Qualche giorno fa sono state annunciate sul sito del San Diego Comic-Con le candidature per gli Eisner Awards, tra i premi fumettistici più importanti degli Stati Uniti. Tradizionalmente è proprio il Comic-Con che ospita la cerimonia di premiazione – ricordiamo che causa covid anche questa manifestazione è saltata – ma gli Eisner Awards 2020 saranno comunque assegnati il prossimo luglio in data e con modalità da comunicarsi.

Il premio è suddiviso in ben 31 categorie, con decine di artisti da tutto il mondo.Tra gli autori in nomination ci sono anche cinque italiani: i disegnatori Werther Dell’Edera (per Something is Killing the Children), Giuseppe Camuncoli (per Undiscovered Country) e Marco Checchetto (per Daredevil) e il rifinitore Daniele Orlandini (per Undiscovered Country) e Francesco Francavilla candidato come Miglior copertinista.

Migliore storia breve

• Hot Comb, di Ebony Flowers, in Hot Comb (Drawn & Quarterly)
• How to Draw a Horse, di Emma Hunsinger, The New Yorker
• The Menopause, di Mira Jacob, The Believer
• Who Gets Called an ‘Unfit’ Mother?, di Miriam Libicki, The Nib
• You’re Not Going to Believe What I’m About to Tell You, di Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal

Migliore numero unico / One Shot

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

Migliore serie regolare

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

Migliore serie limitata

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

Migliore nuova serie

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

Migliore pubblicazione per l’infanzia

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

Migliore pubblicazione per ragazzi

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

Miglior pubblicazione per adolescenti

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

Migliore pubblicazione umoristica

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

Migliore antologia

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

Migliore lavoro di non-fiction

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

Migliore graphic novel (inedita)

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

Migliore graphic novel (riedizione)

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

Migliore adattamento di un altro medium

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

Migliore edizione statunitense di opere internazionali

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

Migliore edizione statunitense di opere internazionali (Asia)

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

Migliore riproposizione di vecchie opere (strisce)

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

Migliore riproposizione di vecchie opere (comic-book)

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

Migliore scrittore

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

Migliore autore unico

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

Migliore matitista/inchiostratore o matitista e gruppo di inchiostratori

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

Migliore pittore/artista digitale

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

Migliore copertinista

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

Migliore colorista

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

Migliore letterista

• Deron Bennett, Batgirl, Green Arrow, Justice League, Martian Manhunter (DC Comics); Canto (IDW Publishing); Assassin Nation, Excellence (Skybound/Image Comics); To Drink and To Eat vol. 1 (Lion Forge); Resonant (Vault Comics)
• 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 Comics); Mall, The Plot, Wasted Space (Vault Comics)
• Clayton Cowles, Aquaman, Batman, Batman and the Outsiders, Heroes in Crisis, Superman: Up in the Sky, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (DC Comics); 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 Comics)
• Emilie Plateau, Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin (Europe Comics)
• Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (IDW Publishing)
• Tillie Walden, Are You Listening? (First Second Books/Macmillan)

Migliore pubblicazione giornalistica sul fumetto

• Comic Riffs blog (The Washington Post), di Michael Cavna
• The Comics Journal, curata da Gary Groth, RJ Casey e Kristy Valenti (Fantagraphics Books)
• Hogan’s Alley, curata da Tom Heintjes (Hogan’s Alley)
• Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, curata da Qiana Whitted (Ohio State University Press)
• LAAB Magazine vol. 4: This Was Your Life, curata da Ronald Wimberly e Josh O’Neill (Beehive Books)
• Women Write About Comics, curata da Nola Pfau e Wendy Browne

Migliore saggio sul fumetto

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

Migliore saggio accademico sul fumetto

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

Migliore design

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

Migliore fumetto digitale

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

Migliore webcomic

• Cabramatta, di Matt Huynh
• Chuckwagon at the End of the World, di Erik Lundy
• The Eyes, di Javi de Castro
• Fried Rice Comic, di Erica Eng
• reMIND, di Jason Brubaker
• Third Shift Society, di Meredith Moriarty

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