Comicon announced the Eisner Award nominees today (think Oscars, but for comics... kind of a big deal...). here are the nominees i was excited about:
Johnny Hiro #1, by Fred Chao (AdHouse) nominated for best humor publication, best single issue or one-shot, best new series, and best writer/artist, humor (good luck... competing in that category with master cartoonist Kyle Baker!).
Y: The Last Man, by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, and Jose Marzan, Jr. (Vertigo/DC) for best ongoing series.
Atomic Robo, by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener (Red 5 Comics) for bes

t limited series, but he's competing with
The Umbrella Academy, by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá (Dark Horse) which gets MAD love here...
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso (Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion) for best publication for teens and
best reality based work, alongside Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm, by Percy Carey and Ronald Wimberly (Vertigo/DC).
Six creators have 4 nominations each: writer/artists
Fred Chao and
Jimmy Gownley; writers
James Sturm (3 of them for
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow),
Brian K. Vaughan (for both
Buffy and
Y the Last Man), and
Joss Whedon (for
Buffy, Astonishing X-Men, and the online
Sugarshock!); and the mutitalented
Chris Ware (writer/artist and lettering for
Acme Novelty Library #18, editing of
Best American Comics 2007, and designing of
Sundays with Walt & Skeezix).
peep the complete list of categories and nominees
here.
-gM
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