Eisner Awards 2023: ecco la lista di tutti i fumetti candidati

Così come leggiamo su Comicsbeat, sono stati diffusi di recente i candidati agli “Eisner Awards 2023”, uno dei premi più prestigiosi per quanto riguarda l’arte sequenziale. Instaurati in onore di Will Eisner, ecco la lista completa in calce:

Migliore storia breve

• “The Beekeeper’s Due”, di Jimmy Stamp e Débora Santos, in Scott Snyder Presents: Tales from the Cloakroom (Cloakroom Comics)
• “Finding Batman”, di Kevin Conroy e J. Bone, in DC Pride 2022 (DC)
• “Good Morning”, di Christopher Cantwell e Alex Lins, in Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood #4 (Marvel)
• “Silent All These Years”, di Margaret Atwood e David Mack, in Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes (Z2)
• “You Get It”, di Jonathan Hickman e Marco Checchetto, in Amazing Fantasy #1000 (Marvel)

Migliore numero unico / One Shot

• Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler, di Tom King eMitch Gerads (DC)
• Mary Jane & Black Cat Beyond, di Jed Mackay e C. F. Villa (Marvel)
• Moon Knight: Black, White, and Blood #3, supervisione di Tom Brevoort (Marvel)
• Star Trek #400, supervisione di Heather Antos (IDW)
• A Vicious Circle Book 1, di Mattson Tomlin e Lee Bermejo (BOOM! Studios)

Miglior serie regolare

• Daredevil, di Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto e Rafael de Latorre (Marvel)
• The Department of Truth, di James Tynion IV e Martin Simmonds (Image)
• Killadelphia, di Rodney Barnes e Jason Shawn Alexander (Image)
• The Nice House on the Lake, di James Tynion IV e Alvaro Martinez Bueno (DC)
• Nightwing, di Tom Taylor e Bruno Redondo (DC)
• She-Hulk, di Rainbow Rowell, Rogê Antônio, Luca Maresca e Takeshi Miyazawa (Marvel)

Migliore serie limitata

• Animal Castle, di Xavier Dorison e Felix Delep (Ablaze)
• Batman: One Bad Day, supervisione di Dave Wielgosz e Jessica Berbey (DC)
• The Human Target, di Tom King e Greg Smallwood (DC)
• Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age, di Neil Gaiman e Mark Buckingham (Marvel)
• Superman: Space Age, di Mark Russell, Michael Allred e Laura Allred (DC)

Migliore nuova serie

• The Atonement Bell, di Jim Ousley e Tyler B. Ruff (Red 5)
• Love Everlasting, di Tom King ed Elsa Charretier (Image)
• Public Domain, di Chip Zdarsky (Image)
• Star Trek, di Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing e Ramon Rosanas (IDW)
• Traveling to Mars, di Mark Russell e Roberto Meli (Ablaze)

Migliore pubblicazione per l’infanzia (fino a 8 anni)

• Beneath The Trees: A Fine Summer, di Dav (Magnetic Press)
• Fox + Chick: Up and Down: and Other Stories, di Sergio Ruzzier (Chronicle Books)
• Grumpy Monkey Who Threw That?, di Suzanne Lang e Max Lang (Random House Studio)
• Hey, Bruce!: An Interactive Book, di Ryan Higgins (Disney/Hyperion)
• The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster!, di Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)

Migliore pubblicazione per ragazzi (da 9 a 12 anni)

• Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan, di Jason Shiga (Amulet/Abrams)
• Frizzy, di Claribel A. Ortega e Rose Bousamra (First Second/Macmillan)
• Isla To Island, di Alexis Castellanos (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)
• Little Monarchs, di Jonathan Case (Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House)
• Swim Team, di Johnnie Christmas (HarperAlley)

Migliore pubblicazione per adolescenti (da 13 a 17 anni)

• Chef’s Kiss, di Jarrett Melendez e Danica Brine (Oni)
• Clementine Book One, di Tillie Walden (Image Skybound)
• Do A Powerbomb!, di Daniel Warren Johnson (Image)
• Heartstopper Volume 4, di Alice Oseman (Scholastic Graphix)
• Wash Day Diaries, di Jamila Rowser e Robyn Smith (Chronicle Books)

Migliore pubblicazione umoristica

• Cryptid Club, di Sarah Andersen (Andrews McMeel)
• I Hate This Place, di Kyle Starks e Artyom Topilin (Image Skybound)
• Killer Queens, di David Booher e Claudia Balboni (Dark Horse)
• Mr. Lovenstein Presents: Failure, di J. L. Westover (Image Skybound)
• Revenge of the Librarians, di Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)

Migliore antologia

• Creepshow, supervisione di Alex Antone e Jon Moisan (Image Skybound)
• The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic, supervisione di Josh Bernstein (Z2)
• The Nib Magazine, supervisione di Matt Bors (Nib)
• Sensory: Life on the Spectrum, supervisione di Bex Ollerton (Andrews McMeel)
• Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album, supervisione di Rantz Hoseley (Z2)

Migliore opera di non-fiction

• Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense, di Noël Simsolo e Dominique Hé, traduzione di Montana Kane (NBM)
• Alice Guy: First Lady of Film, di José-Louis Bocquet e Catel Muller, traduzione di Edward Gauvin (SelfMadeHero)
• But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, supervisione di Charlotte Schallié (University of Toronto Press)
• Flung Out of Space, di Grace Ellis e Hannah Templer (Abrams ComicArts)
• Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism, di Jess Ruliffson (Fantagraphics)
• Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball, di Jon Chad (First Second/Macmillan)

Migliore biografia a fumetti

• Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story, di Catherine Pioli, traduzione di J. T. Mahany (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press)
• Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, di Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
• It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth: An Auto-Bio-Graphic-Novel, di Zoe Thorogood (Image)
• So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship, di Sophie Lambda, traduzione di Montana Kane (First Second/Macmillan)
• Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure, di Lewis Hancox (Scholastic Graphix)

Migliore graphic novel (inedito)

• The Book of Niall, di Barry Jones (Ellie & Beatty)
• Crushing, di Sophie Burrows (Algonquin Young Readers)
• Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral, di Thomas Woodruff (Fantagraphics)
• The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the Night, di Marjorie Liu e Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)
• Ultrasound, di Conor Stechschulte (Fantagraphics)

Migliore graphic novel (riedizione)

• Days of Sand, di Aimée de Jongh, traduzione di Christopher Bradley (SelfMadeHero)
• Geneviève Castrée: Complete Works, di Geneviève Castrée, traduzione di Phil Elverum e Aleshia Jensen (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Mazebook Dark Horse Direct Edition, di Jeff Lemire (Dark Horse)
• One Beautiful Spring Day, di Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics)
• Parker: The Martini Edition—Last Call, di Richard Stark, Darwyn Cooke, Ed Brubaker e Sean Phillips (IDW)
• Super Spy Deluxe Edition, di Matt Kindt (Dark Horse)

Migliore adattamento da un altro medium

• Chivalry by Neil Gaiman, adattamento di Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)
• Rain by Joe Hill, adattamento di David M. Booher e Zoe Thorogood (Syzygy/Image)
• Ten Days in a Madhouse, di Nellie Bly, adattamento di Brad Ricca e Courtney Sieh (Gallery 13/Simon $ Schuster)
• Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album, supervisione di Rantz Hoseley (Z2)
• A Visit to Moscow by Rabbi Rafael Grossman, adattamento di Anna Olswanger e Yevgenia Nayberg (Turner)

Migliore edizione statunitense di opere internazionali

• Always Never, di Jordi Lafebre, traduzione di Montana Kane (Dark Horse)
• Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1, di Juan Díaz Canales e Juanjo Guarnido, traduzione di Diana Schutz e Brandon Kander (Dark Horse)
• Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story, di Catherine Pioli, traduzione di J. T. Mahany (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press)
• The Pass, di Espé, traduzione di J.T. Mahany (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press)
• Tiki: A Very Ruff Year, di David Azencot e Fred Leclerc, traduzione di Nanette McGuinness (Life Drawn/Humanoids)

