Transformers, Wonder Woman, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, and more: The Eisner Award 2024 nominations are here

It’s a big year for Image and DC in particular

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It’s that time again… The full list of this year’s Eisner Award nominations has been revealed. More than 150 print and online titles have been nominated in 32 different categories this year, with Image, DC, and Fantagraphics standing out as the publishers with the most nods.

The competition - named for the great cartoonist Will Eisner - is in its 36th year and is voted for by comics biz professionals, with the final decisions made by a judging panel made up of educator Ryan Claytor, writer and art historian N. C. Christopher Couch, educator Andréa Gilroy, writer and publisher Joseph Illidge, comics retailer Mathias Lewis, and writer and librarian Jillian Rudes.

For our money this is a very solid list. We’re hearted to see Newsarama favorites likeTransformers,Birds of Prey, andSomnagetting nods, while the chart-toppingBeneath the Trees Where Nobody Seesis another very well-deserved nominee. We’re also very pleased to see Michael Molcher’s excellent text on Judge Dredd - I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future - get some love, as well as the gorgeous color omnibus of Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s classic The Ballad of Halo Jones.

The winners of the 2024 Eisner Awards will be presented with their trophies at an awards ceremony on the evening of July 26, right in the middle of this year’s San Diego Comic Con, so keep an eye out then to see which of your favorites won. Now, to the nominations…

Best short story

Best single issue/one-shot

Best continuing series

Best limited series

Best limited series

Best publication for early readers

Best publication for kids

Best publication for teens

Best humor publication

Best anthology

Best reality-based work

Best graphic memoir

Best graphic album - new

Best graphic album - reprint

Best adaptation from another medium

Best US edition of international material

Best US edition of international material - Asia

Best archival collection/projects - strips

Best archival collection/projects - comic books

Best writer

Best writer/artist

Best penciller/inker or penciller/inker team

Best painter/multimedia artist (interior art)

Best cover artist

Best coloring

Best lettering

Best academic/scholarly work

Best publication design

Best webcomic

Best digital comic

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Will Salmon is the Comics Editor for GamesRadar/Newsarama. He has been writing about comics, film, TV, and music for more than 15 years, which is quite a long time if you stop and think about it. At Future he has previously launched scary movie magazine Horrorville, relaunched Comic Heroes, and has written for every issue of SFX magazine for over a decade. He sometimes feels very old, like Guy Pearce in Prometheus. His music writing has appeared in The Quietus, MOJO, Electronic Sound, Clash, and loads of other places and he runs the micro-label Modern Aviation, which puts out experimental music on cassette tape.

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