Annunciate le nomination agli Eisner Awards 2024

Le candidature per l’edizione del 2024 degli Eisner Awards, il premio fumettistico più ambito in America, sono state annunciate sul sito del San-Diego Comicon, la più grande fiera del fumetto degli Stati Uniti, dove avverranno anche le premiazioni il prossimo 26 luglio.

Il premio, intitolato alla memoria di uno dei più grandi pionieri del fumetto, Will Eisner, viene assegnato annualmente da una giuria qualificata ed esperta nei vari ambiti dell’industria fumettistica.

Tra le autrici e gli autori in nomination spiccano due italiani: Mirka Andolfo e Mattia De Iulis, mentre tra le case editrici Image e DC hanno ricevuto il maggior numero di nomination: Image con 17 (più 8 condivise) e DC con 13 (più 8 condivise).
I nominati della Image coprono un ampio spettro di titoli, con nomination multiple per The Cull, Black Cloak e Transformers. In cima alle nomination della DC ci sono Birds of Prey, Detective Comics, Shazam! e Nightwing.
Seguono Fantagraphics Books (11), First Second (10), IDW (9), Drawn & Quarterly (8) e Marvel Comics con 5 (più 3 condivise).


A seguire, tutte le nomination agli Eisner Awards 2024 con le categorie riportate in italiano:

Migliore storia breve

• “Friendship Is Forever”, di Sam Maggs e Keisha Okafor, in My Little Pony 40th Celebration (IDW)
• “The Kelpie”, di Becky Cloonan, in Four Gathered on Christmas Eve (Dark Horse)
• “The Lady of the Lake”, di Joe S. Farrar e Guilherme Grandizolli, in BUMP: A Horror Anthology 3 (BUMP)
• “Talking to a Hill”, di Larry Hancock e Michael Cherkas, in Comics for Ukraine (Zoop)
• “World’s Finest, Part 1”, di Tom King e Belen Ortega, in Wonder Woman 3 (DC)

Migliore numero unico / One Shot

• Horologist, di Jared Lee e Cross (Grim Film)
• Nightwing 105, di Tom Taylor e Bruno Redondo (DC)
• Star Trek: Day of Blood—Shax’s Best Day, di Ryan North e Derek Charm (IDW)
• Superman 2023 Annual, di Joshua Williamson e altri (DC)
• Sweet Paprika: Black, White, & Pink, di Mirka Andolfo e altri (Image)

Miglior serie regolare

• Birds of Prey, di Kelly Thompson e Leonardo Basto Romero (DC)
• Nightwing, di Tom Taylor e Bruno Redondo (DC Comics)
• Shazam!, di Mark Waid e Dan Mora (DC)
• Transformers, di Daniel Warren Johnson (Image Skybound)
• Wonder Woman, di Tom King e Daniel Sampere (DC)

Migliore serie limitata

• The Cull, di Kelly Thompson e Mattia De Iulis (Image)
• Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons, di Frank Tieri e Inaki Miranda (IDW)
• Kill Your Darlings, di Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan e Robert Quinn (Image)
• PeePee PooPoo, di Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)
• Superman: Lost, di Christopher Priest e Carlo Pagulayan (DC)

Migliore nuova serie

• Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, di Patrick Horvath (IDW)
• Black Cloak, di Kelly Thompson e Meredith McClaren (Image)
• Local Man, di Tim Seeley e Tony Fleecs (Image)
• Phantom Road, di Jeff Lemire e Gabriel Hernández Walta (Image)
• Somna: A Bedtime Story, di Becky Cloonan e Tula Lotay (DSTLRY)

Migliore pubblicazione per l’infanzia

• Bigfoot and Nessie: The Art of Getting Noticed, di Chelsea M. Campbell e Laura Knetzger (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
• Burt the Beetle Lives Here!, di Ashley Spires (Kids Can Press)
• Go-Go Guys, di Rowboat Watkins (Chronicle Books)
• The Light Inside, di Dan Misdea (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
• Milk and Mocha: Our Little Happiness, di Melani Sie (Andrews McMeel)
• Tacos Today: El Toro & Friends, di Raúl the Third (HarperCollins/Versify)

Migliore pubblicazione per ragazzi

• Buzzing, di Samuel Sattin e Rye Hickman (Little, Brown Ink)
• Mabuhay!, di Zachary Sterling (Scholastic Graphix)
• Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir, di Pedro Martín (Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Young Readers)
• Missing You, di Phellip Willian e Melissa Garabeli (Oni Press)
• Saving Sunshine, di Saadia Faruqi e Shazleen Khan (First Second/Macmillan)

