O Eisner Awards é uma das maiores premiações de histórias em quadrinhos, equivale ao Oscar dos quadrinhos. Anualmente, são indicados os melhores trabalhos do ano anterior para concorrerem em diversas categorias.
Foi divulgado a lista dos indicados dos Eisner Awards 2017. Uma coisa bastante notável é a diversidade de títulos de várias editoras.
Confira as categorias e seus respectivos indicados:
Melhor História
“The Comics Wedding of the Century,” de Simon Hanselmann, em We Told You So: Comics as Art (Fantagraphics)
“The Dark Nothing,” de Jordan Crane, in Uptight #5 (Fantagraphics)
“Good Boy,” de Tom King e David Finch, em Batman Annual #1 (DC)
“Monday,” de W. Maxwell Prince e John Amor, in One Week in the Library (Image)
“Mostly Saturn,” de Michael DeForge, em Island Magazine #8 (Image)
“Shrine of the Monkey God!” de Kim Deitch, em Kramers Ergot 9 (Fantagraphics)
Melhor história/edição única
Babybel Wax Bodysuit, de Eric Kostiuk Williams (Retrofit/Big Planet)
Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In, de Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, e Jill Thompson (Dark Horse)
Blammo #9, de Noah Van Sciver (Kilgore Books)
Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, de Ed Brubaker e Sean Phillips (Image)
Sir Alfred #3, de Tim Hensley (Pigeon Press)
Your Black Friend, de Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket)
Melhor série mensal
Astro City, de Kurt Busiek e Brent Anderson (Vertigo/DC)
Kill or Be Killed, de Ed Brubaker e Sean Phillips (Image)
The Mighty Thor, de Jason Aaron e Russell Dauterman (Marvel)
Paper Girls, de Brian K. Vaughan e Cliff Chiang (Image)
Saga, de Brian K. Vaughan e Fiona Staples (Image)
Melhor minissérie
Archangel, de William Gibson, Michael St. John Smith, Butch Guice, e Tom Palmer (IDW)
Briggs Land, de Brian Wood e Mack Chater (Dark Horse)
Han Solo, de Marjorie Liu e Mark Brooks (Marvel)
Kim and Kim, de Magdalene Visaggio e Eva Cabrera (Black Mask)
The Vision, de Tom King e Gabriel Walta (Marvel)
Melhor série estreante
Black Hammer, de Jeff Lemire e Dean Ormston (Dark Horse)
Clean Room, de Gail Simone e Jon Davis-Hunt (Vertigo/DC)
Deathstroke: Rebirth, de Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, et al. (DC)
Faith, de Jody Houser, Pere Pérez, e Marguerite Sauvage (Valiant)
Mockingbird, de Chelsea Cain e Kate Niemczyk (Marvel)
Melhor publicação infantil (para crianças de até oito anos)
Ape and Armadillo Take Over the World, de James Sturm (Toon)
Burt’s Way Home, de John Martz (Koyama)
The Creeps, Book 2: The Trolls Will Feast! de Chris Schweizer (Abrams)
I’m Grumpy (My First Comics), de Jennifer L. Holm e Matthew Holm (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, de Ben Clanton (Tundra)
Melhor publicação infantil (de 9 a 12 anos)
The Drawing Lesson, de Mark Crilley (Watson-Guptill)
Ghosts, de Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic)
Hilda and the Stone Forest, de Luke Pearson (Flying Eye Books)
Rikki, adapted de Norm Harper e Matthew Foltz-Gray (Karate Petshop)
Science Comics: Dinosaurs, de MK Reed e Joe Flood (First Second)
Melhor publicação juvenil (13 a 17 anos)
Bad Machinery, vol. 5: The Case of the Fire Inside, de John Allison (Oni)
Batgirl, de Hope Larson e Rafael Albuquerque (DC)
Jughead, de Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, e Derek Charm (Archie)
Monstress, de Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image)
Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars, de Jessica Abel (Papercutz/Super Genius)
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, de Ryan North e Erica Henderson (Marvel)
Melhor publicação de humor
The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp, de Lee Marrs (Marrs Books)
Hot Dog Taste Test, de Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn & Quarterly)
Jughead, de Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, e Derek Charm (Archie)
Man, I Hate Cursive, de Jim Benton (Andrews McMeel)
Yuge! 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump, de G. B. Trudeau (Andrews McMeel)
Melhor antologia
Baltic Comics Anthology š! #26: dADa, editado por David Schilter e Sanita Muizniece (kuš!)
