The 2020 Eisner Award Nominees have been announced

Best Lettering

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

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism

• Comic Riffs blog, by Michael Cavna with David Betancourt, www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/comics/
• The Comics Journal, edited by Gary Groth, RJ Casey, and Kristy Valenti(Fantagraphics)
• Hogan’s Alley, edited by Tom Heintjes (Hogan’s Alley)
• Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, edited by Qiana Whitted(Ohio State University Press)
• LAAB Magazine, vol. 4: This Was Your Life, edited by Ronald Wimberly and Josh O’Neill (Beehive Books)
• Women Write About Comics, edited by Nola Pfau and Wendy Browne, www.WomenWriteAboutComics.com

Best Comics-Related Book

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• Grunt: The Art and Unpublished Comics of James Stokoe (Dark Horse)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

Best Academic/Scholarly Book

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

Best Publication Design

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

Best Digital Comic

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

Best Webcomic

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

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