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Alan Moore Back on Top for 2006 Eisner Awards

With three awards, writer Alan Moore was the most lauded creator at the 18th Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, held on Friday July 21 at the San Diego Convention Center.

Moore was named Best Writer, his latest graphic novel, Top Ten: The Forty-Niners, took Best Graphic Album—New honors, and Absolute Watchmen, the deluxe hardbound slipcased edition of his landmark 1986 book with Dave Gibbons, won for Best Archival Collection—Comic Books. On hand to accept his trophies was his fiancé and collaborator Melinda Gebbie.

Other creators to receive multiple awards were Kyle Baker (Best Reality-Based Work for Nat Turner, and Best Writer/Artist—Humor for Plastic Man and The Bakers), Grant Morrison (Best New Series for All Star Superman, Best Limited Series for Seven Soldiers), Chris Ware (Best Coloring for Acme Novelty Library #16, Best Publication Design for Acme Novelty Library Report to Shareholders), and John Cassaday (Best Penciller/Inker for Astonishing X-Men, which also won Best Continuing Series).

The title that garnered the most trophies was DC’s recently cancelled Solo, which took home Best Anthology, Best Single Issue (for the Darwyn Cooke issue), and Best Short Story (Paul Pope’s “Teenage Sidekick”).

With the Moore and Solo wins, DC had the most awards of any publisher: 12 (8 singles plus 4 shared). Pantheon came away with 3 trophies (Best Graphic Album—Reprint for Charles Burns’s Black Hole, Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material for Joann Sfar’s The Rabbi’s Cat, and Ware’s Publication Design), as did Top Shelf (Best Publication for a Younger Audience for Andy Runton’s Owly: Flying Lessons, Best Comics-Related Periodical for the special Will Eisner tribute issue of Comic Book Artist, and Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition for Aaron Renier, of Spiral-Bound). The only other publishers with multiple wins were Marvel (1 1/2), and Kyle Baker Publishing (1 1/2).

Geof Darrow was on hand to accept his Best Writer/Artist trophy for Shaolin Cowboy, Todd Klein won Best Letterer for the 13th time, Ladronn was named Best Painter for Hip Flask: Mystery City, and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes was named Best Archival Collection—Comic Strips. Scott Kurtz’s PvP won for Best Digital Comic, a category in its second year. The gigantic hardbound Little Nemo in Slumberland shared the Publication Design honors with Chris Ware.

In an emotional moment, Eisner/Miller was announced as Best Comics-Related Book. Editors Charles Brownstein and Diana Schutz were accompanied by one of the subjects of the book, Frank Miller.

Sergio Aragonés presented the Hall of Fame Awards. The judges’ choice awards went to the Mickey Mouse newspaper strip artist Floyd Gottfredson and Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston. The four elected inductees were Vaughn Bodé, Ramona Fradon, Russ Manning, and Jim Steranko. Steranko were present to accept his trophies. Mark Bodé accepted for his late father; Manning’s widow Dodie accepted his award, and Paul Levitz accepted on behalf of Fradon.

Besides Aragonés, Eisner presenters included couples Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, Anina Bennett and Paul Guinan, and Misty Lee and Paul Dini, as well as Publisher’s Weekly’s Calvin Reid, Entertainment Weekly’s Nisha Gopalan, British writer John Wagner, cartoonists Roger Langridge and Eric Shanower, and actor Dean Haglund. The Master of Ceremonies for the evening was Bill Morrison, creative director for Bongo Comics, expertly assisted by his wife Kayre.

Among the other awards given out over the evening were the Comic-Con’s Clampett and Manning awards. The Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, presented by Bob’s daughter Ruth, went to Publisher’s Weekly senior news editor Calvin Reid for his tireless work behind the scenes to promote comics and graphic novels. The Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award was presented by Dodie and Roger Manning to R. Kikuo Johnson, writer/artist of Night Fisher, published by Fantagraphics.

The second annual Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing went to Mad magazine’s Harvey Kurtzman and to Batman and Superman writer Alvin Schwartz. Nellie Kurtzman accepted for her father, while Schwartz’s was accepted by his publisher, Jon Graeme.

The Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailing Award was presented by Joe Ferrara. This year’s winner was Zeus Comics of Dallas, Texas.

The major sponsor for the 2006 Eisner Awards is mycomicsshop.com. The principal sponsors are Century Guild, Diamond Comic Distributors, and Gentle Giant. Supporting sponsors include Alternate Reality Comics (Las Vegas), Atlantis Fantasyworld (Santa Cruz, CA), Comic Relief—The Comic Bookstore (Berkeley, CA), comicsunlimited.com, Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff (Concord, CA), Golden Apple (Los Angeles, CA), Isotope (San Francisco, CA), Quebecor World, Star*Reach, and Strange Adventures (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Ballots were tabulated by Mel Thompson and Associates.

Following is a complete list of the 2006 award winners.

Eisner Award Winners for 2006

Best Short Story

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)

Best Serialized Story

Best Continuing Series

Best Limited Series

Best New Series

Best Publication for a Younger Audience

Best Anthology

Best Digital Comic

Best Reality-Based Work

Best Graphic Album-New

Best Graphic Album-Reprint

Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic Strips

Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic Books

Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material

Best Writer

Best Writer/Artist

Best Writer/Artist-Humor

Best Penciller/Inker

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

Best Cover Artist

Best Coloring

Best Lettering

Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition

Best Comics-Related Periodical

Best Comics-Related Book

Best Publication Design (tie)

Hall of Fame

Other Awards presented: