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SDCC 2011: Dark Horse Eisner Winners!

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DARK HORSE COMICS EISNER WINNERS!

CONGRATS TO MIKE MIGNOLA, RICHARD CORBEN,

 DAVE STEWART & JUANJO GUARNIDO!

July 27, MILWAUKIE, OR— The Eisner Awards took place on Friday night of Comic Con International.  These prestigious awards honor the best of the best within the comics world. With the madness of San Diego Comic-Con behind us, Dark Horse Comics looks forward to an amazing fall publishing schedule ahead. But first, we’d like to congratulate our Eisner Award winners!

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot):
Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil, by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (Interior Art):
Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad

Best Cover Artist:
Mike Mignola, Hellboy, Baltimore: The Plague Ships

Best Coloring:
Dave Stewart, Hellboy, B.P.R.D., Baltimore, Let Me In (Dark Horse); Detective Comics (DC); Neil Young’s Greendale, Daytripper, Joe the Barbarian (Vertigo/DC)

The Eisner Awards are part of, and underwritten by, Comic-Con International, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular art forms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contributions of comics to art and culture.

Well done, boys! Well done!

About Dark Horse Comics

Since 1986, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. The company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent like Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman, Gerard Way, and comics legend Will Eisner, Dark Horse has developed such successful characters as the Mask, Timecop, and SpyBoy. Additionally, its highly successful line of comics and products based on popular properties includes Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan, Emily the Strange, Tim Burton, Trigun, Serenity, and Domo. Today Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic-book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world’s leading publishers of licensed comics material.

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It’s Saturday, and I’m likely sleeping off a fun week as this gets posted.  There’s a lot here for you to peruse.  Hope you enjoy!

Around the Blogs:

Comicvine – The Deadpool Movie Finally Gets A Director – Can’t wait for this movie.  Hopefully the plot is good.

Comics Alliance – The Village Voice to Pay Comics Issue Contributors After All – At least someone in the newspaper industry is getting paid.

Geeks of Doom – 2011 Eisner Nominations Announced – Congrats to all the nominees.

ICv2 – Comics Decline Again in March – A bit more alarming take on comic sales.

Arts Beat – Graphic Books Best Sellers: The Return of ‘The Witching Hour’ – The New York Times releases their weekly list of best sellers.

The Comic Chronicles – Price rollbacks visible as March 2011 comics sales slip slightly – Some of the best coverage of the comic book market sales out there.

WonderCon Coverage:

Comicvine – WonderCon 2011: Captain America: Super Soldier Interview

Comicvine – WonderCon 2011: Wrap-Up

Comicvine – WonderCon 2011: David Steinberger, CEO comiXology

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Pulp Fiction Reviews – Hexen Hammers

Good Comic Books – Joe the Barbarian

Books and other thoughts – Stormbreaker

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It’s been over a day, and I’m still thinking about Kevin Smith‘s Red State and how much I want to see the movie again, but I can’t unless I want to drop a decent amount of cash and up for some travel.  The news surrounding C2E2 announcements continue to leak out.  What else made the news?  Find out below.

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Kotaku – Week in Comics – Do you like video games?  Enjoy comics?  Kotaku, checks out the ones based off the others.

Torontoist – Scott Thompson Goes Straight With New Comic – I love Kids in the Hall, it’s a must read for me.

Backstage – ‘The Spidey Project’ Opens (and Closes) Before ‘Turn Off the Dark’ – Well, that’s one Spider-Man musical done with.

Filmonic – Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion now called Horizons – Think Radical will change the name of the comic now?

CBLDF – C2E2 Liberty Jam! This Saturday! – If you’re in Chicago, help support a great cause.

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The Globe Mail – The Cardboard Valise

Bleeding Cool – Fear Itself: Book Of The Skull and Brightest Day #22

Comics Alliance – Joe the Barbarian

ICv2 – The Long Tail

Bleeding Cool – Morning Glories #8 and Generation Hope #5

Austenprose – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel

Complex – The Best Comic Books This Week: Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man and More!

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