Image Comics Celebrates Five Wins at 2017 Eisner Awards

IMAGE COMICS CONGRATULATES THE EISNER AWARD WINNERS

Image Comics creators honored with five awards

SAN DIEGO, CA — Image Comics is pleased to congratulate all the winners of Friday night’s Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.

New York Times bestselling, multiple award winning writer and co-creator Brian K. Vaughan won Best Writer for his work on SAGA and PAPER GIRLS.

New York Times bestselling, multiple award winning artist and co-creator of SAGA Fiona Staples took home two awards last night for her work on the series—Best Cover Artist and Best Penciler/Inker: Individual or Team.

Matt Wilson was honored with the Best Coloring award for his work on such series as CRY HAVOC, PAPER GIRLS, THE WICKED + THE DIVINE.

The Best Continuing Series award went to SAGA.

The Will Eisner Comic Industry awards are voted on by comics industry members and the awards ceremony is held in conjunction with San Diego Comic-Con International every year.

FULL LIST OF IMAGE COMICS EISNER 2017 NOMINATIONS:

Best Short Story: 

    “Monday,” by W. Maxwell Prince and John Amor (from ONE WEEK IN THE LIBRARY)

    “Mostly Saturn,” by Michael DeForge (from ISLAND #8)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot: 

    CRIMINAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

Best Continuing Series: 

    KILL OR BE KILLED, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips 

    PAPER GIRLS, by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang 

    SAGA, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Best Publication for Teens: 

    MONSTRESS, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Best Anthology: 

    ISLAND MAGAZINE, edited by Brandon Graham and Emma Ríos

Best Writer: 

    Ed Brubaker, for CRIMINAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, VELVET

    Brian K. Vaughan, for PAPER GIRLS, SAGA 

    Max Landis, for GREEN VALLEY (Image/Skybound, shared nomination)

    Jeff Lemire, for DESCENDER, PLUTONA (shared nomination)

Best Best Painter/Multimedia Artist:

    Sana Takeda, for MONSTRESS

Best Penciler/Inker or Penciler/Inker Team:

    Fiona Staples, for SAGA

Best Coloring: 

    Elizabeth Breitweiser, for CRIMINAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, VELVET, OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA (Image/Skybound)

    Jean-Francois Beaulieu, for GREEN VALLEY (Image/Skybound)

    Matt Wilson, for CRY HAVOC, PAPER GIRLS, THE WICKED + THE DIVINE (shared nomination)

Best Cover Artist: 

    Sean Phillips, for CRIMINAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, KILL OR BE KILLED

    Fiona Staples, for SAGA 

    Sana Takeda, for MONSTRESS


ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of bestselling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline Comics, Skybound Entertainment, and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.

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