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 The 2006 Eisner Award Winners By StacMaster-S Published: July 25, 2006  Print  Email The 2006 Eisner Awards were presented on Friday night at San Diego Comic-Con.The most notable win for webcomics was Scott Kurtz's PvP winning for best Digital Comic. Here are the entire 2006 Eisner Awards results: Best Short Story "Teenage Sidekick," by Paul Pope, in Solo #3 (DC) Best Single Issue (or One-Shot) Solo #5, by Darwyn Cooke (DC) Best Serialized Story Fables #36-38, 40-41: "Return to the Homelands," by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, and Steve Leialoha (Vertigo/DC) Best Continuing Series Astonishing X-Men, by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday (Marvel) Best Limited Series Seven Soldiers, by Grant Morrison and various artists (DC) Best New Series All Star Superman, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (DC) Best Publication for a Younger Audience Owly: Flying Lessons, by Andy Runton (Top Shelf) Best Anthology Solo, edited by Mark Chiarello (DC) Best Digital Comic PVP, by Scott Kurtz, www.pvponline.com Best Reality-Based Work Nat Turner, by Kyle Baker (Kyle Baker Publishing) Best Graphic Album-New Top Ten: The Forty-Niners, by Alan Moore and Gene Ha (ABC) Best Graphic Album-Reprint Black Hole, by Charles Burns (Pantheon)  Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic StripsThe Complete Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel) Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic Books Absolute Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (DC) Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material The Rabbi's Cat, by Joann Sfar (Pantheon) Best Writer Alan Moore, Promethea, Top Ten: The Forty-Niners (ABC) Best Writer/Artist Geof Darrow, Shaolin Cowboy (Burlyman) Best Writer/Artist-Humor Kyle Baker, Plastic Man (DC); The Bakers (Kyle Baker Publishing) Best Penciller/Inker John Cassaday, Astonishing X-Men (Marvel); Planetary (WildStorm/DC) Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art) Ladronn, Hip Flask: Mystery City (Active Images) Best Cover Artist James Jean, Fables (Vertigo/DC); Runaways (Marvel) Best Coloring Chris Ware, Acme Novelty Library #16 (ACME Novelty) Best Lettering (WildStorm/DC); Todd Klein, Wonder Woman, Justice, Seven Soldiers #0 (DC); Desolation JonesPromethea, Top Ten: The Forty-Niners, Tomorrow Stories Special (ABC); Fables (Vertigo); 1602: New World (Marvel) Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition Aaron Renier (Spiral-Bound) Best Comics-Related Periodical Comic Book Artist, edited by Jon B. Cooke (Top Shelf) Best Comics-Related Book Eisner/Miller, edited by Charles Brownstein and Diana Schutz (Dark Horse Books) Best Publication Design (tie) Acme Novelty Library Annual Report to Shareholders, designed by Chris Ware (Pantheon) Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, designed by Philippe Ghielmetti (Sunday Press Books) Hall of Fame Judges' Choices: Floyd Gottfredson, William Moulton Marston - Vaughn Bodé - Ramona Fradon - Russ Manning - Jim Steranko Other Awards Presented Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award: Calvin Reid Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award: R. Kikuo Johnson (Night Fisher) Bill Finger Excellence in Comic Writing Award: Harvey Kurtzman, Alvin Schwartz Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailing Award: Zeus Comics (Dallas, TX) |
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