BOOM! Studios and its imprints Archaia and BOOM! Box have been nominated for.fourteen 2015 Harvey Awards for Lumberjanes, The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow, and more.
BOOM! received more nominations than any other publisher except one, and most recently, BOOM! Box’s Lumberjanes won two 2015 Eisner Awards. In 2014, BOOM! and its imprints were also nominated for numerous Harvey Awards and won three: Best Graphic Album Previously Published (Mouse Guard Volume 3: The Black Axe, Archaia); Special Award for Humor in Comics (Ryan North, Adventure Time, KaBOOM!); and, Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers (Adventure Time, KaBOOM!).
Official release:
BOOM! AND ITS IMPRINTS EARN 14 HARVEY AWARD NOMINATIONS
On the heels of our two Eisner Award wins last Friday for Lumberjanes, now comes word of our Harvey Award nominations! We earned 14 nominations, the second most of any publisher, and we could not be more proud of our team!
Here are our nominations:
BEST LETTERER
Aubrey Aiese, LUMBERJANES, BOOM! Box/BOOM! Studios
Deron Bennett, HACKTIVIST, Archaia/BOOM! Studios
Ed Dukeshire, THE WOODS, BOOM! Studios
BEST AMERICAN EDITION of FOREIGN MATERIAL
THE COLLECTOR, Archaia/BOOM! Studios
THE KILLER OMNIBUS VOL. 2, Archaia/BOOM! Studios
BEST INKER
Roger Langridge, JIM HENSON’S THE MUSICAL MONSTERS OF TURKEY HOLLOW, Archaia/BOOM! Studios
BEST NEW SERIES
LUMBERJANES, BOOM! Box/BOOM! Studios
BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC PUBLICATION FOR YOUNGER READERS
JIM HENSON’S THE MUSICAL MONSTERS OF TURKEY HOLLOW, Archaia/BOOM! Studios
LUMBERJANES, BOOM! Box (BOOM! Studios)
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED
HIT: 1955 TP, BOOM! Studios
MOUSE GUARD: BALDWIN THE BRAVE AND OTHER TALES HC, Archaia/BOOM! Studios
SIX-GUN GORILLA TP, BOOM! Studios
SPECIAL AWARD for EXCELLENCE IN PRESENTATION
JIM HENSON’S THE MUSICAL MONSTERS OF TURKEY HOLLOW HC, Scott Newman, Archaia/BOOM! Studios
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM ORIGINAL
JIM HENSON’S THE MUSICAL MONSTERS OF TURKEY HOLLOW, Archaia/BOOM! Studios
The complete list of nominations can be seen here. Winners will be decided by a popular vote by professionals involved in a creative capacity in the comics field. The ballot can be found here. Congratulations to all of our nominees!