Will Eisner Comic Awards Announces Nominees for 2020: The Eisner Comic award nominees were announced in June, 2020, honoring books published in 2019. The results will be announced early in July 2020. There are 31 categories; the nominees in the youth literature categories are:
Best Publication for Early Readers
- Comics: Easy as ABC by Ivan Brunetti (TOON)
- Kitten Construction Company: A Bridge Too Fur by John Patrick Green (First Second)
- The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! by Mo Willems (Disney-Hyperion)
- A Trip to the Top of the Volcano with Mouse by Frank Viva (TOON)
- ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market by Raúl the Third (HMH/Versify)
- Who Wet My Pants? by Bob Shea and Zachariah Ohora (Little, Brown)
Best Publication for Kids
- Akissi: More Tales of Mischief by Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu Sapin (Flying Eye/Nobrow)
- Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic/Graphix)
- Guts by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic Graphix)
- New Kid by Jerry Craft (HarperCollins/Quill Tree)
- This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews (First Second)
- The Wolf in Underpants by Wilfrid Lupano, Mayana Itoïz, & Paul Cauuet (Lerner/Graphic Universe)
Best Publication for Teens
- Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh (DC Ink)
- Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw (First Second)
- Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (First Second)
- Penny Nichols by MK Reed, Greg Means, & Matt Wiegle (Top Shelf)
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