“Comic Book Tattoo,” the Image Comics anthology featuring stories based on/inspired by the songs of singer-songwriter Tori Amos, won a 2009 Eisner Award for Best Anthology.
Stories in the volume included, “Take To The Sky” by Sara Ryan and Jonathan Case; “Crazy” by Nikki Cook; “Here In My Head” by Elizabeth Genco and Carla Speed McNeil; “Gold Dust” by Hope Larson; “Pandora’s Museum” by Dame Darcy; and many many more.
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Cartoonist, author and teacher Lynda Barry’s “What It Is” won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Series. “What It Is,” published by Drawn & Quarterly, explores the creative urge’s development with age, and offers autobiographical glimpses into Barry’s life from childhood to adulthood.
Lynda Barry Resource Links:
Amazon.com link to “What It Is”
Lynda Barry page on Drawn & Quarterly site
Salon.com’s Lynda Barry Archive
Carla Speed McNeil recently won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic for her work on the popular and long-running (in both print & digital) Finder. McNeil also previously won the Kim Yale Award for Best New Talent at the 1997 Lulu Awards, Lulu of The Year for 2001 & 2002, the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist in 2001, and the Ignatz for Outstanding Series in 2004 & 2005.
Resource Links For Carla Speed McNeil:
Finder on Shadowline Web Comics
Lightspeed Press (website currently unavailable)
Publisher’s Weekly Article “McNeil’s Finder Goes Online”
This year artist Nina Matsumoto, along with writer Ian Booth and writer Andrew Pepoy, won a “Best Short Story” Eisner Award for the The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #14 story “Murder He Wrote.” Matsumoto is an accomplished Japanese-Canadian artist/writer who is also known for creating the series Yōkaiden for Del Rey Manga.
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1. According to Don Markstein’s Toonpedia, The Black Cat beat Wonder Woman to print by four months, debuting in Pocket Comics #1 in August, 1941.
2. The Black Cat was none other than Hollywood starlet Linda Turner, whose adventures began when she suspected her director of being a Nazi spy.
3. Linda Turner was trained as a stuntwoman and was proficient in Judo, riding motorcycles, and other skills.
4. Linda took on the identity of a black cat because she knew that criminals were a cowardly and suspicious lot.
5. The Black Cat’s sidekick, Kit Weston, was part of a family of circus aerialists, “The Flying Westons.” When Kit’s parents were tragically killed in a trapeze accident, Linda took the boy under her wing, gave him a superhero costume, and dubbed him “Kitten.” Stop me if you heard this one before.
6. The Black Cat was often drawn by Lee Elias – also known for drawing the character of Black Canary at DC Comics.
7. Many of the writers of The Black Cat are unknown, but Bob Haney is on record as saying he was the author a few of the stories.
8. In 1948, as the popularity of superheroes waned, Harvey Comics tried to repackage The Black Cat as a western, with Linda Turner still in the lead. When that failed, Linda was taken out of the book entirely and the title bccame a horror comic.
9. It was rumored in 1992 that Sean Young, after her aggressive campaign to play Catwoman in the “Batman” sequel failed, would get her sweet revenge by playing The Black Cat in a big-screen version of the Harvey Comics superheroine.
10. In 2005 it was reported in Variety that the script was being finished up for another proposed movie adaptation of The Black Cat, this one produced by Michael Uslan and directed by “Scorpion King” and “The Mask” director Chuck Russell.
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The Brooklyn comic book store Rocketship will be hosting an opening reception for their CARTOON BROOKLYN V group art show on Friday, July 31st @8:00. The art of Sarah Glidden (“How To Understand Israel In 60 Days Or Less”), Mike Dawson (“Freddie and Me”), and Ryan Dunlavey (“Action Philosophers”) will be spotlighted.
Rocketship is located at 208 Smith Street in Brooklyn, New York.
Jill Thompson won the “Best Painter/Multimedia Artist” Eisner Award this past weekend for her work on Magic Trixie & Magic Trixie Sleeps Over (HarperCollins Children’s Books).
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Eleanor Davis won the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award at this year’s Eisner Awards in San Diego. Davis, who we recently profiled, has received accolades – and a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book Award – for her work on the childrens book Stinky from Raw Junior’s TOON imprint.
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