“Finding Batman” by Kevin Conroy and J. Bone in DC Pride 2022 (DC)
BEST SINGLE ISSUE/ONE-SHOT
Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)
BEST CONTINUING SERIES
Nightwing, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC)
BEST LIMITED SERIES
The Human Target, by Tom King and Greg Smallwood (DC)
BEST NEW SERIES
Public Domain, by Chip Zdarsky (Image)
BEST PUBLICATION FOR EARLY READERS (UP TO AGE 8)
The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! by Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)
BEST PUBLICATION FOR KIDS (AGES 9-12)
Frizzy, by Claribel A. Ortega and Rose Bousamra (First Second/Macmillan)
BEST PUBLICATION FOR TEENS (AGES 13-17)
Do A Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image)
BEST HUMOR PUBLICATION
Revenge of the Librarians, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)
BEST ANTHOLOGY
The Nib Magazine, edited by Matt Bors (Nib)
BEST REALITY-BASED WORK
Flung Out of Space, by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer (Abrams ComicArts)
BEST GRAPHIC MEMOIR
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—NEW
The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the Night, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—REPRINT
Parker: The Martini Edition—Last Call, by Richard Stark, Darwyn Cooke, Ed Brubaker, and Sean Phillips (IDW)
BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM
Chivalry by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)
BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL
Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1, by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Dark Horse)
BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL—ASIA
Shuna’s Journey, by Hayao Miyazaki; translation by Alex Dudok de Wit (First Second/Macmillan)
BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT—STRIPS (AT LEAST 20 YEARS OLD)
Come Over Come Over, It’s So Magic, and My Perfect Life, by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly)
BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT—COMIC BOOKS (AT LEAST 20 YEARS OLD)
The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, edited by Dian Hansen (TASCHEN)
BEST WRITER
James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country (DC), The Closet, The Department of Truth (Image)
BEST WRITER/ARTIST
Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly)
BEST PENCILLER/INKER OR PENCILLER/INKER TEAM
Greg Smallwood, The Human Target (DC)
BEST PAINTER/MULTIMEDIA ARTIST (INTERIOR ART)
Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)
BEST COVER ARTIST (FOR MULTIPLE COVERS)
Bruno Redondo, Nightwing (DC)
BEST COLORING
Jordie Bellaire, The Nice House on the Lake, Suicide Squad: Blaze (DC); Antman, Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age (Marvel)
BEST LETTERING
Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (IDW)
BEST COMICS-RELATED PERIODICAL/JOURNALISM
PanelXPanel magazine, edited by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and Tiffany Babb (panelxpanel.com)
BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK
Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, by Benjamin L. Clark and Nat Gertler (Schulz Museum)
BEST ACADEMIC/SCHOLARLY WORK
The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions, edited by Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren (University Press of Mississippi)
BEST PUBLICATION DESIGN
Parker: The Martini Edition—Last Call, designed by Sean Phillips (IDW)
Barnstormers, by Scott Snyder and Tula Lotay (Comixology Originals)
WILL EISNER SPIRIT OF COMICS RETAILER AWARD
Cape and Cowl Comics — Eitan Manhoff, Oakland, CA
BOB CLAMPETT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Beth Accomando
Scott Dunbier
BILL FINGER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMIC BOOK WRITING
Barbara Friedlander
Sam Glanzman
RUSS MANNING PROMISING NEWCOMER AWARD
Zoe Thorogood, writer/artist of The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott (Avery Hill), writer/artist of It’s Lonely at the Center of the Earth (Image), artist of Rain (Image)
The Manning Award is presented to a comics artist who, early in his or her career, shows a superior knowledge and ability in the art of creating comics. It is named for Russ Manning, the artist best known for his work on the Tarzan and Star Wars newspaper strips and the Magnus, Robot Fighter comic book. Russ was a popular guest at the San Diego convention in the 1970s.
