> Durante la notte, al San Diego Hilton Bayfront Hotel sono stati premiati i vincitori dell’edizione 2024 degli Eisner Awards, i “Premi Oscar” del fumetto. Scopriamo tutti i nomi!
Come da programma e tradizione, nella seconda giornata del San Diego Comic-Con sono stati svelati i vincitori degli ambitissimi Eisner Awards, i Premi Oscar del fumetto. La premiazione e il gala successivo si sono tenuti al San Diego Hilton Bayfront Hotel. Grande successo per due titoli in particolare: la nuova serie regolare Image/Skybound dei Transformers di Daniel Warren Johnson e per Roaming di Mariko e Jillian Tamaki. Questi due titoli sono in arrivo prossimamente in Italia per saldaPress e Bao Publishing rispettivamente.
Eisner Awards 2024 – Tutti i vincitori
Ecco di seguito tutti i vincitori, in grassetto, degli Eisner Awards 2024 divisi per categoria.
Migliore storia breve
- “Friendship Is Forever,” di Sam Maggs e Keisha Okafor, in My Little Pony 40th Celebration (IDW)
- “The Kelpie,” di Becky Cloonan, in Four Gathered on Christmas Eve (Dark Horse)
- “The Lady of the Lake,” di Joe S. Farrar e Guilherme Grandizolli, in BUMP: A Horror Anthology #3 (BUMP)
- “Talking to a Hill,” di Larry Hancock e Michael Cherkas, in Comics for Ukraine (Zoop)
- “World’s Finest, Part 1,” di Tom King e Belen Ortega, in Wonder Woman #3 (DC)
Migliore numero unico / One Shot
- Horologist, di Jared Lee e Cross (Grim Film)
- Nightwing #105, di Tom Taylor e Bruno Redondo (DC)
- Star Trek: Day of Blood—Shax’s Best Day, di Ryan North e Derek Charm (IDW)
- Superman 2023 Annual, di Joshua Williamson e altri (DC)
- Sweet Paprika: Black, White, & Pink, di Mirka Andolfo e altri (Image)
Miglior serie regolare
- Birds of Prey, di Kelly Thompson e Leonardo Basto Romero (DC)
- Nightwing, di Tom Taylor e Bruno Redondo (DC Comics)
- Shazam! di Mark Waid e Dan Mora (DC)
- Transformers, di Daniel Warren Johnson (Image Skybound)
- Wonder Woman, di Tom King e Daniel Sampere (DC)
Migliore serie limitata
- The Cull, di Kelly Thompson e Mattia De Iulis (Image)
- Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons, di Frank Tieri e Inaki Miranda (IDW)
- Kill Your Darlings, di Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, e Robert Quinn (Image)
- PeePee PooPoo, di Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)
- Superman: Lost, di Christopher Priest e Carlo Pagulayan (DC)
Migliore nuova serie
- Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, di Patrick Horvath (IDW)
- Black Cloak, di Kelly Thompson e Meredith McClaren (Image)
- Local Man, di Tim Seeley e Tony Fleecs (Image)
- Phantom Road, di Jeff Lemire e Gabriel Hernández Walta (Image)
- Somna: A Bedtime Story, di Becky Cloonan e Tula Lotay (DSTLRY)
Migliore pubblicazione per l’infanzia
- Bigfoot and Nessie: The Art of Getting Noticed, di Chelsea M. Campbell e Laura Knetzger (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
- Burt the Beetle Lives Here! di Ashley Spires (Kids Can Press)
- Go-Go Guys, di Rowboat Watkins (Chronicle Books)
- The Light Inside, di Dan Misdea (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
- Milk and Mocha: Our Little Happiness, di Melani Sie (Andrews McMeel)
- Tacos Today: El Toro & Friends, di Raúl the Third (HarperCollins/Versify)
Migliore pubblicazione per ragazzi
- Buzzing, di Samuel Sattin e Rye Hickman (Little, Brown Ink)
- Mabuhay!, di Zachary Sterling (Scholastic Graphix)
- Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir, di Pedro Martín (Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Young Readers)
- Missing You, di Phellip Willian e Melissa Garabeli (Oni Press)
- Saving Sunshine, di Saadia Faruqi e Shazleen Khan (First Second/Macmillan)
Migliore pubblicazione per adolescenti
- Blackward, di Lawrence Lindell (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Danger and Other Unknown Risks, di Ryan North e Erica Henderson (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
- Frontera, di Julio Anta e Jacoby Salcedo (HarperAlley)
- Lights, di Brenna Thummler (Oni Press)
- Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story, di Sarah Myer (First Second/Macmillan)
- My Girlfriend’s Child, vol. 1, di Mamoru Aoi (Seven Seas)
Migliore pubblicazione umoristica
- How to Love: A Guide to Feelings & Relationships for Everyone, di Alex Norris (Candlewick/Walker Books)
- I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator, and Other Musical Meanderings, di Keith Knight (Keith Knight Press)
