Manara vince il Will Eisner Award 2012
17 Luglio 2012
La sera del 13 luglio sono stati assegnati i premi del 24° Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2012 presso l’hotel Hilton San Diego Bayfront, in occasione del Comic-Con International: San Diego. Il premio Best U.S. Edition of International Material è stato vinto da The Manara Library, vol. 1: Indian Summer and Other Stories, di Milo Manara e Hugo Pratt (Dark Horse Will Eisner Awards Books). L’elenco completo dei vincitori:

Best Short Story – The Seventh di Darwyn Cooke, in Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition (IDW); Best Single Issue (or One-Shot) – Daredevil #7, di Mark Waid, Paolo Rivera e Joe Rivera (Marvel); Best Continuing Series – Daredevil, di Mark Waid, Marcos Martin, Paolo Rivera e Joe Rivera (Marvel); Best Limited Series – Criminal: The Last of the Innocent, di Ed Brubaker e Sean Phillips (Marvel Icon); Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 7) – Dragon Puncher Island, di James Kochalka (Top Shelf); Best Publication for Kids (8 – 12 anni) – Snarked, di Roger Langridge (kaboom!); Best Publication for Young Adults (12 – 17 anni) – Anya’s Ghost, di Vera Brosgol (First Second); Best Anthology – Dark Horse Presents, edited di Mike Richardson (Dark Horse); Best Humor Publication – Milk & Cheese: Dairy Products Gone Bad, di Evan Dorkin (Dark Horse Books); Best Digital Comic – battlepug, di Mike Norton, www.battlepug.com; Best Reality-Based Work – Green River Killer: A True Detective Story, di Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case (Dark Horse Books); Best Graphic Album  New – Jim Hensons Tale of Sand, adattato da Raman K. Pacrez (Archaia); Best Graphic Album  Reprint – Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition, di Darwyn Cooke (IDW); Best Archival Collection/Project – Comic Strips – Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse vols. 1-2, di Floyd Gottfredson, edito da David Gerstein e Gary Groth (Fantagraphics); Best Archival Collection/Project – Comic Books – Walt Simonson’s The Mighty Thor Artist’s Edition (IDW); Best U.S. Edition of International Material – Asia – Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, di Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly); Best Writer – Mark Waid, Irredeemable, Incorruptible (BOOM!); Daredevil (Marvel); Best Writer/Artist – Craig Thompson, Habibi (Pantheon); Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team – Ramón K. Pérez, Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand (Archaia); Best Cover Artist – Francesco Francavilla, Black Panther (Marvel); Lone Ranger, Lone Ranger/Zorro, Dark Shadows, Warlord of Mars (Dynamite); Archie Meets Kiss (Archie); Best Coloring – Laura Allred, iZombie (Vertigo/DC); Madman All-New Giant-Size Super-Ginchy Special (Image); Best Lettering – Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (Dark Horse); Best Comics-Related Journalism – The Comics Reporter, produced by Tom Spurgeon, www.comicsreporter.com; Best Educational/Academic Work – Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice, di Ivan Brunetti (Yale University Press) Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, di Charles Hatfield (University Press of Mississippi); Best Comics-Related Book – MetaMaus, di Art Spiegelman (Pantheon); Best Publication Design – Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand, disegnato da Eric Skillman (Archaia)