The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award is an American award presented to a comic book artist 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 Administration ...

. The winner is chosen from a list of nominees picked by judges from the West Coast Comics Club and Comic-Con International, and is given at the annual Eisner Award 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 ''Rocketeer, The Rocketeer'' comic book and film character, and for his pin-up style "glamour art" illustrations, ...

* 1983

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

* 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 Sch ...

* 1985

Scott McCloud Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod; June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. He is best known for his non-fiction books about comics: ''Understanding Comics'' (1993), '' Reinventing Comics'' (2000), and '' Making Comics'' (20 ...

* 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 inte ...

* 1987 Eric Shanower * 1988 Kevin Maguire * 1989 Richard Piers Rayner * 1990 Dan Brereton * 1991 Dærick Gröss * 1992

Mike Okamoto Mike Okamoto (born Detroit, Michigan, United States) is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator best known for co-creating Marvel Comics' ''Atomic Age''; as a " good girl art" cartoonist; and as the five-time International Networ ...

* 1993 Jeff Smith * 1994

Gene Ha In biology, the word gene (from , ; "...Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word gene to describe the Mendelian inheritance#History, Mendelian units of heredity..." meaning ''generation'' or ''birth'' or ''gender'') can have several different meanin ...

* 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 wo ...

* 1996 Alexander Maleev * 1997 Walt Holcomb * 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 1944-50 on radio and ...

* 2001 Goran Sudžuka * 2002 Tan Eng Huat * 2003

Jerome Opeña Jerome Opeña is a Filipino comic book artist best known for his numerous collaborations with writer Rick Remender. Early life Opeña was born in the Philippines, and spent most of his childhood in Taiwan, where his father worked for an internati ...

* 2004 Eric Wight * 2005 Chris Bailey * 2006

R. Kikuo Johnson Reid Kikuo Johnson (born in 1981) is an American illustrator and cartoonist. He is known for illustrating several covers of ''The New Yorker'' in addition to the graphic novels ''Night Fisher, The Shark King,'' and ''No One Else.'' In 2023 he becam ...

* 2007 David Petersen * 2008 Cathy Malkasian * 2009 Eleanor Davis * 2010

Marian Churchland Marian Churchland (born June 15, 1982) is a Canadian comic book artist and graduate of the University of British Columbia. They first came to prominence in 2009 with their debut graphic novel ''Beast'' for Image. Career Churchland began their ...

"2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Winners"
. San Diego Comic-Con International. Retrieved November 16, 2011. * 2011 Nate Simpson * 2012 Tyler Crook * 2013 Russel Roehling * 2014 Aaron Conley * 2015 (Tie) ** Jorge Corona ** Greg Smallwood * 2016 Dan Mora * 2017 Anne Szabla * 2018 (Tie) ** Hamish Steele ** Pablo Tunica * 2019 Lorena Alvarez *2022 Luana Vecchio

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Winners

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