Local Eisner Award nominees

Several D.C.-area comics creators and writers are on the 2015 Eisner Award shortlist, including:

• Lumberjanes, art by Brooke Allen (Best New Series and Best Publication for Teens)
• The Complete Cul de Sac, by Richard Thompson (Best New Humor Publication)
• Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay, by Katherine Roeder (Best Scholarly/Academic Work)
• Former D.C. resident A. David Lewis also got a nom in the same category for American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife.