I vincitori degli Eisner Awards 2015

Come da tradizione, ieri sera, durante il San Diego Comic-Con, si è tenuta la cerimonia di premiazione degli Eisner Awards 2015, intitolati al compianto Will Eisner. I premi, nell’ambito del fumetto statunitense, sono l’equivalente del premio Oscar per il cinema. Dopo l’immagine, tutti i vincitori, segnalati in grassetto.

Best Short Story

• “Beginning’s End,” di Rina Ayuyang, muthamagazine.com
• “Corpse on the Imjin!” di Peter Kuper, in Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World (Simon & Schuster)
• “Rule Number One,” di Lee Bermejo, in Batman Black and White #3 (DC)
• “The Sound of One Hand Clapping,” di Max Landis e Jock, in Adventures of Superman #14 (DC)
• “When the Darkness Presses,” di Emily Carroll, http://emcarroll.com/comics/darkness

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)

• Astro City #16: “Wish I May” di Kurt Busiek e Brent Anderson (Vertigo/DC)
• Beasts of Burden: Hunters and Gatherers, di Evan Dorkin e Jill Thompson (Dark Horse)
• Madman in Your Face 3D Special, di Mike Allred (Image)
• Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration #1 (Marvel)
• The Multiversity: Pax Americana #1, di Grant Morrison e Frank Quitely (DC)

Best Continuing Series

• Astro City, di Kurt Busiek e Brent Anderson (Vertigo)
• Bandette, di Paul Tobin e Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain)
• Hawkeye, di Matt Fraction e David Aja (Marvel)
• Saga, di Brian K. Vaughan e Fiona Staples (Image)
• Southern Bastards, di Jason Aaron e Jason Latour (Image)
• The Walking Dead, di Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, e Stefano Gaudiano (Image/Skybound)

Best Limited Series

• Daredevil: Road Warrior, di Mark Waid e Peter Krause (Marvel Infinite Comics)
• Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, di Eric Shanower e Garbriel Rodriguez (IDW)
• The Multiversity, di Grant Morrison e altri (DC)
• The Private Eye, di Brian K. Vaughan e Marcos Martin (Panel Syndicate)
• The Sandman: Overture, di Neil Gaiman e J. H. Williams III (Vertigo/DC)

Best New Series

• The Fade Out, di Ed Brubaker e Sean Phillips (Image)
• Lumberjanes, di Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson e Brooke A. Allen (BOOM! Box)
• Ms. Marvel, di G. Willow Wilson e Adrian Alphona (Marvel)
• Rocket Raccoon, di Skottie Young (Marvel)
• The Wicked + The Divine, di Kieron Gillen e Jamie McKelvie (Image)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 7)

• BirdCatDog, di Lee Nordling e Meritxell Bosch (Lerner/Graphic Universe)
• A Cat Named Tim And Other Stories, di John Martz (Koyama Press)
• Hello Kitty, Hello 40: A Celebration in 40 Stories, supervisionata da Traci N. Todd ed Elizabeth Kawasaki (VIZ)
• Mermin, Book 3: Deep Dives, di Joey Weiser (Oni)
• The Zoo Box, di Ariel Cohn e Aron Nels Steinke (First Second)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 8-12)

• Batman Li’l Gotham, vol. 2, di Derek Fridolfs e Dustin Nguyen (DC)
• El Deafo, di Cece Bell (Amulet/Abrams)
• I Was the Cat, di Paul Tobin e Benjamin Dewey (Oni)
• Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, di Eric Shanower e Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
• Tiny Titans: Return to the Treehouse, di Art Baltazar e Franco (DC)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

• Doomboy, di Tony Sandoval (Magnetic Press)
• The Dumbest Idea Ever, di Jimmy Gownley (Graphix/Scholastic)
• Lumberjanes, di Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson e Brooke A. Allen (BOOM! Box)
• Meteor Men, di Jeff Parker e Sandy Jarrell (Oni)
• The Shadow Hero, di Gene Luen Yang e Sonny Liew (First Second)
• The Wrenchies, di Farel Dalrymple (First Second)

Best Humor Publication

• The Complete Cul de Sac, di Richard Thompson (Andrews McMeel)
• Dog Butts and Love. And Stuff Like That. And Cats., di Jim Benton (NBM)
• Groo vs. Conan, di Sergio Aragonés, Mark Evanier e Tom Yeates (Dark Horse)
• Rocket Raccoon, di Skottie Young (Marvel)
• Superior Foes of Spider-Man, di Nick Spencer e Steve Lieber (Marvel)

Best Digital/Web Comic

• Bandette, di Paul Tobin e Colleen Coover, Monkeybrain/comiXology.com
• Failing Sky di Dax Tran-Caffee, http://failingsky.com(link is external)
• The Last Mechanical Monster, di Brian Fies, http://lastmechanicalmonster.blogspot.com
• Nimona, di Noelle Stephenson, http://gingerhaze.com/nimona/comic
• The Private Eye, di Brian Vaughan e Marcos Martin http://panelsyndicate.com

Best Anthology

• In the Dark: A Horror Anthology, supervisionata da Rachel Deering (Tiny Behemoth Press/IDW)
• Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, supervisionata da Josh O’Neill, Andrew Carl e Chris Stevens (Locust Moon)
• Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, supervisionata da Ann Ishii, Chip Kidd e Graham Kolbeins (Fantagraphics)
• Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World, supervisionata da Monte Beauchamp (Simon & Schuster)
• To End All Wars: The Graphic Anthology of The First World War, supervisionata da Jonathan Clode e John Stuart Clark (Soaring Penguin)

Best Reality-Based Work

• Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? di Roz Chast (Bloomsbury)
• Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories, di MariNaomi (2d Cloud/Uncivilized Books)
• El Deafo, di Cece Bell (Amulet/Abrams)
• Hip Hop Family Tree, vol. 2, di Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)
• Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood, di Nathan Hale (Abrams)
• To End All Wars: The Graphic Anthology of The First World War, supervisionato da Jonathan Clode e John Stuart Clark (Soaring Penguin)

Best Graphic Album — New

• The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, di Stephen Collins (Picador)
• Here, di Richard McGuire (Pantheon)
• Kill My Mother, di Jules Feiffer (Liveright)
• The Motherless Oven, di Rob Davis (SelfMadeHero)
• Seconds, di Bryan Lee O’Malley (Ballantine Books)
• This One Summer, di Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki (First Second)

Best Graphic Album — Reprint

• Dave Dorman’s Wasted Lands Omnibus (Magnetic Press)
• How to Be Happy, di Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics)
• Jim, di Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics)
• Sock Monkey Treasury, di Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics)
• Through the Woods, di Emily Carroll (McElderry Books)

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

• Winsor McCay’s Complete Little Nemo, supervisionato da Alexander Braun (TASCHEN)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan: The Sunday Comics, 1933–1935, di Hal Foster, supervisionato da Brendan Wright (Dark Horse)
• Moomin: The Deluxe Anniversary Edition, di Tove Jansson, supervisionato da Tom Devlin (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Pogo, vol. 3: Evidence to the Contrary, di Walt Kelly, supervisionato da Carolyn Kelly & Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
• Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, voll. 5-6, di Floyd Gottfredson, supervisionato da David Gerstein & Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books (at least 20 Years Old)

• The Complete ZAP Comix Box Set, supervisionato da Gary Groth con Mike Catron (Fantagraphics)
• Steranko Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Artist’s Edition, supervisionato da Scott Dunbier (IDW)
• Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Trail of the Unicorn, di Carl Barks, supervisionato da Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
• Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Son of the Son, di Don Rosa, supervisionato da David Gerstein (Fantagraphics)
• Walt Kelly’s Pogo: The Complete Dell Comics, voll. 1–2, supervisionato da Daniel Herman (Hermes)
• Witzend, di Wallace Wood e altri., supervisionato da Gary Groth con Mike Catron (Fantagraphics)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

• Beautiful Darkness, di Fabien Vehlmann e Kerascoët (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Blacksad: Amarillo, di Juan Díaz Canales e Juanjo Guarnido (Dark Horse)
• Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn, di Hugo Pratt (IDW/Euro Comics)
• Jaybird, di Lauri e Jaakko Ahonen (Dark Horse/SAF)
• The Leaning Girl, di Benoît Peeters e François Schuiten (Alaxis Press)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material — Asia

• All You Need Is Kill, di Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryosuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Obata e yoshitoshi ABe (VIZ)
• In Clothes Called Fat, di Moyoco Anno (Vertical)
• Master Keaton, vol. 1, di Naoki Urasawa, Hokusei Katsushika e Takashi Nagasaki (VIZ)
• One-Punch Man, di One e Yusuke Murata (VIZ)
• Showa 1939–1955 and Showa 1944–1953: A History of Japan, di Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki, di Mamoru Hosada e Yu (Yen Press)

Best Writer

• Jason Aaron, Original Sin, Thor, Men of Wrath (Marvel); Southern Bastards (Image)
• Kelly Sue DeConnick, Captain Marvel (Marvel); Pretty Deadly (Image)
• Grant Morrison, The Multiversity (DC); Annihilator (Legendary Comics)
• Brian K. Vaughan, Saga (Image); Private Eye (Panel Syndicate)
• G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
• Gene Luen Yang, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Dark Horse); The Shadow Hero (First Second)

Best Writer/Artist

• Sergio Aragonés, Sergio Aragonés Funnies (Bongo); Groo vs. Conan (Dark Horse)
• Charles Burns, Sugar Skull (Pantheon)
• Stephen Collins, The Giant Beard That Was Evil (Picador)
• Richard McGuire, Here (Pantheon)
• Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo: Senso, Usagi Yojimbo Color Special: The Artist (Dark Horse)
• Raina Telgemeier, Sisters (Graphix/Scholastic)

