Eisners

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

It wasn't just that best new series win though was it?

They went for the most bland popular/'safe' choices with everything (except the CBR win of course!)

Like 'Coraline' the novel is probably a great book for teens, but a P. Craig Russell adaptation isn't.
(I will admit to not having read it, but unless he's changed his style drastically for it, it'd read the same as every other P. Craig Russell story).

And is Tiny Titans the best kids book on the list, or just the best superhero kids book on the list?

And unless Japan's comic scene has been frozen since the sixties, nothing else on that list beat Dororo?

Just all feels a bit stale.
That said, the wins all seemed a bit less surprising when I looked for info on the judges...The 2009 judging panel consists of Amanda Emmert (owner of Muse Comics & Games in Missoula, MT), Mike Pawuk (teen services public librarian for the Cuyahoga, Ohio County Public Library), John Shableski (Diamond Book Distributors sales manager), Ben Towle (graphic novelist and comics arts educator), and Andrew Wheeler (comics and manga reviewer at ComixMix.com).

[Dan Felty]

It wasn't just that best new series win though was it?

They went for the most bland popular/'safe' choices with everything (except the CBR win of course!)

Like 'Coraline' the novel is probably a great book for teens, but a P. Craig Russell adaptation isn't.
(I will admit to not having read it, but unless he's changed his style drastically for it, it'd read the same as every other P. Craig Russell story).

And is Tiny Titans the best kids book on the list, or just the best superhero kids book on the list?

And unless Japan's comic scene has been frozen since the sixties, nothing else on that list beat Dororo?

Just all feels a bit stale.
That said, the wins all seemed a bit less surprising when I looked for info on the judges...

I tend to agree with you, but I pay much more attention to who is nominated rather than who wins, simply because there are five times as many works. I look at the nominations as a reading list; I've learned of a lot of good material that way. So, I guess, yes but it doesn't matter much?

Coraline is worth a read. Yes, it is typical of a P. Craig Russell work, so it has a different, more insidious sort of creepiness than the manic, deformed style put across in the movie trailers. I liked it a lot. I probably would have as a 'tween,' but I'm pretty sure there was no such thing as a tween when I would have been one :rolleyes: