Gaiman Nabs Another Eisner Award
RSSBy Rocco Staino -- School Library Journal, 08/07/2009
Neil Gaiman has nabbed yet another Eisner Award, this time for Coraline: The Graphic Novel (HarperCollins, 2008).
The author already has more than 10 Eisner’s under his belt, and this one comes just weeks after receiving the Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins, 2008) at the American Library Association Conference in Chicago.
The Eisner recognizes creative achievement in American comic books, and Gaiman won in the teen/tween category. This is only the second year that the awards were presented in juvenile categories.
Meanwhile, Art Baltazar and Franco won the Eisner Award for Kids for Tiny Titans 
(DC, 2008), which SLJ comic blogger Katherine Dacey says uses a simple, almost naive style to “transform such popular characters as Robin, Wonder Girl, and Kid Flash into a squabbling band of elementary school students.”
Toon Books’s debut comic artist Eleanor Davis took the The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer 
Award for Stinky (Toon, 2008).Toon is an imprint of Raw Junior and the brainchild of husband and wife team, Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly An SLJ review said Davis’s work was full of humorous details, complements the text, and that the muted color scheme makes Stinky endearing rather than scary. “The simple vocabulary and repetition of words make the text accessible for emergent readers, who will love the graphic-novel format,” the review goes on to day.
Davis’s next book, published by Bloomsbury, will be the first in a series of graphic novels called The Secret Science Alliance.
The Eisner is named in honor of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner, who was a regular participant in the award ceremony until his death in 2005.