Migliore pubblicazione per adolescenti

• Blackward, di Lawrence Lindell (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Danger and Other Unknown Risks, di Ryan North e Erica Henderson (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
• Frontera, di Julio Anta e Jacoby Salcedo (HarperAlley)
• Lights, di Brenna Thummler (Oni Press)
• Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story, di Sarah Myer (First Second/Macmillan)
• My Girlfriend’s Child vol. 1, di Mamoru Aoi (Seven Seas)

Migliore pubblicazione umoristica

• How to Love: A Guide to Feelings & Relationships for Everyone, di Alex Norris (Candlewick/Walker Books)
• I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator, and Other Musical Meanderings, di Keith Knight (Keith Knight Press)
• It’s Jeff: The Jeff-Verse 1, di Kelly Thompson e Gurihiru (Marvel)
• Macanudo: Optimism Is for the Brave, di Liniers (Fantagraphics)
• The Yakuza’s Bias, di Teki Yatsuda (Kodansha)

Miglior antologia

• Comics for Ukraine, curata da Scott Dunbier (Zoop)
• Deep Cuts, di Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Danilo Beyruth e altri (Image)
• The Devil’s Cut, curata da Will Dennis (DSTLRY)
• Marvel Age 1000, curata da Tom Brevoort (Marvel)
• The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics, curata da The Kao, Min Christensen e David Daneman (Andrews McMeel)
• Swan Songs, di W. Maxwell Prince e altri (Image)

Migliore opera di non-fiction

• Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?, di Chris Oliveros (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century, di Adrian Matejka e Youssef Daoudi (Liveright)
• Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali, di Marc Bernardin e Ron Salas (First Second/Macmillan)
• Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood, di Samuel Machado e Cynthia Sousa Machado con Steven M. Wise (Island Press)
• Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy, di Bill Griffith (Abrams ComicArts)

Migliore biografia a fumetti

• Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam, di Thien Pham (First Second/Macmillan)
• A First Time for Everything, di Dan Santat (First Second/Macmillan)
• In Limbo, di Deb JJ Lee (First Second/Macmillan)
• Memento Mori, di Tiitu Takalo (Oni Press)
• Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me About Life, Death, and Hope, di Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Scholastic Graphix)
• The Talk, di Darrin Bell (Henry Holt)

Migliore graphic novel (inedito)

• Ashes, di Álvaro Ortiz (Top Shelf/IDW)
• Eden II, di K. Wroten (Fantagraphics)
• A Guest in the House, di Emily Carroll (First Second/Macmillan)
• Parasocial, di Alex De Campi e Erica Henderson (Image)
• Roaming, di Mariko Tamaki e Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)

Migliore graphic novel (riedizione)

• Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise Treasury Edition, di Tradd Moore (Marvel)
• The Good Asian, di Pornsak Pichetshote e Alexandre Tefenkgi (Image)
• Hip Hop Family Tree: The Omnibus, di Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)
• Orange Complete Series Box Set, di Ichigo Takano (Seven Seas)
• Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, di Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha e Nicola Scott (DC)

Migliore adattamento da un altro medium

• Bea Wolf, adattato da Zach Weinersmith e Boulet (First Second/Macmillan)
• #DRCL midnight children vol. 1, basato su Bram Stoker’s Dracula, di Shin’ichi Sakamoto, traduzione di Caleb Cook (VIZ Media)
• H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow over Innsmouth, adattato da Gou Tanabe, traduzione di Zack Davisson (Dark Horse Manga)
• The Monkey King: The Complete Odyssey, adattato da Chaiko, traduzione di Dan Christensen (Magnetic)
• Watership Down, di Richard Adams, adattato da James Sturm e Joe Sutphin (Ten Speed Graphic)

Migliore edizione statunitense di opere internazionali

• Ashes, di Álvaro Ortiz (Top Shelf/IDW)
• Blacksad Vol 7: They All Fall Down Part 2, di Juan Díaz Canales e Juanjo Guarnido (Europe Comics)
• A Boy Named Rose, di Gaëlle Geniller (Fairsquare Comics)
• The Great Beyond, di Léa Murawiec (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Shubeik Lubeik, di Deena Mohamed (Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House)
• Spa, di Erik Svetoft (Fantagraphics)

Migliore edizione statunitense di opere internazionali (Asia)

• #DRCL midnight children vol. 1, basato su Bram Stoker’s Dracula, di Shin’ichi Sakamoto (VIZ Media)
• Goodbye, Eri, di Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ Media)
• The Horizon vol. 1, di JH (Yen/Ize Press)
• My Picture Diary, di Fujiwara Maki (Drawn & Quarterly)
• River’s Edge, di Kyoko Okazaki (Kodansha)
• The Summer Hikaru Died vol. 1, di Mokumokuren Ajani Oloye (Yen Press)

