The 35th annual Harvey Awards, honoring the best comic books and associated media of the past year, were announced at New York Comic Con last night. Kate Beaton’s widely-lauded graphic memoir “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands” was named Book of the Year, while Rachel Smythe won Digital Book of the Year for the third year in a row for “Lore Olympus.”
Tatsuki Fujimoto’s “Chainsaw Man” also won Best Manga for the third year running, while Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido won Best International Book for “Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1,” and Victoria Ying won Best Children’s or Young Adult Book for the poignant graphic novel “Hungry Ghost.” Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse picked up the prize for Best Adaptation.
As was previously announced, this year’s Harvey Awards Hall of Fame inductees consisted of Chris Claremont, Walt and Louise Simonson, Marv Wolfman, the late George Pérez, and “Zippy the Pinhead” creator Bill Griffith. Congratulations to all the winners! You can check out all of this year’s nominees, with the winners highlighted in bold, below, and photos from last night’s events on Twitter.
Book of the Year:
– “Acting Class” by Nick Drnaso (Drawn and Quarterly)
– “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands” by Kate Beaton (Drawn and Quarterly)
– “Follow Me Down: A Reckless Book” by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Jacob Phillips (Image Comics)
– “Girl Juice” by Benji Nate (Drawn and Quarterly)
– “It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth” by Zoe Thorogood (Image Comics)
– “Little Monsters” Vol. 1 by Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen (Image Comics)
– “The Man in the McIntosh Suit” by Rina Ayuyang (Drawn and Quarterly)
– “Mimosa” by Archie Bongiovanni (Abrams ComicArts/Surely)
– “Public Domain” Vol. 1 by Chip Zdarsky (Image Comics)
– “Who Will Make The Pancakes” by Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics)
Digital Book of the Year:
– “Barnstormers” by Scott Snyder and Tula Lotay (ComiXology Originals)
– “Deeply Dave” by Grover
– “Everything is Fine” by Mike Birchall (Webtoon)
– “Lore Olympus” by Rachel Smythe (Webtoon)
– “Ripple Effects” by Jordan Hart, Bruno Chiroleu, Justin Harder, and Shane Kadlecik
Best Children’s or Young Adult Book:
– “Clementine Fox and the Great Island Adventure” by Leigh Luna (Graphix/Scholastic)
– “Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club: Roll Call” by Molly Knox Ostertag and Xanthe Bouma (HarperAlley)
– “Frizzy” by Claribel A. Ortega and Rose Bousamra (First Second)
– “Hungry Ghost” by Victoria Ying (First Second)
– “In Limbo: A Graphic Memoir” by Deb JJ Lee (First Second)
– “Northranger” by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo (HarperAlley)
Best Manga:
– “Cat + Gamer” by Wataru Nadatani, translated by Zack Davisson (Dark Horse Manga)
– “Chainsaw Man” by Tatsuki Fujimoto, translated by Amanda Haley (VIZ Media)
– “Goodbye, Eri” by Tatsuki Fujimoto, translated by Amanda Haley (VIZ Media)
– “Shuna’s Journey” by Hayao Miyazaki, translated by Alex Dudok de Wit (First Second)
– “Spy x Family” by Tatsuya Endo, translated by Casey Loe (VIZ Media)
Best International Book:
– “Alice on the Run: One Child’s Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War” by Gaspard Talmasse, translated by Nanette McGuinness (Life Drawn)
– “Always Never” by Jordi Lafebre and Clemence Sapin, translated by Montana Kane (Dark Horse Books)
– “Ashes” by Álvaro Ortiz, translated by Eva Ibarzabal (Top Shelf Productions)
– “Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1” by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translated by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Dark Horse Books)
– “The Extraordinary Part: Book One: Orsay’s Hands” by Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot, translated by M.B. Valente (Fantagraphics)
– “Tiki: A Very Ruff Year” by David Azencot, Fred Leclerc and Lucie Firou, translated by Nanette McGuinness (Life Drawn)
Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel:
– American Born Chinese (Disney+), based on “American Born Chinese” by Gene Luen Yang (First Second)
– Drops of God (Apple TV+), based on “Drops of God” by Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto (Vertical)
– Moon Knight (Disney+), based on “Moon Knight” (Marvel Comics)
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– Nimona (Netflix), directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, based on “Nimona” by ND Stevenson (Quill Tree Books)
– The Sandman (Netflix), based on “The Sandman” (DC Comics)
– She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney+) based on She-Hulk (Marvel Comics)
– Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, based on Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
– The Stuff of Legend – The Board Game, based on “The Stuff of Legend” by Mike Raicht Brian Smith and Charles Paul Wilson III (Th3rd World Studios)
– Sweet Tooth Season 2 (Netflix) based on “Sweet Tooth” by Jeff Lemire (DC Comics)
– Wednesday (Netflix), based on The Addams Family by Charles Addams
