The nominees have been announced for this year’s L.A. Times Book Prize, which includes a category for Graphic Novels/Comics.
The Los Angeles Times has given an award in the graphic novel category since 2009, when Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli won the award. Other previous winners include The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez, Duncan the Wonder Dog by Adam Hines, Beverly by Nick Drnaso, Tillie Walden’s On a Sunbeam and The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis. R. Kikuo Johnson’s No One Else won the prize last year.
The nominees for this year are:
Alex Graham, “Dog Biscuits”
Yamada Murasaki, “Talk to My Back” (translation by Ryan Holmberg)
Tommi Parrish, “Men I Trust”
Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith, “Wash Day Diaries”
Noah Van Sciver, “Joseph Smith and the Mormons”
Also of note, Alex Segura’s Secret Identity, a mystery novel set in the 1970s New York comic scene, was nominated in the Mystery/Thriller category.
The winners will be announced in a ceremony on April 21 at USC’s Bovard Auditorium, the evening before the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, taking place the weekend of April 22-23.