Le candidature ai più importanti premi fumettistici americani, gli Eisner Awards, sono state annunciate oggi dal sito di San Diego Comic-Con, la principale fiera dedicata al fumetto negli Stati Uniti, e tradizionale sede della cerimonia di premiazione che si terrà venerdì 20 luglio.
Da notare la presenza anche quest’anno di autori italiani: Paolo Bacilieri e Federico Bertolucci, quest’ultimo con due nomination.
Best Short Story
Ethel dirne, di Cecil Castelluci e Scott Chantler, in Mine: A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All Benefiting Planned Parenthood (ComicMix)
Forgotten Princess, di Phillip Kennedy Johnson e Antonio Sandoval, in Adventure Time Comics #13 (kaboom!)
A Life in Comics: The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green, diNick Sousanis, in Columbia Magazine
Small Mistakes Make Big Problems, di Sophia Foster-Dimino, in Comics for Choice (Hazel Newlevant)
Trans Plant, di Megan Rose Gedris, in Enough Space for Everyone Else (Bedside Press)
Best Single Issue/One-Shot
Barbara, di Nicole Miles (ShortBox)
Hellboy: Krampusnacht, di Mike Mignola e Adam Hughes (Dark Horse)
Pope Hats #5, di Ethan Rilly (AdHouse Books)
The Spotted Stone, di Rick Veitch (Sun Comics)
What Is Left, di Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (ShortBox)
Best Continuing Series
Black Hammer, di Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston, e David Rubín (Dark Horse)
Giant Days, di John Allison, Max Sarin, eLiz Fleming (BOOM! Box)
Hawkeye, di Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero, e Mike Walsh (Marvel)
Monstress, di Marjorie Liu e Sana Takeda (Image)
The Wicked + The Divine, di Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image)
Best Limited Series
Black Panther: World of Wakanda, di Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, e Alitha E. Martinez (Marvel)
Extremity, di Daniel Warren Johnson (Image/Skybound)
The Flintstones, di Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Rick Leonardi, e Scott Hanna (DC)
Mister Miracle, di Tom King e Mitch Gerads (DC)
X-Men: Grand Design, di Ed Piskor (Marvel)
Best New Series
Black Bolt, di Saladin Ahmed e Christian Ward (Marvel)
Grass Kings, di Matt Kindt e Tyler Jenkins (BOOM! Studios)
Maestros, di Steve Skroce (Image)
Redlands, di Jordie Belaire e Vanesa Del Rey (Image)
Royal City, di Jeff Lemire (Image)
Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)
Adele in Sand Land, di Claude Ponti, tradotto da Skeeter Grant e Françoise Mouly (Toon Books)
Arthur and the Golden Rope, di Joe Todd-Stanton (Flying Eye/Nobrow)
Egg, di Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
Good Night, Planet, di Liniers (Toon Books)
Little Tails in the Savannah, di Frederic Brrémaud e Federico Bertolucci, tradotto da Mike Kennedy (Lion Forge/Magnetic)
Best Publication for Kids (ages 9–12)
Bolivar, di Sean Rubin (Archaia)
Home Time (Book One): Under the River, di Campbell Whyte (Top Shelf)
Nightlights, di Lorena Alvarez (Nobrow)
The Tea Dragon Society, di Katie O’Neill (Oni)
Wallace the Brave, di Will Henry (Andrews McMeel)
Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)
The Dam Keeper, di Robert Kondo e Dice Tsutsumi (First Second/Tonko House)
Jane, di Aline Brosh McKenna e Ramón K. Pérez (Archaia)
Louis Undercover, di Fanny Britt e Isabelle Arsenault, tradotto da Christelle Morelli e Susan Ouriou (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi)
Monstress, di Marjorie Liu e Sana Takeda (Image)
Spinning, e Tillie Walden (First Second)
Best Humor Publication
Baking with Kafka, di Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)
Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1, di Tom King, Lee Weeks, e diron Vaughn (DC)
The Flintstones, di Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Rick Leonardi, e Scott Hanna (DC)
Rock Candy Mountain, di Kyle Starks (Image)
Wallace the Brave, di Will Henry (Andrews McMeel)
Best Anthology
A Bunch of Jews (and Other Stuff): A Minyen Yidn, di Max B. Perlson, Trina Robbins et al. (Bedside Press)
A Castle in England, di Jamie Rhodes et al. (Nobrow)
Elements: Fire, A Comic Anthology di Creators of Color, curato da Taneka Stotts (Beyond Press)
Now #1, curato da Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
The Spirit Anthology, curato da Sean Phillips (Lakes International Comic Art Festival)
Best Reality-Based Work
Audubon: On the Wings of the World, di Fabien Grolleau and Jerémie Royer, tradotto da Etienne Gilfillan (Nobrow)
The Best We Could Do, di Thi Bui (Abrams ComicArts)
Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary, 1852–1903, di Christian Perrissin e Matthieu Blanchin, tradotto da Diana Schutz e Brandon Kander (IDW)
Lennon: The New York Years, di David Foenkinos, Corbeyran, e Horne, tradotto da Ivanka Hahnenberger (IDW)
