In a sea of highly anticipated movie trailers and exclusive toys, it’s not always easy for comics to stand out, ironically, at Comic-Con. Thankfully, there is still one place where comics come before anything else, the Will Eisner Awards. So without further ado here is your list of winners for this year's prestigious ceremony in comics-dom.
Best New Series: Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
Best Limited Series: The Fade Out by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Best Continuing Series: Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron and Jason LaTour
Best Reality-Based Work: March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Best Graphic Album—Reprint: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Best Graphic Album—New: Ruins by Peter Kuper
Best Short Story: “Killing and Dying,” by Adrian Tomine in Optic Nerve #14
Best Single Issue/One-Shot: Silver Surfer #11: “Never After” by Dan Slott and Michael Allred
Best Anthology: Drawn & Quarterly, Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary, Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels edited by Tom Devlin
Best Digital/Webcomic: Bandette by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover
Best Publication Design: Sandman Gallery Edition designed by Josh Beatman
Best Lettering: Derf Backderf (Trashed)
Best Coloring: Jordie Bellaire (The Autumnlands, Injection, Plutona, Pretty Deadly, The Surface, They’re Not Like Us, Zero, The X-Files, The Massive, Magneto, Vision)
Best Penciller: Cliff Chiang (Paper Girls)
Best Painter/Multimedia Artist: Dustin Nguyen (Descender)
Best Writer: Jason Aaron (Southern Bastards, Men of Wrath, Doctor Strange, Star Wars, Thor)
Best Writer/Artist: Bill Griffith (Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist)
Best Cover Artist: David Aja
The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award: Dan Mora
Bill Finger Award for Comic Book Writing: Elliot Maggin
Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism: Hogan’s Alley edited by Tom Heintjes.
Best Comics-Related Book: Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created MAD and Revolutionized Humor in America by Bill Schelly
Best Academic/Scholarly Work: The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings
Best US Edition of International Material: The Realist by Asaf Hanuk
Best US Edition of International Material—Asia: Showa, 1953–1989: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki
Best Adaptation from Another Medium: Two Brothers by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba
Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award: Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal
Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8): Little Robot by Ben Hatke
Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12): Over the Garden Wall by Pat McHale, Amalia Levari, and Jim Campbell
Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17): SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips: The Eternaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano Lòpez, edited by Gary Groth and Kristy Valenti
Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books: Walt Kelly’s Fairy Tales edited by Craig Yoe
Best Humor Publication: Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection! by Kate Beaton
The Spirit of Comics Retailer Award: Orbital Comics
