Yesterday, the nominees for the 2018 Will Eisner awards were announced, and the list is populated with some really great creators, publishers, and books.

2018 Eisner Awards Nominations

Best Short Story

• “Ethel Byrne,” by Cecil Castelluci and Scott Chantler, in Mine: A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All Benefiting Planned Parenthood (ComicMix)
• “Forgotten Princess,” by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Antonio Sandoval, in Adventure Time Comics #13 (kaboom!)
• ”A Life in Comics: The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green,” by Nick Sousanis, in Columbia Magazine (Summer 2017), http://magazine.columbia.edu/features/summer-2017/life-comics?page=0,0
• “Small Mistakes Make Big Problems,” by Sophia Foster-Dimino, in Comics for Choice (Hazel Newlevant)
• “Trans Plant,” by Megan Rose Gedris, in Enough Space for Everyone Else (Bedside Press)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

• Barbara, by Nicole Miles (ShortBox)
• Hellboy: Krampusnacht, by Mike Mignola and Adam Hughes (Dark Horse)
• Pope Hats #5, by Ethan Rilly (AdHouse Books)
• The Spotted Stone, by Rick Veitch (Sun Comics)
• What Is Left, by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (ShortBox)

Best Continuing Series

• Black Hammer, by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston, and David Rubín (Dark Horse)
• Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Liz Fleming (BOOM! Box)
• Hawkeye, by Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero, and Mike Walsh (Marvel)
• Monstress, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image)
• The Wicked + The Divine, by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie (Image)

Best Limited Series

• Black Panther: World of Wakanda, by Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Alitha E. Martinez (Marvel)
• Extremity, by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image/Skybound)
• The Flintstones, by Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Rick Leonardi, and Scott Hanna (DC)
• Mister Miracle, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)
• X-Men: Grand Design, by Ed Piskor (Marvel)

Best New Series

• Black Bolt, by Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward (Marvel)
• Grass Kings, by Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins (BOOM! Studios)
• Maestros, by Steve Skroce (Image)
• Redlands, by Jordie Belaire and Vanesa Del Rey (Image)
• Royal City, by Jeff Lemire (Image)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

• Adele in Sand Land, by Claude Ponti, translated by Skeeter Grant and Françoise Mouly (Toon Books)
• Arthur and the Golden Rope, by Joe Todd-Stanton (Flying Eye/Nobrow)
• Egg, by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books)
• Good Night, Planet, by Liniers (Toon Books)
• Little Tails in the Savannah, by Frederic Brrémaud and Federico Bertolucci, translated by Mike Kennedy (Lion Forge/Magnetic)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9–12)

• Bolivar, by Sean Rubin (Archaia)
• Home Time (Book One): Under the River, by Campbell Whyte (Top Shelf)
• Nightlights, by Lorena Alvarez (Nobrow)
• The Tea Dragon Society, by Katie O’Neill (Oni)
• Wallace the Brave, by Will Henry (Andrews McMeel)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

• The Dam Keeper, by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi (First Second/Tonko House)
  Jane, by Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón K. Pérez (Archaia)
• Louis Undercover, by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi)
• Monstress, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image)
• Spinning, by Tillie Walden (First Second)

Best Humor Publication

• Baking with Kafka, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1, by Tom King, Lee Weeks, and Byron Vaughn (DC)
• The Flintstones, by Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Rick Leonardi, and Scott Hanna (DC)
• Rock Candy Mountain, by Kyle Starks (Image)
• Wallace the Brave, by Will Henry (Andrews McMeel)

Best Anthology

• A Bunch of Jews (and Other Stuff): A Minyen Yidn, by Max B. Perlson, Trina Robbins et al. (Bedside Press)
• A Castle in England, by Jamie Rhodes et al. (Nobrow)
• Elements: Fire, A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color, edited by Taneka Stotts (Beyond Press)
• Now #1, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
• The Spirit Anthology, edited by Sean Phillips (Lakes International Comic Art Festival)

Best Reality-Based Work

• Audubon: On the Wings of the World, by Fabien Grolleau and Jerémie Royer, translated by Etienne Gilfillan (Nobrow)
• The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui (Abrams ComicArts)
• Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary, 1852–1903, by Christian Perrissin and Matthieu Blanchin, translated by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (IDW)
• Lennon: The New York Years, by David Foenkinos, Corbeyran, and Horne, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger (IDW)
• Spinning, by Tillie Walden (First Second)

Best Graphic Album—New

• Crawl Space, by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press)
• Eartha, by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics)
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
• Stages of Rot, by Linnea Sterte (Peow)
• The Story of Jezebel, by Elijah Brubaker (Uncivilized Books)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

• Boundless, by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Black Hole by Charles Burns, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
• Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection, by Colleen Coover (Oni/Limerence)
• Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero, by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Unreal City, by D. J. Bryant (Fantagraphics)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

• Beowulf, adapted by Santiago García and David Rubín (Image)
  H. P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories, adapted by Gou Tanabe, translated by Zack
• Davisson (Dark Horse)
• Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, adapted by Christophe Chabouté, translated by Laure Dupont (Dark Horse)
• Kindred, by Octavia Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings (Abrams ComicArts)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

