Media Release -- The 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have just concluded and IDW is honored to be the recipient of 3 awards from the industry's prestigious ceremony. All 9 nominations IDW received highlighted the publisher's diverse line, and the winner's exemplified IDW's commitment to the high standards that the Eisner awards celebrate.
Earning his fifth Eisner with IDW, Darwyn Cooke received the award Best Adaptation From Another Medium, an award that was re-introduced this year, for his knockout graphic novel, Parker: The Score. The critical hit was Cooke's third volume in the Parker series, adapted from Richard Stark's original novel, of the same name. His other adaptations, The Hunter and The Outfit, were both Eisner award winners as well.
For his stylish and thematic art that flew off the page of Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom, Chris Samnee won his first Eisner award! Acclaimed across the board, the ace artist won for Best Penciller/Inker.
Congratulations to all the nominees and winners and thanks to the judges at this year's Eisner awards, see you next year!
About IDW
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro's The TRANSFORMERS, G.I. JOE and MY LITTLE PONY; Paramount's Star Trek; Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; 2000AD's Judge Dredd; The Rocketeer; Toho's Godzilla; Wizards of the Coast's Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons; HBO's True Blood; and the Eisner-Award winning Locke & Key series, created by best-selling author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints, and Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.
IDW's critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new mediums. Currently, Warner Brothers and Barry Sonnenfeld are attached to adapt LORE into a feature film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, with Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes and Sony bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.
