Eisner Award Winners Announced
Wednesday, Aug 06, 2008 at 3:01pmThe 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.
's Mouse Guard won both Best Series for Kids and its collected first volume won Best Reprinted Graphic Album.
received the Eisner for Best Writer, and --the pencil and inking team on Y the Last Man--won for their collaboration, while 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.
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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
