tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86210430369896291502024-02-19T10:32:48.354-06:00Das ÜbernerdDas Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comBlogger641125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-50445802759316262612010-08-10T19:29:00.004-05:002010-08-10T19:50:34.399-05:00J. H. Williams III's Eisner Winning CoversWilliams won two Eisners this year for his work on Detective Comics. I haven't read any of his stories yet but from what I've seen it does look beautiful. All of his covers were great; I honestly could have picked any of them out.Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-87310325399553055762010-08-02T19:07:00.003-05:002010-08-02T19:25:16.457-05:00James Jean's Eisner Winning Covers in 2009Jean's last year of winning Eisners coincides with the end of my project so I'll be getting back to normal soon. And for that last year it was all Fables for Jean which brings us back full circle.Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-12353866542272645012010-07-27T16:23:00.002-05:002010-07-27T16:54:09.060-05:00James Jean's Eisner Winning Covers in 2008I'm still running behind as I work like crazy here's a few more covers from James Jean. That year he added The Umbrella Academy (I may have hated the series but he did make some striking covers for it), Process Recess, and Superior Showcase to his artwork.Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-88787657175928594122010-07-24T00:27:00.003-05:002010-07-24T01:41:28.270-05:002010 Eisner Award WinnersI'm taking fifteen minutes out of my phenomenally busy schedule at the moment (that's not sarcasm, by the way, finding fifteen minutes has been really hard this week and will probably be really hard next week) because the 2010 Eisner winners have been announced!Best Short Story - "Urgent Request" by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim in The Eternal SmileBest Single Issue (or One-Shot) - Captain Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-60060122884471925382010-07-20T17:34:00.003-05:002010-07-20T18:00:18.712-05:00James Jean's Eisner Winning Covers in 2007I'm catching up to the present just in time for James Jean to miss out on his seventh consecutive Eisner for best cover artist. He isn't even nominated this year. But back to three years ago when Jean was still on his winning streak and provided cover art for two issues of Runaways along with the Fables spin-offs Jack of Fables and 1001 Nights of Snowfall.This was also the toughest time to Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-15455750586334922322010-07-16T18:44:00.002-05:002010-07-18T09:01:02.268-05:00Review - The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuckThe Life and Times of Scrooge McDuckby Don Rosa1995 Eisner Winner for Best Serialized StoryThere's a term that comic fans use for a story that exists to to cover old plot points, smooth over the rough edges, and look back at old material: continuity porn. At its worst this can be a page filler that tries to explain plot points that no one cares about any more though more often its just about Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-81802900678167160532010-07-14T18:41:00.003-05:002010-07-15T08:20:02.881-05:00Review - Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForSin City: A Dame to Kill Forby Frank Miller1995 Eisner Winner for Best Limited SeriesI'm going to be coming back to Sin City frequently for now since it won eight Eisners across five completely different stories and I recently purchased a full set of the stories. The last time I read them was when the books were new and my younger self found the stories to be totally awesome. Today I still findDas Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-86722102928392011142010-07-11T19:32:00.003-05:002010-07-11T19:47:38.167-05:00James Jean's Eisner Winning Covers in 2006I've been completely overwhelmed this week but there's still time to get some covers. Jean also provided covers for Green Arrow this year. While I like to sample everything that an artist did that year and not put too much emphasis on the covers for a series that they've won multiple awards for I think his Fables covers are much better than the Green Arrow ones. The Green Arrow covers Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-33920287922290502262010-07-07T08:10:00.003-05:002010-07-07T19:30:33.548-05:00Review - The Rabbi's CatThe Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar2006 Eisner Winner for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign MaterialThe Rabbi's Cat was a slow burn for me. For the first two-thirds of it I wasn't enjoying the book. The ending however takes the themes of that beginning and brings them all together in a way that I wound up liking.In Algeria there is a rabbi, his daughter, and their cat. The cat eats a parrot and gains theDas Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-31208782134990284442010-07-05T19:02:00.002-05:002010-07-05T19:18:55.347-05:00James Jean's Eisner Winning Covers in 2005James Jean did not simply provide cover art for Fables. He also was providing covers for Batgirl at the time:Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-61797129494255788672010-07-02T16:55:00.002-05:002010-07-02T20:23:17.170-05:00Review - Sin City: The Hard GoodbyeSin City: The Hard Goodbyeby Frank Miller1993 Eisner Winner for Best Graphic Album: Modern Reprint1993 Eisner Winner for Best Penciller/Inker: Black and White Publication1993 Eisner Winner for Best Writer/ArtistFrank Miller has become something of a joke in comic circles lately and not without reason. It's become increasingly difficult to tell the difference between a Frank Miller comic and a Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-7541392267229353242010-06-30T16:43:00.003-05:002010-06-30T22:02:17.972-05:00Review - A Small KillingA Small Killingby Alan Moore; Art by Oscar Zarate1994 Eisner Winner for Best Graphic Album: NewI have been thinking about how my reaction to the Eisner winners has been generally positive and why that is. When it came to Hugos, Nebulas, and the World Fantasy Award my reactions to the winners was a lot more varied. Am I letting flaws pass in Eisner winners more than the others? Perhaps a bit Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-33403272889899699512010-06-28T07:22:00.002-05:002010-06-28T07:33:16.732-05:00James Jean's Eisner Winning Covers in 2004Not to get ahead of myself but since 2004 only one person has won the Eisner for best cover artist: James Jean. His painted covers for Fables have been impressive and I've enjoyed how well they integrate with the story in the issue.Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-660047474025841762010-06-26T22:38:00.002-05:002010-06-27T08:01:36.734-05:00Review - Strangers in ParadiseStrangers in Paradise Volume 1by Terry Moore1996 Eisner Winner for Best Serialized StoryI have this picture of how Terry Moore came up with Strangers in Paradise in my head. He set out to create a touching romantic comedy with a trio of characters caught in each other's orbit but unable to ever quite connect. While he was plotting that he was also working on a violent, noirish crime drama. Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-63876241896242991622010-06-22T17:28:00.003-05:002010-06-24T04:13:20.453-05:00Review - NexusNexus Written by Mike Baron; Art by Steve Rude 1988 Eisner Winner for Best ArtistIf you listen to some people the concept of mature superhero comics was born when Alan Moore woke up one day and decided to make Watchmen. Obviously this is not true; Moore's work stood on the shoulders of many people and came in the middle of a pack that were changing superhero comics. One of the more interesting Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-65814813694138866022010-06-21T06:23:00.004-05:002010-06-21T06:27:34.908-05:00Adam Hughes's Eisner Winning CoversI'm a bit baffled as to why Adam Hughes won the Eisner in 2003 for his Wonder Woman covers. While I'd never call them bad, Hughes artwork never stood out to me (well except in two respects). But setting aside my preference he only did six Wonder Woman covers that year. That's a fairly small sampling of covers for the award.Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-12219108409904547362010-06-18T23:17:00.002-05:002010-06-20T03:45:16.304-05:00Review - The Tale of One Bad RatThe Tale of One Bad Ratby Bryan Talbot1996 Eisner Award Winner for Best Graphic Album: ReprintI had exactly one problem with The Tale of One Bad Rat (which should tell you right away that this review is going to be positively glowing). The main character is a very troubled young woman. She's almost certainly schizophrenic and at the beginning of the book she seems to be right on the verge of a Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-64949786150108423692010-06-16T22:56:00.003-05:002010-06-17T01:35:45.458-05:00Review - The Windup GirlThe Windup Girlby Paolo Bacigalupi2009 Nebula Winner for Best NovelAfter digesting The Windup Girl for a bit I've come to a conclusion: it is the most cynical SF novel I have ever read. There's a lot of cynical SF out there especially since post-apocalypse has been used often enough that it has become its own subgenre but The Windup Girl is so far beyond that cynicism. I came to this conclusionDas Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-51835650258043791012010-06-14T20:09:00.002-05:002010-06-14T20:12:51.100-05:00Dave Johnson's Eisner Winning CoversHow about that? Someone other than Alex Ross and Brian Bolland won an Eisner for cover artwork in 2002. Dave Johnson was providing covers for Detective Comics and 100 Bullets then and he infused each of them with covers that remind me a lot of dime novels from the sixties.Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-6737810593902746612010-06-13T02:15:00.002-05:002010-06-13T04:42:22.089-05:00Review - RunawaysRunawaysWritten by Brian K. Vaughan; Art by Adrian Alphona and Takeshi Miyazawa2005 Eisner Winner for Best WriterWhen the time comes in the not too distant future when American superhero comics die and the postmortem is performed there will be a lot of pointing fingers at who or what killed it. Along with the cultural shifts there will be names mentioned; people who will be blamed for not Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-51569247331818167562010-06-09T23:04:00.002-05:002010-06-10T05:14:45.143-05:00Review - The Big Book of ConspiraciesThe Big Book of ConspiraciesWritten and Edited by Doug Moench; Art by a cast of dozens1996 Eisner Winner for Best AnthologyI have to start this review with what I expected from The Big Book of Conspiracies. After The Big Book of Urban Legends I was anticipating an anthology of one or two page stories humorously illustrating some conspiracy theory. I doubted that there would be any emphasis on Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-65830574421619116952010-06-07T19:30:00.005-05:002010-06-07T19:57:15.763-05:00Brian Bolland's Eisner Winning Covers in 2001Hey Bolland and Ross, let someone else have a turn!The tug of war between those two men came down on Bolland's side in 2001 when he took another Eisner for best cover artist. That year he started doing covers for The Flash and Gotham Knights along with the covers he continued doing for Invisibles and I'm surprised at the range he used. His Flash covers are evocative of the silver age; Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-48669074364711712992010-06-04T19:31:00.002-05:002010-06-05T07:55:11.902-05:00Review - I Am LegionI Am Legion: The Dancing FawnWritten by Fabien Nury; Art by John Cassady2005 Eisner Winner for Best Penciller/InkerI should give you a warning up front that this is another instance where I have only part of the story and it is unlikely that I'll ever read the whole thing. I Am Legion started as a set of French graphic albums. DC comics published the first of those albums in the U.S. but in theDas Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-71652076848845351272010-06-03T00:53:00.004-05:002010-06-03T02:34:34.015-05:00Review - Top TenTop TenWritten by Alan Moore; Art by Gene Ha2000 Eisner Winner for Best New Series2000, 2001 Eisner Winner for Best WriterYou won't find a lot of disagreement that Alan Moore's finest work is Watchmen. There might be the odd holdout for V for Vendetta, an appreciation for the richly textured From Hell, or just plain love for his other works but when you break things down what he'll be rememberedDas Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8621043036989629150.post-42402620378262720112010-05-31T17:28:00.002-05:002010-05-31T17:50:33.445-05:00Alex Ross's Eisner Winning Covers in 2000Alex Ross took the award back from Brian Bolland in 2000. Ross continued his string of covers for Astro City but that year also provided cover art for Alan Moore's new line ABC Comics and the Batman special that started the No Man's Land cross over. The Batman cover used a layered effect that does not reproduce well but here's a sampling of others that won:Das Übernerdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13539335724904806813noreply@blogger.com