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The Eisner Awards, which have 32 categories and 150 titles from over 60 publishers, will be awarded tonight at San Diego Comic-Con in a gala ceremony held at the San Diego Hilton Bayfront Hotel The nominations run below, and as each category is awarded, I will shift the categories up and highlight the winners in[...]

It's just everyone else that is. Sour grapes of wrath There has been disquiet from some comic book publishers regarding the nominations for the Eisner Awards this year Bleeding Cool reported this earlier but some folk just noticed it For the first time, it has been sponsored by Lunar Distribution rather than Diamond Distribution Lunar has an[...]

Details of this year's Eisner Awards ceremony have been announced for the Friday night of San Diego Comic-Con on the 26th of July in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront. Hosting the ceremony this year is voice actor Phil LaMarr (Futurama, Samurai Jack, Justice League) and screenwriter/actor Thomas Lennon (Reno 911, Balls of Fury)[...]

The nominations for the Eisner Awards have been announced, to be awarded at San Diego Comic-Con in July, with 32 categories, 150 titles from over 60 publishers Image Comics and DC Comics received the most nominations: Image with 17 (plus 8 shared) and DC with 13 (plus 8 shared).  Fantagraphics has 11 nominations, again dominating[...]

It's the annual Eisner Awards, as presented at San Diego Comic-Con by the great and the good, to the great and the good First-time nominee Zoe Thorogood has had six nominations, Thomas Woodruff has withdrawn after controversy and Bex Ollerton has been crowdfunded to attend, with Mark Waid dropping $250 to help her to the[...]

Bex Ollerton has been nominated for the Best Anthology Eisner Award for Sensory: Life on the Spectrum. But can she get to the ceremony?

And he was nominated four times in the Eisner Awards 2023 this year, for Best Graphic Album, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art), Best Lettering and Best Publication Design And may have caused the greatest reaction online. Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral published by Fantagraphics is described as "A stunning, head-turning, "graphic opera" masterpiece from[...]

Yesterday, the Eisner Awards 2023 Nominations were announced, ahead of the ceremony for the Friday night of San Diego Comic-Con Here are the reactions of some of the comic book creators and industry professionals who were nominated, on social media… click through to see more about their nominated work And we begin with the most-nominated[...]

And it seems that the  Eisner Awards committee agree, with the release of the Eisner nominations the most prestigious comic book awards in the English language, have been announced for 2023, to be awarded on the Friday of San Diego Comic-Con And Zoe Thorogood has been nominated six times, three for Joe Hill's Rain and two[...]

Named for the pioneering comics creator and graphic novelist Will Eisner, the Eisner Awards, considered the "Oscars" of the comic book industry, were be given out for works published in 2020 in 32 of the categories, as well as the finalists and winner of the 2021 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award Eisner Awards[...]

Selected to represent all aspects of the comics industry, in light of the COVID pandemic, this year all of the judges are from Southern California. The Judges For The Eisner Awards 2021, Announced – image from Eisner Awards Marco Davanzo is the executive director of ComcsPRO (the trade organization of comic book retailers) as well as the owner[...]

And yesterday that meant The Eisner Awards The Daily Lying In The Gutters, remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The Eisner Awards Dominate The Daily LITG, 26th July 2020. The Eisner Awards and the ten most-read stories on Bleeding Cool[...]

Winner list revealed for 2020 Eisner Awards Credit: Eisner Logo and SDCC logo. And the Eisner winners are… Best Short Story WINNER: "Hot Comb," by Ebony Flowers, in Hot Comb (Drawn & Quarterly) NOMINEES: "Hot Comb," by Ebony Flowers, in Hot Comb (Drawn & Quarterly) "How to Draw a Horse," by Emma Hunsinger, The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/how-to-draw-a-horse "The Menopause," by Mira Jacob, The Believer, https://believermag.com/the-menopause/ "Who Gets Called an 'Unfit' Mother?"[...]

With the show cancelled, replaced online by Comic-Con@Home, The Eisner Awards will still take place, hosted by Phil LaMarr, actor/voice actor/comedian known for roles in animated series including Green Lantern/John Stewart and Ed Reiss in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, Hermes Conrad in Futurama, and the title characters on both Samurai Jack and Static[...]

The Eisner committee has temporarily suspended voting on the 2020 Eisner Awards while they investigate potential voter fraud The website formerly known as Newsarama now operating as a mere puppet of the GamesRadar empire broke the story, obtaining a statement from SDCC executive David Glanzer, who said, "We will make an announcement as we have[...]

Bleeding Cool was part of the FX Fearless activation at SDCC 2019, and now we unbox the "Legion" box - and look at Bill Sienkiewicz's signing.

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards is once again being held at San Diego Comic-Con. Straight from Indigo Ballroom, Joshua Stone and Dan Celko are Live

WEBTOON creators have been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards – three in 2019, as well as winning a multitude of Ringo Awards – seven in 2018 WEBTOON is available on iOS, Android, and desktop. Readers and creators can sign up for a free account here. WEBTOON is a digital comics platform and app, arguably the most successful[...]

Abrams ComicArts has just announced at San Diego Comic-Con the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.

  Alex Arevalos and Marcos Salinas are liveblogging from the 2018 Eisner Awards at the San Diego Comic Con.     Alex Arevalos and Marcos Salinas are liveblogging from the 2018 Eisner Awards at the San Diego Comic Con.     Alex Arevalos and Marcos Salinas are liveblogging from the 2018 Eisner Awards at the San Diego Comic Con.   [...]

Nichelle Nichols, Benedict Wong and Cas Anvar join Dave 'Watchmen' Gibbons, Sergio Aragones and Bill Morrison in presenting the 30th annual Eisner Awards on Friday week, on July 20th in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront, alongside the San Diego Comic-Con The American comic book industry's most prestigious awards invited those who have been[...]

Comi Con International has posted the list of nominees for the 2018 Eisner Awards Fantagraphics and Image have the both individual and shared nominations, followed by DC, Dark Horse, IDW, Marvel, BOOM!, Nobrow, and Andrews McNeel. Emil Ferris's My Favorite Things Are Monsters cleaned up with five nominations, while Monstress and its creative team of Marjorie Liu[...]

The Eisner nominations were released earlier today, and could those judges be any more wrong?! Why, we haven't been this mad at the list since last year,

The full list of nominees for the 2017 Eisner Awards have been revealed over at the Comic Con website As it does each year, the list will undoubtedly spark both acclaim and debate Personally, we were glad to see favorites like Kim and Kim get a nomination in the Best Limited Series category, and that[...]

Tonight is the night! The 2016 Eisner Awards have begun, and now it's time to find out who the lucky winners are John Barrowman is our host for the evening! Stay tuned right here to get the latest information on the winners in each category I've got my fingers crossed for a few talented creators,[...]

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Filmed by Bleeding Cool's Patrick Willems from the 2015 Eisner Award Ceremony at San Diego Comic Con, the awards presented by Orlando Jones and Michael

I've been to a number of Eisner Awards over the decades – it's one of the highlights of San Diego Comic Con, and you can read this year's results right here But this year, it went in a stranger direction Rushing to the awards, I was a little late as usual, I all but bumped[...]

The Eisner Awards have begin, at San Diego Comic-Con, in the Indigo Ballroom As the night continues, we will endeavor to "bold" the winner of each category from the nominees below. Best Short Story "Beginning's End," by Rina Ayuyang, muthamagazine.com "Corpse on the Imjin!" by Peter Kuper, in Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World (Simon & Schuster) "Rule[...]