Wydawnictwo Image Comics zdobyło najwięcej, bo aż 25 nominacji do tegorocznej edycji Nagród Eisnera (17 + 8 współdzielonych z innymi wydawnictwami). Następne w kolejności okazały się DC Comics z 21 nominacjami (13+8), Fantagraphics z 11 nominacjami First Second z 10 nominacjami, IDW z 9 nominacjami oraz Drawn & Quaterly z 8 nominacjami. Marvel ma szansę na nagrody w zaledwie 5 kategoriach.
Teraz na nominowane komiksy i ich twórców głosować będą przedstawiciele branży komiksowej na stronie www.eisnervote.com. Głosowanie potrwa od 30 maja do 6 czerwca. Laureatów poznamy 21 lipca. Ceremonia rozdania nagród odbędzie podczas konwentu Comic-Con w San Diego.
Poniżej lista nominowanych komiksów i artystów w najważniejszych kategoriach. Pełną listę nominowanych znajdziecie TUTAJ.
NAJLEPSZA SERIA KONTYNUOWANA
Birds of Prey – Kelly Thompson i Leonardo Basto Romero (DC)
Nightwing – Tom Taylor i Bruno Redondo (DC Comics)
Shazam! – Mark Waid i Dan Mora (DC)
Transformers – Daniel Warren Johnson (Image Skybound)
Wonder Woman – Tom King i Daniel Sampere (DC)
NAJLEPSZA SERIA LIMITOWANA
The Cull – Kelly Thompson i Mattia De Iulis (Image)
Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons – Frank Tieri i Inaki Miranda (IDW)
Kill Your Darlings – Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, i Robert Quinn (Image)
PeePee PooPoo – Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)
Superman: Lost – Christopher Priest i Carlo Pagulayan (DC)
NAJLEPSZA NOWA SERIA
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees – Patrick Horvath (IDW)
Black Cloak – Kelly Thompson i Meredith McClaren (Image)
Local Man – Tim Seeley i Tony Fleecs (Image)
Phantom Road – Jeff Lemire i Gabriel Hernández Walta (Image)
Somna: A Bedtime Story – Becky Cloonan i Tula Lotay (DSTLRY)
NAJLEPSZY KOMIKS DLA MŁODYCH CZYTELNIKÓW (do lat 8)
Bigfoot i Nessie: The Art of Getting Noticed – Chelsea M. Campbell i Laura Knetzger (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
Burt the Beetle Lives Here! – Ashley Spires (Kids Can Press)
Go-Go Guys – Rowboat Watkins (Chronicle Books)
The Light Inside – Dan Misdea (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
Milk and Mocha: Our Little Happiness – Melani Sie (Andrews McMeel)
Tacos Today: El Toro & Friends – Raúl the Third (HarperCollins/Versify
NAJLEPSZY KOMIKS DLA DZIECI (w wieku 9-12 lat)
Buzzing – Samuel Sattin i Rye Hickman (Little, Brown Ink)
Mabuhay! – Zachary Sterling (Scholastic Graphix)
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir – Pedro Martín (Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Young Readers)
Missing You – Phellip Willian i Melissa Garabeli, tłumaczenie Fabio Ramos (Oni Press)
Saving Sunshine – Saadia Faruqi i Shazleen Khan (First Second/Macmillan)
NAJLEPSZY KOMIKS DLA NASTOLATKÓW (w wieku 13-17)
Blackward – Lawrence Lindell (Drawn & Quarterly)
Danger and Other Unknown Risks – Ryan North i Erica Henderson (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
Frontera – Julio Anta i Jacoby Salcedo (HarperAlley)
Lights – Brenna Thummler (Oni Press)
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story – Sarah Myer (First Second/Macmillan)
My Girlfriend’s Child, vol. 1 – Mamoru Aoi, tłumaczenie Hana Allen (Seven Seas)
NAJLEPSZY KOMIKS HUMORYSTYCZNY
How to Love: A Guide to Feelings & Relationships for Everyone – Alex Norris (Candlewick/Walker Books)
I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator, and Other Musical Meanderings – Keith Knight (Keith Knight Press)
It’s Jeff: The Jeff-Verse #1 – Kelly Thompson i Gurihiru (Marvel)
