Obligatory Eisners post

[dvandom]

No link, I'm sure somewhere on your friends list there's at least five people who have linked to the nominees already. :) I'm just gonna see if I've read any of the nominees. Note, these are not votes, they're just acknowledgements that I read the stuff.



Short Story: Nope. If it'd been sold on its own I'd have definitely gotten the Dorkin/Dyer piece, tho.

Single Issue/One Shot: Nope.

Serialized Story: I read bits of "Gifted" as First Looks, and bought the Planetary "serial" of the two issues that came out in 2004.

Continuing Series: Astonishing X-Men as above.

Limited Series: Nope, none.

New Series: Astonishing X-Men, and I paged through an issue of Shaolin Cowboy in the store once.

Younger Audience: Amelia Rules (and that IS a vote, if I bother to vote).

Humor: None.

Anthology: None.

Digital: None, haven't even heard of the nominees.

Graphic Album (New): Suspended in Language

Graphic Album (Reprint): None.

Archival Collection: None.

US Edition Of Foreign Material: None.

For the creator credits, I will only note those where I read the work the creator is being nominated for.

Writer: Whedon (for Astonishing...for something I didn't actually think was worth putting down money for, this series is getting a lot of fan wank...er, nominations).

Writer/Artist: None, sort of (I've read Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo, but not in 2004).

Writer/Artist (Humor): Foglio (Girl Genius)

Penciller/Inker: Cassaday (Astonishing, Planetary), Nord/Yeats (Conan), Darrow (Shaolin Cowboy).

Painter/Multimedia: None (Heh, Alex Ross didn't get nommed for once)

Colorist: Doherty, Martin, Stewart (various titles)

Letterer: Klein (many, many books)

Cover Artist: James Jean (Green Arrow).

Deserving of Wider Recognition: An aptly named award, as I've only even HEARD of one of the noms (McKeever).

Comics-Related Periodical: None.

Comics-Related Book: None.

Publication Design: None.


I read a lot of comics, and comment on them critically. But I'm clearly not qualified to pick from among the Eisner noms. No real surprise, though.

Comments

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

You would enjoy Athena Voltaire, I think.

[jkcarrier.livejournal.com]

Well, the mainstream fans are saying the list is too indy, and the indy fans are saying it's too mainstream, so I guess it must be a good mix. I think I've read a bit less than half of them. But to me, that's a good thing: "Cool, some new titles to check out!"

But geez, Michael Turner? WTF?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Penny Arcade makes a fairly good point that the digital category is kinda ghetto-ish.