Fridays at the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) is Eisner Award night, this year that was last night July 26, 2024.
The SDCC posted the results with some introduction, but we like Comics Beat reporting ’cause they got the introductory stuff and the results like SDCC along with reminding us of the nominees in each category.
Noted here are some of the award categories dealing with comic strips and books and cartoonists of our interest.
BEST LIMITED SERIES – PeePee PooPoo, by Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)
Usually not a division we take particular note of but Caroline Cash is the current Nancy comic strip cartoonist.
BEST HUMOR PUBLICATION – It’s Jeff: The Jeff-Verse #1, by Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru (Marvel)
It’s Jeff beat out I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator, and Other Musical Meanderings, by Keith Knight and Macanudo: Optimism Is for the Brave, by Liniers, two we were rooting for.
BEST REALITY-BASED WORK – Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy, by Bill Griffith
BEST GRAPHIC MEMOIR – Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam, by Thien Pham
Not getting the award was The Talk, by Darrin Bell
BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT—STRIPS – Dauntless Dames: High-Heeled Heroes of the Comic Strips, edited by Peter Maresca and Trina Robbins
The other nominees were: David Wright’s Carol Day: Lance Hallam, edited by Roger Clark, Chris Killackey, and Guy Mills; Popeye Sundays Vol 3: The Sea Hag and Alice the Goon, by E.C. Segar, edited by Conrad Groth and Gary Groth; Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck and Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1935-1939:Starring Donald Duck and Big Bad; Wolf, edited by David Gerstein; and Where I’m Coming From, by Barbara Brandon-Croft, edited by Peggy Burns and Tracy Hurren.
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
Also ran: Bill Griffith, Three Rocks
BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK – I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, by Michael Molcher
My personal favorite that didn’t win: Flamed Out: The Underground Adventures and Comix Genius of Willy Murphy, edited by Mark Burstein.
BEST WEBCOMIC – Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe (WEBTOON)
From the Comics Beat introductory text: “Lore Olympus won best webcomic for the third consecutive year, making creator Rachel Smythe the first person to receive three back-to-back wins in the category.”
The other nominees: Asturias: The Origin of a Flag by Javi de Castro; Daughter of a Thousand Faces by Vel AKA Velnixi; Matchmaker, vol. 6 by Cam Marshall; 3rd Voice by Evan Dahm; and Unfamiliar by Haley Newsome.