Macanudo: Optimism Is for the Brave – Liniers (Fantagraphics)
The Yakuza’s Bias – Teki Yatsuda. translation by Max Greenway (Kodansha)
NAJLEPSZY KOMIKS OPARTY NA FAKTACH
Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? – Chris Oliveros (Drawn & Quarterly)
Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century – Adrian Matejka i Youssef Daoudi (Liveright)
Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali – Marc Bernardin i Ron Salas (First Second/Macmillan)
Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood – Samuel Machado i Cynthia Sousa Machado with Steven M. Wise (Island Press)
Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy – Bill Griffith (Abrams ComicArts)
NAJLEPSZA KOMIKSOWA BIOGRAFIA
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam – Thien Pham (First Second/Macmillan)
A First Time for Everything – Dan Santat (First Second/Macmillan)
In Limbo – Deb JJ Lee (First Second/Macmillan)
Memento Mori – Tiitu Takalo, tłumaczenie Maria Schroderus (Oni Press)
Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me About Life, Death, and Hope – Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Scholastic Graphix)
The Talk – Darrin Bell (Henry Holt)
NAJLEPSZY ALBUM GRAFICZNY – NOWY
Ashes – Álvaro Ortiz, translation by Eva Ibarzabal (Top Shelf/IDW)
Eden II – K. Wroten (Fantagraphics)
A Guest in the House – Emily Carroll (First Second/Macmillan)
Parasocial – Alex De Campi i Erica Henderson (Image)
Roaming – Mariko Tamaki i Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
NAJLEPSZY ALBUM GRAFICZNY – WZNOWIENIE
Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise Treasury Edition – Tradd Moore (Marvel)
The Good Asian. Dobry Azjata – Pornsak Pichetshote i Alexandre Tefenkgi (Image)
Hip Hop Genealogia: Omnibus – Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)
Orange Complete Series Box Set – Ichigo Takano, translation by Amber Tamosaitis (Seven Seas)
Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons – Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, i Nicola Scott (DC)
NAJLEPSZY SCENARZYSTA
Stephen Graham Jones – Earthdivers (IDW)
Mariko Tamaki – Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)
Tom Taylor – Nightwing, Titans (DC)
Kelly Thompson – Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn, Black White i Redder (DC); Black Cloak, The Cull (Image); It’s Jeff, Captain Marvel (Marvel)
Mark Waid – Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Shazam!, World’s Finest: Teen Titans (DC)
G. Willow Wilson – Poison Ivy (DC); Hunger and the Dusk (IDW)
NAJLEPSZY SCENARZYSTA/RYSOWNIK
Emily Carroll – A Guest in the House (First Second/Macmillan)
Bill Griffith – Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
Daniel Warren Johnson – Transformers (Image Skybound)
Mokumokuren – The Summer Hikaru Died, vol. 1 (Yen Press)
Zoe Thorogood – Hack/Slash: Back To School (Image)
Tillie Walden – Clementine Book Two (Image Skybound)
NAJLEPSZE RYSUNKI/TUSZ ALBO ZESPÓŁ
Jason Shawn Alexander – Detective Comics (DC); Killadelphia, with Germán Erramouspe (Image)
Tula Lotay – Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder (Comixology Originals/Best Jackett)
Inaki Miranda – Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons (IDW)
Dan Mora – Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Shazam! (DC)
Chris Samnee, Fire Power (Image Skybound)
Jillian Tamaki – Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)
NAJLEPSZY MALARZ/ARTYSTA MULTIMEDIALNY
Jason Shawn Alexander – Blacula: Return of the King (Zombie Love Studios)
Chaiko – The Monkey King (Magnetic)
