I won the lettering Eisner

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I won the lettering Eisner

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I received the Will Eisner Award for Best Lettering at the San Diego Comic-con tonight. In my acceptance speech, I thanked Todd Klein because it was because of a magazine article he authored on "How to do Comic Book Lettering" that I learned to letter. Todd is the best in the business but was not nominated this year, or he would have gotten it for sure.

This is the fourth Eisner I received, but the first featuring the "globe" statue. The other three are plaques.

I was also nominated in the Best Continuing Series category, but did not win that one.

The food at the ceremony was delicious.
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Congratulations!
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congratulations on winning the eisner award, sensei!
thank you for the name of the authour of the article, now the next generations can learn from him, too;)
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Congrats Stan! :)

One year... one year you ARE going to win Best Continuing Series I hope...
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That's awesome, contests Stan!
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Congratulations!
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Congratulations Sensei! :P
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Congrats Sensei!!!
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That's awesome! Congratulations! Peace, maka
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:mrgreen: Congrats, Stan!!!!
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Awesome!!!!
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おめでとうございます!
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Great job. Please continue the excellent work.
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Congratulations for yet another prestigious award; I hope you've got enough shelf space left for it... ;-)
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Re: I won the lettering Eisner

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Well deserved. Your use of lettering as a part of storytelling is both above and beyond the ordinary - and at the same time subtle (it doesn't attract too much attention and disrupt the flow of the story).
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