NEWS WATCH: 2020 Eisner Awards Nominations Revealed

By Guest Author

 on June 4, 2020

Nominations for the 2020 Eisner Awards

Best Short Story

• “Hot Comb,” by Ebony Flowers, in Hot Comb (Drawn & Quarterly)
• “How to Draw a Horse,” by Emma Hunsinger, The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/how-to-draw-a-horse
• “The Menopause,” by Mira Jacob, The Believer, https://believermag.com/the-menopause/
• “Who Gets Called an ‘Unfit’ Mother?” by Miriam Libicki, The Nib, https://thenib.com/who-gets-called-an-unfit-mother/
• “You’re Not Going to Believe What I’m About to Tell You,” by Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal, https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

• Coin-Op No. 8: Infatuation, by Peter and Maria Hoey (Coin-Op Books)
• The Freak, by Matt Lesniewski (AdHouse)
• Minotäar, by Lissa Treiman (Shortbox)
• Our Favorite Thing Is My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
• Sobek, by James Stokoe (Shortbox)

Best Continuing Series

• Bitter Root, by David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene (Image)
• Criminal, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
• Crowded, by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, and Ted Brandt (Image)
• Daredevil, by Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto (Marvel)
• The Dreaming, by Simon Spurrier, Bilquis Evely et al. (DC)
• Immortal Hulk, by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, and Ruy José et al. (Marvel)

Best Limited Series

• Ascender, by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen (Image)
• Ghost Tree, by Bobby Curnow and Simon Gane (IDW)
• Little Bird by Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram (Image)
• Naomi by Brian Michael Bendis, David Walker, and Jamal Campbell (DC)
• Sentient, by Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta (TKO)

Best New Series

• Doctor Doom, by Christopher Cantwell and Salvador Larocca (Marvel)
• Invisible Kingdom, by G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward (Berger Books/Dark Horse)
• Once & Future, by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora (BOOM! Studios)
• Something Is Killing the Children, by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera (BOOM! Studios)
• Undiscovered Country, by Scott Snyder, Charles Soule, Giuseppe Camuncoli, and Daniele Orlandini (Image)

Best Publication for Early Readers

• Comics: Easy as ABC, by Ivan Brunetti (TOON)
• Kitten Construction Company: A Bridge Too Fur, by John Patrick Green (First Second/Macmillan)
• The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books)
• A Trip to the Top of the Volcano with Mouse, by Frank Viva (TOON)
• ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market, by Raúl the Third (Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Who Wet My Pants? by Bob Shea and Zachariah Ohora (Little, Brown)

Best Publication for Kids

• Akissi: More Tales of Mischief, by Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin (Flying Eye/Nobrow)
• Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls, by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic Graphix)
• Guts, by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic Graphix)
• New Kid, by Jerry Craft (Quill Tree/HarperCollins)
• This Was Our Pact, by Ryan Andrews (First Second/Macmillan)
• The Wolf in Underpants, by Wilfrid Lupano, Mayana Itoïz, and Paul Cauuet (Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group)

Best Publication for Teens

• Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass, by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh (DC)
• Hot Comb, by Ebony Flowers (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Kiss Number 8, by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw (First Second/Macmillan)
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (First Second/Macmillan)
• Penny Nichols, by MK Reed, Greg Means, and Matt Wiegle (Top Shelf)

Best Humor Publication

• Anatomy of Authors, by Dave Kellett (SheldonComics.com)
• Death Wins a Goldfish, by Brian Rea (Chronicle Books)
• Minotäar, by Lissa Treiman (Shortbox)
• Sobek, by James Stokoe (Shortbox)
• The Way of the Househusband, vol. 1, by Kousuke Oono, translation by Sheldon Drzka (VIZ Media)
• Wondermark: Friends You Can Ride On, by David Malki (Wondermark)

