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2020 Eisner Award Nominations - YA and Adult Graphic Novels

June 23, 2020 | Patton

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are the "Oscars" of the comics world. Check below to access eBook or borrow print copies of many award nominees. Visit the San Diego Comic-Con site for the complete list of nominees. 

Best Continuing Series

Bitter root. Volume one, Family business by creator 1968- David Walker
Also available in: e-book
Criminal. Issue 1 [electronic resource] by Ed Brubaker
Crowded : soft apocalypse. Volume 1 by Christopher Sebela
Also available in: e-book
Daredevil : know fear by Chip Zdarsky
The dreaming. Volume 1, issue 1-6, Pathways and emanations [electronic resource] by Simon Spurrier
The immortal Hulk. 1, Or is he both?
Also available in: e-book

Best Limited Series

Ascender. Volume one, The haunted galaxy by Jeff Lemire
Also available in: e-book
Ghost tree [electronic resource] by Bobby Curnow
Little bird. Book one : the fight for Elder's Hope by Darcy Van Poelgeest
Also available in: e-book
Naomi. Season one by writer Brian Michael Bendis
Also available in: e-book

Best New Series

Invisible Kingdom by 1982- G. Willow Wilson
Also available in: e-book
Once & Future 1 by Tamra (CON) Dan (ART)/ Bonvillain Kieron/ Mora Gillen
Also available in: e-book
Something Is Killing the Children 1 by Werther (ILT) IV/ Dell'edera James Tynion
Also available in: e-book
Undiscovered Country 1 by Matt (CON) Daniele (CON)/ Wilson Giuseppe (CON)/ Orlandini Charles/ Camuncoli Scott/ Soule Snyder

Best Publication for Teens

Harley Quinn : breaking glass : a graphic novel by Mariko Tamaki
Also available in: e-book
Hot comb by illustrator Ebony Flowers
Kiss number 8 by Colleen A. F Venable
Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me by Mariko Tamaki
Penny Nichols by M. K Reed

Best Humor Publication

Death wins a goldfish : reflections from a grim reaper's year-long sabbatical by artist Brian Rea
Also available in: e-book
The way of the househusband. 1 by artist Kousuke Oono

Best Anthology

Drawing power : women's stories of sexual violence, harassment, and survival : a comics anthology

Best Reality-Based Work

Bezimena by artist Nina Bunjevac
BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels
New world by illustrator David Jesus Vignolli
Also available in: e-book
Reincarnation stories by illustrator 1944- Kim Deitch

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

Giraffes on Horseback Salad : Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made by Manuela (ILT) Tim/ Pertega Josh/ Heidecker Frank
The giver by artist P. Craig Russell
Also available in: e-book
The handmaid's tale by artist Renee Nault
H.P. Lovecraft's at the mountains of madness by artist 1975- adapter Gou Tanabe
The seventh voyage by illustrator adapter Jon J Muth
Snow, glass, apples by Neil Gaiman
Also available in: e-book