Eisner awards and other SDCC notes

Posted on July 25, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

Robot 6 liveblogged the Eisners, and congratulations are due to their parent site, CBR, on winning the award for best comics journalism. (I write a weekly column for Robot 6, although I’m sure that had nothing to do with it!) Dororo took the award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material (Japan), and it was the only manga to win, although several others were nominated. Heidi has the full list of nominees and winners at The Beat. Gia puts in her two cents at Anime Vice.

UPDATE: An alert commenter points out that a short OEL manga, “Murder He Wrote,” by Ian Boothby, Nina Matsumoto, and Andrew Pepoy, in The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #14, took the award for best short story.

Lori Henderson shows off her swag and reports on Day 2 of SDCC, and Gia looks forward to the day ahead. Apparently there is big news coming at the Dark Horse panel.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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2 Responses to Eisner awards and other SDCC notes

  1. puck says:
    July 25, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    “Murder He Wrote” also won. It’s drawn in manga style, by a Japanese-Canadian artist, parodying a manga graphic novel. Does it not count because it’s OEL?

  2. Brigid says:
    July 25, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    No, I just didn’t realize it was manga style. I’ll add it in. Thanks!

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