Eisner Nomination Season

Nominations for the Eisner Awards for achievements in the comics form are out, and some were particularly pleasing to me:

Best Publication for Kids

• Amelia Rules!: True Things (Adults Don’t Want Kids to Know), by Jimmy Gownley (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)

Best Publication for Teens

• Smile, by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic Graphix)
• Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, by G. Neri and Randy DuBurke (Lee & Low) (review here)
  

Best Humor Publication

• Prime Baby, by Gene Luen Yang (First Second)

Best Digital Comic

• Max Overacts, by Caanan Grall, http://occasionalcomics.com

Best Adaptation from Another Work

• The Marvelous Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young (Marvel)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

• Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts, edited by Art Spiegelman [and in-house editor Christopher Carduff] (The Library of America)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

• Skottie Young, The Marvelous Land of Oz (Marvel)

Best Coloring

• Jimmy Gownley, Amelia Rules!: True Things (Adults Don’t Want Kids to Know), Amelia Rules!: The Tweenage Guide to Not Being Unpopular, by Jimmy Gownley (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)
• Hilary Sycamore, City of Spies, etc. (First Second)

Best Lettering

• Jimmy Gownley, Amelia Rules!: True Things (Adults Don’t Want Kids to Know), Amelia Rules!: The Tweenage Guide to Not Being Unpopular, by Jimmy Gownley (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)
• Todd Klein, Fables, etc.
  

Best Comics-Related Book

• Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau, by Brian Walker (Yale University Press) (review here)