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Eric Shanower

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

Eric Shanower

(1963-10-23) October 23, 1963[1][2]
Key West, Florida

American

Russ Manning Award 1987
Eisner Award 2001, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2015
Gran Guinigi, 2006

Early life[edit]

Eric Shanower was born on October 23, 1963. Upon his graduation from Novato High School in 1981, he attended The Kubert School[1][2][3] in Dover, New Jersey,[4] graduating in 1984.[2][5]

A Thousand Ships

Sacrifice

Betrayal Part One

Betrayal Part Two

Awards[edit]

Shanower won Eisner Awards for Best Writer-Artist in 2001 and 2003, won a Gran Guinigi for Best Serialized Comic in 2006, and was nominated for the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist in 1999 for his work on Age of Bronze.[13] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz miniseries written by Shanower, illustrated by Skottie Young, won two Eisners in 2010, for Best Limited Series or Story Arc and Best Publication for Kids.


His short story "Happily Ever After" was part of How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity, an anthology of LGBTQ short stories for young adults published in 2009. The book was a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature.[14]

Personal life[edit]

Shanower lives in San Diego with his partner David Maxine, who runs Hungry Tiger Press, a publisher of Oz books, Oz-related comics and compact discs, which the two started in 1994.[2][5][15]

at IMDb

Eric Shanower

at Prism Comics

Eric Shanower

Interview with Futureal Studio

Interview with Top Two Three Films

Interview With Eric Shanower

Another interview with Eric Shanower, focusing on Oz

Another interview, focusing on The Age of Bronze