Migliore riproposta di vecchie opere (strisce)

• Dauntless Dames: High-Heeled Heroes of the Comic Strips, curata da Peter Maresca e Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics)
• David Wright’s Carol Day: Lance Hallam, curata da Roger Clark, Chris Killackey e Guy Mills (Slingsby Bros, Ink!)
• Popeye Sundays Vol 3: The Sea Hag and Alice the Goon, di E.C. Segar, curata da Conrad Groth e Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
• Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck e Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1935-1939: Starring Donald Duck and Big Bad Wolf, curati da David Gerstein (Fantagraphics)
• Where I’m Coming From, di Barbara Brandon-Croft, curata da Peggy Burns e Tracy Hurren (Drawn & Quarterly)

Migliore riproposta di vecchie opere (comic book)

• Adventures Into Terror: The Atlas Comics Library vol. 1, curata da Michael J. Vassallo (Fantagraphics)
• All-Negro Comics 75^th Anniversary Edition, curata da Chris Robinson (Very GOOD Books)
• The Ballad of Halo Jones Full Colour Omnibus, di Alan Moore e Ian Gibson, curata da Olivia Hicks (2000AD/Rebellion)
• The John Severin Westerns Featuring American Eagle, curata da Michael Dean (Fantagraphics)
• Michael Golden’s Marvel Stories Artist’s Edition, curata da Scott Dunbier (IDW)

Migliore scrittore/scrittrice

• Stephen Graham Jones, Earthdivers (IDW)
• Mariko Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Tom Taylor, Nightwing, Titans (DC)
• Kelly Thompson, Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn, Black White and Redder (DC); Black Cloak, The Cull (Image); It’s Jeff, Captain Marvel (Marvel)
• Mark Waid, Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Shazam!, World’s Finest: Teen Titans (DC)
• G. Willow Wilson, Poison Ivy (DC); Hunger and the Dusk (IDW)

Migliore autore unico/autrice unica

• Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House (First Second/Macmillan)
• Bill Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
• Daniel Warren Johnson, Transformers (Image Skybound)
• Mokumokuren, The Summer Hikaru Died vol. 1 (Yen Press)
• Zoe Thorogood, Hack/Slash: Back To School (Image)
• Tillie Walden, Clementine Book Two (Image Skybound)

Migliore matitista e inchiostratore/inchiostratrice o team di matitista e inchiostratore/inchiostratrice

• Jason Shawn Alexander, Detective Comics (DC); Killadelphia, con Germán Erramouspe (Image)
• Tula Lotay, Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder (Comixology Originals/Best Jackett)
• Inaki Miranda, Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons (IDW)
• Dan Mora, Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Shazam! (DC)
• Chris Samnee, Fire Power (Image Skybound)
• Jillian Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)

Migliore pittore o pittrice/artista multimediale

• Jason Shawn Alexander, Blacula: Return of the King (Zombie Love Studios)
• Chaiko, The Monkey King (Magnetic)
• Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad Vol 7: They All Fall Down Part 2 (Europe Comics)
• Liam Sharp, Nocterra: Nemesis Special (Best Jackett); Starhenge: The Dragon and the Boar (Image)
• Martin Simmonds, Universal Monsters: Dracula (Image Skybound)
• Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)

Miglior copertinista

• Jen Bartel, DC Pride 2023, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville 1 (DC); Captain Marvel: Dark Tempest 1, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin 1, Scarlet Witch 9, Sensational She-Hulk (Marvel)
• Evan Cagle, Detective Comics (DC)
• Jenny Frison, Alice Never After 1, BRZRKR: Fallen Empire 1 (BOOM! Studios); Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn 1–2, Poison Ivy 8, 12 (DC)
• E. M. Gist, Expanse Dragon Tooth 1, Something Is Killing the Children 28 e 34, Wild’s End vol 2 4 (BOOM! Studios); Amazing Spider-Man 23, Doctor Aphra 36, Moon Knight 3, Nightcrawlers 1, Wolverine 38 (Marvel)
• Peach Momoko, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin, various alternate covers (Marvel)
• Dan Mora, Coda 3, Damn Them All 4, MMPR 30th Anniversary Special 1, Rare Flavours 3 (BOOM! Studios); Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Outsiders 1, Poison Ivy 9, Shazam!, Titans 1 (DC)

