Eisner Award Winners 2022

2) Bitter root: Volume one,Family business

A diverse comics anthology of tales both real and imagined honoring death as a natural part of life, featuring cultural expressions of death from around the world.

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Walker, David F

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Best Continuing Series (TIE): Bitter Root, by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene (Image)

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3) Something is killing the children: Volume one

"In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by tragedies and conflicting moral codes. A terrible tragedy has...

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Best Continuing Series (TIE): Something Is Killing the Children, by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera (BOOM! Studios)

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e-Comic, eComic, Graphic Novel

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"When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer's Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysterious woman arrives to reveal that terrifying creatures are behind the chaos - and that she alone will destroy them, no matter the cost. IT'S THE MONSTERS WHO SHOULD BE AFRAID. When the children of Archer's Peak -- a sleepy town in the heart of America -- begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do...

4) The Good Asian Vol. 1: Issues #1-4

Author

Pichetshote, Pornsak

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Best Limited Series: The Good Asian, by Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi (Image)

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5) The Nice House on the Lake Vol. 1: Issues #1-6

Writer Pornsak Pichetshote's long-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed Infidel with stunning art by Alexandre Tefenkgi (Outpost Zero)! Following Edison Hark-a haunted, self-loathing Chinese-American detective-on the trail of a killer in 1936 Chinatown, The Good Asian is Chinatown noir starring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban, the Chinese, as they're besieged by rampant murders, abusive police, and...

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Best New Series: The Nice House on the Lake, by James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno (DC Black Label)

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6) Chibi Usagi: attack of the Heebie Chibis

Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter-well, they know him a little, anyway. Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago. And Walter's always been a little…off. But after the hardest year of their lives, nobody was going to turn down Walter's invitation to an astonishingly beautiful house in the woods, overlooking an enormous sylvan lake. It's beautiful, it's opulent, it's private-so a week of putting up with Walter's weird little...

Author

Sakai, Julie Fujii

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Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8): Chibi Usagi: Attack of the Heebie Chibis, by Julie and Stan Sakai (IDW)

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e-Comic, Graphic Novel

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eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

"While fishing for freshwater eels, Chibi Usagi, Tomoe, and Gen rescue a Dogu, a clay creature from Japan's prehistory. The Dogu's village has been enslaved by the Salamander King and his Heebie-Chibi minions and are forced to work in their mines. Chibi Usagi and his friends must rescue the Dogu people and eliminate the threat of the Salamander King forever in this feature-length story of adventure, humor, and slippery eels"--

7) Salt magic

Author

Larson, Hope

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Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12): Salt Magic, by Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock (Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House)

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8) The Black Panther Party: a graphic novel history

Twelve-year-old Vonceil Taggart, willing to risk everything to set things right, leaves her family's Oklahoma farm in 1919 seeking the salt witch who cast a spell that turned their spring to saltwater.

Author

Walker, David

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Best Reality-Based Work: The Black Panther Party: A Graphic History, by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson (Ten Speed Press)

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"A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the Black Panther Party"--

9) The legend of Auntie Po

Author

Khor, Shing Yin

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Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17): The Legend of Auntie Po, by Shing Yin Khor (Kokila/Penguin Random House)

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"Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch"--

10) Monsters

Author

Windsor-Smith, Barry

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Best Graphic Album—New: Monsters, by Barry Windsor-Smith (Fantagraphics) Best Writer/Artist: Barry Windsor-Smith, Monsters (Fantagraphics) Best Lettering: Barry Windsor-Smith, Monsters (Fantagraphics)

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"In this pen-and-ink graphic novel, in 1964, Bobby Bailey is recruited for a U.S. military experimental genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany 20 years prior. His only ally, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes to try to protect him, which sets off a chain of events that spin out of everyone's control. As the titular monsters multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning....

11) 1984: the graphic novel

Author

Nesti, Fido

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Best Adaptation from Another Medium: George Orwell’s 1984: The Graphic Novel, adapted by Fido Nesti (Mariner Books)

Description

"With evocative, immersive art from Fido Nesti, this vision of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece provides a new perspective for longtime fans but is also an accessible entry point for young readers and adults who have yet to discover the iconic story that is still so relevant today"--

12) House of Slaughter Vol. 1: Issues #1-5

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Best Writer: James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Joker, Batman, DC Pride 2021 (DC); The Department of Truth (Image); Blue Book, Razorblades (Tiny Onion Studios)

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Discover the inner workings of the House of Slaughter in this new horror series exploring the secret history of the Order that forged Erica Slaughter into the monster hunter she is today. You know Aaron Slaughter as Erica's handler and rival. But before he donned the black mask, Aaron was a teenager training within the House of Slaughter. Surviving within the school is tough enough, but it gets even more complicated when Aaron falls for a mysterious...

13) Wynd

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Best Writer: James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Joker, Batman, DC Pride 2021 (DC); The Department of Truth (Image); Blue Book, Razorblades (Tiny Onion Studios)

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14) The Department of Truth Vol. 1: The End of the World: Issues #1-5

YOU CAN'T FIND YOUR HOME UNTIL YOU FIND YOURSELF. Wynd lives a quiet life in Pipetown -- working at the local tavern, out of sight in the secret rooms beneath the floorboards, often stealing away to catch glimpses of the son of the castle's groundskeeper as he works. But Wynd also has a secret... magical blood betrayed by his pointed ears, forbidden within the city limits. His shaggy hair has obscured them for most of his life, but now that...

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Best Writer: James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Joker, Batman, DC Pride 2021 (DC); The Department of Truth (Image); Blue Book, Razorblades (Tiny Onion Studios)

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15) Razorblades: The Horror Magazine Year One Omnibus: Issues #1-5

Cole Turner has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn't prepared for what happens when he discovers that all of them are true, from the JFK Assassination to Flat Earth Theory and Reptilian Shapeshifters. One organization has been covering them up for generations. What is the deep, dark secret behind the Department of Truth?

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Best Writer: James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Joker, Batman, DC Pride 2021 (DC); The Department of Truth (Image); Blue Book, Razorblades (Tiny Onion Studios)

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The self-published terror sensation finally arrives in a deluxe hardcover collecting the first year! Co-created by James Tynion IV (Department of Truth, Something is Killing the Children) and Steve Foxe, Razorblades: The Horror Magazine features over 350 pages of horror from some of the most cutting-edge names in the genre. From monsters in the closet to bodies stuffed in washing machines, Razorblades redefines horror comics for the next era. Also...

16) Monstress: Volume one,Awakening

Author

Liu, Marjorie

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Best Painter/Multimedia Artist: Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)

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"Set in an alternate world of art deco beauty and steampunk horror, Monstress tells the epic story of Maika Halfwolf, a teenage survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and their hated enemies, the Arcanics. In the face of oppression and terrible danger, Maika is both hunter and hunted, searching for answers about her mysterious past as those who seek to use her remain just one step behind ... and all the while, the monster within begins to awaken...

17) Undiscovered country: Volume one,Destiny

Author

Snyder, Scott

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Best Coloring: Matt Wilson, Undiscovered Country (Image); Fire Power (Image Skybound); Eternals, Thor, Wolverine (Marvel); Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters (Oni)

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18) Fire Power by Kirkman & Samnee Vol. 1: Prelude

"In Undiscovered country, readers will journey into an unknown region that was once the United States of America--a mysterious land that has been literally walled off from the rest of the world for well over a century. Two small expeditions enter the former US simultaneously--one from the east, one from the west--and journey inward, each seeking their own form of truth as they struggle to survive in this strange and deadly lost country!"--Provided...

Author

Kirkman, Robert

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Best Coloring: Matt Wilson, Undiscovered Country (Image); Fire Power (Image Skybound); Eternals, Thor, Wolverine (Marvel); Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters (Oni)

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Owen Johnson's journey to China to learn about his birth parents eventually leads him to a mysterious Shaolin Temple. The students there study to rediscover the Fire Power, the lost art of throwing fireballs. A power they claim will be needed soon to save the world. Will Owen Johnson be the first person in a thousand years to wield the Fire Power?

19) Lore Olympus: Volume one

Author

Smythe, Rachel

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Best Webcomic: Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe (WEBTOON)

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