Image Comics Nominated for 18 Eisners

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Apr 19, 2016

Image Comics has been putting out some top quality comics and today Comic-Con International has recognized that quality with 18 nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2016. Fourteen of the nominations were for books published by Image Comics with the other four nominations being shared with other publishers.

You are probably which titles were nominated. Don’t fret we’ve got all of the nominations below:

Best Continuing Series

  • Invincible by Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley and Cliff Rathburn (Image/Skybound)
  • Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour

Best Limited Series

  • Chrononauts by Mike Millar and Sean Murphy
  • The Fade Out by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
  • Minimum Wage: So Many Bad Decisions by Bob Fingerman

Best New Series

  • Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro
  • Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
  • Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang

Best Humor Publication

  • Sexcastle by Kyle Starks

Best Writer

  • Ed Brubaker, The Fade Out, Velvet, Criminal Special Edition
  • Marjorie Liu, Monstress
  • Jason Aaron, Southern Bastards (Image); Men of Wrath (Marvel Icon); Doctor Strange, Star Wars, Thor (Marvel)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

  • Cliff Chiang, Paper Girls

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

  • Dustin Nguyen, Descender

Best Cover Artist

  • Rafael Albuquerque, Huck (Image); Ei8ht (Dark Horse)

Best Coloring

  • Elizabeth Breitweiser, The Fade Out, Criminal Magazine, Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta, Velvet
  • John Rauch, The Beauty (Image); Batman: Arkham Knight, Earth 2: Society (DC); Runaways (Marvel)
  • Jordie Bellaire, The Autumnlands, Injection, Plutona, Pretty Deadly, The Surface, They’re Not Like Us, Zero (Image); The X-Files (IDW); The Massive (Dark Horse); Magneto, Vision (Marvel)

To celebrate all of these nominations Image Comics is offering a sale on digital comics for all of the Eisner-nominated series. You can take part in the sale at ComiXology and ImageComics.com, now through April 25th.


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