IDW’s 2011 Eisner Award nominees

Best Single Issue: The Cape, by Joe Hill, Jason Ciaramella, and Zack Howard (IDW)

Best Single Issue: Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom #1: “Sparrow,” by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)

Best Continuing Series: Locke & Key, by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)

Best Archival Collection/Project–Strips: Archie: The Complete Daily Newspaper Strips, 1946–1948, by Bob Montana, edited by Greg Goldstein (IDW)

Best Archival Collection/Project–Strips: Polly and Her Pals Complete Sunday Comics, vol. 1, by Cliff Sterrett, edited by Dean Mullaney (IDW)

Best Archival Collection/Project–Comic Books: Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer Artist’s Edition (IDW)

Best Writer: Joe Hill, Locke & Key (IDW)

Best Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit (IDW)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team: Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key (IDW)

Best Lettering: Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit (IDW)

Best Publication Design: Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer Artist’s Edition, designed by Randall Dahlk (IDW)

Best Publication Design: Polly & Her Pals, designed by Lorraine Turner and Dean Mullaney (IDW)

Big congratulations to all nominees. A full press release with images from our nominated books can be found here. And the Comic-Con.org site has a full list of all nominees in all categories.