Best Anthology

• ABC of Typography, by David Rault (SelfMade Hero)
• Baltic Comics Anthology š! #34-37, edited by David Schilter, Sanita Muižniece et al. (kuš!)
• Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival, edited by Diane Noomin (Abrams)
• Kramer’s Ergot #10, edited by Sammy Harkham (Fantagraphics)
• The Nib #2–4, edited by Matt Bors (Nib)

Best Reality-Based Work

• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, by Mira Jacob (One World/Random House)
• Grass, by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translation by Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos, by Lucy Knisley (First Second/Macmillan)
• Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight, by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm (Hill & Wang)
• My Solo Exchange Diary, vol. 2 (sequel to My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness), by Nagata Kabi, translation by Jocelyne Allen (Seven Seas)
• They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker (Top Shelf)

Best Graphic Album—New

• Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden (First Second/Macmillan)
• Bezimena, by Nina Bunjevac (Fantagraphics)
• BTTM FDRS, by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore (Fantagraphics)
• Life on the Moon, by Robert Grossman (Yoe Books/IDW)
• New World, by David Jesus Vignolli (Archaia/BOOM!)
• Reincarnation Stories, by Kim Deitch (Fantagraphics)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

• Bad Weekend by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
• Clyde Fans, by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Cover, vol. 1, by Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack (DC/Jinxworld)
• Glenn Ganges: The River at Night, by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn & Quarterly)
• LaGuardia, by Nnedi Okorafor and Tana Ford (Berger Books/Dark Horse)
• Rusty Brown, by Chris Ware (Pantheon)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

• Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made, by Josh Frank, Tim Hedecker, and Manuela Pertega (Quirk Books)
• The Giver, by Lois Lowry and P. Craig Russell, (HMH Books for Young Readers)
• The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel, by Margaret Atwood, adapted by Renee Nault (Nan A. Talese)
• HP Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, vols. 1–2, adapted by Gou Tanabe, translation by Zack Davisson (Dark Horse Manga)
• The Seventh Voyage, by Stanislaw Lem, adapted by Jon Muth, translation by Michael Kandel (Scholastic Graphix)
• Snow, Glass, Apples, by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran (Dark Horse Books)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

• Diabolical Summer, by Thierry Smolderen and Alexandre Clerisse, translation by Edward Gauvin (IDW)
• Gramercy Park, by Timothée de Fombelle and Christian Cailleaux, translation by Edward Gauvin (EuroComics/IDW)
• The House, by Paco Roca, translation by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)
• Maggy Garrisson, by Lewis Trondheim and Stéphane Oiry, translation by Emma Wilson (SelfMadeHero)
• Stay, by Lewis Trondheim and Hubert Chevillard, translation by Mike Kennedy (Magnetic Press)
• Wrath of Fantômas, by Olivier Bouquet and Julie Rocheleau, translation by Edward Gauvin (Titan)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

• BEASTARS, by Paru Itagaki, translation by Tomo Kimura (VIZ Media)
• Cats of the Louvre, by Taiyo Matsumoto, translation by Michael Arias (VIZ Media)
• Grass, by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translation by Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Magic Knight Rayearth 25th Anniversary Edition, by CLAMP, translation by Melissa Tanaka (Kodansha)
• The Poe Clan, by Moto Hagio, translation by Rachel Thorn (Fantagraphics)
• Witch Hat Atelier, by Kamome Shirahama, translation by Stephen Kohler (Kodansha)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

• Cham: The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839–1862, by David Kunzle (University Press of Mississippi)
• Ed Leffingwell’s Little Joe, by Harold Gray, edited by Peter Maresca and Sammy Harkham (Sunday Press Books)
• The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1916–1918, edited by R.J. Casey (Fantagraphics)
• Krazy Kat: The Complete Color Sundays, by George Herriman, edited by Alexander Braun (TASCHEN)
• Madness in Crowds: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady, by Violet and Denis Kitchen (Beehive Books)
• Pogo, Vol. 6: Clean as a Weasel, by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

