The 2020 Eisner Award Nominees have been announced

The nominees for the 32nd Annual Eisner Awards have been announced, the nominees are for the works that were published between January 1st and December 31st, 2019 and they were chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges. Once again, this year’s nominees in 31 different categories that reflect the wide range of material that is published in the US today, in Comics and Graphic Novels Media, representing over 170 Print and Online titles from more than 60 Publishers and Creators from all over the World. Here is a list of the Nominees, provided by Comic-Con International:

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Best Short Story

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

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

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

Best Continuing Series

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

Best Limited Series

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

Best New Series

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

Best Publication for Early Readers

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