Saying the 2024 Eisner Award winners

The 2024 Will Eisner Comedian Trade Awards have been introduced at San Diego Comedian-Con Worldwide on Friday, July 26 on the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Lodge. Hosted by Phil LaMarr and Thomas Lennon, the ceremony awarded trophies to winners throughout 32 classes. The final theme of the night time gave the impression to be “paying it ahead,” and a number of presenters and winners used stage time to go with their friends and replicate on group.

Lore Olympus gained greatest webcomic for the third consecutive 12 months, making creator Rachel Smythe the primary individual to obtain three back-to-back wins within the class. Penguin Random Home gained three trophies and made a clear sweep of the classes celebrating books for non-adult readers. Scott Dunbier accepted his ninth profession win, not together with his 2023 Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award.

See the whole record of winners under (bolded).

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2024 Will Eisner Comedian Trade Award Winners

BEST SHORT STORY

• “Friendship Is Perpetually,” by Sam Maggs and Keisha Okafor, in My Little Pony fortieth Celebration (IDW)
• “The Kelpie,” by Becky Cloonan, in 4 Gathered on Christmas Eve (Darkish Horse)
• “The Girl of the Lake,” by Joe S. Farrar and Guilherme Grandizolli, in BUMP: A Horror Anthology #3 (BUMP)
• “Speaking to a Hill,” by Larry Hancock and Michael Cherkas, in Comics for Ukraine (Zoop)
• “World’s Best, Half 1,” by Tom King and Belen Ortega, in Surprise Lady #3 (DC)

BEST SINGLE ISSUE/ONE-SHOT

• Horologist, by Jared Lee and Cross (Grim Movie)
• Nightwing #105, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC)
• Star Trek: Day of Blood—Shax’s Greatest Day, by Ryan North and Derek Attraction (IDW)
• Superman 2023 Annual, by Joshua Williamson and others (DC)
• Candy Paprika: Black, White, & Pink, by Mirka Andolfo and others (Picture)

BEST CONTINUING SERIES

• Birds of Prey, by Kelly Thompson and Leonardo Basto Romero (DC)
• Nightwing, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC Comics)
• Shazam! by Mark Waid and Dan Mora (DC)
• Transformers, by Daniel Warren Johnson (Picture Skybound)
• Surprise Lady, by Tom King and Daniel Sampere (DC)

BEST LIMITED SERIES

• The Cull, by Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis (Picture)
• Godzilla: Right here There Be Dragons, by Frank Tieri and Inaki Miranda (IDW)
• Kill Your Darlings, by Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, and Robert Quinn (Picture)
• PeePee PooPoo, by Caroline Money (Silver Sprocket)
• Superman: Misplaced, by Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan (DC)

BEST NEW SERIES

• Beneath the Timber The place No one Sees, by Patrick Horvath (IDW)
• Black Cloak, by Kelly Thompson and Meredith McClaren (Picture)
• Native Man, by Tim Seeley and Tony Fleecs (Picture)
• Phantom Street, by Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Hernández Walta (Picture)
• Somna: A Bedtime Story, by Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay (DSTLRY)

BEST PUBLICATION FOR EARLY READERS

• Bigfoot and Nessie: The Artwork of Getting Seen, by Chelsea M. Campbell and Laura Knetzger (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random Home)
• Burt the Beetle Lives Right here! by Ashley Spires (Youngsters Can Press)
• Go-Go Guys, by Rowboat Watkins (Chronicle Books)
• The Mild Inside, by Dan Misdea (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random Home)
• Milk and Mocha: Our Little Happiness, by Melani Sie (Andrews McMeel)
• Tacos In the present day: El Toro & Mates, by Raúl the Third (HarperCollins/Versify)

BEST PUBLICATION FOR KIDS

• Buzzing, by Samuel Sattin and Rye Hickman (Little, Brown Ink)
• Mabuhay!, by Zachary Sterling (Scholastic Graphix)
• Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir, by Pedro Martín (Dial Books for Younger Readers/Penguin Younger Readers)
• Lacking You, by Phellip Willian and Melissa Garabeli. translation by Fabio Ramos (Oni Press)
• Saving Sunshine, by Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan (First Second/Macmillan)

BEST PUBLICATION FOR TEENS

• Blackward, by Lawrence Lindell (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Hazard and Different Unknown Dangers, by Ryan North and Erica Henderson (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random Home)
• Frontera, by Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo (HarperAlley)
• Lights, by Brenna Thummler (Oni Press)
• Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story, by Sarah Myer (First Second/Macmillan)
• My Girlfriend’s Youngster, vol. 1, by Mamoru Aoi, translation by Hana Allen (Seven Seas)