The 2023 nominees are:
Soroush Barazesh, writer/artist of Kings of Nowhere (Dark Horse)
Shof Coker, co-creator/artist of New Masters (Image)
Ryan Lang, writer/artist of Issunboshi: A Graphic Novel (Oni)
Tim Probert, writer/artist of the Lightfall series (HarperAlley)
Zoe Thorogood, writer/artist of The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott (Avery Hill), writer/artist of It’s Lonely at the Center of the Earth (Image), artist of Rain (Image)
The nominees were chosen by a panel consisting of board and committee members of Comic-Con International and a San Diego comics retailer. The winner will be chosen by past Manning Award winners and Russ Manning assistants. The recipient will be announced during the Eisner Awards ceremony on July 21 at Comic-Con in San Diego.
“Funeral in Foam,” by Casey Gilly and Raina Telgemeier, in You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife (Iron Circus)
BEST SINGLE ISSUE/ONE-SHOT (MUST BE ABLE TO STAND ALONE)
Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Phil Jimenez (DC)
BEST CONTINUING SERIES
[Tie]
Bitter Root, by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene (Image)
Something Is Killing the Children, by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera (BOOM! Studios)
BEST LIMITED SERIES
The Good Asian, by Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi (Image)
BEST NEW SERIES
The Nice House on the Lake, by James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno (DC Black Label)
BEST PUBLICATION FOR EARLY READERS (UP TO AGE 8)
Chibi Usagi: Attack of the Heebie Chibis, by Julie and Stan Sakai (IDW)
BEST PUBLICATION FOR KIDS (AGES 9-12)
Salt Magic, by Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock (Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House)
BEST PUBLICATION FOR TEENS (AGES 13-17)
The Legend of Auntie Po, by Shing Yin Khor (Kokila/Penguin Random House)
BEST HUMOR PUBLICATION
Not All Robots, by Mark Russell and Mike Deodato Jr. (AWA Upshot)
BEST ANTHOLOGY
You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife, edited by Kel McDonald and Andrea Purcell (Iron Circus)
BEST REALITY-BASED WORK
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic History, by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson (Ten Speed Press)
BEST GRAPHIC MEMOIR
Run: Book One, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell (Abrams ComicArts)
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—NEW
Monsters, by Barry Windsor-Smith (Fantagraphics)
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—REPRINT
The Complete American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, and Scott Hampton (Dark Horse)
BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM
George Orwell’s 1984: The Graphic Novel, adapted by Fido Nesti (Mariner Books)
BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL
The Shadow of a Man, by Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten, translation by Stephen D. Smith (IDW)
BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL—ASIA
Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection, by Junji Ito, translation by Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media)
BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT—STRIPS (AT LEAST 20 YEARS OLD)
Popeye: The E.C. Segar Sundays, vol. 1 by E.C. Segar, edited by Gary Groth and Conrad Groth (Fantagraphics)
BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT—COMIC BOOKS (AT LEAST 20 YEARS OLD)
EC Covers Artist’s Edition, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)
BEST WRITER
James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Joker, Batman, DC Pride 2021 (DC); The Department of Truth (Image); Blue Book, Razorblades (Tiny Onion Studios)
BEST WRITER/ARTIST
Barry Windsor-Smith, Monsters (Fantagraphics)
BEST PENCILLER/INKER OR PENCILLER/INKER TEAM
Phil Jimenez, Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (DC)
BEST PAINTER/MULTIMEDIA ARTIST (INTERIOR ART)
Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)
BEST COVER ARTIST
Jen Bartel, Future State Immortal Wonder Woman #1 & 2, Wonder Woman Black & Gold #1, Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary (DC); Women’s History Month variant covers (Marvel)
BEST COLORING
Matt Wilson, Undiscovered Country (Image); Fire Power (Image Skybound); Eternals, Thor,Wolverine (Marvel); Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters (Oni)
BEST LETTERING
Barry Windsor-Smith, Monsters (Fantagraphics)
BEST COMICS-RELATED PERIODICAL/JOURNALISM
WomenWriteAboutComics.com, edited by Wendy Browne and Nola Pfau (WWAC)
BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK
All of the Marvels, by Douglas Wolk (Penguin Press)
BEST ACADEMIC/SCHOLARLY WORK
Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History, by Eike Exner (Rutgers University Press)
The Manning Award is presented to a comics artist who, early in his or her career, shows a superior knowledge and ability in the art of creating comics. It is named for Russ Manning, the artist best known for his work on the Tarzan and Star Wars newspaper strips and the Magnus, Robot Fighter comic book. Russ was a popular guest at the San Diego convention in the 1970s.
