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Eisner Award Winners Announced
by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday Aug 06 2008 3:01 pm
Posted in: Awards, Graphic Novels


The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were presented at San Diego's Comic Con International. Among the winners were Y the Last Man for Best Ongoing Series, The Umbrella Academy for Best Limited Series, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 for Best New Series.

David Petersen's Mouse Guard won both Best Series for Kids and its collected first volume won Best Reprinted Graphic Album.

Ed Brubaker received the Eisner for Best Writer, Pia Guerra and Jose Marzan Jr.--the pencil and inking team on Y the Last Man--won for their collaboration, while James Jean was awarded the Best Cover Artist prize for his work on Fables and The Umbrella Academy.

You will find a complete listing of the Eisner winners here.



See:
Y: The Last Man, Volume 10: Whys and Wherefores - trade paperback
By Brian Vaughn - $16.99 - add to cart

Winner of the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series.The final volume in the critically acclaimed graphic novel series--written by the award-winning author of "Pride of Baghdad" and "Lost"--a...

 

The Umbrella Academy Vol. 1 Apocalypse Suite - trade paperback
By Gerard Way - $18.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series.Gerard Way, of My Chemical Romance, makes his comics writing debut in this outrageous superhero epic that Grant Morrison called "An ultraviol...

 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home Season 8 - trade paperback
By Joss Whedon - $19.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2008 Eisner Award for Best New Series.The newest incarnation of the Buffy comic, written by series creator Whedon, is effectively the new season of the TV series. It plunges right int...

 

Mouse Guard - trade paperback
By David Peterson - $22.00 - add to cart
 

Fables: Legends in Exile, Vol. 1 - trade paperback
By Bill Willingham - $12.50 - add to cart

The sixth volume in the series explores some of Bigby Wolf's extracurricular exploits around the mundane world in "Cinderella Libertine" and "War Stories" before returning to the main storyline in ...

 




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