Sono state annunciate sul sito ufficiale del San Diego Comic-Con le nomination agli Eisner Awards 2016. I vincitori saranno premiati durante la convention di San Diego (21-24 luglio), la principale fiera di fumetti americana, durante la cerimonia di gala che si terrà venerdì 22 luglio.
Best Short Story
“Black Death in America,” di Tom King and John Paul Leon, in Vertigo Quarterly: Black (Vertigo/DC)
“Hand Me Down,” by Kristyna Baczynski, in 24 x 7 (Fanfare Presents)
“It’s Going to Be Okay,” di Matthew Inman, in The Oatmeal, theoatmeal.com/comics/plane
“Killing and Dying,” di Adrian Tomine, in Optic Nerve #14 (Drawn & Quarterly)
“Lion and Mouse,” di R. Sikoryak, in Fable Comics (First Second)
Best Single Issue/One-Shot
A Blanket of Butterflies, di Richard Van Camp e Scott B. Henderson (HighWater Press)
I Love This Part, di Tillie Walden (Avery Hill)
Mowgli’s Mirror, di Olivier Schrauwen (Retrofit/Big Planet)
Pope Hats #4, di Ethan Rilly (AdHouse)
Silver Surfer #11: “Never After,” di Dan Slott e Michael Allred (Marvel)
Best Continuing Series
Bandette, di Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain)
Giant Days, di John Allison, Lissa Treiman, e Max Sarin (BOOM! Box)
Invincible, di Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, and Cliff Rathburn (Image/Skybound)
Silver Surfer, di Dan Slott e Michael Allred (Marvel)
Southern Bastards, di Jason Aaron e Jason Latour (Image)
Best Limited Series
Chrononauts, di Mark Millar e Sean Murphy (Image)
The Fade Out, di Ed Brubaker e Sean Phillips (Image)
Lady Killer, di Joëlle Jones e Jamie S. Rich (Dark Horse)
Minimum Wage: So Many Bad Decisions, di Bob Fingerman (Image)
The Spire, di Simon Spurrier e Jeff Stokely (BOOM! Studios)
Best New Series
Bitch Planet, di Kelly Sue DeConnick e Valentine De Landro (Image)
Harrow County, di Cullen Bunn e Tyler Crook (Dark Horse)
Kaijumax, di Zander Cannon (Oni)
Monstress, di Marjorie Liu e Sana Takeda (Image)
Paper Girls, di Brian K. Vaughan e Cliff Chiang (Image)
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, di Ryan North e Erica Henderson (Marvel)
Best Publication for Early Readers (fino a 8 anni)
Anna Banana and the Chocolate Explosion, di Dominque Roques e Alexis Dormal (First Second)
Little Robot, di Ben Hatke (First Second)
The Only Child, di Guojing (Schwartz & Wade)
SheHeWe, di Lee Nordling e Meritxell Bosch (Lerner Graphic Universe)
Written and Drawn by Henrietta, di Liniers (TOON Books)
Best Publication for Kids (9-12 anni)
Baba Yaga’s Assistant, di Marika McCoola e Emily Carroll (Candlewick)
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War, di Jessica Dee Humphreys, Michel Chikwanine, e Claudia Devila (Kids Can Press)
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: The Underground Abductor, di Nathan Hale (Abrams Amulet)
Over the Garden Wall, di Pat McHale e Jim Campbell (BOOM! Studios/KaBOOM!)
Roller Girl, di Victoria Jamieson (Dial Books)
Sunny Side Up, di Jennifer Holm e Matthew Holm (Scholastic Graphix)
Best Publication for Teens (13-17 anni)
Awkward, di Svetlana Chmakova (Yen Press)
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, di Don Brown (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
March: Book Two, di John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, e Nate Powell (Top Shelf/IDW)
Moose, di Max de Radiguès (Conundrum)
Oyster War, di Ben Towle (Oni)
SuperMutant Magic Academy, di Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Best Humor Publication
Cyanide & Happiness: Stab Factory, di Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, e Dave McElfatrick (BOOM! Studios/BOOM! Box)
Deep Dark Fears, di Fran Krause (Ten Speed Press)
Sexcastle, di Kyle Starks (Image)
Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, di Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
UR, di Eric Haven (AdHouse)
Best Digital/Webcomic
Bandette, di Paul Tobin e Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
Fresh Romance, curato da Janelle Asselin (Rosy Press/comiXology)
The Legend of Wonder Woman, di Renae De Liz (DC Digital)
Lighten Up, di Ronald Wimberly (The Nib), thenib.com/lighten-up-4f7f96ca8a7e#.u45ffr3l1
These Memories Won’t Last, di Stu Campbell, memories.sutueatsflies.com/
Best Anthology
Drawn & Quarterly, Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary, Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, curato da Tom Devlin (Drawn & Quarterly)
Eat More Comics: The Best of the Nib, curato da Matt Bors (The Nib)
24 x 7, curato da Dan Berry (Fanfare Presents)
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, vol. 3, curato da David Petersen (BOOM! Studios/Archaia)
Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, curato da Shannon Watters (kaBOOM!)
