San Diego Comic-Con News: Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples continued to dominate the Eisner Awards taking home “Best Continuing Series,” “Best Writer,” and “Best Painter/Multimedia Artist,” while Vertigo’s The Wake by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy also won multiple awards, and Gilbert and Jaime won their first Eisners for “Best Short Story” and “Best Writer/Artist” for their work on Love & Rockets: New Stories #6 published by Fantagraphics.Marvel’s Hawkeye by Matt Fraction and David Aja was the only mainstream superhero comic to take home multiple awards, while Fraction (and Chip Zdarsky) also received the coveted "Best New Series" Eisner for Sex Criminals (published by Image). IDW Publishing took home seven awards, the most for any publisher, while Dark Horse won two of the three kids’ comics categories as well as "Best Anthology" (Dark Horse Presents), and "Best Reality-Based Work" (The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story).
For a complete list of the highly deserving books that were nominated for the Eisner Awards in 2014 see "2014 Eisner Award Nominees."
Here is a list of the 2014 Eisner Award Winners:
Best Short Story
- "Untitled," by Gilbert Hernandez, in Love and Rockets: New Stories #6 (Fantagraphics)
Hawkeye #11: "Pizza Is My Business," by Matt Fraction and David Aja (Marvel) (PIZZA DOG!!!)
Best Continuing Series
Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)
Best Limited Series
- The Wake, by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy (Vertigo/DC)
- Sex Criminals, by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky (Image)
Itty Bitty Hellboy, by Art Baltazar and Franco (Dark Horse)
Best Publication for Kids (ages 8-12)
- The Adventures of Superhero Girl, by Faith Erin Hicks (Dark Horse)
- Battling Boy, by Paul Pope (First Second)
- Vader’s Little Princess, by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle)
- Dark Horse Presents, edited by Mike Richardson (Dark Horse)
- The Oatmeal by Matthew Inman, theoatmeal.com
- The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story, by Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson, and Kyle Baker (M Press/Dark Horse)
- The Property, by Rutu Modan (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Richard Stark’s Parker: Slayground, by Donald Westlake, adapted by Darwyn Cooke (IDW)
- RASL, by Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books)
- Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, vol. 1, edited by Dean Mullaney (LOAC/IDW)
- Will Eisner’s The Spirit Artist’s Edition, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)
- Goddam This War! by Jacques Tardi and Jean-Pierre Verney (Fantagraphics)
- The Mysterious Underground Men, by Osamu Tezuka (PictureBox)
- Brian K. Vaughan, Saga (Image)
- Jaime Hernandez, Love and Rockets New Stories #6 (Fantagraphics)
- Sean Murphy, The Wake (DC/Vertigo)
- Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)
- David Aja, Hawkeye (Marvel)
- Jordie Bellaire, The Manhattan Projects, Nowhere Men, Pretty Deadly, Zero (Image); The Massive (Dark Horse); Tom Strong (DC); X-Files Season 10 (IDW); Captain Marvel, Journey into Mystery (Marvel); Numbercruncher (Titan); Quantum and Woody (Valiant)
- Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark’s Parker: Slayground (IDW)
- Comic Book Resources, produced by Jonah Weiland, www.comicbookresources.com
- Genius, Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth, by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell (LOAC/IDW)
- Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation, edited by Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II (Bloomsbury)
- Genius, Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth, designed by Dean Mullaney (LOAC/IDW)
