SDCC’11: 2011 Will Eisner Award Winners Announced

Last night the Will Eisner Awards were given out to some very deserving creators, artists, and companies.

Take the jump for the complete rundown of winners.

• Best Short Story
  “Post Mortem,” by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark, in I Am an Avenger #2 (Marvel)
• Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)
  Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil, by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben (Dark Horse)
• Best Continuing Series
  Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image)
• Best Limited Series
  Daytripper, by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (Vertigo/DC)
• Best New Series
  American Vampire, by Scott Snyder, Stephen King, and Rafael Albuquerque (Vertigo/DC)
• Best Publication for Kids
  Tiny Titans, by Art Baltazar and Franco (DC)
• Best Publication for Teens
  Smile, by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic Graphix)
• Best Humor Publication
  I Thought You Would Be Funnier, by Shannon Wheeler (BOOM!)
• Best Anthology
  Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, edited by Paul Morrissey and David Petersen (Archaia)
• Best Digital Comic
  Abominable Charles Christopher, by Karl Kerschl, www.abominable.cc
• Best Reality-Based Work
  It Was the War of the Trenches, by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics)
• Best Graphic Album—New
  Return of the Dapper Men, by Jim McCann and Janet Lee (Archaia)
  Wilson, by Daniel Clowes (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Best Graphic Album—Reprint
  Wednesday Comics, edited by Mark Chiarello (DC)
• Best Adaptation from Another Work
  The Marvelous Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young (Marvel)
• Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips
  Archie: The Complete Daily Newspaper Strips, 1946–1948, by Bob Montana, edited by Greg Goldstein (IDW)
• Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books
  Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer Artist’s Edition, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)
• Best U.S. Edition of International Material
  It Was the War of the Trenches, by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics)
• Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia
  Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa (VIZ Media)
• Best Writer
  Joe Hill, Lock & Key (IDW)
• Best Writer/Artist
  Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit (IDW)
• Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team
  Skottie Young, The Marvelous Land of Oz (Marvel)
• Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)
  Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad (Dark Horse)
• Best Cover Artist
  Mike Mignola, Hellboy, Baltimore: The Plague Ships (Dark Horse)
• Best Coloring
  Dave Stewart, Hellboy, BPRD, Baltimore, Let Me In (Dark Horse); Detective Comics (DC); Neil Young’s Greendale, Daytripper, Joe the Barbarian (Vertigo/DC)
• Best Lettering
  Todd Klein, Fables, The Unwritten, Joe the Barbarian, iZombie (Vertigo/DC); Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom (WildStorm/DC); SHIELD (Marvel); Driver for the Dead (Radical)
• Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism
  ComicBookResources, produced by Jonah Weiland (www.comicbookresources.com)
• Best Comics-Related Book
  75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, by Paul Levitz (TASCHEN)
• Best Publication Design
  Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer Artist’s Edition, designed by Randall Dahlk (IDW)
• HALL OF FAME
  Judges’ Choices: Ernie Bushmiller, Jack Jackson, Martin Nodell, Lynd Ward
  Elected: Mort Drucker, Harvey Pekar, Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman

Congratulations to all the winners!

via CCI