NYCC 2021: The 2021 Harvey Award Nominations Have Been Announced

The 2021 Harvey Awards were held virtually during New York Comic Con this past weekend. The awards featured six categories: Book of the Year, Digital Book of the Year, Best Children or Young Adult Book, Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel, Best Manga, and Best International Book.

Professionals in the comics community were eligible to vote as well as creators and industry professionals who were approved for professional or Artists Alley badges at a ReedPop convention between 2016 and 2021 were automatically eligible as well.

Below are all of the nominees with the winners in bold. Congrats to everyone.

Book of the Year

• The Book Tour by Andi Watson (Top Shelf Productions)
• Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End Of The World by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds (Image Comics)
• Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf (Abrams)
• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (Random House)
• Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith (Fantagraphics)
• Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (Fantgraphics)
• Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber (DC Comics)
• Save It For Later: Promises, Protest and Parenthood by Nate Powell (Abrams)

Digital Book of the Year

Best Children or Young Adult Book

• Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter (Scholastic Graphix)
• Class Act by Jerry Craft (Quill Tree Books)
• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (Random House)
• Nubia: Real One by L.L. McKinney and Robyn Smith (DC Comics)
• Twins by Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright (Scholastic Graphix)

Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel

• The Boys by Amazon, based on The Boys (DC Comics)
• Invincible by Amazon, based on Invincible (Image)
• Loki by Disney+, based on The Avengers (Marvel Comics)
• Superman & Lois by CW, based on Superman (DC Comics
• Sweet Tooth by Netflix, based on Sweet Tooth (DC/Vertigo)
• WandaVision by Disney+, based on The Avengers (Marvel Comics)

Best Manga

• Asadora! by Naoki Urasawa (VIZ Media)
• Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku (Kodansha Comics)
• Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ Media)
• Remina by Junji Ito (VIZ Media)
• Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo (VIZ Media)

Best International Book

• The City of Belgium by Brecht Evans, translated by Brecht Evans (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Factory Summers by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Moms by Yeong-shin Ma, translated by Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Paul At Home by Michel Rabagliati, translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall (Drawn & Quarterly)
• The Winter of the Cartoonist by Paco Roca, translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)

Earlier in the week, the Harvey Awards announced this year’s inductees into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame. This year’s Hall of Fame Class are Bernie Wrightson, William Kaluta, Barry Windsor-Smith, Rumiko Takahashi, and Jeffrey Catherine Jones.

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