Island Magazine, editado por Brandon Graham e Emma Rios (Image)
Kramers Ergot 9, editado por Sammy Harkham (Fantagraphics)
Spanish Fever: Stories by the New Spanish Cartoonists, editado por Santiago Garcia (Fantagraphics)
Melhor não-ficção
Dark Night: A True Batman Story, de Paul Dini e Eduardo Risso (Vertigo/DC)
Glenn Gould: A Life Off Tempo, de Sandrine Revel (NBM)
March (Book Three), de John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, e Nate Powell (Top Shelf)
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir, de Tom Hart (St. Martin’s)
Tetris: The Games People Play, de Box Brown (First Second)
Melhor álbum gráfico (inédito)
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, de Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash, de Dave McKean (Dark Horse)
Exits, de Daryl Seitchik (Koyama)
Mooncop, de Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)
Patience, de Daniel Clowes (Fantagraphics)
Wonder Woman: The True Amazon, de Jill Thompson (DC Comics)
Melhor álbum gráfico (republicação)
Demon, de Jason Shiga (First Second)
Incomplete Works, de Dylan Horrocks (Alternative)
Last Look, de Charles Burns (Pantheon)
Meat Cake Bible, de Dame Darcy (Fantagraphics)
Megg and Mog in Amsterdam and Other Stories, de Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics)
She’s Not into Poetry, de Tom Hart (Alternative)
Melhor edição americana de material estrangeiro
Equinoxes, by Cyril Pedrosa, traduzido por Joe Johnson (NBM)
Irmina, by Barbara Yelin, traduzido por Michael Waaler (SelfMadeHero)
Love: The Lion, de Frédéric Brémaud e Federico Bertolucci (Magnetic)
Moebius Library: The World of Edena, de Jean “Moebius” Giraud et al. (Dark Horse)
Wrinkles, by Paco Roca, traduzido por Erica Mena (Fantagraphics)
Melhor edição americana de material estrangeiro (asiático)
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, de Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
Goodnight Punpun, vols. 1–4, by Inio Asano, traduzido por JN PRoductions (VIZ Media)
orange: The Complete Collection, vols. 1–2, by Ichigo Takano, traduzido por Amber Tamosaitis, adaptação de Shannon Fay (Seven Seas)
The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime, de Toshio Ban e Tezuka Productions, traduzido por Frederik L. Schodt (Stone Bridge Press)
Princess Jellyfish, vols. 1–3 de Akiko Higashimura, traduzido por Sarah Alys Lindholm (Kodansha)
Wandering Island, vol. 1, by Kenji Tsuruta, traduzido por Dana Lewis (Dark Horse)
Melhor coleção de arquivo (tiras)
Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings, de Glen Baxter (NYR Comics)
Barnaby, vol. 3, by Crockett Johnson, editado por Philip Nel e Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Colorful Cases of the 1930s, editado por Peter Maresca (Sunday Press)
The Realist Cartoons, editado por Paul Krassner e Ethan Persoff (Fantagraphics)
Walt & Skeezix 1931–1932, by Frank King, editado por Jeet Heer e Chris Ware (Drawn & Quarterly)
Melhor coleção de arquivo (quadrinhos)
The Complete Neat Stuff, de Peter Bagge, editado por Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, editado por Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics)
Fables and Funnies, by Walt Kelly, compilado por David W. Tosh (Dark Horse)
Trump: The Complete Collection, de Harvey Kurtzman et al., editado por Denis Kitchen e John Lind (Dark Horse)
U.S.S. Stevens: The Collected Stories, de Sam Glanzman, editado por Drew Ford (Dover)
Melhor roteirista
Ed Brubaker, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed, Velvet (Image)
Kurt Busiek, Astro City (Vertigo/DC)
Chelsea Cain, Mockingbird (Marvel)
Max Landis, Green Valley (Image/Skybound), Superman: American Alien (DC)
Jeff Lemire, Black Hammer (Dark Horse); Descender, Plutona (Image); Bloodshot Reborn (Valiant)
Brian K. Vaughan, Paper Girls, Saga (Image)
Melhor roteirista/desenhista
Jessica Abel, Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars (Papercutz/Super Genius)
Box Brown, Tetris: The Games People Play (First Second)
Tom Gauld, Mooncop (Drawn & Quarterly)
Tom Hart, Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir (St. Martin’s)
Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)
Melhor arte-finalista ou time de arte-finalistas
Mark Brooks, Han Solo (Marvel)
Dan Mora, Klaus (BOOM!)
