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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 by 1morechapter

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1. Teresa
2. raidergirl3
3. Nicola
4. Lauren
5. Robin
6. 3m
7. Sandra (Fresh Ink Books)
8. Laura
9. Alice
10. Matt
11. Joanna
12. Lightheaded		13. Tammy
14. Sheri @ A Novel Menagerie
15. Rhinoa
16. Becky
17. Tricia (Library Queue)
18. Lezlie (Books 'N Border Collies)
19. Jackie (Farm Lane Books)
20. Jessica (The Bluestocking Society)
21. Kim (page after page)
22. J
23. Kristi (Passion for the Page)
24. Cheli		25. Lizzy Siddal
26. Mee
27. Caribousmom
28. tanabata
29. Kimmie
30. Mrs. V (Mrs. V's Reviews)
31. K
32. Tiny Librarian
33. alisonwonderland
34. JLS Hall (Joy's Blog)
35. Nise'
36. Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog

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Eisner Award

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 by 1morechapter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisner_award#Best_Graphic_Album

1991 Elektra Lives Again, by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
1992 To the Heart of the Storm, by Will Eisner
1993 Signal to Noise, by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
1994 A Small Killing, by Alan Moore and Oscar Zarate
1995 Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde Vol. 2, by P. Craig Russell
1996 Stuck Rubber Baby, by Howard Cruse
1997 Fax from Sarajevo, by Joe Kubert
1998 Batman & Superman Adventures: World's Finest, by Paul Dini, Joe Staton, and Terry Beatty
1999 Superman: Peace on Earth, by Paul Dini and Alex Ross
2000 Acme Novelty Library #13, by Chris Ware
2001 Safe Area Goražde, by Joe Sacco
2002 The Name of the Game, by Will Eisner
2003 One! Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry
2004 Blankets, by Craig Thompson
2005 The Originals, by Dave Gibbons
2006 Top 10: The Forty-Niners, by Alan Moore and Gene Ha
2007 American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
2008 Exit Wounds, by Rutu Modan
2009 Swallow Me Whole, by Nate Powell
2010 Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli
2011 Wilson by Daniel Clowes (tie)
2011 Return of the Dapper Men by Jim McCann and Janet Lee (tie)

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Kiriyama Prize

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2008
Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip (fiction)
Julia Whitty - The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific (nonfiction)

2007
Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (fiction)
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - Three Cups of Tea (nonfiction)

2006
Luis Alberto Urrea - The Hummingbird’s Daughter (fiction)
Piers Vitebsky - The Reindeer People (nonfiction)

2005
Nadeem Aslam - Maps for Lost Lovers (fiction)
Suketu Mehta - Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (nonfiction)

2004
Sa Shan - The Girl Who Played Go (fiction)
Inga Clendinnen - Dancing with Strangers (nonfiction)

2002
Rohinton Mistry - Family Matters (fiction)
Pascal Khoo Thwee - From the Land of Green Ghosts (nonfiction)

2001
Patricia Grace - Dogside Story (fiction)
Peter Hessler - River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (nonfiction)

2000
Michael Ondaatje - Anil’s Ghost (fiction)
Michael David Kwan - Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China (nonfiction)

1999
Cheng Ch’ing-wen - Three-Legged Horse (fiction)
Andrew X. Pham - Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Journey through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (nonfiction)

1998
Ruth L. Ozeki - My Year of Meats (fiction)*

1997
Patrick Smith - Japan: A Reinterpretation (nonfiction)*

1996
Alan Brown - Audrey Hepburn's Neck (fiction)*

(*)Note: only one Kiriyama Prize, for fiction -or- nonfiction, was awarded in the first three years of the award, 1998, 1997, and 1996.

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