- It’s Jeff: The Jeff-Verse #1, di Kelly Thompson e Gurihiru (Marvel)
- Macanudo: Optimism Is for the Brave, di Liniers (Fantagraphics)
- The Yakuza’s Bias, di Teki Yatsuda (Kodansha)
Miglior antologia
- Comics for Ukraine, curata da Scott Dunbier (Zoop)
- Deep Cuts, di Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Danilo Beyruth e altri (Image)
- The Devil’s Cut, curata da Will Dennis (DSTLRY)
- Marvel Age #1000, curata da Tom Brevoort (Marvel)
- The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics, curata da The Kao, Min Christensen e David Daneman (Andrews McMeel)
- Swan Songs di W. Maxwell Prince e altri (Image)
Migliore opera di non-fiction
- Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?, di Chris Oliveros (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century, di Adrian Matejka e Youssef Daoudi (Liveright)
- Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali, di Marc Bernardin e Ron Salas (First Second/Macmillan)
- Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood, di Samuel Machado e Cynthia Sousa Machado con Steven M. Wise (Island Press)
- Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy, di Bill Griffith (Abrams ComicArts)
Migliore biografia a fumetti
- Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam, di Thien Pham (First Second/Macmillan)
- A First Time for Everything, di Dan Santat (First Second/Macmillan)
- In Limbo, di Deb JJ Lee (First Second/Macmillan)
- Memento Mori, di Tiitu Takalo (Oni Press)
- Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me About Life, Death, and Hope, di Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Scholastic Graphix)
- The Talk, di Darrin Bell (Henry Holt)
Migliore graphic novel (inedito)
- Ashes, di Álvaro Ortiz (Top Shelf/IDW)
- Eden II, di K. Wroten (Fantagraphics)
- A Guest in the House, di Emily Carroll (First Second/Macmillan)
- Parasocial, di Alex De Campi e Erica Henderson (Image)
- Roaming, di Mariko Tamaki e Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Migliore graphic novel (riedizione)
- Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise Treasury Edition, di Tradd Moore (Marvel)
- The Good Asian, di Pornsak Pichetshote e Alexandre Tefenkgi (Image)
- Hip Hop Family Tree: The Omnibus, di Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)
- Orange Complete Series Box Set, di Ichigo Takano (Seven Seas)
- Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, di Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, e Nicola Scott (DC)
Migliore adattamento da un altro medium
- Bea Wolf, adattato da Zach Weinersmith e Boulet (First Second/Macmillan)
- #DRCL midnight children, vol. 1, basato su Bram Stoker’s Dracula, di Shin’ichi Sakamoto, traduzione di Caleb Cook (VIZ Media)
- H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow over Innsmouth, adattato da Gou Tanabe, traduzione di Zack Davisson (Dark Horse Manga)
- The Monkey King: The Complete Odyssey, adattato da Chaiko, traduzione di Dan Christensen (Magnetic)
- Watership Down, di Richard Adams, adattato da James Sturm e Joe Sutphin (Ten Speed Graphic)
Migliore edizione statunitense di opere internazionali
- Ashes, di Álvaro Ortiz (Top Shelf/IDW)
- Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Part 2, di Juan Díaz Canales e Juanjo Guarnido (Europe Comics)
- A Boy Named Rose, di Gaëlle Geniller (Fairsquare Comics)
- The Great Beyond, di Léa Murawiec (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Shubeik Lubeik, di Deena Mohamed (Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House)
- Spa, di Erik Svetoft (Fantagraphics)
Migliore edizione statunitense di opere internazionali (Asia)
- #DRCL midnight children, vol. 1, basato su Bram Stoker’s Dracula, di Shin’ichi Sakamoto (VIZ Media)
- Goodbye, Eri, di Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ Media)
- The Horizon, vol. 1, di JH (Yen/Ize Press)
- My Picture Diary, di Fujiwara Maki (Drawn & Quarterly)
- River’s Edge, di Kyoko Okazaki (Kodansha)
- The Summer Hikaru Died, vol. 1, di Mokumokuren Ajani Oloye (Yen Press)
Migliore riproposta di vecchie opere (strisce)
- Dauntless Dames: High-Heeled Heroes of the Comic Strips, curata da Peter Maresca e Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics)
- David Wright’s Carol Day: Lance Hallam, curata da Roger Clark, Chris Killackey e Guy Mills (Slingsby Bros, Ink!)
