on the same night as the Comic Con panel I described in my previous post, my First Second stablemate Nick Abadzis took the Eisner Award for 'best publication for teens' as displayed on his personal blog (I don't recall this category from previous years, which tends to support the theory I was spouting yesterday). And well deserved it was too. A magnificent work, if you haven't already read it. I toasted him from the end of the long table at the First Second dinner on the following night, and he toasted me back, and we went for cleansing ales afterwards, except for Best who ran out in a panic while I was in the rest room, searching for me in vain in the streets of San Diego. If you bump into him , tell him to come home. Nick's research for the project included a trip to Russia. Here he is in Moscow, from a photo I nicked from his excellent guest blog spot at First Second's site, which is full of his spontaneous sketches and notations.


And here is Nick in a youtube cut from last year's SPX, an interview by Scott Rosenberg*, at the time of his book's release:



*The same chap interviewed me on the Monday after the con, by phone in my hotel room in Chicago, about the Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard for NY paper AM, and it was syndicated around the place, here in Newsday.