• Alay-Oop, by William Gropper (New York Review Comics)
• The Complete Crepax, vol. 5: American Stories, edited by Kristy Valenti (Fantagraphics)
• Jack Kirby’s Dingbat Love, edited by John Morrow (TwoMorrows)
• Moonshadow: The Definitive Edition, by J. M. DeMatteis, Jon J Muth, George Pratt, Kent Williams, and others (Dark Horse Books)
• Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo: The Complete Grasscutter Artist Select, by Stan Sakai, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)
• That Miyoko Asagaya Feeling, by Shinichi Abe, translation by Ryan Holmberg, edited by Mitsuhiro Asakawa (Black Hook Press)

Best Writer

• Bobby Curnow, Ghost Tree (IDW)
• MK Reed and Greg Means, Penny Nichols (Top Shelf)
• Mariko Tamaki, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (DC); Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me (First Second/Macmillan); Archie (Archie)
• Lewis Trondheim, Stay (Magnetic Press); Maggy Garrisson (SelfMadeHero)
• G. Willow Wilson, Invisible Kingdom (Berger Books/Dark Horse); Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
• Chip Zdarsky, White Trees (Image); Daredevil, Spider-Man: Life Story (Marvel); Afterlift (comiXology Originals)

Best Writer/Artist

• Nina Bunjevac, Bezimena (Fantagraphics)
• Mira Jacob, Good Talk (Random House); “The Menopause” in The Believer (June 1, 2019)
• Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass (Drawn & Quarterly)
• James Stokoe, Sobek (Shortbox)
• Raina Telgemeier, Guts (Scholastic Graphix)
• Tillie Walden, Are You Listening? (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

• Ian Bertram, Little Bird (Image)
• Colleen Doran, Snow, Glass, Apples (Dark Horse)
• Bilquis Evely, The Dreaming (DC)
• Simon Gane, Ghost Tree (IDW)
• Steve Pugh, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (DC)
• Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Painter/Digital Artist

• Didier Cassegrain, Black Water Lilies (Europe Comics)
• Alexandre Clarisse, Diabolical Summer (IDW)
• David Mack, Cover (DC)
• Léa Mazé, Elma, A Bear’s Life, vol. 1: The Great Journey (Europe Comics)
• Julie Rocheleau, Wrath of Fantômas (Titan)
• Christian Ward, Invisible Kingdom (Berger Books/Dark Horse)

Best Cover Artist

• Jen Bartel, Blackbird  (Image Comics)
• Francesco Francavilla, Archie, Archie 1955, Archie Vs. Predator II, Cosmo (Archie)
• David Mack, American Gods, Fight Club 3 (Dark Horse); Cover (DC)
• Emma Rios, Pretty Deadly (Image)
• Julian Totino Tedesco, Daredevil (Marvel)
• Christian Ward, Machine Gun Wizards (Dark Horse), Invisible Kingdom (Berger Books/Dark Horse)

Best Coloring

• Lorena Alvarez, Hicotea (Nobrow)
• Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Middlewest, Outpost Zero (Image)
• Matt Hollingsworth, Batman: Curse of the White Knight, Batman White Knight Presents Von Freeze (DC); Little Bird, November (Image)
• Molly Mendoza, Skip (Nobrow)
• Dave Stewart, Black Hammer, B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know, Hellboy and the BPRD (Dark Horse); Gideon Falls (Image); Silver Surfer Black, Spider-Man (Marvel)