- Popeye Sundays Vol 3: The Sea Hag and Alice the Goon, di E.C. Segar, curata da Conrad Groth e Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
- Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck e Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1935-1939: Starring Donald Duck and Big Bad Wolf, curati da David Gerstein (Fantagraphics)
- Where I’m Coming From, di Barbara Brandon-Croft, curata da Peggy Burns e Tracy Hurren (Drawn & Quarterly)
Migliore riproposta di vecchie opere (comic book)
- Adventures Into Terror: The Atlas Comics Library, vol. 1, curata da Michael J. Vassallo (Fantagraphics)
- All-Negro Comics 75th Anniversary Edition, curata da Chris Robinson (Very GOOD Books)
- The Ballad of Halo Jones Full Colour Omnibus, di Alan Moore e Ian Gibson, curata da Olivia Hicks (2000AD/Rebellion)
- The John Severin Westerns Featuring American Eagle, curata da Michael Dean (Fantagraphics)
- Michael Golden’s Marvel Stories Artist’s Edition, curata da Scott Dunbier (IDW)
Migliore scrittore/scrittrice
- Stephen Graham Jones, Earthdivers (IDW)
- Mariko Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Tom Taylor, Nightwing, Titans (DC)
- Kelly Thompson, Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn, Black White and Redder (DC); Black Cloak, The Cull (Image); It’s Jeff, Captain Marvel (Marvel)
- Mark Waid, Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Shazam!, World’s Finest: Teen Titans (DC)
- G. Willow Wilson, Poison Ivy (DC); Hunger and the Dusk (IDW)
Migliore autore unico/autrice unica
- Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House (First Second/Macmillan)
- Bill Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
- Daniel Warren Johnson, Transformers (Image Skybound)
- Mokumokuren, The Summer Hikaru Died, vol. 1 (Yen Press)
- Zoe Thorogood, Hack/Slash: Back To School (Image)
- Tillie Walden, Clementine Book Two (Image Skybound)
Migliore matitista e inchiostratore/inchiostratrice o team di matitista e inchiostratore/inchiostratrice
- Jason Shawn Alexander, Detective Comics (DC); Killadelphia, with Germán Erramouspe (Image)
- Tula Lotay, Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder (Comixology Originals/Best Jackett)
- Inaki Miranda, Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons (IDW)
- Dan Mora, Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Shazam! (DC)
- Chris Samnee, Fire Power (Image Skybound)
- Jillian Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)
Migliore pittore o pittrice/artista multimediale
- Jason Shawn Alexander, Blacula: Return of the King (Zombie Love Studios)
- Chaiko, The Monkey King (Magnetic)
- Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Part 2 (Europe Comics)
- Liam Sharp, Nocterra: Nemesis Special (Best Jackett); Starhenge: The Dragon and the Boar (Image)
- Martin Simmonds, Universal Monsters: Dracula (Image Skybound)
- Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)
Miglior copertinista
- Jen Bartel, DC Pride 2023, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1 (DC); Captain Marvel: Dark Tempest #1, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin #1, Scarlet Witch #9, Sensational She-Hulk (Marvel)
- Evan Cagle, Detective Comics (DC)
- Jenny Frison, Alice Never After #1, BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1 (BOOM! Studios); Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn #1–2, Poison Ivy #8, #12 (DC)
- E. M. Gist, Expanse Dragon Tooth #1, Something Is Killing the Children #28 & #34, Wild’s End, vol 2 #4 (BOOM! Studios); Amazing Spider-Man #23, Doctor Aphra #36, Moon Knight #3, Nightcrawlers #1, Wolverine #38 (Marvel)
- Peach Momoko, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin, various alternate covers (Marvel)
- Dan Mora, Coda #3, Damn Them All #4, MMPR 30th Anniversary Special #1, Rare Flavours #3 (BOOM! Studios); Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Outsiders #1, Poison Ivy #9, Shazam!, Titans #1 (DC)
Miglior colorista
- Jordie Bellaire, Batman, Birds of Prey (DC); Dark Spaces: Hollywood Special (IDW)
- Matt Hollingsworth, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Punisher (Marvel)
- Lee Loughridge, Red Zone (AWA); Edgeworld, Grammaton Punch, Nostalgia (Comixology Originals); The Devil’s Cut, Gone, Somna (DSTLRY); Star Trek (IDW); Killadelphia (Image); Hunt. Kill. Repeat. (Mad Cave)
- Dave McCaig, The Sacrificers (Image), The Walking Dead Deluxe (Image Skybound)
- Dean White, Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)
Migliore letterista
