The "Class of 2014" ... the winners of the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
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The 2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were held July 25 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront as part of Comic-Con International. This photo gallery captures some of the excitement and fun of that evening. For a complete listing of all the award winners, please click here.
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2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Photo Gallery
The stage is set!
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Eisner Awards Administrator Jackie Estrada got the festivities going by introducing the show, including this year's judges.
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Bill Morrison and Anina Bennett were the first pair of awards presenters.
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Jaime Hernandez accepts his award for Best Penciller/Inker for Love and Rockets New Stories #6.
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At the Eisners (left to right): Denis Kitchen, Michael T. Gilbert, Mark Evanier, and Marv Wolfman.
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Best Continuing Series award winners Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan for Saga.
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Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II, winners of the Best Scholarly/Academic Work award for Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation, accept their award onstage.
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Writer Scott Snyder and editor Mark Doyle with the Best Limited Series award for The Wake.
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Maggie Thompson (silhouetted on the right) presented the In Memoriam section of the awards presentation, saluting those we lost in the past year, including Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award winner Morrie Turner, the pioneering cartoonist who created the syndicated comic strip Wee Pals.
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Dark Horse Comics editor Sierra Hahn accepted the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award for Aaron Conley. The award was presented by Jeff Smith, a former Manning Award winner.
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At the Eisners: Fantagraphics' Jacq Cohen and Jen Vaughn.
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IDW's Library of American Comics' Dean Mullaney accepting one of his three awards for the evening, which included Best Comics Related Book and Best Publication Design for Genius Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth, and Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips for Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, vol. 1.
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William H. Foster III accepted the Eisner Hall of Fame award for Orrin C. Evans, who published the first all-black comic book in 1947, All-Negro Comics.
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Gilbert Hernandez won the Eisner Award for Best Short Story. He's seen here with his wife, Carol and daughter, Natalia.
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Andrew Robinson (left) and Vivek J. Tiwary won the Best Reality-Based Work award for their graphic novel, The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story.
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Bill Finger Award winner Jack Mendelsohn (second from left) with Mark Evanier, Sergio Aragonés, and Athena Finger.
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IDW's special project editor Scott Dunbier accepts one of the publisher's many Eisner Awards for the evening. Scott was editor of Will Eisner's The Spirit: Artist's Edition, which won Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books.
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At the Eisners (left to right): Tula Lotay, Chip Zdarsky, Matt Fraction, and Kelly Sue DeConnick.
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Art Baltazar (left) and Franco won the Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers, Itty Bitty Hellboy.
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Comic-Con International 2014 special guests Francoise Schuiten and Benoit Peeters were presenters at the Eisner Awards.
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Mark Evanier announces the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Writing for Bill Mantlo, as co-presenter (and Bill Finger's granddaughter) Athena Finger looks on.
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Brian K. Vaughan once again took home the Best Writer award for Saga.
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Fantagraphics' Eric Reynolds accepts the award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material for Goddam This War! by Jacques Tardi and Jean-Pierre Verney.
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Kendra Moldoff and David Siegel with the Eisner Hall of Fame Award for Golden and Silver Age artist Sheldon Moldoff, best known for his work on Hawkman and Batman.
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