Miglior colorista

• Jordie Bellaire, Batman, Birds of Prey (DC); Dark Spaces: Hollywood Special (IDW)
• Matt Hollingsworth, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Punisher (Marvel)
• Lee Loughridge, Red Zone (AWA); Edgeworld, Grammaton Punch, Nostalgia (Comixology Originals); The Devil’s Cut, Gone, Somna (DSTLRY); Star Trek (IDW); Killadelphia (Image); Hunt. Kill. Repeat. (Mad Cave)
• Dave McCaig, The Sacrificers (Image); The Walking Dead Deluxe (Image Skybound)
• Dean White, Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)

Migliore letterista

• Lauren Bowes, Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes (Titan Comics)
• Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House (First Second/Macmillan)
• Bill Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
• Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber, The Witcher: Wild Animals (Dark Horse); Batman: City of Madness, The Flash, Poison Ivy (DC); Black Cat Social Club (Humanoids); Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees (IDW); The Cull, What’s the Furthest Place from Here? (Image)
• Richard Starkings, Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder, Canary (Comixology Originals/Best Jackett); Parliament of Rooks (Comixology); Astro City, Battle Chasers (Image); Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)
• Rus Wooton, Monstress, The Sacrificers (Image); Fire Power, Kroma, Transformers, The Walking Dead Deluxe, Universal Monsters: Dracula, Void Rivals (Image Skybound); Hunt. Kill. Repeat., A Legacy of Violence, Nature’s Labyrinth (Mad Cave)

Migliore pubblicazione giornalistica sul fumetto

• The Comics Journal 309; curata da Gary Groth, Kristy Valenti e Austin English (Fantagraphics)
• “The Indirect Market”, di Brandon Schatz e Danica LeBlanc, comicsbeat.com
• Rob Salkowitz, per Forbes, ICv2.com, Publishers Weekly
• SKTCHD, di David Harper, www.sktchd.com
• SOLRAD: The Online Literary Magazine for Comics, www.solrad.co (Fieldmouse Press)

Migliore libro sul fumetto

• Bryan Talbot: Father of the British Graphic Novel, di J. D. Harlock e Bryan Talbot (Brainstorm Studios)
• Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography, di Dave Gibbons (Dark Horse)
• Flamed Out: The Underground Adventures and Comix Genius of Willy Murphy, curata da Mark Burstein (Fantagraphics)
• I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, di Michael Molcher (Rebellion)
• The Pacific Comics Companion, di Stephan Friedt e Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows)
• Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean (Dark Horse)

Migliore saggio accademico sul fumetto

• Asian Political Cartoons, di John A. Lent (University Press of Mississippi)
• The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men, di J. Andrew Deman (University of Texas Press)
• Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics, curata da Qiana Whitted (Rutgers University Press)
• If Shehrazad Drew: Critical Writings on Arab Comics, di George Khoury-Jad (Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies and American University of Beirut Press)
• In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s, di Margaret Galvan (University of Minnesota Press)
• Super Bodies: Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact, di Jeffrey A. Brown (University of Texsas Press)

Migliore design

• Bram Stoker’s Dracula e Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein box set, design di Mike Kennedy (Magnetic)
• Gratuitous Ninja, di Ronald Wimberly, design di Chloe Scheffe (Beehive Books)
• Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes, design di Donna Askem (Titan Comics)
• Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind, design di Josh Bernstein e Rob Schwager (Z2)
• Toilet-bound Hanako-kun First Stall Box Set, design di Wendy Chan (Yen Press)

Migliore webcomic

• Asturias: The Origin of a Flag, di Javi de Castro, https://www.javidecastro.com/asturias-the-origin-of-a-flag
• Daughter of a Thousand Faces, di Vel (Velinxi), https://tapas.io/series/daughter-of-a-thousand-faces/info (Tapas)
• Lore Olympus, di Rachel Smythe, https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/s3-episode-226/viewer?title_no=1320&episode_no=231 (WEBTOON)
• Matchmaker vol. 6, di Cam Marshall, https://matchmakercomic.com/ (Silver Sprocket)
• 3rd Voice, di Evan Dahm, https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/3rd-voice/list?title_no=828919 (WEBTOON)
• Unfamiliar, di Haley Newsome: https://tapas.io/series/unfamiliar/info (Tapas)

Migliore fumetto digitale

• Blacksad Vol 7: They All Fall Down Part 2, di Juan Díaz Canales e Juanjo Guarnido (Europe Comics)
• Friday voll. 7–8, di Ed Brubaker e Marcos Martin (Panel Syndicate)
• Parliament of Rooks, di Abigail Jill Harding (Comixology Originals)
• Practical Defense Against Piracy, di Tony Cliff (delilahdirk.com)
• A Witch’s Guide to Burning, di Aminder Dhaliwal (Instagram.com/aminder_d)