IMWAN • Comic book news 2024 (2024)

BEST CONTINUING SERIES

Transformers, by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image Skybound)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

The Devil’s Cut, edited by Will Dennis (DSTLRY)

Marvel Age #1000, edited by Tom Brevoort (Marvel)

BEST REALITY-BASED WORK

Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy, by Bill Griffith (Abrams ComicArts)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—NEW

Parasocial, by Alex De Campi and Erica Henderson (Image)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—REPRINT

Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise Treasury Edition, by Tradd Moore (Marvel)

BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT—COMIC BOOKS

The John Severin Westerns Featuring American Eagle, edited by Michael Dean (Fantagraphics)

BEST WRITER/ARTIST

Bill Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)

Daniel Warren Johnson, Transformers (Image Skybound)

Zoe Thorogood, Hack/Slash: Back To School (Image)

BEST PAINTER/MULTIMEDIA ARTIST (INTERIOR ART)

Martin Simmonds, Universal Monsters: Dracula (Image Skybound)

BEST LETTERING

Bill Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)

BEST DIGITAL COMIC

Friday, by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin, vols. 7–8 (Panel Syndicate)

I have not read much from this year's nominees:

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Bill Griffith's Ernie Bushmiller book was a terrific read. Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers looks great, but as someone who never really followed the Transformers, I have no emotional attachment to the book and am just enjoying it for his art (My only other real exposure to them was in Tom Scioli's GI Joe/Transformer book which I followed for the art as well).
The Doctor Strange Treasury Edition is beautiful and well worth picking up, as is his previous Silver Surfer: Black Treasury.
But though I like the ones I've read that have been nominated, I feel pretty lost in today's comic market.

The look of Transformers was fresh, but t found it unreadable. Really bad storytelling and layout. My eye could not follow the page.

Li'l Jay wrote:

The look of Transformers was fresh, but t found it unreadable. Really bad storytelling and layout. My eye could not follow the page.

I totally get that, my big problem with the Transformers is that I simply can't tell them apart. Any time I have tried watching movies, cartoons, or reading comics about them, they're just big blocky multicoloured objects!

AHOY COMICS
Wrong Earth Dead Ringers #2 (Of 5) $3.99

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
Archie Comics Judgment Day #1 (Of 3)$4.99

DARK HORSE COMICS
Blue Book 1947 #4 (Of 5)$4.99

DSTLRY MEDIA
White Boat #1 $8.99

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
Psychodrama Illustrated #7, $4.99

IMAGE COMICS
Holy Roller #6 (Of 9) $3.99

MARRS MEDIA
Rue Morgue Magazine #218, $13.95

MARVEL COMICS
Blood Hunt Red Band #2 (Cover A Pepe Larraz), $5.99

Intrigued by the title of the graphic novel Night at the Belfry but don't know anything about it.

by Xavier Saxon

James Ransom is seventy-four, and a far cry from the tough young boxer he remembers from the eighties.

Sick of growing increasingly powerless and reliant on others in his old age, James reconnects with a former trainer and hatches a possibly-fatal plan to regain the control he believes he's lost. But is he in over his head? James will quickly learn whether or not he lives up to the towering identity he's spent four decades constructing for himself.

TS Garp wrote:

I had no idea there is a Watership Down graphic novel.
Will have to pick one up.

It looks quite nice!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984857193/?tag=imwan-20

Wow, that's a lot of nominations for DC.

This may be the most I've ever read from a given year's Eisner nominees, what with Superman, Nightwing, Phantom Road, the Devil's Cut anthology, the Dracula mini, and more.

Professor Plum wrote:

And very few for Marvel. Do they ever get very many?

Professor Plum wrote:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1506737625/?tag=imwan-20

That meddlin kid wrote:

It varies, not many this year but I don't think they're being deliberately snubbed. They really don't have many great books right now. Is there something you feel warrants a nomination that was missed?

MARVEL’S LATEST ANNIVERSARY ONE-SHOT TAKES READERS TO THE 85TH CENTURY!

This August, all-star creators pay tribute to 85 years of storytelling in MARVEL 85TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL.

New York, NY— May 21, 2024 — Each August, Marvel Comics commemorates its anniversary with a grand, giant-size one-shot that boldly explores the scope of the Marvel mythos in exciting ways, such as last year’s Eisner-nominated Marvel Age #1000. This year is no exception as all-star creators craft stories set in the far, far future of the Marvel Universe in MARVEL 85TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL!

MARVEL 85TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL will feature stories by a wide array of talent, from legendary creators to rising stars, including Ryan North, Alan Davis, Christopher Priest, Iman Vellani, Sabir Pirzada, Steve Skroce, Josh Cassara, Stephen Byrne, Kaku Yuji, Carlo Pagulayan and more! Discover how history will remember your favorite heroes and their legendary exploits in this daring trip to the 85th century!

In the far future, exploits of the heroes of the Marvel Age are the stuff of legend, half remembered but still celebrated! Come with us now on a tour of the greatest museum in all the cosmos, in which the few surviving relics of those bygone days have been assembled. Each piece tells a unique story – about the Contest of Champions and how it wrought an end to the Age of Heroes, about the greatest triumph of Ms. Marvel, and the final, secret exploit of Excalibur! And more!

Check out Kaare Andrews’ cover and join Marvel’s greatest storytellers for this once-in-a-lifetime celebration this August!

MARVEL 85TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
Written by RYAN NORTH, ALAN DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER PRIEST, IMAN VELLANI, SABIR PIRZADA, STEVE SKROCE & MORE
Art by ALAN DAVIS, STEVE SKROCE, JOSH CASSARA, STEPHEN BYRNE, KAKU YUJI, & CARLO PAGULAYAN
Cover by KAARE ANDREWS
On Sale 8.28