Migliore edizione statunitense di opere internazionali (Asia)

• Black Paradox, di Junji Ito, traduzione di Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media)
• The Hellbound vols. 1-2, di Yeon Sang-ho and Choi Gyu-seok, traduzione di Danny Lim (Dark Horse)
• Look Back, di Tatsuki Fujimoto, traduzione di Amanda Haley (VIZ Media)
• PTSD Radio vol. 1, di Masaaki Nakayama, traduzione di Adam Hirsch (Kodansha)
• Shuna’s Journey, di Hayao Miyazaki, traduzione di Alex Dudok de Wit (First Second/Macmillan)
• Talk to My Back, di Yamada Murasaki, traduzione di Ryan Holmberg (Drawn & Quarterly)

Migliore riproposta di vecchie opere (strisce)

• Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos, di Jay Jackson (New York Review Comics)
• Come Over Come Over, It’s So Magic, and My Perfect Life, di Lynda Barry, supervisione di Peggy Burns (Drawn & Quarterly)
• The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1922-1924, di George Herriman, supervisione di J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)
• Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere, di Liniers, supervisione di Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
• Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Volume 8: Hijinks from the Horn of Plenty, di Walt Kelly, supervisione di Mark Evanier ed Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)

Migliore riproposta di vecchie opere (comic book)

• The Deluxe Gimenez: The Fourth Power & The Starr Conspiracy, di Juan Gimenez, supervisione di Alex Donoghue e Bruno Lecigne (Humanoids)
• The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, supervisione di Dian Hansen (TASCHEN)
• Home to Stay! The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, di Ray Bradbury e altri, supervisione di J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)
• The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus 1 (Abrams ComicArts)
• Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: The Diamond Jubilee Collection, di Carl Barks, supervisione di David Gerstein (Fantagraphics)

Migliore scrittore/scrittrice

• Grace Ellis, Flung Out of Space (Abrams ComicArts)
• Tom King, Batman: Killing Time, Batman: One Bad Day, Gotham City: Year One, The Human Target, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (DC); Love Everlasting (Image)
• Mark Russell, Traveling to Mars (Ablaze); One-Star Squadron, Superman: Space Age (DC); The Incal: Psychoverse (Humanoids)
• James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country (DC); The Closet, The Department of Truth (Image)
• Chip Zdarsky, Stillwater (Image Skybound); Daredevil (Marvel)

Migliore autore unico/autrice unica

• Sarah Andersen, Cryptid Club (Andrews McMeel)
• Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Espé, The Pass (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University)
• Junji Ito, Black Paradox, The Liminal Zone (VIZ Media)
• Zoe Thorogood, It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (Image)

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

• Jason Shawn Alexander, Killadelphia, Nita Hawes’ Nightmare Blog (Image)
• Alvaro Martínez Bueno, The Nice House on the Lake (DC)
• Sean Phillips, Follow Me Down, The Ghost in You (Image)
• Bruno Redondo, Nightwing (DC)
• Greg Smallwood, The Human Target (DC)

Migliore pittore o pittrice/artista multimediale

• Lee Bermejo, A Vicious Circle (BOOM! Studios)
• Felix Delep, Animal Castle (Ablaze)
• Daria Schmitt, The Monstrous Dreams of Mr. Providence (Europe Comics)
• Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)
• Zoe Thorogood, Rain (Syzygy/Image)
• Thomas Woodruff, Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral (Fantagraphics)

Migliore copertinista

• Jen Bartel, She-Hulk (Marvel)
• Bruno Redondo, Nightwing (DC)
• Alex Ross, Astro City: That Was Then… (Image); Fantastic Four, Black Panther (Marvel)
• Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)
• Zoe Thorogood, Joe Hill’s Rain (Syzygy/Image)