BEST HUMOR PUBLICATION

• How one can Love: A Information to Emotions & Relationships for Everybody, by Alex Norris (Candlewick/Walker Books)
• I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator, and Different Musical Meanderings, by Keith Knight (Keith Knight Press)
• It’s Jeff: The Jeff-Verse #1, by Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru (Marvel)
• Macanudo: Optimism Is for the Courageous, by Liniers (Fantagraphics)
• The Yakuza’s Bias, by Teki Yatsuda. translation by Max Greenway (Kodansha)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

• Comics for Ukraine, edited by Scott Dunbier (Zoop)
• Deep Cuts, by Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Danilo Beyruth, and others (Picture)
• The Satan’s Minimize, edited by Will Dennis (DSTLRY)
• Marvel Age #1000, edited by Tom Brevoort (Marvel)
• The Out Aspect: Trans & Nonbinary Comics, edited by The Kao, Min Christensen, and David Daneman (Andrews McMeel)
• Swan Songs by W. Maxwell Prince and others (Picture)

BEST REALITY-BASED WORK

• Are You Prepared to Die for the Trigger? by Chris Oliveros (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Final on His Ft: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century, by Adrian Matejka and Youssef Daoudi (Liveright)
• Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali, by Marc Bernardin and Ron Salas (First Second/Macmillan)
• Factor: Contained in the Battle for Animal Personhood, by Samuel Machado and Cynthia Sousa Machado with Steven M. Sensible (Island Press)
• Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy, by Invoice Griffith (Abrams ComicArts)

BEST GRAPHIC MEMOIR

• Household Fashion: Recollections of an American from Vietnam, by Thien Pham (First Second/Macmillan)
• A First Time for Every thing, by Dan Santat (First Second/Macmillan)
  In Limbo, by Deb JJ Lee (First Second/Macmillan)
• Memento Mori, by Tiitu Takalo, translation by Maria Schroderus (Oni Press)
• Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me About Life, Demise, and Hope, by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Scholastic Graphix)
• The Speak, by Darrin Bell (Henry Holt)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—NEW

• Ashes, by Álvaro Ortiz, translation by Eva Ibarzabal (Prime Shelf/IDW)
• Eden II, by Ok. Wroten (Fantagraphics)
• A Visitor within the Home, by Emily Carroll (First Second/Macmillan)
• Parasocial, by Alex De Campi and Erica Henderson (Picture)
• Roaming, by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—REPRINT

• Physician Unusual: Fall Dawn Treasury Version, by Tradd Moore (Marvel)
• The Good Asian, by Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi (Picture)
• Hip Hop Household Tree: The Omnibus, by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)
• Orange Full Collection Field Set, by Ichigo Takano, translation by Amber Tamosaitis (Seven Seas)
• Surprise Lady Historia: The Amazons, by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott (DC)

BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM

• Bea Wolf, tailored by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet (First Second/Macmillan)
• #DRCL midnight youngsters, vol. 1, primarily based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, by Shin’ichi Sakamoto, translation by Caleb Cook dinner (VIZ Media)
• H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow over Innsmouth, tailored by Gou Tanabe, translation by Zack Davisson (Darkish Horse Manga)
• The Monkey King: The Full Odyssey, tailored by Chaiko, translation by Dan Christensen (Magnetic)
• Watership Down, by Richard Adams, tailored by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin (Ten Velocity Graphic)

BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL

• Ashes, by Álvaro Ortiz, translation by Eva Ibarzabal (Prime Shelf/IDW)
• Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Half 2, by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Europe Comics)
• A Boy Named Rose, by Gaëlle Geniller, translation by Fabrice Sapolsky (Fairsquare Comics)
• The Nice Past, by Léa Murawiec, translation by Aleshia Jensen (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Shubeik Lubeik, by Deena Mohamed (Pantheon Books/Penguin Random Home)
• Spa, by Erik Svetoft, translation by Melissa Bowers (Fantagraphics)

BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL—ASIA

• #DRCL midnight youngsters, vol. 1, primarily based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, by Shin’ichi Sakamoto, translation by Caleb Cook dinner (VIZ Media)
• Goodbye, Eri, by Tatsuki Fujimoto, translation by Amanda Haley (VIZ Media)
• The Horizon, vol. 1, by JH, translation by ULTRAMEDIA Co. Ltd. (Yen/Ize Press)
• My Image Diary, by Fujiwara Maki, translation by Ryan Holmberg (Drawn & Quarterly)
• River’s Edge, by Kyoko Okazaki, translation by Alexa Frank (Kodansha)
• The Summer time Hikaru Died, vol. 1, by Mokumokuren, translation by Ajani Oloye (Yen Press)

BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT—STRIPS

• Dauntless Dames: Excessive-Heeled Heroes of the Comedian Strips, edited by Peter Maresca and Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics)
• David Wright’s Carol Day: Lance Hallam, edited by Roger Clark, Chris Killackey, and Man Mills (Slingsby Bros, Ink!)
• Popeye Sundays Vol 3: The Sea Hag and Alice the Goon, by E.C. Segar, edited by Conrad Groth and Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
• Walt Disney’s Foolish Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck and Walt Disney’s Foolish Symphonies 1935-1939: Starring Donald Duck and Large Dangerous
• Wolf, edited by David Gerstein (Fantagraphics)
• The place I’m Coming From, by Barbara Brandon-Croft, edited by Peggy Burns and Tracy Hurren (Drawn & Quarterly)

BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT—COMIC BOOKS

• Adventures Into Terror: The Atlas Comics Library, vol. 1, edited by Michael J. Vassallo (Fantagraphics)
• All-Negro Comics 75^th Anniversary Version, edited by Chris Robinson (Very GOOD Books)
• The Ballad of Halo Jones Full Color Omnibus, by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson, edited by Olivia Hicks (2000AD/Revolt)
• The John Severin Westerns That includes American Eagle, edited by Michael Dean (Fantagraphics)
• Michael Golden’s Marvel Tales Artist’s Version, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)

BEST WRITER

• Stephen Graham Jones, Earthdivers (IDW)
• Mariko Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Tom Taylor, Nightwing, Titans (DC)
• Kelly Thompson, Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn, Black White and Redder (DC); Black Cloak, The Cull (Picture); It’s Jeff, Captain Marvel (Marvel)
• Mark Waid, Batman/Superman: World’s Best, Shazam!, World’s Best: Teen Titans (DC)
• G. Willow Wilson, Poison Ivy (DC); Starvation and the Nightfall (IDW)

BEST WRITER/ARTIST

• Emily Carroll, A Visitor within the Home (First Second/Macmillan)
• Invoice Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
• Daniel Warren Johnson, Transformers (Picture Skybound)
• Mokumokuren, The Summer time Hikaru Died, vol. 1 (Yen Press)
• Zoe Thorogood, Hack/Slash: Again To College (Picture)
• Tillie Walden, Clementine E-book Two (Picture Skybound)

BEST PENCILLER/INKER OR PENCILLER/INKER TEAM

• Jason Shawn Alexander, Detective Comics (DC); Killadelphia, with Germán Erramouspe (Picture)
• Tula Lotay, Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Homicide (Comixology Originals/Greatest Jackett)
• Inaki Miranda, Godzilla: Right here There Be Dragons (IDW)
• Dan Mora, Batman/Superman: World’s Best, Shazam! (DC)
• Chris Samnee, Fireplace Energy (Picture Skybound)
• Jillian Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)

BEST PAINTER/MULTIMEDIA ARTIST (INTERIOR ART)

• Jason Shawn Alexander, Blacula: Return of the King (Zombie Love Studios)
• Chaiko, The Monkey King (Magnetic)
• Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Half 2 (Europe Comics)
• Liam Sharp, Nocterra: Nemesis Particular (Greatest Jackett); Starhenge: The Dragon and the Boar (Picture)
• Martin Simmonds, Common Monsters: Dracula (Picture Skybound)
• Sana Takeda, The Evening Eaters: Her Little Reapers (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Picture)

BEST COVER ARTIST

• Jen Bartel, DC Pleasure 2023, Fireplace & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1 (DC); Captain Marvel: Darkish Tempest #1, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin #1, Scarlet Witch #9, Sensational She-Hulk (Marvel)
• Evan Cagle, Detective Comics (DC)
• Jenny Frison, Alice By no means After #1, BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1, and different alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn #1–2, Poison Ivy #8, #12 (DC)
• E. M. Gist, Expanse Dragon Tooth #1, One thing Is Killing the Youngsters #28 & #34, Wild’s Finish, vol 2 #4 and different alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Superb Spider-Man #23, Physician Aphra #36, Moon Knight #3, Nightcrawlers #1, Wolverine #38 (Marvel)
• Peach Momoko, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin, numerous alternate covers (Marvel)
• Dan Mora, Coda #3, Rattling Them All #4, MMPR thirtieth Anniversary Particular #1, Uncommon Flavours #3 and different alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Batman/Superman: World’s Best, Outsiders #1, Poison Ivy #9, Shazam!, Titans #1 (DC)