Spinning, di Tillie Walden (First Second)
Best Graphic Album—New
Crawl Space, di Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press)
Eartha, di Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics)
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, di Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
Stages of Rot, di Linnea Sterte (Peow)
The Story of Jezebel, di Elijah Brubaker (Uncivilized Books)
Best Graphic Album—Reprint
Boundless, di Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Black Hole di Charles Burns, curato da Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection, di Colleen Coover (Oni/Limerence)
Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero, di Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
Unreal City, di D. J. Bryant (Fantagraphics)
Best Adaptation from Another Medium
Beowulf, adattato da Santiago García e David Rubín (Image)
H. P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories, adattato da Gou Tanabe, tradotto da Zack Davisson (Dark Horse)
Herman Melville’s Modi Dick, adattato da Christophe Chabouté, tradotto da Laure Dupont (Dark Horse)
Kindred, di Octavia Butler, adattato da Damian Duffy e John Jennings (Abrams ComicArts)
Best U.S. Edition of International Material
Audubon: On the Wings of the World, di Fabien Grolleau e Jerémie Royer, tradotto da Etienne Gilfillan (Nobrow)
Flight of the Raven, di Jean-Pierre Gibrat, tradotto da Diana Schutz e Brandon Kander (EuroComics/IDW)
FUN, di Paolo Bacilieri, tradotto da Jamie Richards (SelfMadeHero)
Ghost of Gaudi, di El Torres e Jesús Alonso Iglesias, tradotto da Esther Villardón Grande (Lion Forge/Magnetic)
The Ladies-in-Waiting, di Santiago García e Javier Olivares, tradotto da Erica Mena (Fantagraphics)
Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for the Freedom, di Marcelo D’Salete, tradotto da Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)
Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia
Furari, di Jiro Taniguchi, tradotto da Kumar Sivasubramanian (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
Golden Kamuy, di Satoru Noda, tradotto da Eiji Yasuda (VIZ Media)
My Brother’s Husband, vol. 1, di Gengoroh Tagame, tradotto da Anne Ishii (Pantheon)
Otherworld Barbara, vol. 2, di Moto Hagio, translated di Matt Thorn (Fantagraphics)
Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories, di Junji Ito translated di Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips
Celebrating Snoopy, di Charles M. Shulz, curato da Alexis E. Fajardo e Dorothy O’Brien (Andrews McMeel)
Crazy Quilt: Scraps and Panels on the Way to Gasoline Alley, di Frank King, curato da Peter Maresca (Sunday Press)
Foolish Questions and Other Odd Observations, di Rube Goldberg, curato da Peter Maresca e Paul C. Tumey (Sunday Press Books)
Sky Masters of the Space Force: The Complete Dailies, di Jack Kirdi, Wally Wood et al., curato da Daniel Herman (Hermes Press)
Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Strips, vol. 1, di Russ Manning et al., curato da Dean Mullaney (LOAC/IDW)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books
Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, di Katsuhiro Otomo, curato da Haruko Hashimoto, Ajani Oloye, e
Lauren Scanlan (Kodansha)
Behaving MADly, curato da Craig Yoe (Yoe Books/IDW)
The Collected Neil the Horse, di Arn Saba/Katherine Collins, curato da Andy Brown (Conundrum)
Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Jaime Hernandez, curato da Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017, di Paul Gravett, Denis Kitchen, e John Lind (Kitchen Sink/Dark Horse)
Best Writer
Tom King, Batman, Batman Annual #2, Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1, Mister Miracle (DC)
Matt Kindt, Grass Kings (BOOM! Studios); Ether (Dark Horse); Eternity, X-O Manowar (Valiant)
Jeff Lemire, Black Hammer (Dark Horse); Descender (Image)
Marjorie Liu, Monstress (Image)
Mark Russell, The Flintstones (DC)
Best Writer/Artist
Lorena Alvarez, Night Lights (Nobrow)
Chabouté, Moby Dick (Dark Horse); Alone, Park Bench (Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster)
Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics)
Cathy Malkasian, Eartha (Fantagraphics)
Jiro Taniguchi, Furari, Louis Vuitton Travel Guide: Venice (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team
Isabelle Arsenault, Louis Undercover (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi)
Mitch Gerads, Mister Miracle (DC)
Gary Gianni, Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea (Dark Horse)
Ramón K. Perez, Jane (Archaia)
David Rubín, Black Hammer #9 & #12, Ether, Sherlock Frankenstein #1–3 (Dark Horse); Beowulf (Image)
Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)
