Feiffer, O’Malley Among 2015 Eisner Award Nominees
Jules Feiffer’s Kill My Mother and Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Seconds were among the graphic novels and periodical comics nominated for 2015 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, which honor the best comics and graphic novels published in the prior year. Among publishers, Fantagraphics (15), DC and Marvel (14 each) grabbed the most nominations followed by Dark Horse (10), Viz Media (4) and Abrams, Pantheon, D&Q and others tied with 2 nominations each.
Graphic Novels nominated in the book category of Best Graphic Album/Novel—New, include Feiffer’s Kill My Mother (Liveright), O’Malley’s Seconds (Ballantine), Richard McGuire’s Here (Pantheon), Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki’s This One Summer (First Second), Rob Davis’s The Motherless Oven (SelfMadeHEro) and Stephen Collins’ The Gigantic Beard that was Evil (Picador).
Titles nominated in other book categories include NBCC autobiography winner Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant from Bloomsbury, and Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2 from Fantagraphics (both for Best Reality-Based Work). Nominated in the International category are The Leaning Girl by Benoît Peeters & François Schuiten from Alaxis Press and All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Ryosuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Obata and Yoshitoshi Abe from Viz; and In Clothes Called Fat by Moyocco Anno from Vertical Inc.
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are the National Book Awards of the comics industry. They are awarded each year at a gala event held at the San Diego Comic-Con International. More information on the Eisner Awards can be found here.
