Extra Eisners - BEST REALITY BASED WORK - Twilight Man by Koren Shadmi

One of the bigger surprises for me this year, came in the category of Best Reality Based Work. I actually thought this was a strong category this year, filled with great books like Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, My Solo Exchange Diary, vol. 2 by Nagata Kabi, and They Called Us Enemy by George Takai and team. A notable absence, however, was the fantastic graphic novel, Twlight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi.

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DoomRocket's Jarrod Jones on adding excitement to the Eisners

It would appear that the Eisner Awards have a snubbing problem—just ask Vault Comics. How does that get fixed? I mean, Eisner judges can only select nominees from a pool provided by the publishers who submitted their very best works to them in the first place… But do creators even know if their publishers are submitting their works to Comic-Con International?

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