Heidi MacDonald
@comixace
Eisner Award winning EiC ComicsBeat.com and KComicsBeat.com. NYC.
Best Continuing Series goes to ABSOLUTE BATMAN. Heck Yeah. Nick Dragotta and Scott Snyder are very humble but eloquent in thanking everyone. A book that has changed everything. #sdcc #eisnerawards
Wrapping up here! Best Cover artist goes to Javier Rodriguez. LaMarr and Lennon are back! Best New Series goes to Assorted Crisis Events by Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadski (Image). Yeah!!! Camp gives a very spirited acceptacne speech that I hope is soon on social media. And another semi standing O.
Best Writer/Artist this is a big one! the winner is Best Writer/Artist: Jamal Campbell, Zatanna This is truly a spectacular book. #eisnerawards #SDCC
Besty Penciller/Inker: Javier Rodriguez, Absolute Martian Manhunter (DC) Oh yes!!! #eisnerawards #SDCC
Ashley Eckstein and Michael James Scott (The Genie) are out for the next and nearly last bunch of awards. Best Adaptation from Another Medium: Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel, by William Golding, adapted by Aimée De Jongh (Penguin Classics) #eisnerawards #SDCC
Our next presenters are Jeff Trexler and Mark Buckingham! The first award is for Best Graphic Album New, which goes to Drome, by Jesse Lonergan (23rd St. Books) Calista Brill is up to accept, and NGL, I am sitting next to her, and a great win for this adult GN imprint, #eisnerawards #SDCC
Best Graphic Memoir goes to It Rhymes with Takei, by George Takei, Harmony Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin Eisinger (Top Shelf) and Georg Takei comes out in a wheelcair and gets a standing ovation that last for quite a while. A lot of people are teary eyed, including Takei. #eisnerawards #SDCC
Best Reality Based work goes to Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance, by Ben Passmore (Pantheon), John Jennings accepts. What a great book. #eisnerawards #SDCC
Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism: SKTCHD, by David Harper, www.sktchd.com Not a susprise! It was his year. He thanks his mother who saw him cry over Wolverine getting his Adamantium skeleton pulled out, and of course his wife Amber. "She is SKTCHD just as much as I am." #eisnerawards #SDCC
Best Graphic Album–Reprint: Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen: The Deluxe Edition, by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber (DC) Fraction and Mariko Tamakai come up and read a list of all the people who were on the cover. #eisnerawards #SDCC
Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books: AKIRA Volumes 1–5 Hardcover Collection, by Katsuhiro Otomo, edited by Haruko Hashimoto, Ajani Oloye, and Lauren Scanlan (Kodansha USA Publishing) #eisnerawards #SDCC
The next duo of presenters are Bruce Dickinson and David Dastmalchian. ONly at Comic-Con Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips: The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1928–1930, edited by J. Michael Catron and Bill Blackbeard (Fantagraphics)
Best Publication for Kids: The Cartoonists Club, by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud (Scholastic Graphix) The duo come out for a semi-well rehearsed (i wonder how) patter, but very cool these two got to win for this, which Telgemeier calls "Understanding Comics meets Smile." #eisnerawards #SDCC
Jenny Blake Isabella comes up and gives a wonderful speech, tearing up a few times, and thanking even her enemies, because "They helped make me who I am, and I like who I am. She also thanks comics for being so supportive," she concludes. Jenny gets a great hand #eisnerawards #SDCC
Best Anthology: DC Pride 2025, edited by Andrea Shea and Jillian Grant (DC) A really great speech by Shea with Grant and Ariana Turturro by her side. I guess people had some time to work on them. #eisnerawards #SDCC
Before that, Image Comics' Alex Cox presented the Summer 2026 Image Select Retailer Award to Capitol Comics in Raleigh, North Carolina.
DC is up with lots of Batman Day promos like masks, a seires of $1 #1 issues...all kinds of ways to celebrate Batman Day! #sdcc #retailerday
and @bulgilhanpress.com with Zach Clementa talking about their Eisner nominated Slices of Life by Qu
OK VIZ had a whole bunch of titles, including a NIRVANA tie in with a title. And Titan brought out Kristin Kreuk, Peter Mooney (Rookie Blue, Mistletoe Murders) screenwriter Eric Putzer, and artist Joe Bocardo (Nightwalkers, The Hexiles) to talk about Black Star, a new project.
And Ahoy with The Forgotten Divine by @manruss.bsky.social and Russ Braun - great team up! Russell has some other intriguing projects coming up!
Viz Comics is pushign Galaxic Baseball League baseball comic by Acky Bright featuring Tarik Skubal, Ohtani, and the rest! Oh boy! Lots of tie ins at NYCC and during World Series!
A brief presentation from Rocketship, concentrating on their upcoming angry Birds GNs for younger readers.
@pranadms.bsky.social and Atom Freeman are up doing a 2 minute presentation - clock ticking. Comics Interview is growing to 40 pages. David Lapham will be doing interiors on Rekcah Comics starting with issues 20. #sdcc
Massive Indies is up with a pretty wide array of publishers now, 1 year in. They provide distro services via Lunar , and Michael Calero says they will soon be offering printing services. Actually quite an impressive line-up of publishers. Sumerian is coming back too #sdcc
Hello from Retailer Day here at #sdcc, presented by #comicspro. We had the presentation of the Spirit of Retailing award nominee videos, and a coffee break and now into the Lunar hour with publisher speed dating. Bad Idea's Sienna Fallon was up talking about It Demands Sacrifice - looks nice
Total delulu wackadoodium organic Calypso-grade copium lotus root for the wingers who are clinging to bizarre conspiracy theories to deny that The Odyssey is a hit. I wonder if they will ever wake up to the real world.
Oh no! The urgent campaign to make us unable to read or make decisions about our activities continues apace!
The Odyssey was great but it was so grim and harrowing I’m not sure I could watch it again!
I just tried to make my #SDCC schedule and there are nearly 1000 panels ALONE this year - several more venues I think, a return to the library, and an insane level of topics and people....like it is mind boggling and more than any one outlet can cover. So much to see and do and....gotta lie down.