IMAGE COMICS TITLES HONORED WITH 25 EISNER AWARD NOMINATIONS

Image talent receives most nominations overall, most in the "Best New Series" and "Best Writer/Artist" categories, & of the creators nominated—The Cull and Black Cloak writer Kelly Thompson leads with five total nominations

PORTLAND, Ore. 05/16/2024 — This year, the Eisner Award committee honors Image Comics talent with 25 total Eisner nominations—17 nominations and 8 shared nominations—making Image Comics the publisher with the most nominations for 2024.

Image weighed in with the most nominations in both the "Best New Series" and "Best Writer/Artist" categories out of all the publishers nominated and Kelly Thompson was the creator who snagged the most nominations this year to her name, with five total.

Below is the list of Image Eisner nominees, the full list of nominees can be found here.

BEST SINGLE ISSUE/ONE-SHOT

  • Sweet Paprika: Black, White, & Pink, by Mirka Andolfo and others (Image)

BEST CONTINUING SERIES

  • Transformers, by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image Skybound)

BEST LIMITED SERIES

  • The Cull, by Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis (Image)
  • Kill Your Darlings, by Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, and Robert Quinn (Image)

BEST NEW SERIES

  • Black Cloak, by Kelly Thompson and Meredith McClaren (Image)
  • Local Man, by Tim Seeley and Tony Fleecs (Image)
  • Phantom Road, by Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Hernández Walta (Image)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

  • Deep Cuts, by Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Danilo Beyruth, and others (Image)
  • Swan Songs by W. Maxwell Prince and others (Image)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—NEW

  • Parasocial, by Alex De Campi and Erica Henderson (Image)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—REPRINT

  • The Good Asian, by Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi (Image)

BEST WRITER

  • Kelly Thompson, Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn, Black White and Redder (DC); Black Cloak, The Cull (Image); It’s Jeff, Captain Marvel (Marvel)

BEST WRITER/ARTIST

  • Daniel Warren Johnson, Transformers (Image Skybound)
  • Zoe Thorogood, Hack/Slash: Back To School (Image)
  • Tillie Walden, Clementine Book Two (Image Skybound)

BEST PENCILLER/INKER OR PENCILLER/INKER TEAM

  • Jason Shawn Alexander, Detective Comics (DC); Killadelphia, with Germán Erramouspe (Image)
  • Chris Samnee, Fire Power (Image Skybound)

BEST PAINTER/MULTIMEDIA ARTIST (INTERIOR ART)

  • Liam Sharp, Nocterra: Nemesis Special; Starhenge: The Dragon and the Boar (Image)
  • Martin Simmonds, Universal Monsters: Dracula (Image Skybound)
  • Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)

BEST COLORING

  • Lee Loughridge, Red Zone (AWA); Edgeworld, Grammaton Punch, Nostalgia (Comixology Originals); The Devil’s Cut, Gone, Somna (DSTLRY); Star Trek (IDW); Killadelphia (Image); Hunt. Kill. Repeat. (Mad Cave)
  • Dave McCaig, The Sacrificers (Image), The Walking Dead Deluxe (Image Skybound)

BEST LETTERING

  • Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber, The Witcher: Wild Animals, and others (Dark Horse); Batman: City of Madness, The Flash, Poison Ivy, and others (DC); Black Cat Social Club (Humanoids); Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees (IDW); The Cull, What’s the Furthest Place from Here? (Image); and others
  • Richard Starkings, Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder, Canary (Comixology Originals/Best Jackett); Parliament of Rooks (Comixology); Astro City, Battle Chasers (Image); Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)
  • Rus Wooton, Monstress, The Sacrificers (Image); Fire Power, Kroma, Transformers, The Walking Dead Deluxe, Universal Monsters: Dracula, Void Rivals (Image Skybound); Hunt. Kill. Repeat., A Legacy of Violence, Nature’s Labyrinth (Mad Cave)

BEST DIGITAL COMIC

  • Friday, by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin, vols. 7–8 (Panel Syndicate)

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