Juanjo Guarnido – Blacksad: Upadek, część 2 (Europe Comics)
Liam Sharp, Nocterra: Nemesis Special (Best Jackett); Starhenge: The Dragon i the Boar (Image)
Martin Simmonds, Universal Monsters: Dracula (Image Skybound)
Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)
NAJLEPSZY AUTOR OKŁADEK
Jen Bartel – DC Pride 2023, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1 (DC); Captain Marvel: Dark Tempest #1, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin #1, Scarlet Witch #9, Sensational She-Hulk (Marvel)
Evan Cagle, Detective Comics (DC)
Jenny Frison – Alice Never After #1, BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1, i other alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn #1–2, Poison Ivy #8, #12 (DC)
E. M. Gist – Expanse Dragon Tooth #1, Something Is Killing the Children #28 & #34, Wild’s End, vol 2 #4 i other alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Amazing Spider-Man #23, Doctor Aphra #36, Moon Knight #3, Nightcrawlers #1, Wolverine #38 (Marvel)
Peach Momoko – Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin, various alternate covers (Marvel)
Dan Mora – Coda #3, Damn Them All #4, MMPR 30th Anniversary Special #1, Rare Flavours #3 i other alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Outsiders #1, Poison Ivy #9, Shazam!, Titans #1 (DC)
NAJLEPSZE KOLORY
Jordie Bellaire – Batman, Birds of Prey (DC); Dark Spaces: Hollywood Special (IDW)
Matt Hollingsworth – Captain America, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Punisher (Marvel)
Lee Loughridge – Red Zone (AWA); Edgeworld, Grammaton Punch, Nostalgia (Comixology Originals); The Devil’s Cut, Gone, Somna (DSTLRY); Star Trek (IDW); Killadelphia (Image); Hunt. Kill. Repeat. (Mad Cave)
Dave McCaig – The Sacrificers (Image), The Walking Dead Deluxe (Image Skybound)
Dean White – Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)
NAJLEPSZE LITERNICTWO
Lauren Bowes – Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes (Titan Comics)
Emily Carroll – A Guest in the House (First Second/Macmillan)
Bill Griffith – Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou – The Unlikely Story of Felix i Macabber, The Witcher: Wild Animals, i others (Dark Horse); Batman: City of Madness, The Flash, Poison Ivy, i others (DC); Black Cat Social Club (Humanoids); Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees (IDW); The Cull, What’s the Furthest Place from Here? (Image); i others
Richard Starkings – Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love i Murder, Canary (Comixology Originals/Best Jackett); Parliament of Rooks (Comixology); Astro City, Battle Chasers (Image); Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)
Rus Wooton – Monstress, The Sacrificers (Image); Fire Power, Kroma, Transformers, The Walking Dead Deluxe, Universal Monsters: Dracula, Void Rivals (Image Skybound); Hunt. Kill. Repeat., A Legacy of Violence, Nature’s Labyrinth (Mad Cave)
NAJLEPSZY WEBKOMIKS
Asturias: The Origin of a Flag – Javi de Castro
Daughter of a Thousand Faces – Vel (Velinxi)
Lore Olympus – Rachel Smythe
Matchmaker, vol. 6 – Cam Marshall
3rd Voice – Evan Dahm
Unfamiliar – Haley Newsome
NAJLEPSZY KOMIKS CYFROWY
Blacksad: Upadek, część 2 – Juan Díaz Canales i Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz i Brandon Kander (Europe Comics)
Friday – Ed Brubaker i Marcos Martin, vols. 7–8 (Panel Syndicate)
Parliament of Rooks – Abigail Jill Harding (Comixology Originals)
Practical Defense Against Piracy – Tony Cliff (delilahdirk.com)
xzA Witch’s Guide to Burning – Aminder Dhaliwal (Instagram.com/aminder_d)