Delilah Dirk: Practical Defence Against Piracy, by Tony Cliff, https://www.delilahdirk.com/dd4/dd4-p46.html Marvel Comics received 9 nominations (plus 3 shared), including 2 each in the Short Story, Single Issue, and Continued Series categories. Dark Horse had 9 (plus 2 shared), led by 2 for Jeff Lemire’s Mazebook Dark Horse Direct Edition (Best Graphic Album–Reprint, Best Publication Design).

Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Diamond Jubilee Collection by Carl Barks; edited by David Gerstein (Fantagraphics) The Art of the News: Comics Journalism,edited by Katherine Kelp-Stebbins and Ben Saunders (Oregon State University Press) Diana Sousa, Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins; The Mighty Nein Origins: Yasha Nydoorin; The Mighty Nein Origins: Fjord Stone; The Mighty Nein Origins: Caleb Widogast (Dark Horse) The Deluxe Gimenez: The Fourth Power & The Starr Conspiracy,by Juan Gimenez, edited by Alex Donoghue and Bruno Lecigne (Humanoids) My sophomore year he told me I should just go ahead and drop out bc I’d never make it as an artist. Over a decade later, his words still contribute to my own ongoing severe impostor syndrome,” admitted Eisner award-winning artist Jen Bartel.Among the charges against Woodruff from his former students: making a painting of Donald Trump from Woodruff’s own feces, and then using the school scanner to make a scan…and asking students to clear up the machine after him. This painting definitely exists:

The Art of the News: Comics Journalism, edited by Katherine Kelp-Stebbins and Ben Saunders (Oregon State University Press) Former students of Thomas Woodruff step forward to talk of abusive behavior Image credit: Fantagraphics The 2023 Eisner Awards judging panel consists of librarian Moni Barrett, educator/collector Peter Jones, retailer Jen King, journalist Sean Kleefeld, scholar/comics creator A. David Lewis, and comics instructor/curator TJ Shevlin. Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story,by Catherine Pioli, translated by J. T. Mahany (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press)The 2023 Eisner Awards judging panel consists of librarian Moni Barrett, educator/collector Peter Jones, retailer Jen King, journalist Sean Kleefeld, scholar/comics creator A. David Lewis, and instructor/curator TJ Shevlin. We were children and he was supposed to nurture and empower us. Instead we were tools for him to inflate his own mangled sense of ego with. I’ll never forget the things he did to me, my classmates, and my teachers,” added DC editor Arianna Turturro.