2020 Eisner Award Winners
This year's Eisner Awards were recently announced and we would like to congratulate all of the winners! Here is a list of all of the winning titles that we have in-stock, while supplies last.
Best Writer
Harley Quinn : Breaking Glass (Mariko Tamaki) $16.99
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass is a coming-of-age story about choices, consequences, justice, fairness and progress and how a weird kid from Gotham's poorest part of town goes about defining her world for herself. From Caldecott Honor-winning author Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer, Supergirl: Being Super).
Best Reality-Based Work
They Called Us Enemy (George Takei, Justin Eidinger, Steven Scott, Harmony Becker) $19.99
Presents a graphic memoir detailing the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism.
Best Short Story
Hot Comb (Ebony Flowers) $21.95
An auspicious debut examining the culture of hair from the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award winning cartoonist.
Best Single Issue/One Shot
My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Emil Ferris) $39.99
Filled with B-horror movie and pulp monster iconography, the diary of ten-year-old Karen Reyes records her investigation into the murder of her upstairs neighbor Anka Silverberg, a Holocaust survivor.
Best Continuing Series
Bitter Root (David F Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene, Rico Renzi) $16.99
Once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, the Sangerye family specialized in curing the souls of those infected by hate, but those days are fading. A terrible tragedy has claimed most of the family, leaving the surviving cousins split between curing monsters and killing them.
Best Limited Series
Little Bird (Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram & Matt Hollingsworth) $19.99
With the limitless scope of Star Wars and EAST OF WEST paired with the sociopolitical explorations of A Handmaid's Tale and MONSTRESS, LITTLE BIRD tells the story of a young resistance fighter battling against an oppressive American Empire while searching for her own identity in a world on fire.
Best Publication for Early Readers
Comics: Easy as ABC! (Ivan Brunetti & Francoicse Mouly) $9.99
Filled with activities, Comics: Easy as ABC is a fun way for young readers to effortlessly and playfully start thinking like writers and artists. This simple guide is also aimed at parents, teachers, and librarians: all will enjoy learning the ABCs of this popular and rapidly growing medium. Children kindergarten-age and up are shown how to use basic shapes to make faces, eyes, noses, and design their own characters.
Best Humor Publication
The Way of the Househusband 1 (Kousuke Oono) $12.99
A former yakuza legend leaves it all behind to become your everyday househusband. But it’s not easy to walk away from the gangster life, and what should be mundane household tasks are anything but!
Best Anthology
Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence (Diane Noomin) $29.99
More than 60 female comics creators share their personal experiences with sexual violence and harassment through new and original comics. Inspired by the global #MeToo Movement, Drawing Power features such noted creators as Emil Ferris, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, MariNaomi, Liana Finck, and Ebony Flowers.
Best Graphic Album - New
Are You Listening? (Tillie Walden) $17.99
For fans of Speak and We Are Okay, this is an intimate and emotionally soaring story about friendship, grief, and healing from Eisner Award winner Tillie Walden.
Best Graphic Album - Reprint
Laguardia (Nnedi Okorafor & Tana Ford) $19.99
On a planet Earth bursting with integrated extraterrestrial life, Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka is running from Nigeria under mysterious conditions. She's five months pregnant, her fiance doesn't know she's left... and she's smuggling an illegal, sentient plant into New York.
Best Adaptation from Another Medium
Snow, Glass, Apples (Neil Gaiman & Colleen Doran) $17.99
A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever after. From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula award-winning, and New York Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman comes this graphic novel adaptation by Colleen Doran.
Best US Edition of International Material
The House (Paco Roca - Translation: Andrea Rosenberg) $19.99
In Paco Roca's intimate and international award-winning graphic novel, The House, three adult siblings return to their family's quaint vacation home a year after their father's death with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market.But as garbage is hauled off and dust is wiped away, decades-old resentments quickly fill the vacant home.
Best US Edition of International Material - Asia
Cats of the Louvre (Taiyo Matsumoto - Translation: Michael Arias) $29.99
A surreal tale of the secret world of the cats of the Louvre, told by Eisner Award winner Taiyo Matsumoto.
Best US Edition of International Material - Asia
Witch Hat Atelier 1-5 (Kamome Shirahama - Translation: Stephen Kohler)
In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with the gift for magic. She's resigned to her un-magical life, until a travelling magician passes through her village, and Coco learns what everybody 'knows' might not be the truth.
Best Archival Collection/Project
Krazy Kat: The Complete Color Sundays 1935-1944 (George Herriman) $200.00
The premise is simple: a black cat loves scheming a white mouse who incessantly throws bricks at the cat's head, which police dog Officer Pupp, secretly harboring a passionate love for the cat, tries to prevent. George Herriman endlessly plays with the above formula in his legendary newspaper strip Krazy Kat, published from 1913 until his death in 1944.
Best Writer/Artist | Best Publication for Kids
Guts (Raina Telgemeier) $12.99
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on?
Best Penciller/Inker | Best Publication for Teens
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me (Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O'Connell) $17.99
From This One Summer co-creator Mariko Tamaki comes a hilarious and poignant story of teen heartbreak and friendship.
Best Lettering | Best Archival Collection/Project
Usagi Yojimbo Series (Stan Sakai)
This comic book series that follows the adventures of rabbit samurai Miyamoto Usagi in Japan at the turn of the seventeenth century, as he stands up for justice and truth in a time of unrest.
Best Academic Work
EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest (Qiana Whitted) $29.95
During its heyday in the early 1950s, EC Comics was an innovator in the so-called "preachies", socially conscious stories that challenged the conservatism of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection of these works and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice.
Best Publication Design | Best Comics-Related Book
Making Comics (Lynda Barry) $22.95
The idiosyncratic curriculum from the Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity will teach you how to draw and write your story.
Best New Series | Best Painter/Digital Artist
Invisible Kingdom 1 (G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward) $19.99
Invisible Kingdom 2 (G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward) $19.99
In a small solar system in a far-flung galaxy, two women -- one a young religious acolyte and the other a hard-bitten freighter pilot --uncover a conspiracy between the leaders of the most dominant religion and an all-consuming mega-corporation. On the run from reprisals on both sides, this unlikely pair must decide where their loyalties lie -- and risk plunging the world into anarchy if they reveal the truth.