Best Reality-Based Work
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978–1984, di Riad Sattouf (Metropolitan Books)
Displacement: A Travelogue, di Lucy Knisley (Fantagraphics)
Hip Hop Family Tree, Book 3: 1983–1984, by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)
Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist, di Griffith (Fantagraphics)
March: Book Two, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, e Nate Powell (Top Shelf/IDW)
The Story of My Tits, di Jennifer Hayden (Top Shelf/IDW)
Best Graphic Album—New
Long Walk to Valhalla, di Adam Smith e Matthew Fox (BOOM!/Archaia)
Nanjing: The Burning City, di Ethan Young (Dark Horse)
Ruins, di Peter Kuper (SelfMadeHero)
Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen, di Dylan Horrocks (Fantagraphics)
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, di Sydney Padua (Pantheon)
Best Graphic Album—Reprint
Angry Youth Comics, di Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics)
Roses in December: A Story of Love and Alzheimer’s, di Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers (Kent State University Press)
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal Omnibus, di E. K. Weaver (Iron Circus Comics)
Nimona, di Nicole Stevenson (Harper Teen)
Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father, di Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)
Best Adaptation from Another Medium
Captive of Friendly Cove: Based on the Secret Journals of John Jewitt, di Rebecca Goldfield, Mike Short, e Matt Dembicki (Fulcrum)
City of Clowns, di Daniel Alarcón and Sheila Alvarado (Riverhead Books)
Ghetto Clown, di John Leguizamo, Christa Cassano, e Shamus Beyale (Abrams ComicArts)
Lafcadio Hearn’s “The Faceless Ghost” e Other Macabre Tales from Japan, adattati da Sean Michael Wilson e Michiru Morikawa (Shambhala)
Two Brothers, by Fábio Moon e Gabriel Bá (Dark Horse)
Best U.S. Edition of International Material
Alpha . . . Directions, di Jens Harder (Knockabout/Fanfare)
The Eternaut, di Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano Lòpez (Fantagraphics)
A Glance Backward di Pierre Paquet and Tony Sandoval (Magnetic Press)
The March of the Crabs, di Arthur de Pins (BOOM! Studios/Archaia)
The Realist, di Asaf Hanuka (BOOM! Studios/Archaia)
Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia
Assassination Classroom, vols. 2–7, di Yusei Matsui (VIZ)
A Bride’s Story, di Kaoru Mori (Yen Press)
Master Keaton, vols. 2–4, di Naoki Urasawa, Hokusei Katsushika, e Takashi Nagasaki (VIZ)
Showa, 1953–1989: A History of Japan, di Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
A Silent Voice, di Yoshitoki Oima (Kodansha)
Sunny, di Taiyo Matsumoto (VIZ)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips
Beyond Mars, di Jack Williamson e Lee Elias, curato da Dean Mullaney (IDW/LOAC)
Cartoons for Victory, di Warren Bernard (Fantagraphics)
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, vol. 4, by Tom Batiuk, curato da Mary Young (Black Squirrel Books)
The Eternaut, di Héctor Germán Oesterheld e Francisco Solano Lòpez, curato da Gary Groth and Kristy Valenti (Fantagraphics)
Kremos: The Lost Art of Niso Ramponi, vols. 1 and 2, curato da Joseph P. Procopio (Picture This/Lost Art Books)
White Boy in Skull Valley, by Garrett Price, curato da Peter Maresca (Sunday Press)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books
Frank Miller’s Ronin Gallery Edition, curato da Bob Chapman (Graphitti Designs/DC)
P. Craig Russell’s Murder Mystery and Other Stories Gallery Edition, curato da Daniel Chabon (Dark Horse)
The Puma Blues: The Complete Saga, by Stephen Murphy, Alan Moore, Michael Zulli, Stephen R. Bissette, e Dave Sim (Dover)
Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Don Rosa Library, vols. 3–4, curato da David Gerstein (Fantagraphics)
Walt Kelly’s Fairy Tales, curato da Craig Yoe (IDW)
Best Writer
Jason Aaron, Southern Bastards (Image), Men of Wrath (Marvel Icon), Doctor Strange, Star Wars, Thor (Marvel)
John Allison, Giant Days (BOOM Studios!)
