As easy as it is to decry how San Diego Comic - Con is n’t about cartoon strip anymore , the gigantic convention is still home to one of the most prestigious awards in the industry , the Eisners . The inclination of nominees for this year ’s accolade are out and it is , as common , jam - packed with awful comics .
There ’s a ton of comics and creatives nominated across the board from giant publishers like Marvel and Image to the pocket-sized indie mercantile establishment , mull the vast variety of material on display in comics mightily now . There ’s also a record figure of nominations for distaff creators this twelvemonth , with women appearing in 27 of the 30 category , netting a total of 61 nominations ( up from 44 last twelvemonth ) . There ’s a lot to jazz in these campaigner too , from terrific series like Southern Bastards , to Monstress , and yes , even the delightful Unbeatable Squirrel Girl , nominated for both Best New Series and Best Penciller in Erica Henderson . Hooray for cartoon strip !
Here ’s a selection of the categories and their nominees , but head on over to the link below to see the full list .
“ Black Death in America , ” by Tom King and John Paul Leon , in Vertigo Quarterly : Black(Vertigo / DC )
“ turn over Me Down , ” by Kristyna Baczynski , in 24 x 7 ( Fanfare Presents )
“ It ’s Going to Be all right , ” by Matthew Inman , in The Oatmeal , theoatmeal.com / comedian / planer
“ Killing and Dying , ” by Adrian Tomine , in Optic face # 14 ( Drawn & Quarterly )
“ Lion and Mouse , ” by R. Sikoryak , in Fable Comics ( First Second )
A Blanket of Butterflies , by Richard Van Camp and Scott B. Henderson ( HighWater Press )
I Love This Part , by Tillie Walden ( Avery Hill )
Mowgli ’s Mirror , by Olivier Schrauwen ( Retrofit / Big Planet )
Pope Hats # 4 , by Ethan Rilly ( AdHouse )
Silver Surfer # 11 : “ Never After , ” by Dan Slott and Michael Allred ( Marvel )
Bandette , by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover ( Monkeybrain )
Giant Days , by John Allison , Lissa Treiman , and Max Sarin ( BOOM ! Box )
unvanquishable , by Robert Kirkman , Ryan Ottley , and Cliff Rathburn ( Image / Skybound )
Silver Surfer , by Dan Slott and Michael Allred ( Marvel )
Southern Bastards , by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour ( Image )
Chrononauts , by Mark Millar and Sean Murphy ( Image )
The Fade Out , by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips ( Image )
Lady Killer , by Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich ( Dark Horse )
Minimum earnings : So Many Bad Decisions , by Bob Fingerman ( Image )
The Spire , by Simon Spurrier and Jeff Stokely ( BOOM ! studio )
Bitch Planet , by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro ( Image )
Harrow County , by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook ( Dark Horse )
Kaijumax , by Zander Cannon ( Oni )
Monstress , by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda ( Image )
Paper Girls , by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang ( Image )
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl , by Ryan North and Erica Henderson ( Marvel )
Jason Aaron , Southern Bastards ( Image ) , Men of Wrath ( Marvel Icon ) , Doctor Strange , Star Wars , Thor ( Marvel )
John Allison , Giant Days ( BOOM Studios ! )
Ed Brubaker , The Fade Out , Velvet , Criminal Special Edition ( Image )
Marjorie Liu , Monstress ( picture )
G. Willow Wilson , Ms. Marvel ( Marvel )
Bill Griffith , Invisible Ink : My female parent ’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist ( Fantagraphics )
Nathan Hale , Nathan Hale ’s Hazardous Tales : The Underground Abductor ( Abrams )
Sydney Padua , The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage ( Pantheon )
Ed Piskor , Hip - Hop Family Tree , vol . 3 ( Fantagraphics )
Noah Van Sciver , Fante Bukowski , Saint Cole ( Fantagraphics )
Michael Allred , Silver Surfer ( Marvel ) ; Art Ops ( Vertigo / DC )
Cliff Chiang , Paper Girls ( paradigm )
Erica Henderson , Jughead ( Archie ) , Unbeatable Squirrel Girl ( Marvel )
Joëlle Jones , Lady Killer ( Dark Horse ) , Brides of Helheim ( Oni )
Nate Powell , March , Book Two ( Top Shelf / IDW )
Federico Bertolucci , Love : The Tiger and Love : The Fox ( Magnetic Press )
Colleen Coover , Bandette ( Monkeybrain )
Carita Lupattelli , Izuna ( Humanoids )
Dustin Nguyen , Descender ( Image )
Tony Sandoval , A Glance Backward ( Magnetic Press )
David Aja , Hawkeye , Karnak , Scarlet Witch ( Marvel )
Rafael Albuquerque , Ei8ht ( Dark Horse ) , Huck ( Image )
Amanda Conner , Harley Quinn ( DC )
Ed Piskor , Hip - Hop Family Tree ( Fantagraphics )
Laura Allred , Lady Killer ( Dark Horse ) ; Silver Surfer ( Marvel ) ; artistic creation OPS ( Vertigo / DC )
Jordie Bellaire , The Autumnlands , Injection , Plutona , Pretty Deadly , The Surface , They ’re Not Like Us , Zero ( effigy ) ; The ex - Files ( IDW ) ; The Massive ( Dark Horse ) ; Magneto , Vision ( Marvel )
Elizabeth Breitwiser , The Fade Out , Criminal Magazine , Outcast , Velvet ( Image )
John Rauch , The Beauty ( Image ) ; Batman : Arkham Knight , Earth 2 : Society ( DC ) ; Runaways ( Marvel )
Dave Stewart , Abe Sapien , BPRD Hell on Earth , Fight Club 2 , Frankenstein Underground , Hellboy in Hell , Hellboy and the BPRD , ( Dark Horse ) ; Sandman : Overture , Twilight Children ( Vertigo / DC ) , Captain America : White ( Marvel ) , Space Dumplins ( Scholastic Graphix )
Derf Backderf , Trashed ( Abrams )
Steve Dutro , origin - C , Midnight Society , Plants vs Zombies ( Dark Horse )
Lucy Knisley , Displacement ( Fantagraphics )
Troy Little , Hunter S. Thompson ’s Fear and detestation in Las Vegas ( Top Shelf / IDW )
Kevin McCloskey , We Dig Worms ! ( TOON Books )
The awards show will take place on Friday , July 22 , during San Diego Comic - Con .
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