2019 Eisner Awards
The 2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 29, 2019. Winners of SF/F interest include:
Best Single Issue/One-Shot
- Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #310, Chip Zdarsky (Marvel)
Best Limited Series
- Mister Miracle, Tom King & Mitch Gerads (DC)
Best New Series
- Gideon Falls, Jeff Lemire & Andrea Sorrentino (Image)
Best Short Story
- “The Talk of the Saints”, Tom King & Jason Fabok (Swamp Thing Winter Special)
Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)
- The Nameless City: The Divided Earth, Faith Erin Hicks (First Second)
Best Graphic Album—Reprint
- The Vision, Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta & Michael Walsh (Marvel)
Best Adaptation from Another Medium
- “Frankenstein”, Mary Shelley, adapted by Junji Ito, translated by Jocelyne Allen (Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips
- Star Wars: Classic Newspaper Strips, Vol. 3, Archie Goodwin & Al Williamson, edited by Dean Mullaney (Library of American Comics/IDW)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books
- Bill Sienkiewicz’s Mutants and Moon Knights… And Assassins… Artifact Edition, Scott Dunbier, ed. (IDW)
Best Writer
- Tom King for Batman, Mister Miracle, Heroes in Crisis, and Swamp Thing Winter Special (DC)
Best Penciller/Inker
- Mitch Gerads for Mister Miracle (DC)
Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)
- Dustin Nguyen for Descender (Image)
Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)
- Jen Bartel for Blackbird (Image) and Submerged (Vault)
Best Coloring
- Matt Wilson for Black Cloud, Paper Girls, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); The Mighty Thor, and Runaways (Marvel)
Best Lettering
- Todd Klein for Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald (Dark Horse); Batman: White Knight (DC); Books of Magic, Eternity Girl (Vertigo/DC); and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest (Top Shelf/IDW)
Best Digital Comic
- Umami, Ken Niimura (Panel Syndicate)
Eisner Hall of Fame Inductees
Judges’ Choices
- Jim Aparo
- June Tarpé Mills
- Dave Stevens
- Morrie Turner
Voted in
- Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
- Jenette Kahn
- Paul Levitz
- Wendy & Richard Pini
- Bill Sienkiewicz
For more information, and the complete list of winners, see the Comic-Con website.
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