- Lauren Bowes, Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes (Titan Comics)
- Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House (First Second/Macmillan)
- Bill Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
- Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber, The Witcher: Wild Animals (Dark Horse); Batman: City of Madness, The Flash, Poison Ivy (DC); Black Cat Social Club (Humanoids); Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees (IDW); The Cull, What’s the Furthest Place from Here? (Image)
- Richard Starkings, Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder, Canary (Comixology Originals/Best Jackett); Parliament of Rooks (Comixology); Astro City, Battle Chasers (Image); Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)
- Rus Wooton, Monstress, The Sacrificers (Image); Fire Power, Kroma, Transformers, The Walking Dead Deluxe, Universal Monsters: Dracula, Void Rivals (Image Skybound); Hunt. Kill. Repeat., A Legacy of Violence, Nature’s Labyrinth (Mad Cave)
Migliore pubblicazione giornalistica sul fumetto
- The Comics Journal #309; curata da Gary Groth, Kristy Valenti e Austin English (Fantagraphics)
- “The Indirect Market,” di Brandon Schatz e Danica LeBlanc, comicsbeat.com
- Rob Salkowitz, for Forbes, ICv2.com, Publishers Weekly
- SKTCHD, di David Harper, www.sktchd.com
- SOLRAD: The Online Literary Magazine for Comics, www.solrad.co (Fieldmouse Press)
Migliore libro sul fumetto
- Bryan Talbot: Father of the British Graphic Novel, di J. D. Harlock e Bryan Talbot (Brainstorm Studios)
- Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography, di Dave Gibbons (Dark Horse)
- Flamed Out: The Underground Adventures and Comix Genius of Willy Murphy, curata da Mark Burstein (Fantagraphics)
- I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, di Michael Molcher (Rebellion)
- The Pacific Comics Companion, di Stephan Friedt e Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows)
- Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean (Dark Horses)
Migliore saggio accademico sul fumetto
- Asian Political Cartoons, di John A. Lent (University Press of Mississippi)
- The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X- Men, di J. Andrew Deman (University of Texas Press)
- Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics, curata da Qiana Whitted (Rutgers University Press)
- If Shehrazad Drew: Critical Writings on Arab Comics, di George Khoury-Jad (Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies and American University of Beirut Press)
- In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s, di Margaret Galvan (University of Minnesota Press)
- Super Bodies: Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact, di Jeffrey A. Brown (University of Texsas Press)
Migliore design
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula e Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein box set, design di Mike Kennedy (Magnetic)
- Gratuitous Ninja, di Ronald Wimberly, design di Chloe Scheffe (Beehive Books)
- Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes, design di Donna Askem (Titan Comics)
- Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind, design di Josh Bernstein e Rob Schwager (Z2)
- Toilet-bound Hanako-kun First Stall Box Set, design di Wendy Chan (Yen Press)
Migliore webcomic
- Asturias: The Origin of a Flag, di Javi de Castro, https://www.javidecastro.com/asturias-the-origin-of-a-flag
- Daughter of a Thousand Faces, di Vel (Velinxi), https://tapas.io/series/daughter-of-a-thousand-faces/info (Tapas)
- Lore Olympus, di Rachel Smythe, https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/s3-episode-226/viewer?title_no=1320&episode_no=231 (WEBTOON)
- Matchmaker, vol. 6, di Cam Marshall at https://matchmakercomic.com/. (Silver Sprocket)
- 3rd Voice, di Evan Dahm, https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/3rd-voice/list?title_no=828919 (WEBTOON)
- Unfamiliar, di Haley Newsome: https://tapas.io/series/unfamiliar/info (Tapas)
Migliore fumetto digitale
- Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Part 2. di Juan Díaz Canales e Juanjo Guarnido (Europe Comics)
- Friday, di Ed Brubaker e Marcos Martin, vols. 7–8 (Panel Syndicate)
- Parliament of Rooks, di Abigail Jill Harding (Comixology Originals)
- Practical Defense Against Piracy, di Tony Cliff (delilahdirk.com)
- A Witch’s Guide to Burning, di Aminder Dhaliwal (Instagram.com/aminder_d)
Cosa pensate di questi Eisner Awards? Quali tra questi titoli avete già letto? Diteci la vostra nei commenti, vi aspettiamo come sempre!
Fonte: Bleeding Cool