The 2022 nominees are:
Matthew Clarke, co-creator/artist of Hardears (Abrams ComicArts Megascope)
Emma Kubert, co-creator/artist of Inblot (Image)
Meredith Laxton, artist of MPLS Sound (Life Drawn by Humanoids)
Luana Vecchio, artist of Bolero (Image)
Audra Winslow, writer/artist of Jo & Rus (KaBOOM!)
The nominees were chosen by a panel consisting of board and committee members of Comic-Con International and a San Diego comics retailer. The winner will be chosen by past Manning award winners and Russ Manning assistants. The recipient will be announced during the Eisner Awards ceremony on July 22 at Comic-Con in San Diego.
The Manning Award is
presented to a comics artist who, early in his or her career, shows a superior
knowledge and ability in the art of creating comics. It is named for Russ
Manning, the artist best known for his work on the Tarzan and Star
Wars newspaper strips and the Magnus, Robot Fighter
comic book. Russ was a popular guest at the San Diego convention in the 1970s.
The 2019 nominees are:
Lorena
Alvarez, writer/artist
of Hicotea and Nightlights (Nobrow)
Ellen T.
Crenshaw, artist of Kiss
Number 8 (First Second)
M. J. Kim, artist of Faith: Dreamside
(Valiant)
Sumit Kumar, artist of These Savage Shores
(Vault Comics) and Ruin of Thieves (Action Lab)
Kieran
McKeown, artist of Halo:
Lone Wolf (Dark Horse)
The nominees were
chosen by a panel consisting of board and committee members of Comic-Con
International and a San Diego comics retailer. The winner will be chosen by
past Manning award winners and Russ Manning assistants. The recipient will be
announced during the Eisner Awards ceremony on July 19.
The Manning Award is presented to a comics artist who, early in his or her career, shows a superior knowledge and ability in the art of creating comics. It is named for Russ Manning, the artist best known for his work on the Tarzan and Star Wars newspaper strips and the Magnus, Robot Fighter comic book. Russ was a popular guest at the San Diego convention in the 1970s.
The 2018 nominees are:
Sean Rubin, writer/artist of Bolivar (Archaia/BOOM!)
Hamish Steele, writer/artist of Pantheon (Nobrow)
Pablo Tunica, artist of TMNT Universe (IDW)
Nina Vakueva, artist of Hi-Fi Fight Club/Heavy Vinyl (BOOM!)
Campbell Whyte, writer/artist of Home Time (Top Shelf)
The nominees were chosen by a panel consisting of board and committee members of Comic-Con International and a San Diego comics retailer. The winner will be chosen by past Manning award winners and Russ Manning assistants. The recipient will be announced during the Eisner Awards ceremony on July 20.
After 41 years serving an enthusiastic customer base of sci-fi geeks and proud comic-book nerds in Berkeley, Dark Carnival, at 3086 Claremont Ave., is closing up shop. Its sister store, The Escapist, which is two doors down on Claremont, may also shutter if sales don’t pick up.
Owner Jack Rems describes himself as heartbroken. Speaking to Berkeleyside Monday, he said he had made the decision due to declining sales. He expressed gratitude to all his long-term customers and encouraged people to come by the store where he is holding a “progressive sale.” All stock is currently being offered at a 20% discount.
Rems doesn’t yet know when he will close the doors to the treasure-trove of a shop for the final time. “I need to pay bills, so as long as by selling off stock we are generating more than it costs [we will stay open],” he said.