Greg Ruth, Indeh (Grand Central Publishing)
Francois Schuiten, The Theory of the Grain of Sand (IDW)
Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)
Brian Stelfreeze, Black Panther (Marvel)
Melhor desenhista/artista multimídia (páginas internas)
Federico Bertolucci, Love: The Lion (Magnetic)
Brecht Evens, Panther (Drawn & Quarterly)
Manuele Fior, 5,000 km per Second (Fantagraphics)
Dave McKean, Black Dog (Dark Horse)
Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)
Jill Thompson, Wonder Woman: The True Amazon (DC); Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In (Dark Horse)
Melhor capista
Mike Del Mundo, Avengers, Carnage, Mosaic, The Vision (Marvel)
David Mack, Abe Sapien, BPRD Hell on Earth, Fight Club 2, Hellboy and the BPRD 1953 (Dark Horse)
Sean Phillips, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed (Image)
Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)
Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)
Melhor Colorista
Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Green Valley (Image/Skybound)
Elizabeth Breitweiser, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed, Velvet (Image); Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta (Image/Skybound)
Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)
Laura Martin, Wonder Woman (DC); Ragnorak (IDW); Black Panther (Marvel)
Matt Wilson, Cry Havoc, Paper Girls, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); Black Widow, The Mighty Thor, Star-Lord (Marvel)
Melhor letreirista
Dan Clowes, Patience (Fantagraphics)
Brecht Evens, Panther (Drawn & Quarterly)
Tom Gauld, Mooncop (Drawn & Quarterly)
Nick Hayes, Woody Guthrie (Abrams)
Todd Klein, Clean Room, Dark Night, Lucifer (Vertigo/DC); Black Hammer (Dark Horse)
Sonny Liew, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)
Melhor livro sobre quadrinhos
blanc et noir: takeshi obata illustrations, de Takeshi Obata (VIZ Media)
Ditko Unleashed: An American Hero, de Florentino Flórez e Frédéric Manzano (IDW/Editions Déese)
Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, de Michael Tisserand (Harper)
The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood, vol. 1, editado por Bhob Stewart e J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)
More Heroes of the Comics, de Drew Friedman (Fantagraphics)
Melhor trabalho acadêmico
Brighter Than You Think: Ten Short Works by Alan Moore, editado por Marc Sobel (Uncivilized)
Forging the Past: Set and the Art of Memory, editado por Daniel Marrone (University Press of Mississippi)
Frank Miller’s Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism, editado por Paul Young (Rutgers University Press)
Pioneering Cartoonists of Color, editado por Tim Jackson (University Press of Mississippi)
Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation, editado por Carolyn Cocca (Bloomsbury)
Melhor design de publicação
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, designed de Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, designed de Keeli McCarthy (Fantagraphics)
Frank in the Third Dimension, designed de Jacob Covey, 3D conversions by Charles Barnard (Fantagraphics)
The Realist Cartoons, designed de Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics)
Si Lewen’s Parade: An Artist’s Odyssey, designed de Art Spiegelman (Abrams)
Melhor Webcomic
Bird Boy,de Anne Szabla
Deja Brew,de Taneka Stotts e Sara DuVall
Jaeger, de Ibrahim Moustafa
The Middle Age, de Steve Conley
On Beauty, de Christina Tran
Melhor Quadrinho Digital
Bandette, de Paul Tobin e Colleen Coover
Edison Rex, de Chris Roberson e Dennis Culver
Helm, de Jehanzeb Hasan e Mauricio Caballero
On a Sunbeam, de Tillie Walden
Universe!, de Albert Monteys
Os vencedores serão anunciados em Julho durante a San Diego Comic Con.
