It was a monstrous affair at the recent 2018 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, or Eisner Awards, with Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s Image Comics series Monstress and Emil Ferris’ critically acclaimed graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters the biggest winners at the awards ceremony held last Friday.
The creator-owned Monstress won five awards in total: Best Continuing Series, Best Publication For Teens and Best Writer for Liu (who shared the award with Batman writer Tom King), while Takeda won for Best Cover Artist and Best Painter/Multimedia Artist.