Just as a reminder–readers of this blog likely already know, but still–Provenance is set in the Ancillaryverse but does not concern the same characters and is not set in Radch Space. No, and not in the Republic of Two Systems either. It will be out September 26, 2017, and I’m given to understand there will be an audiobook, out on the same date. I have no further details about audio, though.
(4) STRANGE TAXONOMY. “The idea that the X Prize Foundation is funding sf is big news,” says Martin Morse Wooster about the news story below, “BUT if you look at the Science Fiction Advisory Council press release you will see that Neil Gaiman and Andy Weir are ‘novelists’ while Charles Stross and Mike Resnick are ‘science fiction writers.’”
The fact that so many people are turning toward these dire visions of the future may seem like cause for worry, but it is also a sign of hope. Great dystopian works like The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984, in the words of one defender of dystopian fiction, can serve as self-defeating prophecies helping us to recognize and prevent the dark worlds they depict. Put another way, The Handmaid’s Tale actually is an instruction manual, meant to teach us what we must fight to avoid. But hope can’t live on dystopia alone. It requires positive visions, too.
Thankfully, an ambitious new project launched this month aims to use the vision and expertise of the science fiction community–including Atwood herself–to move past dystopian visions. The newly announced Science Fiction Advisory Council, composed of a stellar selection of 64 bestselling sci-fi writers and visionary filmmakers, has tasked itself with imagining realistic, possible, positive futures that we might actually want to live in–and figuring out we can get from here to there. The council is sponsored by XPRIZE, the nonprofit foundation that uses competition to spur private development of things like a reusable suborbital spacecraft. The advisers on the council will “assist XPRIZE in the creation of digital ‘futures’ roadmaps across a variety of domains [and] identify the ideal catalysts, drivers and mechanisms–including potential XPRIZE competitions–to overcome grand challenges and achieve a preferred future state.”
“Choose Your Own Adventure” was a groundbreaking book series that prepared many of our child minds for the internet…or for keeping track of all the endnotes in Infinite Jest if you’re into that sort of thing. But did you know that each twisty, unforgiving story in the CYOA series has a map? The good folks over at Atlas Obscura have dug into the books and the maps they’ve generated.
The series original ran from 1979 to 1998, but since 2004, Chooseco, the company founded by one of the CYOA author, R.A. Montgomery, has re-released classic volumes and included the maps that are created by all the possible choices in each book! The official maps keep things fairly clear-cut. Pages are shown by an arrow, circles represent the choices the book offers its readers, each possible ending is represented by a square, and the dotted lines show the links between choices.
(6) ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT EXPO. Follow this link to a roundup of game news from E3 2017.
The underrated, unloved liver performs more than 300 vital functions. No wonder the ancients believed it to be the home of the human soul.
Dern points to “fascinating stuff” like –
Scientists have also discovered that hepatocytes, the metabolically active cells that constitute 80 percent of the liver, possess traits not seen in any other normal cells of the body. For example, whereas most cells have two sets of chromosomes — two sets of genetic instructions on how a cell should behave — hepatocytes can enfold and deftly manipulate up to eight sets of chromosomes, and all without falling apart or turning cancerous.
“Not to mention the amusing term, ‘liverati’,” he continues. “Wonder if this organ was originally an alien symbiote, etc?”
Michael Palin has made a significant donation of written archives to the British Library, which documents his literary and creative career, covering the years 1965-1987.
Not much text, but some interesting video with commentary. Chip Hitchcock adds, “Note especially that the original contract paid one person in pounds and the rest in guineas; how very antique.”
(9) PUFF, PUFF, PUFF. What happened to Robert the smoking robot? A briefly-notorious private project from the 1930’s.
Today, the story of Robert the Robot is little known, even in the Northamptonshire town where he was once a celebrity.
Yet in the 1930s, his fame reached as far as Czechoslovakia and the United States, where he even featured in Time magazine.
And the reason he came to be?
“Someone bet me £5 I could not make a robot in three weeks,” inventor Charles Lawson, who had a radio shop, told a newspaper at the time.
“I won.”
