Eisner Award Nominations Announced
Thursday, Apr 09, 2009 at 2:36pmThe Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have released the ballot for the 2009 honours. Canadian cousins and have received four nominations for their debut work Skim. Other creators to receive multiple nominations include for Alan's War, for What It Is, and for Swallow Me Whole. Among the most honoured series are Dark Horse's The Umbrella Academy by and ; Vertigo's Fables, written by and art team and ; and Madame Xanadu by and and . Marvel Comics received three nominations for 's reboot of Thor with art by .
A complete list of the nominees can be found here. The winners will be announced Friday July 24th, as part of San Diego International Comic Con.
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How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry's first Drawn & Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: "The ordinary is extraordinary."
Swallow Me Whole
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"Swallow Me Whole" is a love story carried by rolling fog, terminal illness, hallucination, apophenia, insect armies, secrets held, unshakeable faith, and the search for a master pattern to make sense of one's unravelling. Two adolescent stepsiblings hold together amidst schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, family breakdown, animal telepathy, misguided love, and the tiniest nugget of hope that the heart, that sanity, that order itself will take shape again.
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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 ultraviolet psychedelic sherbet bomb of wit and ideas. The superheroes of the 21st century are here at last..." In an inexplicable, worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, "To save the world." These seven children form The Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against an erratic and deadly Eiffel Tower, piloted by the fearsome zombie-robot Gustave Eiffel. Nearly a decade later, the team disbands, but when Hargreeves unexpectedly dies, these disgruntled siblings reunite just in time to save the world once again
