So this year's Eisner Awards in Digital Comics is very special for me. Speak No Evil has been nominated. I could go on and on about it, as I have been telling the great news to friends. But lets look at the other nominees and why they're deserving of an Eisner.


Bodyworld, by Dash Shaw
This comic book is an entire graphic novel online. It has twelve chapters and I've only gotten to Chapter Three or Four so far. Its very designy and has a good color palette. The story is set in the near future about a drug addicted botanist who has to test a newly discovered plant. I just got to the chapter that shows what the plant does when you smoke it. I could imagine reading this on a couch, blankets over my lap, by a lamp. I would probably be done reading it within a day. But as a digital comic, sitting on an office chair, looking at it on a screen, clicking, clicking, clicking-- I could only read a few chapters at a time.


Finder, by Carla Speed McNeil
This isn't Carla Speed McNeil's first Eisner nomination. She already has a fan-base with Finder and has done other print comics. She has this very fluid brush line that I'd like to see more of. She has a very feminine quality to her work. I know nothing of "Finder". The Eisner entry starts somewhere in the middle in this world. It took me a while to get used to it.


The Lady's Murder, by Eliza Frye
"The Lady's Murder" is just beautiful. Its full of fluid shapes and color flowing from page to page. Its just pretty. When I read this, I could live with not getting an Eisner this year.


Vs., by Alexis Sottile & Joe Infurnari
This is another comic, if it wins, I could understand. Joe Infurnari was nominated last year in the same category for The Process. Last year Joss Wheadon's comic won. Although Vs. is nowhere near as crazy or beautiful as "The Process", its still a fun comic about living with next-door neighbors.


By the way, this story is part of an anthology called Next-Door Neighbor edited by Dean Haspiel.

Last but not least:
Speak No Evil: Melancholy of A Space Mexican, by Elan' Rodger Trinidad
I probaby see more things wrong with this comic than I see right. So you be the judge.

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