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Eagle Award Winners for 2010 Announced

By | October 29th, 2010
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This year was a banner one for the Eagle Awards as London’s MCM Expo took on responsibility for hosting the awards on a permanent basis. It was also another record-breaking year for the awards with a continued growth in the number of participating voters. Continuing to expand their worldwide penetration, Yet again, the awards took on more of an international flavour. Apart from Britain, the USA and Canada, the thousands of ballots that flooded in came from more than 100 countries. Among them were several in Europe as well as Afghanistan, Botswana, Egypt, India, North Korea, Russia, Thailand, Uruguay, Vietnam and Zimbabwe to name but a few. A highlight of the MCM Expo, the Eagle Awards results for 2009 were announced at a gala presentation held at London’s ExCeL on Friday, October 29 2010.

Here are the results:

Roll of Honour — Brian Bolland
Favourite Newcomer Writer — Jonathan Hickman
Favourite Newcomer Artist — Jamie McKelvie
Favourite Writer — Warren Ellis
Favourite Writer/Artist — Darwyn Cooke
Favourite Artist: Pencils — Frank Quietly
Favourite Artist: Inks — Kevin O’Neill
Favourite Artist: Fully-Painted Artwork — J.H. Williams III
Favourite Colourist — Ben Templesmith
Favourite Letterer — Todd Klein
Favourite Editor — Axel Alonso
Favourite Publisher — DC/Vertigo
Favourite American Comicbook: Colour — Batman & Robin
Favourite British Comicbook: Colour — 2000 AD
Favourite American Comicbook: Black and White — Walking Dead
Favourite New Comicbook — Batman & Robin
Favourite Manga — Fullmetal Alchemist
Favourite European Comicbook — Requiem Chevalier Vampire
Favourite 2009 Single Story — Phonogram — The Singles Club 4: Konichiwa Bitches
Favourite 2009 Continued Story — Walking Dead #61-65: Fear The Hunters
Favourite 2009 Cover — Batman & Robin #4
Favourite 2009 Original Graphic Novel — The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century
Favourite 2009 Reprint Compilation — Captain Britain Omnibus by Alan Moore & Alan Davis
Favourite Magazine about Comics — Wizard
Favourite Comics-Related Book — The Insider’s Guide to Creating Comics and Graphic Novels (Andy Schmidt)
Favourite Comics-Related Movie or TV Show — Watchmen
Favourite Comics-Related Website — comicbookresources.com
Favourite Web-Based Comic — Freak Angels

Congrats to all the winners!

Except the comic-related website business. Rubbish.

(Kidding!)


Matthew Meylikhov

Once upon a time, Matthew Meylikhov became the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Multiversity Comics, where he was known for his beard and fondness for cats. Then he became only one of those things. Now, if you listen really carefully at night, you may still hear from whispers on the wind a faint voice saying, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not as bad as everyone says it issss."

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