The 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were held July 19 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront during Comic-Con International. These photos show some of the highlights of the ceremony.
2013 Will Eisner Comic Book Industry Awards Photo Gallery
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Eisner Awards administrator Jackie Estrada kicked off the evening by welcoming the audience and describing the process by which the award nominees and winners are chosen.
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The first presenters of the night were Bill Morrison (Bongo Comics) and Kayre Morrison (who served as onstage hostess for the rest of the evening). They presented the awards for best lettering, coloring, and digital comic.
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The winner of the Best Digital Comics category was Bandette, by Colleen Coover (left) and Paul Tobin (right), shown with MonkeyBrain Comics publisher Allison Baker (center).
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Brother-and-sister team Matthew Holm and Jennifer Holm took home the award for Best Publication for Early Readers, for Babymouse for President.
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The award for Best Kids Publication went to Adventure Time by Braden Lamb, Shelli Paroline, and Ryan North.
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Hope Larson (second from left) won the award for Best Publication for Teens with her adaptation of Madeleine L’Engel’s A Wrinkle in Time. Here she is with voice actors Lauren Tom, David Herman, and Maurice LaMarche, who presented the awards for all the kids’ categories.
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Samantha Gerber accepted the Bill Finger Excellence in Comic Book Writing Award on behalf of her late father, Steve Gerber.
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Dona Rosa was on hand to accept his Finger Award.
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Artist Chris Samnee was delighted to receive the award for Best Penciler/Inker for his work on Daredevil and The Rocketeer. This year's award resulted in a tie; in addition to Samnee, David Aja also won Best Penciler/Inker for his work on Hawkeye.
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The Nerdist’s Chris Hardwick (Talking Dead) presented Spanish artist Juanjo Guarnido (Blacksad) with the Best Painter award, albeit in slightly less dramatic fashion onstage.
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The Comic Reporter’s Tom Spurgeon accepted the award for Best Comics-Related Journalism.
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Scholar Susan Kirtley received the award for Best Educational/Academic Work for her book Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass.
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Ruth Clampett, daughter of the late animator, presented the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award to Chris Sparks, editor of Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson’s.
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Celebrated actor Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica) announced the nominees and winners in the international categories.
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Legendary cartoonist Sergio Aragonés was once again in charge of presenting the Hall of Fame awards.
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Mort Meskin’s son Peter accepted the Hall of Fame award on his father’s behalf.
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Joe Sinnott was not at Comic-Con to accept his award, so Mark Evanier accepted on his behalf. Here’s Joe with the award he received afterward. He is the first inker to be voted into the Hall of Fame.
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Trina Robbins was thrilled to be inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame.
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Ellen Forney and Becky Cloonan presented the awards for writer, writer/artist, and cover artist. Both were also nominees. Forney was nominated in Best Reality-Based Work for Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me. Cloonan was nominated for Best Single Issue (The Mire), which she won, and for Best Penciler/Inker (Conan the Barbarian). This year an unprecedented number of nominations were for women or works by women (38), and 11 awards went to women.
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Surprise presenter James Marsters (Buffy, Angel, Torchwood) handed out awards in the categories of Best Short Story, Best Single Issue, and Best Anthology.
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Popular actor John Barrowman (Arrow, Torchwood, Doctor Who) announced the nominees and winners for new series, continuing series, and humor publication.
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Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson accepted the award for Best New Series for Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Stephenson went back onstage two additional times, as Saga also won for Best Continuing Series and Vaughan won for Best Writer.
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Jeffrey Brown received the Best Humor Publication award for his Darth Vader and Son.
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The award for Best Reality-Based Work was a tie: Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller by Joseph Lambert, and The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song, by Frank M. Young and David Lasky. On hand to accept the award was David Lasky.
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Mark Evanier accepted the award for Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Strips for Pogo vol.2: Bona Fide Balderdash by Walt Kelly, edited by Carolyn Kelly (Walt's daughter) and the late Kim Thompson of Fantagraphics Books.
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The big winner of the evening was Chris Ware’s Building Stories. Pantheon editor Chip Kidd accepted four awards on Chris’s behalf and gave witty acceptance speeches each time.
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The comedy team of Neil Gaiman (bestselling author, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Sandman) and Jonathan Ross (British talk show host, comics writer) brought down the house to wrap up the evening. They presented the awards for Best Graphic Album-Reprint, Best Reality-Based Work, and Best Graphic Album-New.
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John Barrowman, Jonathan Ross, Chip Kidd, and Neil Gaiman together off stage at the end of the 2013 Eisner Awards ceremony.
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Winners and acceptors for the 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, plus Hall of Fame, and the Bob Clampett, Bill Finger, and Russ Manning Awards.
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