As with every other creative industry around, the comics community loves a good award ceremony. In the US alone, there's the Harveys, the Ignatzes, the Rubens and the Inkpots. But none come close to the Eisners. Named for The Spirit cartoonist and graphic novel pioneer Will Eisner, the award comics' Oscars, Grammys and Tonys all rolled into one.
The 2015 award for Best New Series went to the team at Boom Studio's Lumberjanes, which also walked away with the award for Best Publication for Teens.
Locust Moon's gorgeous Winsor McCay tribute anthology Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream nabbed the Best Anthology and Best Publication Design awards. And speaking of McCay, Winsor McCay's Complete Little Nemo collection from TASCHEN won the Best Archival Collection/Project award, while the new IDW series Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland took home Best Limited Series.
IDW also scored a win with Steranko Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Artist's Edition, which brought home the award for Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic Books.
Artist Fiona Staples, who is currently collaborating with writer Mark Waid on the newly revamped Archie series, took home the award for Best Penciller for her work on Image's Saga series. The Brian K. Vaughan-penned book also scored the award for Best Continuing Series. Gene Luen Yang picked up the Best Writer award for his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Shadow Hero, while Raina Telgemeier scored an award for Best Writer/Artist for her Scholastic book, Sisters.
Darwyn Cooke, meanwhile, walked away with the Best Cover Artist award for his monthly variant covers for DC. Artist Ed Piskor also scored a big win, walking away with Best Reality-Based Work for his book, Hip Hop Family Tree Volume 2. And the award for Best Graphic Novel went to cousin team Jillian and Mariko Tamaki for the YA book This One Summer.
Canada web cartoonist Emily Carroll nabbed Best Short Story for her self-published "When the Darkness Presses" and the duo of Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson took home Best Single Issue for the Dark Horse book Beasts of Burden: Hunters and Gatherers.
The Complete Cul de Sac collection of Richard Thompson's syndicated newspaper strip brought home the Best Humor Publication award. Thompson's strip ceased publication in 2012, due to the artist's on-going health concerns. On the comics journalism side, former AOL site Comics Alliance beat out Alter Ego, Comic Book Creator, Comic Book Resources and The Comics Journal.
Sin City creator Frank Miller landed a spot in the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, along with the X-Men team of Chris Claremont and John Byrne and publisher Denis Kitchen. Marjorie "Marge" Henderson Buell and Bill Woggon were also inducted. Buell, who passed away in 1993, created the beloved children's character Little Lulu, while Woggon is best known for is best know for the Archie character Katy Keene.
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