• Audubon: On the Wings of the World, by Fabien Grolleau and Jerémie Royer, translated by Etienne Gilfillan (Nobrow)
• Flight of the Raven, by Jean-Pierre Gibrat, translated by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (EuroComics/IDW)
• FUN, by Paolo Bacilieri, translated by Jamie Richards (SelfMadeHero)
• Ghost of Gaudi, by El Torres and Jesús Alonso Iglesias, translated by Esther Villardón Grande (Lion Forge/Magnetic)
• The Ladies-in-Waiting, by Santiago García and Javier Olivares, translated by Erica Mena (Fantagraphics)
• Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for the Freedom, by Marcelo D’Salete, translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

• Furari, by Jiro Taniguchi, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
• Golden Kamuy, by Satoru Noda, translated by Eiji Yasuda (VIZ Media)
• My Brother’s Husband, vol. 1, by Gengoroh Tagame, translated by Anne Ishii (Pantheon)
• Otherworld Barbara, vol. 2, by Moto Hagio, translated by Matt Thorn (Fantagraphics)
• Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories, by Junji Ito translated by Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

• Celebrating Snoopy, by Charles M. Shulz, edited by Alexis E. Fajardo and Dorothy O’Brien (Andrews McMeel)
• Crazy Quilt: Scraps and Panels on the Way to Gasoline Alley, by Frank King, edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press)
• Foolish Questions and Other Odd Observations, by Rube Goldberg, edited by Peter Maresca and Paul C. Tumey (Sunday Press Books)
• Sky Masters of the Space Force: The Complete Dailies, by Jack Kirby, Wally Wood et al., edited by Daniel Herman (Hermes Press)
• Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Strips, vol. 1, by Russ Manning et al., edited by Dean Mullaney (LOAC/IDW)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

• Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, by Katsuhiro Otomo, edited by Haruko Hashimoto, Ajani Oloye, and Lauren Scanlan (Kodansha)
• Behaving MADly, edited by Craig Yoe (Yoe Books/IDW)
• The Collected Neil the Horse, by Arn Saba/Katherine Collins, edited by Andy Brown (Conundrum)
• Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Jaime Hernandez, edited by Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
• Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017, by Paul Gravett, Denis Kitchen, and 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, edited by Roy Thomas (TwoMorrows)
• The Comics Journal, edited by Dan Nadel, Timothy Hodler, and Tucker Stone, tcj.com (Fantagraphics)
• Hogan’s Alley, edited by Tom Heintjes
• Jack Kirby Collector, edited by John Morrow (TwoMorrows)
• PanelXPanel magazine, edited by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, panelxpanel.com

Best Comics-Related Book

• Deconstructing the Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, by Jean Annestay and Christophe Quillien (Humanoids)
• How Comics Work, by Dave Gibbons and Tim Pilcher (Wellfleet Press/Quarto Group)
• How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels, by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden (Fantagraphics)
• Line of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini, by Richard Pini (Flesk)
• Monograph, by Chris Ware (Rizzoli)
• To Laugh That We May Not Weep: The Life and Times of Art Young, by Glenn Bray and Frank M. Young (Fantagraphics)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

• The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life, edited by Jared Gardner and
• Ian Gordon (University Press of Mississippi)
• Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics, by Kate Polak (Ohio State University Press)
• Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics, by Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Arizona Press)
• Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin, by Brannon Costello (LSU Press)
• Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics, edited by Mark Heimermann and
• Brittany Tullis (University of Texas Press)

Best Publication Design

• Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, designed by Phil Balsman, Akira Saito (Veia), NORMA Editorial, and MASH•ROOM (Kodansha)
• Celebrating Snoopy, designed by Spencer Williams and Julie Phillips (Andrews McMeel)
• Monograph, designed by Chris Ware (Rizzoli)
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, designed by Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics)
• Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017, designed by John Lind (Kitchen Sink/Dark Horse)

Best Digital Comic

• Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
• Barrier, by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin (Panel Syndicate)
• The Carpet Merchant of Konstaniniyya, by Reimena Yee (reimenayee.com/the-carpet-merchant)
• Contact High, by James F. Wright and Josh Eckert (gumroad.com/l/YnxSm)
• Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost, by Harvey Kurtzman, Josh O’Neill, Shannon Wheeler, and Gideon Kendall (comiXology Originals/Kitchen, Lind & Associates)
• Quince, by Sebastian Kadlecik, Kit Steinkellner, and Emma Steinkellner, translated by Valeria Tranier (Fanbase Press/comiXology)

Best Webcomic

• Awaiting a Wave, by Dale Carpenter and Nate Powell, features.weather.com/us-climate-change/arkansas (The Weather Channel Digital)
• Brothers Bond, by Kevin Grevioux and Ryan Benjamin, www.webtoons.com/en/action/brothers-bond/list?title_no=1191 (LINE Webtoon)
• Dispatch from a Sanctuary City, by Mike Dawson, https://thenib.com/dispatch-from-a-sanctuary-city (The Nib)
• The Tea Dragon Society, by Katie O’Neill, teadragonsociety.com (Oni Press)
• Welcome to the New World, by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan, www.michaelsloan.net/welcome-to-the-new-world/ (New York Times Sunday Review)

via Comic-Con International