2024 Eisner Award Nominations: The 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award nominations were announced on May 17, 2024. Books of interest to youth that were nominated are listed below:
Best Publication for Early Readers- Bigfoot and Nessie: The Art of Getting Noticed by Chelsea M. Campbell and Laura Knetzger (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House); Burt the Beetle Lives Here! by Ashley Spires (Kids Can Press); Go-Go Guys by Rowboat Watkins (Chronicle Books); The Light Inside by Dan Misdea (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House); Milk and Mocha: Our Little Happiness by Melani Sie (Andrews McMeel); and Tacos Today: El Toro & Friends by Raúl the Third (HarperCollins/Versify).
Best Publication for Kids- Buzzing by Samuel Sattin and Rye Hickman (Little, Brown Ink); Mabuhay! by Zachary Sterling (Scholastic Graphix); Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín (Dial/Penguin Young Readers); Missing You by Phellip Willian and Melissa Garabeli. translation by Fabio Ramos (Oni Press); and Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan (First Second/Macmillan).
Best Publication for Teens- Blackward by Lawrence Lindell (Drawn & Quarterly); Danger and Other Unknown Risks by Ryan North and Erica Henderson (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House); Frontera by Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo (HarperAlley); Lights by Brenna Thummler (Oni Press); Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer (First Second/Macmillan); and My Girlfriend’s Child, vol. 1 by Mamoru Aoi, translation by Hana Allen (Seven Seas).
All of the titles nominated for Best Graphic Memoir are for non-adult readers: Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham (First Second/Macmillan);A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat (First Second/Macmillan); In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee (First Second/Macmillan); Memento Mori by Tiitu Takalo, translation by Maria Schroderus (Oni Press); Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me About Life, Death, and Hope by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Scholastic Graphix): and The Talk by Darrin Bell (Henry Holt).
2024 Eisner Award Nominations Announced | School Library Journal (slj.com).
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