Best Penciller/Inker

• Adrian Alphona, Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
• Mike Allred, Silver Surfer (Marvel); Madman in Your Face 3D Special (Image)
• Frank Quitely, Multiversity (DC)
• François Schuiten, The Leaning Girl (Alaxis Press)
• Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)
• Babs Tarr, Batgirl (DC)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

• Lauri e Jaakko Ahonen, Jaybird (Dark Horse)
• Colleen Coover, Bandette (Monkeybrain)
• Mike Del Mundo, Elektra (Marvel)
• Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad: Amarillo (Dark Horse)
• J. H. Williams III, The Sandman: Overture (Vertigo/DC)

Best Cover Artist

• Darwyn Cooke, DC Comics Darwyn Cooke Month Variant Covers (DC)
• Mike Del Mundo, Elektra, X-Men: Legacy, A+X, Dexter, Dexter Down Under (Marvel)
• Francesco Francavilla, Afterlife with Archie (Archie); Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight (Dark Horse); The Twilight Zone, Django/Zorro (Dynamite); X-Files (IDW)
• Jamie McKelvie/Matthew Wilson, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
• Phil Noto, Black Widow (Marvel)
• Alex Ross, Astro City (Vertigo/DC); Batman 66: The Lost Episode, Batman 66 Meets Green Hornet (DC/Dynamite)

Best Coloring

• Laura Allred, Silver Surfer (Marvel); Madman in Your Face 3D Special (Image)
• Nelson Daniel, Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, Judge Dredd, Wild Blue Yonder (IDW)
• Lovern Kindzierski, The Graveyard Book, voll. 1-2 (Harper)
• Matthew Petz, The Leg (Top Shelf)
• Dave Stewart, Hellboy in Hell, BPRD, Abe Sapien, Baltimore, Lobster Johnson, Witchfinder, Shaolin Cowboy, Aliens: Fire and Stone, DHP (Dark Horse)
• Matthew Wilson, Adventures of Superman (DC); The Wicked + The Divine (Image), Daredevil, Thor (Marvel)

Best Lettering

• Joe Caramagna, Ms. Marvel, Daredevil (Marvel)
• Todd Klein, Fables, The Sandman: Overture, The Unwritten (Vertigo/DC); Nemo: The Roses of Berlin (Top Shelf)
• Max, Vapor (Fantagraphics)
• Jack Morelli, Afterlife with Archie, Archie, Betty and Veronica, etc. (Archie)
• Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo: Senso, Usagi Yojimbo Color Special: The Artist (Dark Horse)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism

• Alter Ego, supervisionato da Roy Thomas (TwoMorrows)
• Comic Book Creator, supervisionato da Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows)
• Comic Book Resources, supervisionato da Jonah Weiland, www.comicbookresources.com
• Comics Alliance, supervisionato da Andy Khouri, Caleb Goellner, Andrew Wheeler, & Joe Hughes, www.comicsalliance.com
• tcj.com, supervisionato da Dan Nadel & Timothy Hodler (Fantagraphics)

Best Comics-Related Book

• Comics Through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas (4 voll.), supervisionato da M. Keith Booker (ABC-CLIO)
• Creeping Death from Neptune: The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton, di Greg Sadowski (Fantagraphics)
• Genius Animated: The Cartoon Art of Alex Toth, vol. 3, di Dean Mullaney e Bruce Canwell (IDW/LOAC)
• What Fools These Mortals Be: The Story of Puck, di Michael Alexander Kahn e Richard Samuel West (IDW/LOAC)
• 75 Years of Marvel Comics: From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen, di Roy Thomas e Josh Baker (TASCHEN)

Best Scholarly/Academic Work

• American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife, di A. David Lewis (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics, di Andrew Hoberek (Rutgers University Press)
• Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books, di Michael Barrier (University of California Press)
• Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews, supervisionato da Sarah Lightman (McFarland)
• The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, di Thierry Smolderen, tradotto da Bart Beaty e Nick Nguyen (University Press of Mississippi)
• Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay, di Katherine Roeder (University Press of Mississippi)

Best Publication Design

• Batman: Kelley Jones Gallery Edition, design di Josh Beatman/Brainchild Studios (Graphitti/DC)
• The Complete ZAP Comix Box Set, design di Tony Ong (Fantagraphics)
• Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, design di Jim Rugg (Locust Moon)
• Street View, design di Pascal Rabate (NBM/Comics Lit)
• Winsor McCay’s Complete Little Nemo, design di Anna Tina Kessler (TASCHEN)

Hall of Fame Awards: Marjorie Henderson Buell e Bill Woggon; per votazione: John Byrne, Chris Claremont, Denis Kitchen, Frank Miller