Eisner Awards 2020

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Eisner Awards are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the comics industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards.

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Best Short Story

Winner

Hot Comb

Ebony Flowers, 2020

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

Winner

My Favorite Thing is Monsters

Emil Ferris, 2017

Best Continuing Series

Winner

Bitter Root Volume 1: Family Business

David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, 2019

Nominees

Criminal Vol. 1: Coward

Ed Brubaker, 2015

Crowded Vol. 1

Christopher Sebela, 2019

Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky Vol. 1

Chip Zdarsky, 2021

The Dreaming Vol. 1: Pathways and Emanations

Simon Spurrier, Dan Watters, Nalo Hopkinson, Kat Howard, 2019

Immortal Hulk Vol. 1

Best Limited Series

Winner

Little Bird: The Fight For Elder's Hope

Darcy Van Poelgeest, 2019

Nominees

Ascender Volume 2: The Dead Sea

Jeff Lemire, 2020

Ghost Tree

Bobby Curnow, 2019

Naomi: Season One

Brian Michael Bendis, David F. Walker, 2019

Sentient

Jeff Lemire, 2019

Best New Series

Winner

Invisible Kingdom Volume 1

G. Willow Wilson, 2019

Nominees

Doctor Doom Vol. 1

Christopher Cantwell, 2020

Once & Future #1

Kieron Gillen, 2019

Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1

James Tynion IV, 2020

Undiscovered Country Vol. 1: Destiny

Scott Snyder, Charles Soule, 2020

Best Publication for Early Readers

Winner

Comics - Easy as ABC!

The Essential Guide to Comics for Kids

Ivan Brunetti, 2019

Nominees

Kitten Construction Company: A Bridge Too Fur

John Patrick Green, 2019

The Pigeon HAS to Go to School!

Mo Willems, 2019

A Trip to the Bottom of the World with Mouse

Frank Viva, 2012

¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market

Raúl the Third, 2019

Who Wet My Pants?

Best Publication for Kids

Winner

Guts

Raina Telgemeier, 2019

Nominees

Tales of Mischief

Marguerite Abouet, 2018

For Whom the Ball Rolls

Dav Pilkey, 2019

New Kid

Jerry Craft, 2019

This Was Our Pact

Ryan Andrews, 2019

The Wolf in Underpants

Wilfrid Lupano, 2019

Best Publication for Teens

Winner

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Mariko Tamaki, 2019

Nominees

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass

Mariko Tamaki, 2019

Hot Comb

Ebony Flowers, 2020

Kiss Number 8

Colleen AF Venable, 2019

Penny Nichols

MK Reed, Greg Means, 2019

Best Humor Publication

Winner

The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 1

Kousuke Oono, 2019

Nominees

Anatomy of Authors

The Highly Accurate and 100% Correct in Every Way

Dave Kellett, 2019

Death Wins a Goldfish

Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical

Brian Rea, 2019

Wondermark

Friends you can ride on

David Malki !, 2019

Best Anthology

Winner

Drawing Power

Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival

Diane Noomin, 2019

Nominees

The ABC of Typography

David Rault, 2019

Kramers Ergot 10

Sammy Harkham, 2019

Best Reality-Based Work

Winner

They Called Us Enemy

George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, 2019

Nominees

Good Talk

A Memoir in Conversations

Mira Jacob, 2020

Grass

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, 2019

Kid Gloves

Nine Months of Careful Chaos

Lucy Knisley, 2019

Moonbound

Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight

Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, 2019

My Solo Exchange Diary

Nagata Kabi, 2019

Best Graphic Album—New

Winner

Are You Listening?

Tillie Walden, 2019

Nominees

Bezimena

Nina Bunjevac, 2019

BTTM FDRS

Ezra Claytan Daniels, Ben Passmore, 2019

Life on the Moon

Robert Grossman, 2019

New World

David Jesus Vignolli, 2019

Reincarnation Stories

Kim Deitch, 2019

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

Winner

LaGuardia

Nnedi Okorafor, 2019

Nominees

Bad Weekend

Ed Brubaker, 2019

Clyde Fans

Cover Vol. 1

Brian Michael Bendis, David Mack, 2019

The River at Night

Kevin Huizenga, 2019

Rusty Brown

Chris Ware, 2019

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

Winner

Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples

Neil Gaiman, 2019

Nominees

Giraffes on Horseback Salad

Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made

Josh Frank, Tim Heidecker, 2019

The Giver

Lois Lowry, 2019

The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel)

Margaret Atwood, 2019

At the Mountains of Madness

H. P. Lovecraft, 2016

The Seventh Voyage

Stanislaw Lem, 2019

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

Winner

The House

Paco Roca, 2019

Nominees

Diabolical Summer

Thierry Smolderen, 2019

Gramercy Park

Timothee de Fombelle, 2019

Maggy Garrisson

Oiry Stéphane, Lewis Trondheim, 2019

Stay

Lewis Trondheim, 2019

The Wrath of Fantomas

Oliver Bocquet, 2019

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

Winners

Cats of the Louvre

Taiyo Matsumoto, 2019

Witch Hat Atelier

Kamome Shirahama, 2020

Nominees

BEASTARS

Paru Itagaki, 2019

Grass

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, 2019

Magic Knight Rayearth 25th Anniversary Manga Box Set 2

Magic Knight Rayearth 25th Anniversary Manga Box Set 1

The Poe Clan

Moto Hagio, 2019

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

Nominees

Cham

The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839–1862

David Kunzle, 2019

Ed Leffingwell's Little Joe by Harold Gray

Harold Gray, 2020

The George Herriman Library

Krazy & Ignatz 1916–1918

George Herriman, 2019

Madness in Crowds

The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady

Denis Kitchen, Violet Kitchen, 2020

Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips Vol. 6

Clean as a Weasel

Walt Kelly, 2020

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

Nominees

Alay-Oop

Gropper William, 2019

The Complete Crepax

American Stories

Guido Crepax, 2019

Jack Kirby's Dingbat Love

John Morrow, Mark Evanier, Jack Kirby, 2020

Moonshadow

J. M. Dematteis, 2019

Best Comics-Related Book

Winner

Making Comics

Lynda Barry, 2019

Nominees

The Art of Nothing

25 Years of Mutts and the Art of Patrick McDonnell

Patrick McDonnell, 2019

The Book of Weirdo

A Retrospective of R. Crumb's Legendary Humor Comics Anthology

Jon B. Cooke, Drew Friedman

Art and Unpublished Comics of James Stokoe

James Stokoe, 2019

Logo-A-Gogo

Branding Pop Culture - Logos and Design for Comics, Music, Toys and More

Rian Hughes, 2016

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Winner

EC Comics

Race, Shock, and Social Protest

Qiana Whitted, 2019

Nominees

The Art of Pere Joan

Space, Landscape, and Comics Form

Benjamin Fraser, 2019

The Comics of Rutu Modan

War, Love, and Secrets

Kevin Haworth, 2019

The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life

A Library of America Special Publication

Andrew Blauner, 2019

Producing Mass Entertainment

The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid

Christina Meyer, 2019

Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond

Uniting Different Cultures and Identities

Fusami Ogi, Rebecca Suter, Kazumi Nagaike, John A. Lent, 2019

Best Digital Comic

Winner

Afterlift

Chip Zdarsky, 2021

Nominees

Black Water Lilies

Michel Bussi, 2017

Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin

Plateau Emilie, 2019

Elma, a bear's life - Volume 1 - The Great Journey

Ingrid Chabbert, 2019

Tales from behind the Window

Kuntman Edanur, 2019