Eyeing the Eisners

The just-announced 2008 Eisner Award nominations for best work in the comics form include three for Shaun Tan's The Arrival:

• Best Graphic Album--New
• Best US Edition of International Material
• Best Writer/Artist

However, that book is not listed in the categories of Best Publication for Kids and Best Publication for Teens. (This despite the break-up of the previous category Best Title for a Younger Audience into two, providing twice the slots for nominations.)

Thus continues the long discussion of the most appropriate audience for The Arrival.

Other comics mentioned here on Oz and Ends that were nominated for some award or another include:

• "Whatever Happened to Fletcher Hanks?" by Paul Karasik, the affecting afterword to I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!
• Yotsuba&!, by Kiyohiko Azuma, in the Kids category.
  
• Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, by Douglas Wolk, which I've now got out from the library a second time to reread.
  

However, as usual, most of the nominated works are new to me.