The Harvey Awards have announced the nominees for the 2021 awards.
The Harvey Awards are one of the comic industry’s oldest and most prestigious awards. Recognizing outstanding achievement in multiple categories, the Harvey’s have been a fixture of the comic industry since 1988. The Harvey Awards are an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the best & brightest, helping new readers, current fans, booksellers, retailers and librarians distinguish the best comics of the year as voted on by their peers. This year’s nominees were selected by a handpicked contingent of industry voices and voted on by qualifying professionals.
BOOK OF THE YEAR
- The Book Tour by Andi Watson (Top Shelf Productions)
- Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End Of The World by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds (Image Comics)
- Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf (Abrams)
- The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (Random House)
- Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith (Fantagraphics)
- Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (Fantgraphics)
- Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber (DC Comics)
- Save It For Later: Promises, Protest and Parenthood by Nate Powell (Abrams)
DIGITAL BOOK OF THE YEAR
- Adora and The Distance by Marc Bernardin and Ariela Kristantina (Comixology Originals)
- Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann – Serialized on https://www.instagram.com/simon.hanselmann/
- Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal – Serialized on https://www.instagram.com/aminder_d/
- Friday by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin – http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/friday
- Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe – https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320
BEST CHILDREN OR YOUNG ADULT BOOK
- Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter (Scholastic Graphix)
- Class Act by Jerry Craft (Quill Tree Books)
- The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (Random House)
- Nubia: Real One by L.L. McKinney and Robyn Smith (DC Comics)
- Twins by Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright (Scholastic Graphix)
BEST ADAPTATION OF COMIC BOOK/GRAPHIC NOVEL
- The Boys by Amazon, based on The Boys (DC Comics)
- Invincible by Amazon, based on Invincible (Image)
- Loki by Disney+, based on The Avengers (Marvel Comics)
- Superman & Lois by CW, based on Superman (DC Comics
- Sweet Tooth by Netflix, based on Sweet Tooth (DC/Vertigo)
- WandaVision by Disney+, based on The Avengers (Marvel Comics)
BEST MANGA
- Asadora! by Naoki Urasawa (VIZ Media)
- Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku (Kodansha Comics)
- Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ Media)
- Remina by Junji Ito (VIZ Media)
- Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo (VIZ Media)
BEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK
- The City of Belgium by Brecht Evans, translated by Brecht Evans (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Factory Summers by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Moms by Yeong-shin Ma, translated by Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Paul At Home by Michel Rabagliati, translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall (Drawn & Quarterly)
- The Winter of the Cartoonist by Paco Roca, translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)
ASHLEY KRONSBERG is the Marketing Manager for Diamond Book Distributors and the Editor of Diamond BookShelf Magazine. When she isn’t standing on the rooftops screaming her heart out about the latest graphic novels and manga, she can be found crying over the latest slice of life anime she was not emotionally prepared for, pocket healing in the dungeons of Azeroth, or hunting skags on the outskirts of Pandora.
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