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A edição de 2005 dos Eisner Awards decorreu ontem no "San Diego Convention Center", premiando os melhores do mundo da banda desenhada durante o ano passado.
Esta edição ficou marcada pela criação de uma nova categoria, a de "Best Digital Comic", cujo prémio foi atribuído a Mom's Cancer de Brian Fies.
A lista completa dos vencedores é a seguinte:

Best Short Story: "Unfamiliar," de Evan Dorkin e Jill Thompson, em "The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft" (Dark Horse Books)

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot): Eightball #23: "The Death Ray," de Dan Clowes (Fantagraphics)

Best Serialized Story: Fables #19-27: "March of the Wooden Soldiers," de Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, e Steve Leialoha (Vertigo/DC)

Best Continuing Series: The Goon, de Eric Powell (Dark Horse)

Best Limited Series: DC: The New Frontier, de Darwyn Cooke (DC)

Best New Series: Ex Machina, de Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris, e Tom Fesiter (WildStorm/DC)

Best Publication for a Younger Audience: Plastic Man, de Kyle Baker e Scott Morse (DC)

Best Humor Publication: The Goon, de Eric Powell (Dark Horse)

Best Anthology: Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, editado por Diana Schutz e David Land (Dark Horse)

Best Digital Comic: Mom's Cancer, de Brian Fies

Best Graphic Album-New: The Originals, de Dave Gibbons (Vertigo/DC)

Best Graphic Album-Reprint: Bone One Volume Edition, de Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books)

Best Archival Collection/Project: The Complete Peanuts, editado por Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)

Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material: Buddha, vols. 3-4 de Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)

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

Best Writer/Artist: Paul Chadwick, Concrete: The Human Dilemma (Dark Horse)

Best Writer/Artist-Humor: Kyle Baker, Plastic Man (DC); Kyle Baker, Cartoonist (Kyle Baker Publishing)

Best Penciller/Inker (tie): John Cassaday, Astonishing X-Men (Marvel); Planetary (WildStorm/DC); I Am Legion: The Dancing Faun (Humanoids/DC); Frank Quitely, WE3 (Vertigo/DC)

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); 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)

Best Cover Artist: James Jean, Fables (Vertigo/DC); Green Arrow, Batgirl (DC)

Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition: Sean McKeever (A Waiting Place; Mary Jane; Inhumans; Sentinels)

Best Comics-Related Periodical: Comic Book Artist, editado por Jon B. Cooke (Top Shelf)

Best Comics-Related Book: Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book, de Gerard Jones (Basic Books)

Best Publication Design: The Complete Peanuts, por Seth (Fantagraphics)