BEST COLORING

• Jordie Bellaire, Batman, Birds of Prey (DC); Darkish Areas: Hollywood Particular (IDW)
• Matt Hollingsworth, Captain America, Physician Unusual, Guardians of the Galaxy, Punisher (Marvel)
• Lee Loughridge, Purple Zone (AWA); Edgeworld, Grammaton Punch, Nostalgia (Comixology Originals); The Satan’s Minimize, Gone, Somna (DSTLRY); Star Trek (IDW); Killadelphia (Picture); Hunt. Kill. Repeat. (Mad Cave)
• Dave McCaig, The Sacrificers (Picture), The Strolling Useless Deluxe (Picture Skybound)
• Dean White, Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)

BEST LETTERING

• Lauren Bowes, Contained in the Thoughts of Sherlock Holmes (Titan Comics)
• Emily Carroll, A Visitor within the Home (First Second/Macmillan)
• Invoice Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
• Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber, The Witcher: Wild Animals, and others (Darkish Horse); Batman: Metropolis of Insanity, The Flash, Poison Ivy, and others (DC); Black Cat Social Membership (Humanoids); Beneath the Timber The place No one Sees (IDW); The Cull, What’s the Furthest Place from Right here? (Picture); and others
• Richard Starkings, Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Homicide, Canary (Comixology Originals/Greatest Jackett); Parliament of Rooks (Comixology); Astro Metropolis, Battle Chasers (Picture); Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)
• Rus Wooton, Monstress, The Sacrificers (Picture); Fireplace Energy, Kroma, Transformers, The Strolling Useless Deluxe, Common Monsters: Dracula, Void Rivals (Picture Skybound); Hunt. Kill. Repeat., A Legacy of Violence, Nature’s Labyrinth (Mad Cave)

BEST COMICS-RELATED PERIODICAL/JOURNALISM

• The Comics Journal #309; edited by Gary Groth, Kristy Valenti, and Austin English (Fantagraphics)
• “The Oblique Market,” by Brandon Schatz and Danica LeBlanc, comicsbeat.com
• Rob Salkowitz, for Forbes, ICv2.com, Publishers Weekly
• SKTCHD, by David Harper, www.sktchd.com
• SOLRAD: The On-line Literary Journal for Comics, www.solrad.co (Fieldmouse Press)

BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK

• Bryan Talbot: Father of the British Graphic Novel, by J. D. Harlock and Bryan Talbot (Brainstorm Studios)
• Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography, by Dave Gibbons (Darkish Horse)
• Flamed Out: The Underground Adventures and Comix Genius of Willy Murphy, edited by Mark Burstein (Fantagraphics)
• I Am the Legislation: How Decide Dredd Predicted Our Future, by Michael Molcher (Revolt)
• The Pacific Comics Companion, by Stephan Friedt and Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows)
• Thalamus: The Artwork of Dave McKean (Darkish Horse)

BEST ACADEMIC/SCHOLARLY WORK

• Asian Political Cartoons, by John A. Lent (College Press of Mississippi)
• The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender within the X- Males, by J. Andrew Deman (College of Texas Press)
• Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness within the Golden Age of American Comics, edited by Qiana Whitted (Rutgers College Press)
• If Shehrazad Drew: Essential Writings on Arab Comics, by George Khoury-Jad (Sawaf Middle for Arab Comics Research and American College of Beirut Press)
• In Seen Archives: Queer and Feminist Visible Tradition within the Eighties, by Margaret Galvan (College of Minnesota Press)
• Tremendous Our bodies: Comedian E-book Illustration, Inventive Types, and Narrative Influence, by Jeffrey A. Brown (College of Texas Press)

BEST PUBLICATION DESIGN

• Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein boxed set, designed by Mike Kennedy (Magnetic)
• Gratuitous Ninja, by Ronald Wimberly, designed by Chloe Scheffe (Beehive Books)
• Contained in the Thoughts of Sherlock Holmes, designed by Donna Askem (Titan Comics)
• Iron Maiden: Piece of Thoughts, designed by Josh Bernstein and Rob Schwager (Z2)
• Bathroom-bound Hanako-kun First Stall Field Set, designed by Wendy Chan (Yen Press)

BEST WEBCOMIC 

BEST DIGITAL COMIC

• Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Half 2. by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Europe Comics)
• Friday, by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin, vols. 7–8 (Panel Syndicate)
• Parliament of Rooks, by Abigail Jill Harding (Comixology Originals)
• Sensible Protection In opposition to Piracy, by Tony Cliff (delilahdirk.com)
• A Witch’s Information to Burning, by Aminder Dhaliwal (Instagram.com/aminder_d)

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