The 2021 Harvey Awards ceremony was held tonight as part of New York Comic Con. The virtual ceremony saw awards handed out for 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. This year’s award winners are:
- Trung Le Nguyen‘s The Magic Fish for both Book of the Year and Best Children or YA Book
- Rachel Smythe‘s Lore Olympus for Digital Book of the Year
- Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Chainsaw Man for Best Manga
- Yeong-shin Ma‘s Moms, translated by Janet Hong, for Best International Book
- Marvel’s Disney+ series WandaVision for Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel
Earlier this week, the Harvey Awards committee also announced this year’s inductees into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame. Among this year’s Hall of Fame class are Bernie Wrightson, William Kaluta, Barry Windsor-Smith, Rumiko Takahashi, and Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Check out the full list of nominees and winners below. Congrats to everyone all of this year’s Harvey Awards winners, and to everyone who was nominated.
Book of the Year
- WINNER: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (Random House)
- 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)
- 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
- WINNER: Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe – https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320
- Adora and The Distance by Marc Bernardin and Ariela Kristantina (Comixology Originals)
- Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann – Serialized on https://www.instagram.com/simon.hanselmann/
- Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal – Serialized on https://www.instagram.com/aminder_d/
- Friday by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin – http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/friday
Best Children or Young Adult Book
- WINNER: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (Random House)
- Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter (Scholastic Graphix)
- Class Act by Jerry Craft (Quill Tree Books)
- 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
- WINNER: WandaVision by Disney+, based on The Avengers (Marvel Comics)
- 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)
Best Manga
- WINNER: Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto (VIZ Media)
- Asadora! by Naoki Urasawa (VIZ Media)
- Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku (Kodansha Comics)
- Remina by Junji Ito (VIZ Media)
- Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo (VIZ Media)
Best International Book
- WINNER: Moms by Yeong-shin Ma, translated by Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly)
- 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)
- 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)
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