Eisner Award nomination for Don Rosa
Posted on April 20th 2007 in Americas, Artists, Disney comics
A panel of judges have arrived at the 2007 nominees for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, considered the “Oscars” of the comic book industry. Among the nominees of this year is Don Rosa’s “The Black Knight Glorps Again”, from Gemstone’s Uncle Scrooge #354 (buy for $6.96), nominated for Best Short Story. It is the third story by Rosa to feature his original character, The Black Knight, whom first appeared in 1997.
The story features Rosa’s original character Arpin Lusene, a French gentleman and notorious thief nicknamed Le Chevalier Noir (The Black Knight), who has made it his life’s goal to steal Scrooge McDuck’s money, or make it disappear to make people think he stole it. His motive for this is to be remembered as the world’s greatest thief.
Complete list of Disney comic Eisner award nominations
| 1987 | Hall of Fame: Carl Barks | Winner |
| 1993 | Best Archival Collection: Carl Barks Library album series (Gladstone) | Winner |
| 1994 | Best Writer/Artist: William Van Horn, for Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories (Gladstone); Donald Duck Adventures (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 1994 | Best Archival Collection: Carl Barks Library album series, by Carl Barks (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 1995 | Best Lettering: Todd Klein, Batman vs. Predator II (DC/Dark Horse); The Demon (DC), Sandman (DC/Vertigo); Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone) | Winner |
| 1995 | Best Coloring: Susan Daigle-Leach, Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 1995 | Best Continuing Series: Uncle Scrooge, by Don Rosa and others (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 1995 | Best Cover Artist: Don Rosa, Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 1995 | Best Writer/Artist, Humor: Don Rosa, Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 1995 | Best Serialized Story: “The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck” by Don Rosa, Uncle Scrooge #285-296 (Gladstone) | Winner |
| 1996 | Best Title for Younger Readers: Uncle Scrooge, by Don Rosa (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 1996 | Best Title for Younger Readers: Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories, by William Van Horn and others (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 1996 | Best Short Story: “Horsing Around with History” by Carl Barks and William Van Horn, in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #33 (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 1997 | Best Comics Publication for a Younger Audience: Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories, John Clark, ed. (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 1997 | Best Serialized Story: “The Universal Solvent” by Don Rosa, in Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #604-606 (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 1997 | Best Writer/Artist-Humor: Don Rosa, Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories; Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone) | Winner |
| 1998 | Best Lettering: Todd Klein, Batman, Batman: Poison Ivy (DC); The Dreaming, House of Secrets, The Invisibles, Uncle Sam (DC/Vertigo); Uncle Scrooge Adventures (Gladstone); Castle Waiting (Olio) | Winner |
| 1998 | Best Short Story: “A Matter of Some Gravity” Don Rosa, Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #610 (Gladstone) | Nomination |
| 2003 | Hall of Fame: Floyd Gottfredson | Nomination |
| 2004 | Hall of Fame: Floyd Gottfredson | Nomination |
| 2004 | Best Title for a Younger Audience: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge, by various (Gemstone) | Nomination |
| 2005 | Hall of Fame: Floyd Gottfredson | Nomination |
| 2006 | Hall of Fame: Floyd Gottfredson | Winner |
| 2007 | Best Short Story: “The Black Knight Glorps Again” by Don Rosa, in Uncle Scrooge #354 (Gemstone) |
All nominations in the Best Short Story category this year are:
- “The Black Knight Glorps Again,” by Don Rosa, in Uncle Scrooge #354 (Gemstone)
- “Felix,” by Gabrielle Bell, in Drawn & Quarterly Showcase 4 (Drawn & Quarterly)
- “A Frog’s Eye View,” by Bill Willingham and James Jean, in Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (Vertigo/DC)
- “Old Oak Trees,” by Tony Cliff, in Flight 3 (Ballantine)
- “Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man,” by Stan Lee, Oliver Coipel, and Mark Morales, in Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man (Marvel)
- “Willie: Portrait of a Groundskeeper,” by Eric Powell, in Bart Simpsons’s Treehouse of Horror #12 (Bongo)
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In 2004 Uncle Scrooge was not only nominated Best Title for a Younger Audience, but it also won the Award, as it was remembered on its covers during the following year.