The nominations for this year's Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (celebrating work published in 2024) were announced a week ago, on May 15. As ever, I'm looking up and seeking out things to read. It’s an excellent, wide-ranging ballot, with props to this year’s judges: editor, writer, and historian Robert V. Conte; librarian and ALA comics advocate Kacy Helwick; critic, editor, and podcaster Meg Lemke; comics retailer and ComicsPro board member Eitan Manhoff; and scholar and professor Rocco Versaci. I know from experience that judging the Eisners is one hell of a job. I’m not conversant with everything, or even most of the things, on this year's ballot. Who could be? What follows is a personal inventory that I first posted to Facebook the day after the ballot was announced. Bear in mind that the ballot includes more than 150 words, divided into 32 categories:
Again, it’s a phenomenal list. I'll try to read every nominee in the young readers’ categories (below) in time to vote by the deadline, June 5 (note that prospective new Eisner voters must apply by May 29). Besides the young readers' categories, I've also listed the categories for publications about comics, which are particularly important to me. LA Public Library, here I come! Best Publication for Early Readers Damn, I haven't read any of these yet!
Best Publication for Kids
Best Publication for Teens
Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism
Best Comics-Related Book
Best Academic/Scholarly Work
A great crop this year! Groundbreaking work all around. I can't be objective about this (two of the nominees are in a series that I help edit), but once again I'm overjoyed by this roundup:
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