Migliore colorista

• Jordie Bellaire, The Nice House on the Lake, Suicide Squad: Blaze (DC); Ant-Man, Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age (Marvel)
• Jean-Francois Beaulieu, I Hate Fairyland 2022, Twig (Image)
• Dave McCaig, The Incal: Psychoverse (Humanoids)
• Jacob Phillips, Follow Me Down, The Ghost in You, That Texas Blood (Image)
• Alex Ross e Josh Johnson, The Fantastic Four: Full Circle (Abrams ComicArts)
• Diana Sousa, Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins, The Mighty Nein Origins: Yasha Nydoorin, The Mighty Nein Origins: Fjord Stone, The Mighty Nein Origins: Caleb Widogast (Dark Horse)

Migliore letterista

• Pat Brosseau, Batman: The Knight, Wonder Woman: The Villainy of Our Fears (DC); Creepshow, Dark Ride, I Hate This Place, Skybound Presents: Afterschool (Image Skybound)
• Chris Dickey, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (Abrams ComicArts)
• Todd Klein, Chivalry (Dark Horse); Fables (DC); Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age (Marvel)
• Nate Piekos, Black Hammer Reborn, Minor Threats, Shaolin Cowboy, Stranger Things: Kamchatka (Dark Horse); I Hate Fairyland, Twig (Image)
• Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (IDW)
• Thomas Woodruff, Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral (Fantagraphics)

Migliore pubblicazione giornalistica sul fumetto

• Alter Ego, supervisione di Roy Thomas (TwoMorrows)
• Comic Book Creator, supervisione di Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows)
• The Comics Journal #308, supervisione di Gary Groth, Kristy Valenti e Rachel Miller (Fantagraphics)
• PanelXPanel magazine, supervisione di Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou e Tiffany Babb (panelxpanel.com)
• Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, ICv2, Publishers Weekly

Migliore libro sul fumetto

• The Art of the News: Comics Journalism, supervisione di Katherine Kelp-Stebbins e Ben Saunders (Oregon State University Press)
• Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, di Benjamin L. Clark e Nat Gertler (Schulz Museum)
• The Charlton Companion, di Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows)
• Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics, A Passion for Fashion, di Trina Robbins (Hermes Press)
• Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia, di José Alaniz (Ohio State University Press)

Migliore saggio accademico sul fumetto

• Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels, di Josef Benson e Doug Singsen (University Press of Mississippi)
• Graphic Medicine, supervisione di Erin La Cour e Anna Poletti (University of Hawai’i’ Press)
• How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies, di Katherine Kelp-Stebbins (Ohio State University Press)
• The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions, supervisione di Alison Halsall e Jonathan Warren (University Press of Mississippi)
• Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels, di Tim Smyth (Routledge)

Migliore design

• Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral, design di Thomas Woodruff, Jacob Covey e Ryan Dinnick (Fantagraphics)
• A Frog in the Fall (and later on), design di Linnea Sterte, Olle Forsslöf e Patrick Crotty (PEOW)
• Joan Jett & the Blackhearts 40X40: Bad Reputation/I Love Rock-n-Roll, design di Josh Bernstein e Jason Ullmeyer (Z2)
• Mazebook Dark Horse Direct Edition, design di Tom Muller (Dark Horse)
• Parker: The Martini Edition—Last Call, design di Sean Phillips (IDW)
• Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album, design di Lauryn Ipsum (Z2)

Migliore webcomic

• Deeply Dave, by Grover
• Delilah Dirk: Practical Defence Against Piracy, di Tony Cliff
• Lore Olympus, di Rachel Smythe (WEBTOON)
• The Mannamong, di Michael Adam Lengyel
• Spores, di Joshua Barkman

Migliore fumetto digitale

• All Princesses Die Before Dawn, di Quentin Zuttion, traduzione di M. B. Valente (Europe Comics)
• Barnstormers, di Scott Snyder e Tula Lotay (Comixology Originals)
• Behind the Curtain, di Sara del Giudice, traduzione di M. B. Valente (Europe Comics)
• Ripple Effects, di Jordan Hart, Bruno Chiroleu, Justin Harder e Shane Kadlecik (Fanbase Press)
• Sixty Years in Winter, di Ingrid Chabbert e Aimée de Jongh, traduzione di Matt Madden (Europe Comics)

Fonte Comicsbeat