'Monstress' writer Marjorie Liu, the first woman to win the Best Writer Eisner Award

'Monstress', by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. Photo: Image Comics

When I heard that Marjorie Liu had created comic book history last month by becoming the first woman to win an Eisner Award for Best Writer, I couldn’t help recalling my encounter with her at last year’s Singapore Writers Festival.

“I don’t have a very good track record of winning awards,” she said. “I’m very proud of the work I’ve done, and I enjoy what I do, but my work doesn’t tend to get recognised in that way, so I’ve trained myself to have incredibly low expectations when it comes to things like awards.”