Eisner Awards...

I suppose I ought to direct you to the Eisner Nominees since I mentioned that Phil "Girl Genius" Foglio got a nomination.

Here's what I've read from the list. This is going to be pathetically short...

2005 Eisner Nominees

BEST SHORT STORY

"Where Monsters Dine," by Troy Hickman, Angel Medina, and Jon Holdredge, in Common Grounds #5 (Top Cow/Image)

BEST SINGLE ISSUE (or ONE-SHOT)

Demo #7: "One Shot, Don’t Miss," by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan (AiT/Planet Lar)

BEST LIMITED SERIES

DC: The New Frontier, by Darwyn Cooke (DC)
Demo, by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan (AiT/Planet Lar)

BEST PUBLICATION FOR A YOUNGER AUDIENCE

Amelia Rules!, (Renaissance Press) and Amelia Rules! What Makes You Happy (iBooks) by Jimmy Gownley
Plastic Man, by Kyle Baker and Scott Morse (DC)

BEST HUMOR PUBLICATION

Plastic Man, by Kyle Baker and Scott Morse (DC)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

Common Grounds, by Troy Hickman and others, edited by Jim McLauchlin (Top Cow/Image)
Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, edited by Diana Schutz and David Land (Dark Horse)

BEST DIGITAL COMIC

Mom's Cancer, by Brian Fies www.momscancer.com/eisner.htm

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM-NEW

It’s a Bird . . ., by Steven T. Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen (Vertigo/DC)
The Originals, by Dave Gibbons (Vertigo/DC)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM-REPRINT

Age of Bronze: Sacrifice, by Eric Shanower (Image)
Bone One Volume Edition, by Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books)

BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT

The Complete Peanuts, edited by Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)

BEST U.S. EDITION OF FOREIGN MATERIAL

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)

BEST WRITER

Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man (Vertigo/DC); Ex Machina (WildStorm/DC); Runaways (Marvel)

BEST WRITER/ARTIST

Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (Dark Horse)

BEST WRITER/ARTIST-HUMOR

Kyle Baker, Plastic Man (DC); Kyle Baker, Cartoonist (Kyle Baker Publishing)
Phil Foglio, Girl Genius (Airship Entertainment)
Scott Kurtz, PvP (Image)

BEST PENCILLER/INKER or PENCILLER/INKER TEAM

Cary Nord/Thomas Yeates, Conan (Dark Horse)

BEST PAINTER/MULTIMEDIA ARTIST (INTERIOR ART)

Teddy Kristiansen, It’s a Bird . . . (Vertigo/DC)

BEST COLORING

Dave Stewart, Daredevil, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Six, Captain America (Marvel); Conan, BPRD (Dark Horse)l DC: The New Frontier (DC)

BEST LETTERING

Todd Klein, Promethea; Tom Strong; Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales (ABC); Wonder Woman (DC); Books of Magick: Life During Wartime; Fables; WE3 (Vertigo/DC); Creatures of the Night (Dark Horse)
Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (Dark Horse)

BEST COVER ARTIST

James Jean, Fables (Vertigo/DC); Green Arrow, Batgirl (DC)
Michael Turner, Identity Crisis (DC)

BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK

The Art of Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai (Dark Horse Books)

BEST PUBLICATION DESIGN

The Art of Usagi Yojimbo, designed by Cary Grazzini (Dark Horse Books)
The Complete Peanuts, designed by Seth (Fantagraphics)

And lastly, here's my only bit of opinion, the four I want in the Hall of Fame:
Wayne Boring
Nick Cardy
Gene Colan
William Moulton Marston

And, frankly, the only one I really am rooting for is Nick Cardy.