2020 Eisner Awards
The 2020 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced at Comic-Con@Home online on July 26, 2020. Winners of SF/F interest include:
Best Continuing Series
- Bitter Root, David Walker, Chuck Brown & Sanford Greene (Image)
Best Limited Series
- Little Bird, Darcy Van Poelgeest & Ian Bertram (Image)
Best New Series
- Invisible Kingdom, G. Willow Wilson & Christian Ward (Berger Books/Dark Horse)
Best Graphic Album—Reprint
- LaGuardia, Nnedi Okorafor & Tana Ford (Berger Books/Dark Horse)
Best Adaptation from Another Medium
- Snow, Glass, Apples, Neil Gaiman & Colleen Doran (Dark Horse Books)
Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia (tie)
- Cats of the Louvre, Taiyo Matsumoto, translated by Michael Arias (VIZ)
- Witch Hat Atelier, Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler (Kodansha)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books
- Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo: The Complete Grasscutter Artist Select, Stan Sakai, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)
Best Writer
- Mariko Tamaki for Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (DC); Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me (First Second/Macmillan); Archie (Archie)
Best Painter/Digital Artist
- Christian Ward for Invisible Kingdom (Berger Books/Dark Horse)
Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)
- Emma Rios for Pretty Deadly (Image)
Best Coloring
- Dave Stewart for Black Hammer, B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know, Hellboy and the BPRD (Dark Horse); Gideon Falls (Image); Silver Surfer Black, Spider-Man (Marvel)
Best Lettering
- Stan Sakai for Usagi Yojimbo (IDW)
Best Digital Comic
- Afterlift, Chip Zdarsky & Jason Loo (comiXology Originals)
Eisner Hall of Fame Inductees
Judges’ Choices
- Nell Brinkley
- E. Simms Campbell
Voted in
- Alison Bechdel
- Howard Cruse
- Louise Simonson
- Stan Sakai
- Don & Maggie Thompson
- Bill Watterson
For more information, and the complete list of winners, see the Comic-Con website.
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