SDCC - DC Comics wins 11 Eisner Awards

2005 EISNER AWARDS NOMINATIONS HONORS DC COMICS PROJECTS AND CREATORS

DC Comics creators and projects took home an impressive eleven awards at the 2005 Eisner Awards ceremony, held on July 15 at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2005.

DC congratulates this year’s winners, and thanks the Eisner Nominating Committee and all those who voted.

DC’s 2005 Eisner Award winners are:

Best Serialized Story
· FABLES #19-27: “March of the Wooden Soldiers,” by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha (available in the FABLES: MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS TP — AUG040453)

Best Limited Series· DC: THE NEW FRONTIER, by Darwyn Cooke (available in the DC: THE NEW FRONTIER VOL. 1 TP, FEB058027, and the DC: THE NEW FRONTIER VOL. 2 TP — FEB050272)

Best New Series
· EX MACHINA, by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris and Tom Feister

Best Publication for a Younger Audience
· PLASTIC MAN, by Kyle Baker and Scott Morse (Available in the PLASTIC MAN: ON THE LAM TP — JUL040639)

Best Graphic Album—New
· THE ORIGINALS, by Dave Gibbons (Available in hardcover — JUL040701; softcover edition solicited in the August edition of Previews, Volume XV #8, for October in-store)

Best Writer
· Brian K. Vaughan, Y: THE LAST MAN, EX MACHINA

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team (tie)
· John Cassaday, PLANETARY, I AM LEGION: DANCING FAUN (available for reorder — JUN040816)
· Frank Quitely, WE3

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)
· Teddy Kristiansen, IT’S A BIRD…

Best Coloring
· Dave Stewart, DC: THE NEW FRONTIER

Best Lettering
· Todd Klein, PROMETHEA; TOM STRONG; TOM STRONG’S TERRIFIC TALES, WONDER WOMAN, THE BOOKS OF MAGICK: LIFE DURING WARTIME; FABLES, WE3

Best Cover Artist·
James Jean, FABLES, GREEN ARROW, BATGIRL

New inductees to the Hall of Fame include Nick Cardy, Gene Colan and Lou Fine. The winner of this year’s Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award is George Pérez.