A month ago, the new, radically revised Harvey awards plans were announced. The nominating committee would choose a slate for voting by August 1, as well as the voting would end August 23.

The nominees were revealed on August 9, instead, as well as voting closes September 3 just before midnight Eastern time. (That’s Labor Day this year.) The biggest change, as previously discussed, is getting rid of all the creator awards however adding a movie/TV classification as one of the only six categories.

There doesn’t seem to be a specified number of nominees, with every classification having at least five, however “Book of the Year” having 15 as well as “Best Adaptation” (the movie/TV show one) getting 10.

Book of the Year
BLACK HAMMER: trick ORIGINS by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston as well as Dave Stewart (Dark Horse)
BOUNDLESS by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn as well as Quarterly)
EVERYTHING IS FLAMMABLE by Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized Books)
HOSTAGE by guy Delisle (Drawn as well as Quarterly)
KINDRED by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy as well as illustrated by John Jennings (Abrams ComicArts)
LIGHTER THAN MY shadow by Katie eco-friendly (Lion Forge)
MONSTRESS by Marjorie Liu as well as Sana Takeda (Image)
MY preferred thing IS MONSTERS by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
ROUGHNECK by Jeff Lemire (Gallery 13)
SHADE THE altering woman by Cecil Castellucci as well as Marley Zarcone (DC Comics)
SPINNING by Tillie Walden (First Second)
THE finest WE might DO by Thi Bui (Abrams Books)
THE client IS always wrong by Mimi Pond (Drawn as well as Quarterly)
THE FLINSTONES by mark Russell as well as Steve Pugh (DC Comics)
THE prince as well as THE modiste by Jen Wang (First Second)

Digital book of the Year
BANDETTE by Paul Tobin as well as Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain)
BARRIER by Brian K. Vaughn, Marcos Martin, as well as Muntsa Vicente (Panel Syndicate)
CHECK, PLEASE!: #HOCKEY by Ngozi Ukazu (checkpleasecomic.com)
NOT DRUNK sufficient by Tess stone (ndecomic.com)
THE TEA DRAGON society by Katie O’Neill (teadragonsociety.com)

Best kids or young adult Book
BRAVE by Svetlana Chmakova (JY)
REAL good friends by Shannon Hale as well as LeUyeun Pham (First Second)
SPINNING by Tillie Walden (First Second)
THE prince as well as THE modiste by Jen Wang (First Second)
THE TEA DRAGON SOCIETY, by Katie O’Neill (Oni Press)

Best Adaptation from a Comic Book/Graphic Novel
ATOMIC BLONDE (Focus Features) – Directed by David Leitch. Adapted from “The Coldest City” (Oni Press)
BLACK PANTHER (Walt Disney Pictures) – Directed by Ryan Coogler. Adapted from “Black Panther” (Marvel Comics)
THE LEGO BATMAN movie (Warner Bros.) – Directed by Chris McKay. Adapted from “Batman” (DC Comics)
LOGAN (20th Century Fox) – Directed by James Mangold. Adapted from “Wolverine” (Marvel Comics)
MY good friend DAHMER (FilmRise) – Directed by Marc Meyers. Adapted from “My good friend Dahmer” (Abrams ComicArts)
PREACHER (AMC) – established by Sam Catlin, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg. Adapted from “Preacher” (DC/Vertigo)
RIVERDALE (The CW) – established by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Adapted from “Archie” (Archie Comics)
THE end OF THE F***ING world (Netflix) – Written by Charlie Covell. Adapted from “The end of the F***ing World” (Fantagraphics)
THOR: RAGNAROK (Walt Disney Pictures) – Directed by Taika Waititi. Adapted from “Thor” (Marvel Comics)
WONDER lady (Warner Bros.) – Directed by Patty Jenkins. Adapted from “Wonder Woman” (DC Comics)

Best Manga
MY BROTHER’S other half by Gengoroh Tagame Anne Ishii (Pantheon graphic Library)
MY HERO ACADEMIA by Kohei Horikoshi (Viz Media)
MY LESBIAN EXPERIENCE WITH LONELINESS by Nagata Kabi (Seven Seas)
TOKYO GHOUL by Sui Ishida (Viz Media)
YOUR name by Makoto Shinkai as well as Ranmaru Kotone (Yen Press)

Best European Book
AUDUBON: ON THE WINGS OF THE world by Fabien Grolleau as well as Jerémie Royer (Nobrow)
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’: CASS ELLIOT before THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS by Pénélope Bagieu (First Second)
FLIGHT OF THE RAVEN by Jean-Pierre Gibrat (IDW)
THE GHOST OF GAUDI by El Torres as well as Jesús Alonso Iglesias (Magnetic Press)
THE women IN WAITING by Santiago García as well as Javier Olivares (Fantagraphics)

My Thoughts
Having run awards before, I have some detail questions. For instance, Lighter Than My shadow is a straight-up reprint of a book that originally came out in 2013 in the UK. What are the eligibility guidelines and/or restrictions? Why isn’t this in the “European Book” category? Does a “European Book” have to have been translated?

Some of the “Book of the Year” came out in spring 2017, a year as well as a half before the ceremony. Which year is being acknowledged here?

Two of the “Digital book of the Year” nominees are much better understood for their print editions. Some are designed as serialized webcomics, as well as some decrease “issues” digitally. This is a growing divide in these type of categories. Plus, there’s the concern of whether we rnull