Ed Brubaker, The Fade Out, Velvet, Criminal Special Edition (Image)
Marjorie Liu, Monstress (Image)
G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
Best Writer/Artist
Bill Griffith, Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist (Fantagraphics)
Nathan Hale, Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: The Underground Abductor (Abrams)
Sydney Padua, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (Pantheon)
Ed Piskor, Hip-Hop Family Tree, vol. 3 (Fantagraphics)
Noah Van Sciver, Fante Bukowski, Saint Cole (Fantagraphics)
Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team
Michael Allred, Silver Surfer (Marvel); Art Ops (Vertigo/DC)
Cliff Chiang, Paper Girls (Image)
Erica Henderson, Jughead (Archie), Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Marvel)
Joëlle Jones, Lady Killer (Dark Horse), Brides of Helheim (Oni)
Nate Powell, March, Book Two (Top Shelf/IDW)
Best Painter/Multimedia Artist
Federico Bertolucci, Love: The Tiger and Love: The Fox (Magnetic Press)
Colleen Coover, Bandette (Monkeybrain)
Carita Lupattelli, Izuna (Humanoids)
Dustin Nguyen, Descender (Image)
Tony Sandoval, A Glance Backward (Magnetic Press)
Best Cover Artist
David Aja, Hawkeye, Karnak, Scarlet Witch (Marvel)
Rafael Albuquerque, Ei8ht (Dark Horse), Huck (Image)
Amanda Conner, Harley Quinn (DC)
Joëlle Jones, Lady Killer (Dark Horse), Brides of Helheim (Oni)
Ed Piskor, Hip-Hop Family Tree (Fantagraphics)
Best Coloring
Laura Allred, Lady Killer (Dark Horse); Silver Surfer (Marvel); Art OPS (Vertigo/DC)
Jordie Bellaire, The Autumnlands, Injection, Plutona, Pretty Deadly, The Surface, They’re Not Like Us, Zero (Image); The X-Files (IDW); The Massive (Dark Horse); Magneto, Vision (Marvel)
Elizabeth Breitwiser, The Fade Out, Criminal Magazine, Outcast, Velvet (Image)
John Rauch, The Beauty (Image); Batman: Arkham Knight, Earth 2: Society (DC); Runaways (Marvel)
Dave Stewart, Abe Sapien, BPRD Hell on Earth, Fight Club 2, Frankenstein Underground, Hellboy in Hell, Hellboy and the BPRD, (Dark Horse); Sandman: Overture, Twilight Children (Vertigo/DC), Captain America: White (Marvel), Space Dumplins (Scholastic Graphix)
Best Lettering
Derf Backderf, Trashed (Abrams)
Steve Dutro, Blood-C, Midnight Society, Plants vs Zombies (Dark Horse)
Lucy Knisley, Displacement (Fantagraphics)
Troy Little, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear e Loathing in Las Vegas (Top Shelf/IDW)
Kevin McCloskey, We Dig Worms! (TOON Books)
Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism
Alter Ego, curato da Roy Thomas (TwoMorrows)
Back Issue, curato da Michael Eury (TwoMorrows)
Comic Riffs blog di Michael Cavna, washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/
Hogan’s Alley, curato da Tom Heintjes (Hogan’s Alley)
Jack Kirby Collector, curato da John Morrow (TwoMorrows)
Best Comics-Related Book
Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America, di Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics)
King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate, curato da Dean Mullaney (IDW/LOAC)
Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, di Chip Kidd e Geoff Spear (Abrams ComicArts)
Out of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer, di Martha Fay (Abrams ComicArts)
Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel, di Paul Levitz (Abrams ComicArts)
Best Academic/Scholarly Work
The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, curato da Frances Gateward e John Jennings (Rutgers)
Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan, curato da Mark McLelland et al. (University Press of Mississippi)
Graphic Medicine Manifesto, di M. K. Czerwiec et al. (Penn State University Press)
Superheroes on World Screens, curato da Rayna Denison e Rachel Mizsei-Ward (University Press of Mississippi)
Unflattening, di Nick Sousanis (Harvard University Press)
Best Publication Design
Beyond the Surface, design di Nicolas André, Sam Arthur, Alex Spiro, e Camille Pichon (Nobrow)
The Eternaut, design di Tony Ong (Fantagraphics)
Eventually Everything Connects, design di Loris Lora, Sam Arthur, Alex Spiro, e Camille Pichon (Nobrow)
King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate, design di Dean Mullaney (IDW/LOAC)
Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, design di Chip Kidd (Abrams ComicArts)
Sandman Gallery Edition, designed di Graphitti Designs and Josh Beatman/Brainchild Studios (Graphitti Designs/DC)