The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award is an American award presented to a

comic book artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the literary ...

whose first professional work appeared within the previous two years. It was named after comic book artist

Russ Manning Russell George Manning (January 5, 1929"United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VMMT-NZN : accessed 28 Aug 2014), Russell Manning, Dec 1981; citing U.S. Social Security Administratio ...

. The winner is chosen from a list of nominees picked by judges from the West Coast Comics Club and

San Diego Comic-Con San Diego Comic-Con is a comic book convention and multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California, at the San Diego Convention Center. Founded in 1970, originally showcasing primarily comic books and science fiction/fant ...

, and is given at the annual

Eisner Award The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are awards for creative achievement in American comic books. They are regarded as the most prestigious and significant awards in the comic industry and often referred ...

ceremony.

Winners

Source: * 1982

Dave Stevens Dave Lee Stevens (July 29, 1955 – March 11, 2008) was an American illustrator and comics artist. He was most famous for creating '' The Rocketeer'' comic book and film character, and for his pin-up style "glamour art" illustrations, especiall ...

* 1983

Jan Duursema Jan Duursema (; born October 27, 1954) is an American comics artist known for her work on the ''Star Wars'' comics franchise. She is the creator of Denin and Vila from Naldar, the Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura and the Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos. Car ...

* 1984

Steve Rude Steve Rude (born December 31, 1956) is an Americans, American comics artist. He is best known as the co-creator of ''Nexus (comics), Nexus''. Early life Steve Rude was born on December 31, 1956, in Madison, Wisconsin. He attended the Milwaukee Sc ...

* 1985

Scott McCloud Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod; June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. His non-fiction books about comics, ''Understanding Comics'' (1993), '' Reinventing Comics'' (2000), and '' Making Comics'' (2006), are made in comic ...

* 1986

Art Adams Arthur Adams (born April 5, 1963) is an American comics artist, comic book artist and writer. He first broke into the American comic book industry with the 1985 Marvel Comics miniseries ''Longshot (Marvel Comics), Longshot''. His subsequent in ...

* 1987

Eric Shanower Eric James Shanower (born October 23, 1963) is an American cartoonist, best known for his ''List of Oz books, Oz'' novels and comics, and for the ongoing retelling of the Trojan War as ''Age of Bronze (comics), Age of Bronze''. Early life Eric S ...

* 1988 Kevin Maguire * 1989 Richard Piers Rayner * 1990

Dan Brereton Daniel Alan Brereton (born November 22, San Francisco Bay Area) is an American writer and illustrator who has produced notable work in the comic book field. Biography Early life Dan Brereton attended the California College of the Arts and the Ac ...

* 1991

Dærick Gröss Sr. Richard Gröss Event occurs at 1:13-8:35. (January 28, 1947 – December 8, 2023), known professionally as Dærick Gröss Sr., was an American illustrator, writer, editor, and art director. Gröss worked at comic book companies Marvel Comics, DC ...

* 1992 Mike Okamoto * 1993 Jeff Smith * 1994

Gene Ha Gene Ha is an Americans, American comics artist and writer best known for his work on books such as ''Top 10 (comics), Top 10'' and ''Top 10: The Forty-Niners'', with Alan Moore and Zander Cannon, for America's Best Comics, the Batman graphic nove ...

* 1995

Edvin Biuković Edvin Biuković (22 June 1969 – 5 December 1999) was a Croatian comics artist. Biography Biuković made his debut in 1987 with the strip ''Dokaz'' published in the third issue of Croatian magazine ''Patak''. He spent several more years wor ...

* 1996 Alexander Maleev * 1997

Walt Holcomb Walt is a masculine given name, generally a short form of Walter, and occasionally a surname. Notable people with the name include: People Given name * Walt Anderson (American football) (born 1952), American football official * Walt Arfons (1916- ...

* 1998 Matt VanderPol * 1999 Jay Anacleto * 2000

Alan Bunce Alan Coe Bunce (June 28, 1900 – April 27, 1965) was an American radio and television actor. Bunce was best remembered for playing the role of Albert Arbuckle alongside Peg Lynch on the sitcom '' Ethel and Albert'' from 1944 to 1950 on radi ...

* 2001 Goran Sudžuka * 2002 Tan Eng Huat * 2003 Jerome Opeña * 2004 Eric Wight * 2005 Chris Bailey * 2006 R. Kikuo Johnson * 2007 David Petersen * 2008 Cathy Malkasian * 2009 Eleanor Davis * 2010 Marian Churchland * 2011

Nate Simpson Nate Simpson (born November 30, 1954) is an American former professional football running back in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the fifth round of the 1977 NFL draft The 1977 NFL draft was the ...

* 2012

Tyler Crook Tyler Crook is an American comics cartoonist. He broke into comics in 2011 with ''Petrograd'', written by Philip Gelatt and published by Oni Press, and in 2012 he won the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award. He is best known for his work o ...

* 2013

Russel Roehling Russel is an alternate spelling of Russell. Russel may also refer to: People with the given name *Russel Arnold (born 1973), Sri Lankan cricketer *Russel Crouse (1893–1966), American playwright *Russel Farnham (1784–1832), American front ...

* 2014 Aaron Conley * 2015 (Tie) ** Jorge Corona **

Greg Smallwood Greg is a masculine given name, and often a shortened form of the given name Gregory. Greg (sometimes spelled " Gregg") is also a surname. People with the name *Greg Abbott (disambiguation), multiple people *Greg Abel (born 1961/1962), Canadian ...

* 2016

Dan Mora Dan or DAN may refer to: People * Dan (name), including a list of people with the name ** Dan (king), several kings of Denmark * Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa **Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoir ...

* 2017 Anne Szabla * 2018 (Tie) ** Hamish Steele ** Pablo Tunica * 2019 Lorena Alvarez *2022 Luana Vecchio *2023 Zoe Thorogood *2024 Oliver Bly

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Winners

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