It’s one of the biggest events going on during Comic-Con: the Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards, or “The Eisners” for short. It honors some of the best of the best working in the industry and pays tribute to the most well-known of names (like Mike Mignola) to the integral but sometimes overlooked comics workers, like those nominated for Best Lettering. It’s an opportunity to celebrate, educate, and have a little fun.
So why is so little written about them?
Well, here at Suvudu we’re trying to bring the Eisners to you in a big way. We ran a shakedown of many of the Eisner categories, we tabulated our results, and we filmed the ceremony. Now it’s time to bring the show to you. This year’s show brings some humor to the preceedings as well as a few of those big names. It was an interesting awards ceremony and now it’s your turn to see how it all went down.
With that in mind, let’s start the show. And the nominees are…
Patton Oswalt Presents the Best Publication for Kids & Best Publication for Tweens/Teens
Patton Oswalt opens the awards with a touch of humor and some minor difficulty with name pronunciation. We can’t fault him there. Check out the awards and speeches in the video below.
Neil Gaiman Presents the Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Webcomic Awards
So, consider this: you're nominated for an Eisner award, but you don't make it to the ceremonies. How would you feel if you later found out that none other than Neil Gaiman was presenting your award? Here is your chance to meet Neil, shake his hand, say hello, and be recognized as the best in your field that year. You'd find this all out after the fact, of course. Well, if you want to know how that feels, just ask the winners for Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Webcomic - none of whom were in attendance.
D'oh!
Oh, and listen for Neil's quip: "I cannot say how nice it is to be up here being an Eisner presenter secure in the knowledge that 70,000 people are not going to watch you being snogged on YouTube by Jonathan Ross that night."
We didn't capture any snogging by Jonathan Ross, but appearing on YouTube? Well...
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