Here Are Your 2018 Eisner Award Nominees

San Diego Comic-Con is just months away, which means that the Eisners – some of the most prestigious awards in comics – are close, too. The full list of nominees has been revealed today, and unsurprisingly, it’s jam-packed with some damn good comics for you to read (or re-read).

Some very good comics in a sea of excellent Eisner 2018 nominees: Mister Miracle, Monstress and Black Bolt. Image: Mitch Gerads (DC Comics), Sana Takeda (Image), Christian Ward (Marvel Comics)

Below is a select few of the 30-plus categories in this year’s awards, with a ton of amazing comics – from the grand sci-fi drama of DC Comics’ Mister Miracle to the haunting fantasy of Image’s Monstress – and creatives being recognised. Head on over to the link below to see the full list of awards categories, but for now, here’s a few:

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)
• “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 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, The Park Bench (Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster)
• Emil Ferris, My Favourite 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 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 Colouring

• Emil Ferris, My Favourite 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 Favourite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics)
• Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo, Groo: Slay of the Gods (Dark Horse)
• John Workman, Mother Panic (DC Young Animal); Ragnarok (IDW)

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)

The winners of the 2018 Eisner Awards will be revealed on Friday, July 20, at a ceremony at San Diego Comic-Con.

[Comic-Con International]