com/comics/darkness/)

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)

• Beasts of Burden: Hunters and Gatherers, Evan Dorkin & Jill Thompson (Dark Horse)

Best Continuing Series

• Saga, Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples (Image)

Best Limited Series

• Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, Eric Shanower & Garbriel Rodriguez (IDW)

Best New Series

• Lumberjanes, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson & Brooke A. Allen (BOOM! Box)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 7)

• The Zoo Box, Ariel Cohn & Aron Nels Steinke (First Second)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 8-12)

• El Deafo, Cece Bell (Amulet/Abrams)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

• Lumberjanes, Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson & Brooke A. Allen (BOOM! Box)

Best Anthology

• Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, Josh O’Neill, Andrew Carl & Chris Stevens, eds. (Locust Moon)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

• Through the Woods, Emily Carroll (McElderry Books)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips (at least 20 years old)

• Winsor McCay’s Complete Little Nemo, Alexander Braun, ed. (TASCHEN)

Best Writer

• Gene Luen Yang, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Dark Horse) and The Shadow Hero (First Second)

Best Penciller/Inker

• Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

• J. H. Williams III, The Sandman: Overture (Vertigo/DC)

Best Publication Design

• Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, designed by Jim Rugg (Locust Moon)

Eisner Hall of Fame Inductees

• Marjorie “Marge” Henderson Buell (creator of Little Lulu)
• John Byrne
• Chris Claremont
• Denis Kitchen
• Frank Miller
• Bill Woggon (creator of Katy Keene)

For more information, and the complete list of winners, see the Comic-Con website.