The Harvey Awards have revealed this year’s nominations in six different categories, and for the first time since the awards were revamped in 2018, a board game has been nominated in the Best Adaptation from a Comic Book/Graphic Novel category: Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game” board game, which is based on Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT and published by Dark Horse Comics (see “‘Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage Game’”). While video games have been nominated in the past, this is the first board game to get the nod.
The award winners will be announced during an awards ceremony at New York Comic Con on October 2, further details of which will be announced at a later date. Comics professionals who have been approved for a Professional or Artist Alley badge at any ReedPop convention between 2016 and 2022 are eligible to vote in the awards. The deadline is September 2.
Here are the nominees:
Book of the Year
- Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia, translated by Gabriela Soares (Top Shelf Productions)
- Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics)
- Department of Truth, Vol 3: Free Country by James Tynion IV, Jorge Fornes, David Romero, John J. Pearson, Tyler Boss, Elsa Charretier and Alison Sampson (Image Comics)
- Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell (DC Comics)
- The Good Asian, Vol. 1 by Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi (Image Comics)
- The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V, Filipe Andrade, & Ines Amaro (BOOM! Studios)
- Lightfall Book 2: Shadow of the Bird by Tim Probert (HarperAlley)
- Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno (DC Comics)
- Run: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury and Nate Powell (Abrams Books)
- Sisters of the Mist by Marlyn Spaaij (Flying Eye Books)
Digital Book of the Year
Best Children’s or Young Adult Book
- The Aquanaut by Dan Santat (Scholastic Graphix)
- Lightfall Book 2: Shadow of the Bird by Tim Probert (HarperAlley)
- Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American by Laura Gao (HarperAlley)
- Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh (HarperAlley)
- Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas (HarperAlley)
Best Manga
- Blood on the Tracks by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Daniel Komen (Vertical Comics)
- Blue Lock by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura, translated by Nate Derr (Kodansha Comics)
- Cat + Gamer by Wataru Nadatani, translated by Zack Davission (Dark Horse Comics)
- Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimot, translated by Amanda Haley (VIZ Media)
- Red Flowers by Yoshiharu Tsuge, translated by Ryan Holmberg (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Spy X Family by Tatsua Endo, translated by Casey Loe (VIZ Media)
Best International Book
- Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia, translated by Gabriela Soares (Top Shelf Productions)
- Castaways by Pablo Monforte and Laura Perez, translated by Silvia Perea Labayen (Dark Horse Comics)
- Sweet Paprika by Mirka Andolfo (Image Comics)
- This is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle, translated by Aleshia Jensen and Bronwyn Haslam (Drawn & Quarterly)
- The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Yellow Cab by Benoît Cohen and Christophe Chabouté, translated by Edward Gauvin (IDW Publishing)
Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel
- The Batman, directed by Matt Reeves, based on Batman (DC Comics)
- El Deafo (Apple TV+), based on El Deafo by CeCe Bell (Abrams Books)
- Heartstopper (Netflix), based on Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (Hachette Children’s Group)
- Mind MGMT: The Psychic Espionage “Game” board game based on Mind MGMT by Matt Kindt (Dark Horse Comics)
- Ms. Marvel (Disney+) based on Ms. Marvel (Marvel Comics)
- Paper Girls (Amazon Prime Video), based on Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (Image Comics)
- Paris, 13th District directed by Jacques Audiard, based on “Amber Sweet,” “Hawaiian Getaway,” and “Killing And Dying” by Adrian Tomine (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Peacemaker (HBO Max), based on The Peacemaker (DC Comics)
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, based on Shang-Chi (Marvel Comics)
Source: ICv2