… “The robot relied on a combination of motors, photoelectric cells, telephone relays and a record player to perform 26 pre-programmed routines, each one initiated by voice commands from a human co-star.
“Smoking was done using automated bellows which were also a feature of 19th Century automatons.
“Remember that this type of robot did not have access to a computer and so talking was done using a triggering mechanism for a record player playing old 78 RPM bakelite records.”
(10) TODAY IN HISTORY
June 13, 1953 — The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms hit theaters.
June 13, 1981 — Clash of the Titans was released.
(11) FORGOTTEN TV. Echo Ishii holds forth on a rare Seventies series with Edward Woodward in “SF Obscure: 1990”.
1990, made in 1977, posits a future Britain run by the Public Control Department (PCD)- an all powerful bureaucracy in which government regulations turn into social control. A few lone journalists walk a fine line between criticizing the government and being shut down.
It starts with an attempt at a military overthrow in the mid 1980’s in which the state took over. Emigration, not immigration, is Britain’s biggest problem as those with skilled jobs and higher education seek a life abroad.
(13) TALKING OVER. Rose Eveleth’s “What I Learned About Interruption From Talk Radio”, on her blog Last Word on Nothing, comes recommended by Martin Morse Wooster: “I think has a lot of good practical advice which panelists at conventions can use.”
On June 3rd, writer and philosopher Jim Holt was moderating a panel at the World Science Festival called “Pondering the Imponderables: The Biggest Questions of Cosmology.” …One of the panelists was a woman named Veronika Hubeny, a theoretical physicist. She was the only woman on the panel. Holt asked Hubeny a question about string theory. And then, without letting Hubby [sic] answer his question, Holt began to hold forth on string theory.
The exchange was caught on camera, so you can watch it here. Hubeny is clearly trying to answer Holt’s question, but he simply won’t stop talking to let her. At one point, a woman in the audience named Marilee Talkington, actually shouted “LET HER SPEAK” to stop Holt from interrupting (you can read her entire account of the panel here). After a pause that I’m sure felt like ages to Talkington, the audience burst into applause. Hubeny then finally got to speak.
I’m not here to adjudicate this exchange, and I’m sure if you want to read heated debates about it you can find those using your trusty search engine of choice. Or the YouTube comments, if you enjoy true pain.
But this, this thing where a man simply doesn’t let you get a word in edgewise, this doesn’t happen to me much. Sure, I’ve had my fair share of mansplainers (my favorite being a clone of Solnit’s book-explainer, the man who explained my own podcast to me). But I don’t generally have trouble getting a word in. And I think it’s because I learned how to handle men who talk over me by listening to all that talk radio.
So here are my tips for anybody who might find themselves in a situation like Hubeny, where someone simply isn’t letting you get a word in, as learned from many, many hours of talk radio.
Let’s start with some general rules. First, when you are dealing with a chronic over-talker, do not try to be subtle. This is not a situation in which you should “go high.” Politeness does not work here, nor does trying to “take the high road.” You will wait forever for them to notice that they are doing this. You will die or fall asleep or the universe will end in a white-hot explosion before they will stop and think “hm I have been talking a lot I wonder if I’m talking over this person.”
Second, there are no pauses in talk radio, no long moments of thinking, no silences while you try to formulate a thoughtful response. Think of this conversation like a rock climbing wall. Each breath and micro-pause is a foothold. Your interlocutor will grab every single one and climb to the top, and you will be left at the bottom staring up at his backside. And it is not a nice view, let me assure you. …
Turkish Delight, or lokum, is a popular dessert sweet throughout Europe, especially in Greece, the Balkans, and, of course, Turkey. But most Americans, if they have any association with the treat at all, know it only as the food for which Edmund Pevensie sells out his family in the classic children’s fantasy novel The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Until I first tried real Turkish Delight in my 20s, I had always imagined it as a cross between crisp toffee and halvah, flaky and melting in the mouth.
