Eisner Award-Nominated Comics

Comic-Con International, a huge annual comics-industry showcase, announced nominations for the Eisner awards recently. The following are the lists of books specifically for kids. There are many other categories. All winners are declared at Comic-Con in San Diego on July 23rd.

Best Publication for Kids 

Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute, by Jarrett J. Krosoczeka (Knopf) 

The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook, by Eleanor Davis (Bloomsbury) 

Tiny Tyrant vol. 1: The Ethelbertosaurus, by Lewis Trondheim and Fabrice Parme (First Second) 

The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics, edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly (Abrams ComicArts/Toon) 

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz hc, by L. Frank Baum, Eric Shanower, and Skottie Young (Marvel) 

Best Publication for Teens 

Angora Napkin, by Troy Little (IDW) 

Beasts of Burden, by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson (Dark Horse) 

A Family Secret, by Eric Heuvel (Farrar Straus Giroux/Anne Frank House) 

Far Arden, by Kevin Cannon (Top Shelf) 

I Kill Giants tpb, by Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura (Image)

My son can vouch for Lunch Lady, Tiny Tyrant, and The TOON Treasury, but I see we need to pick up The Secret Science Alliance (which also won a Cybils graphic novel award) and the Oz book, too. I may snag Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation, adapted by Michael Keller and Nicolle Rager Fuller (Rodale), which was nominated for Best Adaptation from Another Work; several comics cited in other areas will likely appeal to older kids.

Comments

[adrienne]

I loved the Oz and The Secret Science Alliance (and Lunch Lady and the TOON Treasury, too--have yet to read Tiny Tyrant). Shanower and Young are collaborating on a second Oz installment that's coming out in single issues right now, and it's equally as good.

[Saints and Spinners]

I can't believe I've not yet read any of Krosoczka's books, seeing as how much I enjoyed his "Book by Book" video (alas, it seems no longer to be available).

[Ms.Yingling]

Well, this list added a whole lot of things to my TBR pile!

[Susan (Chicken Spaghetti)]

Mine, too, Ms. Y.! I especially want to see the Oz book.