Federico Bertolucci, Love: The Dinosaur, Little Tails (Lion Forge/Magnetic)
EFA, Monet: Itinerant of Light (NBM)
Jean-Pierre Gibrat, Flight of the Raven (EuroComics/IDW)
Cyril Pedrosa, Portugal (NBM)
Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)
Best Cover Artist
Jorge Corona, No. 1 with a Bullet (Image)
Nick Derington, Mister Miracle (DC); Doom Patrol (DC Young Animal)
Brian Stelfreeze, Black Panther (Marvel)
Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)
Julian Totino Tedesco, Hawkeye (Marvel)
Best Coloring
Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics)
Mitch Gerads, Mister Miracle (DC)
Ed Piskor, X-Men: Grand Design (Marvel)
David Rubín, Ether, Black Hammer, Sherlock Frankenstein (Dark Horse); Beowulf (Image)
Dave Stewart, Black Hammer, BPRD: Devil You Know, Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea, Sherlock Frankenstein, Shaolin Cowboy (Dark Horse); Maestros (Image)
Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, What Is Left (ShortBox)
Best Lettering
Isabelle Arsenault, Louis Undercover (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi)
Clayton Cowles, Bitch Planet: Triple Feature, Redlands, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); Black Bolt, Spider-Gwen, Astonishing X-Men, Star Wars (Marvel)
Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics)
Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo, Groo: Slay of the Gods (Dark Horse)
John Workman, Mother Panic (DC Young Animal); Ragnorok (IDW)
Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism
Alter Ego, curato da Roy Thomas (TwoMorrows)
The Comics Journal, curato da Dan Nadel, Timothy Hodler, e Tucker Stone, tcj.com (Fantagraphics)
Hogan’s Alley, curato da Tom Heintjes
Jack Kirby Collector, curato da John Morrow (TwoMorrows)
PanelXPanel magazine, curato da Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, panelxpanel.com
Best Comics-Related Book
Deconstructing the Incal di Alejandro Jodorowsky e Moebius, di Jean Annestay e Christophe Quillien (Humanoids)
How Comics Work, di Dave Gibbons e Tim Pilcher (Wellfleet Press/Quarto Group)
How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels, di Paul Karasik e Mark Newgarden (Fantagraphics)
Line of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini, di Richard Pini (Flesk)
Monograph, di Chris Ware (Rizzoli)
To Laugh That We May Not Weep: The Life and Times of Art Young, di Glenn Bray e Frank M. Young (Fantagraphics)
Best Academic/Scholarly Work
The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life, curato da Jared Gardner e Ian Gordon (University Press of Mississippi)
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics, di Kate Polak (Ohio State University Press)
Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics, di Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Arizona Press)
Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin, di Brannon Costello (LSU Press)
Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics, curato da Mark Heimermann e Brittany Tullis (University of Texas Press)
Best Publication Design
Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, design di Phil Balsman, Akira Saito (Veia), NORMA Editorial, e MASH•ROOM (Kodansha)
Celebrating Snoopy, designed di Spencer Williams e Julie Phillips (Andrews McMeel)
Monograph, designed di Chris Ware (Rizzoli)
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, designed di Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics)
Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017, design di John Lind (Kitchen Sink/Dark Horse)
Best Digital Comic
Bandette, di Paul Tobin e Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
Barrier, di Brian K. Vaughan e Marcos Martin (Panel Syndicate)
The Carpet Merchant of Konstaniniyya, di Reimena Yee (reimenayee.com/the-carpet-merchant)
Contact High, di James F. Wright e Josh Eckert (gumroad.com/l/YnxSm)
Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost, di Harvey Kurtzman, Josh O’Neill, Shannon Wheeler, e Gideon Kendall (comiXology Originals/Kitchen, Lind & Associates)
Quince, di Sebastian Kadlecik, Kit Steinkellner, e Emma Steinkellner, tradotto da Valeria Tranier (Fanbase Press/comiXology)
Best Webcomic
Awaiting a Wave, di Dale Carpenter e Nate Powell, features.weather.com/us-climate-change/arkansas (The Weather Channel Digital)
Brothers Bond, di Kevin Grevioux e Ryan Benjamin, www.webtoons.com/en/action/brothers-bond/list?title_no=1191 (LINE Webtoon)
Dispatch from a Sanctuary City, di Mike Dawson, https://thenib.com/dispatch-from-a-sanctuary-city (The Nib)
The Tea Dragon Society, di Katie O’Neill, teadragonsociety.com (Oni Press)
Welcome to the New World, di Jake Halpern e Michael Sloan, www.michaelsloan.net/welcome-to-the-new-world/ (New York Times Sunday Review)