Eisner Award for Best Editor

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Eisner Award for Best Editor
Awarded forBest Editor
Country United States
First awarded1992
Most recent winner (1997) Dan Raspler
Website www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

The Eisner Award for Best Editor is a defunct award for "creative achievement" in American comic books. It was given out every year between 1992 and 1997.

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Winners and nominees

YearEditorTitlesRef.
1992 Karen Berger The Sandman (DC Comics), Shade, the Changing Man (DC Comics), Kid Eternity (DC Comics), and The Books of Magic (DC Comics) [1]
Mike Carlin Superman titles (DC Comics), and The Psycho (DC Comics)
Barbara Kesel Badlands (Dark Horse Comics), Aliens: Genocide (Dark Horse Comics), and Star Wars (Dark Horse Comics)
Diana Schutz Billi 99 (Dark Horse Comics), Batman Versus Predator (Dark Horse Comics), and Predator: Big Game (Dark Horse Comics)
Randy Stradley Dark Horse Presents (Dark Horse Comics) and Give Me Liberty (Dark Horse Comics)
1993 Karen Berger The Sandman (DC Comics) and Shade, the Changing Man (DC Comics) [2]
Steve Bissette Taboo (Spiderbaby Graphix/Tundra Publishing)
Archie Goodwin Legends of the Dark Knight (DC Comics), Batman: Sword of Azrael (DC Comics), and Deadman: Exorcism (DC Comics)
Gary Groth Bleeding Heart , (Fantagraphics), Eightball (Fantagraphics), Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics), Pictopia (Fantagraphics), and The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics)
Chris Oliveros Drawn & Quarterly (Drawn & Quarterly)
1994
Karen Berger [note 1] The Sandman (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) and Death: The High Cost of Living (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) [3]
Mike Carlin [note 1] Superman titles (DC Comics)
Diana Schutz Batman/Grendel (Comico Comics/DC Comics), Grendel Tales (Dark Horse Comics), American Splendor (Harvey Pekar), 1001 Nights of Bacchus (Dark Horse Comics), The Jam (Dark Horse Comics)
1995 Karen Berger The Sandman (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) and Sandman Mystery Theatre (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) [4]
Andy Helfer The Big Book of Urban Legends (Paradox Press)
Dwayne McDuffie Worlds Collide (Milestone Comics), Xombi (Milestone Comics), and Shadow Cabinet (Milestone Comics)
Bob Schreck Madman (Dark Horse Comics), Dark Horse Presents (Dark Horse Comics), and Rascals in Paradise (Dark Horse Comics)
Diana Schutz Grendel Tales (Dark Horse Comics), American Splendor (Dark Horse Comics), and The Dance of Lifey Death (Dark Horse Comics)
1996 Monte Beauchamp BLAB! (Kitchen Sink Press) [5]
Stuart Moore [note 2] Swamp Thing (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), The Invisibles (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), and Preacher (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics)
Chris Oliveros Drawn & Quarterly (Drawn & Quarterly)
Bronwyn Taggart [note 2] The Big Book of Weirdos (Paradox Press), The Big Book of Conspiracies (Paradox Press), Brooklyn Dreams , (Paradox Press) and Stuck Rubber Baby (Paradox Press)
Kim Thompson Acme Novelty Library (Fantagraphics), Palestine (Fantagraphics), and Zero Zero (Fantagraphics)
1997 Tom Brevoort Untold Tales of Spider-Man (Marvel Comics) and Daily Bugle (Marvel Comics) [6]
M. M. Carwald [note 3] [7] Amalgam Comics line (DC Comics/Marvel Comics)
Andy Helfer Gon (Paradox Press) and The Big Book of Little Criminals (Paradox Press)
Scott Peterson Batman Black and White (DC Comics)
Joe Pruett Negative Burn (Caliber Comics)
Dan Raspler Kingdom Come (DC Comics), Hitman (DC Comics), The Spectre (DC Comics), and Sergio Aragonés Destroys DC (DC Comics)

Notes

  1. 1 2 There was a tie between Karen Berger and Mike Carlin in 1994.
  2. 1 2 There was a tie between Stuart Moore and Bronwyn Taggart in 1996.
  3. M. M. Carwald was a fictional editor whose name was a combination of DC Comics editor Mike Carlin and Marvel comics editor Mark Gruenwald.

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