A Record Twenty-Three Publishers Nominated for the 2004 Harvey Awards

The Harvey Awards are the only industry award chosen from start to finish solely by industry professionals, and this year the voters found comics and creators of note across the artistic spectrum.

This year, comics from twenty-three separate publishers have been nominated, a new Harvey record.

The following is a list of the 2004 Harvey Nominated titles categorized by their publisher:

Aardvark-Vanheim
Nominated Books:

• Cerebus

AdHouse Books
Nominated Books:

• Project Telstar

Alternative Comics
Nominated Books:

• Bipolar
• Magic Whistle
• Same Difference and Other Stories
• Sweaterweather

Avodah Books Inc
Nominated Books:

• Kramer's Ergot

Cartoon Books
Nominated Books:

• Bone

Chicago Review Press
Nominated Books:

• Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book

Comic Art
Nominated Books:

• Comic Art Magazine

Cryptic Press
Nominated Books:

• Quicken Forbidden

Dark Horse Comics
Nominated Books:

• Al Capp's Li'l Abner: The Frazetta Years
• Sock Monkey

DC Comics
Nominated Books:

• Avengers/JLA
• Batman
• Gotham Central: Half A Life
• Plastic Man
• Sgt. Rock: Between Hell and a Hard Place
• Superman/Batman
• Wonder Woman
• 100 Bullets (DC/Vertigo)
• Beware! The Creeper (DC/Vertigo)
• Human Target (DC/Vertigo)
• Y: The Last Man (DC/Vertigo)
• The Spirit Archives
• Promethea (Wildstorm/ABC)
• The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, vol. II (Wildstorm/ABC)
• Astro City (Wildstorm/Homage, specifically #2)
• Arrowsmith (Wildstorm/Cliffhanger)
• Two-Step (Wildstorm/Cliffhanger)

Drawn & Quarterly
Nominated Books:

• Acme Novelty Datebook
• Drawn & Quarterly (specifically issue #5)
• Five Is A Perfect Number
• The Fixer
• Louis Riel
• Summer of Love

Exhibit A Press
Nominated Books:

• Supernatural Law (specifically #38)

Fantagraphics Books
Nominated Books:

• Angry Youth Comix
• Belly Button Comix
• Black Hole
• Cat On A Hot Thin Groove
• The Comics Journal
• The Comics Journal Winter Special
• The Iron Wagon
• Krazy and Ignatz
• Love & Rockets
• Nightmare Alley
• Palomar
• The Pogostick
• Quimby the Mouse
• Will Elder: The Mad Playboy Art

Highwater Books
Nominated Books:

• Teratoid Heights

ibooks, inc.
Nominated Books:

• The Bloody Streets of Paris
• Honour Among Punks
• Icaro
• Vic & Blood
• Vietnam Journal
• Yossel

Idea + Design Works (IDW) Publishing
Nominated Books:

• CSI: Serial
• Dark Days
• Popbot
• Popbot Collection

Image Comics
Nominated Books:

• Invincible

Marvel Comics
Nominated Books:

• Avengers/JLA
• Fantastic Four

Nickelodeon Magazine
Nominated Books:

• Nickelodeon Magazine

Oni Press
Nominated Books:

• Love Fights

Pantheon (a Randon House Company)
Nominated Books:

• Persepolis

Renaissance Books
Nominated Books:

• Amelia Rules

Top Shelf Productions,Inc.
Nominated Books:

• Blankets
• Comic Book Artist
• Unlikely


Special thanks to the following professionals for official verification and fact checking:

Douglass Barre
Freelance Writer
Website: www.blackflak.com
Chimerical Comix Column: www.comixfan.com

Matt Powers
Comics Toons N Toys
13542 Newport Ave
Tustin, CA 92780
714-730-2117
comicstnt@earthlink.net


About the Harvey Awards
The Harvey Awards are one of the comics industry’s oldest and most respected awards. The Harvey’s recognize outstanding achievements in 20 categories, ranging from Best Artist to the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. They are the only industry awards both nominated by and selected by the full body of comic professionals.

About MoCCA

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, located at 594 Broadway in SoHo, is the newest addition to New York City’s cultural landscape. A 501(c)(3) non-profit arts education organization dedicated to promoting greater understanding and appreciation of comic and cartoon art, the Museum celebrates the unique creative achievements of graphic storytelling