Best Lettering

• Deron Bennett, Batgirl, Green Arrow, Justice League, Martian Manhunter (DC); Canto (IDW); Assassin Nation, Excellence (Skybound/Image); To Drink and To Eat, vol. 1 (Lion Forge); Resonant (Vault)
• Jim Campbell, Black Badge, Coda (BOOM Studios); Giant Days, Lumberjanes: The Shape of Friendship (BOOM Box!); Rocko’s Modern Afterlife  (KaBOOM!); At the End of Your Tether (Lion Forge); Blade Runner 2019 (Titan); Mall, The Plot, Wasted Space (Vault)
• Clayton Cowles, Aquaman, Batman, Batman and the Outsiders, Heroes in Crisis, Superman: Up in the Sky, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (DC); Bitter Root, Pretty Deadly, Moonstruck, Redlands, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); Reaver  (Skybound/Image); Daredevil, Ghost-Spider, Silver Surfer Black, Superior Spider-Man, Venom (Marvel)
• Emilie Plateau, Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin (Europe Comics)
• Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (IDW)
• Tillie Walden, Are You Listening? (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism

• Comic Riffs blog, by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/comics/
• The Comics Journal, edited by Gary Groth, RJ Casey, and Kristy Valenti (Fantagraphics)
• Hogan’s Alley, edited by Tom Heintjes (Hogan’s Alley)
• Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, edited by Qiana Whitted (Ohio State University Press)
• LAAB Magazine, vol. 4: This Was Your Life, edited by Ronald Wimberly and Josh O’Neill (Beehive Books)
• Women Write About Comics, edited by Nola Pfau and Wendy Browne, www.WomenWriteAboutComics.com

Best Comics-Related Book

• The Art of Nothing: 25 Years of Mutts and the Art of Patrick McDonnell (Abrams)
• The Book of Weirdo, by Jon B. Cooke (Last Gasp)
• Grunt: The Art and Unpublished Comics of James Stokoe (Dark Horse)
• Logo a Gogo: Branding Pop Culture, by Rian Hughes (Korero Press)
• Making Comics, by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny, by Paul Tumey (Library of American Comics/IDW)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

• The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape, and Comics Form, by Benjamin Fraser (University of Texas Press)
• The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets, by Kevin Haworth (University Press of Mississippi)
• EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest, by Qiana Whitted (Rutgers University Press)
• The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life, edited by Andrew Blauner (Library of America)
• Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid, by Christina Meyer (Ohio State University Press)
• Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities, edited by Fusami Ogi et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)

Best Publication Design

• Grunt: The Art and Unpublished Comics of James Stokoe, designed by Ethan Kimberling (Dark Horse)
• Krazy Kat: The Complete Color Sundays, by George Herriman, designed by Anna-Tina Kessler (TASCHEN)
• Logo a Gogo, designed by Rian Hughes (Korero Press)
• Madness in Crowds: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady, designed by Paul Kopple and Alex Bruce (Beehive Books)
• Making Comics, designed by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Rusty Brown, designed by Chris Ware (Pantheon)

Best Digital Comic

• Afterlift, by Chip Zdarsky and Jason Loo (comiXology Originals)
• Black Water Lilies, by Michel Bussi, adapted by Frédéric Duval and Didier Cassegrain, translated by Edward Gauvin (Europe Comics)
• Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin, by Tania de Montaigne, adapted by Emilie Plateau, translated by Montana Kane (Europe Comics)
• Elma, A Bear’s Life, vol. 1: The Great Journey, by Ingrid Chabbert and Léa Mazé, translated by Jenny Aufiery (Europe Comics)
• Mare Internum, by Der-shing Helmer (comiXology; gumroad.com/l/MIPDF)
• Tales from Behind the Window, by Edanur Kuntman, translated by Cem Ulgen (Europe Comics)

Best Webcomic

• Cabramatta, by Matt Huynh, http://believermag.com/cabramatta/
• Chuckwagon at the End of the World, by Erik Lundy, https://hollowlegcomics.tumblr.com/chuckwagon 
• The Eyes, by Javi de Castro, https://www.javidecastro.com/theeyes
• Fried Rice Comic, by Erica Eng, https://friedricecomic.tumblr.com
•  reMIND, by Jason Brubaker, https://is.gd/T7rafM
• Third Shift Society, by Meredith Moriarty, https://www.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/third-shift-society/list?title_no=1703