Here’s what it really is: a starch and sugar gel often containing fruit or nuts and flavored with rosewater, citrus, resin, or mint. The texture is gummy and sticky, some of the flavors are unfamiliar to American palates, and the whole thing is very, very sweet. (In addition to the sugar in the mixture, it’s often dusted with icing sugar to keep the pieces from sticking together.) While some Turkish Delight newbies may find they enjoy it, it’s not likely to be the first thing we imagine when we picture an irresistible candy treat.
What I had matches the author’s description. And it was okay, but far from addictive.
(15) HOPS HORROR. “Don’t drink and dive,” says Andrew Porter after seeing this ad for The Temple from Narragansett Beer.
The Story
There was nothing we could do. It was just after 2pm on June 28th when we heard the explosion from the engine room. We were across enemy lines and we could do nothing but sink quietly to the ocean floor. Helpless and incapacitated, our submarine drifted for days — weeks. That’s when we found it aboard the ship — a very odd and seemingly ancient ivory medallion. As the men started to pass it around the ship for inspection, their minds began to fill with darkness and visions of those lost to the deep floating by the portholes of the ill-fated vessel in which we were trapped.
League by league, we fell into black nothingness, and with every league another member of my crew was stripped of his sanity. “MERCY!” they would begin to cry. Over and over. One by one they would turn. There was nothing else we could do… what else could we do? It needed to stop!
Today is August 9th. I have been resting on the ocean floor for nearly 3 weeks now alone and in complete darkness… except for… My mind has been tainted by hallucination. I swear it. Outside of the porthole lies a temple with a lone light shining over it’s door. The voices of my men have been chanting, pushing me to explore the impossible structure. I fell to their temptations, put my diving suit on, and stepped out onto the pitch black ocean floor and headed for the inconceivable glow. Once I arrived on the steps a voice hissed, “What do you seek?”
(16) CARTOON OF THE DAY/. In Martin, Sholto Crow reveals what happens if you use a metal detector on the beach and you dig up something that has a green flashing warning light!
[Thanks to JJ, DB, Cat Eldridge, Daniel P. Dern, Martin Morse Wooster, Michael J. Walsh, Andrew Porter, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Daniel Dern.]
Daniel Bayliss, artist of Kennel Block Blues and Translucid (BOOM! Studios)
Leila del Duca, artist of Shutter (Image)
Dan Mora, artist of Klaus and Hexed! (BOOM! Studios)
Marguerite Sauvage, artist of DC Comics Bombshells (DC), Scarlet Witch (Marvel), and Faith (Valiant)
Tillie Walden, writer/artist of I Love This Part and The End of Summer (Avery Hill)
The Manning Award goes to a comics artist who, early in his or her career, shows a superior knowledge and ability in the art of creating comics. The award was created in 1982 and named for the artist known for his work on the Tarzan and Star Wars newspaper strips and the Magnus, Robot Fighter comic book. Manning also was a popular guest at early San Diego Comic-Cons.
The winner will be chosen by past Manning award winners and Russ Manning assistants and made public at the Eisner Awards ceremony on July 22 at Comic-Con International.
Named for comics creator the Will Eisner, the awards, now in their 27th year, highlight the best publications and creators in comics and graphic novels.
Jorge Corona, artist of Feathers (Archaia), Goners (Image), and Teen Titans Go (DC)
Leila del Duca, artist of Shutter (Image)
Vanesa R. Del Rey, artist of Hit (BOOM! Studios)
GABO (Gabriel Bautista), artist of The Life After (Oni Press)
Greg Smallwood, artist of Moon Knight (Marvel) and Dream Thief (Dark Horse)
The Manning Award goes to a comics artist who, early in his or her career, shows a superior knowledge and ability in the art of creating comics. The award was created in 1982 and named for the artist known for his work on the Tarzan and Star Wars newspaper strips and the Magnus, Robot Fighter comic book. Manning also was a popular guest at early San Diego Comic-Cons.
The winner will be chosen by past Manning award winners and Russ Manning assistants and made public at the Eisner Awards ceremony on July 10 at Comic-Con International.