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Fantagraphics Celebrates 26 Nominations at the 2025 Eisner Awards

2025 EISNER AWARD NOMINATIONS

 

The nominations for the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced. Fantagraphics has received 26 nominations, the most of any publisher.  In a press release, the publisher says, "We are so honored by the recognition for our talented artists, designers, and editors and we have high hopes for some wins."

The winners will be announced on July 25, 2025 at a ceremony held during 2025 San Diego Comic-Con International.

Fantagraphics' nominees:

Category/Name of nominated individual and/or title of nominated work:

Short Story: “Pig” by Stacy Gougoulis, in NOW #13

Short Story: “Anything Sinister,” by Ross Murray, in NOW #13

Short Story: “You Cannot Live on Bread Alone” by Kayla E., in NOW #13

Single Issue/One-Shot: The War on Gaza, by Joe Sacco

Best Reality-Based Work: Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the U.S., by Caitlin Cass

Best Anthology: Now: The New Comics Anthology #13, edited by Eric Reynolds

Best Graphic Album—New: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two, by Emil Ferris

Best Graphic Album—New: Sunday, by Olivier Schrauwen

Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Mothballs, by Sole Otero; translated by Andrea Rosenberg

Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Return to Eden, by Paco Roca; translated by Andrea Rosenberg

Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Sunday, by Olivier Schrauwen

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia: Search and Destroy Vol. 1, by Atsushi Kaneko, based on the work of Osamu Tezuka; translated by Ben Applegate

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips: Frank Johnson, Secret Pioneer of American Comics, vol. 1, edited by Chris Byrne and Keith Mayerson

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips: Stan Mack’s Real-Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995, by Stan Mack, edited by Gary Groth

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books: The Complete Web of Horror, edited by Dana Marie Andra

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books:  The Farewell Song of Marcel LaBrume, by Attilio Micheluzzi, edited by Gary Groth and Conrad Groth

Best Comics-Related Book: Reading Love and Rockets, by Marc Sobel

Best Comics-Related Book: Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, by Caitlin McGurk

Best Comics-Related Book: Kate Carew: America's First Great Woman Cartoonist, by Eddie Campbell with Christine Chambers

Best Publication Design: Bill Ward: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition, designed by Kayla E.

Best Writer/Artist: Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two

Best Writer/Artist: Paco Roca, Return to Eden

Best Writer/Artist: Olivier Schrauwen, Sunday

Best Writer/Artist: Charles Burns, Kommix (Fantagraphics); Final Cut (Pantheon); Unwholesome Love (co-published with Partners & Son)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist: Frederic Bremaud & Federico Bertolucci, Donald Duck: Vacation Parade

Best Lettering: Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book Two.

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#IReadsYou Movie Review: THUNDERBOLTS*

Thunderbolts* (2025)

Running time: 126 minutes (2 hours, 6 minutes)

MPA – PG-13 for strong violence, language, thematic elements, and some suggestive and drug references

DIRECTOR: Jake Schreier

WRITERS:  Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo (based upon the Marvel Comics)

PRODUCER: Kevin Feige

CINEMATOGRAPHER:  Andrew Droz Palermo (D.o.P.)

EDITORS:  Angela M. Catanzaro and Harry Yoon

COMPOSER:  Son Lux (Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, Ian Chang)

SUPERHERO/FANTASY/ACTION and DRAMA

Starring:  Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Hannah John-Kamen, Geraldine Viswanathan, Olga Kurylenko, and Wendell Pierce

Thunderbolts* is a 2025 American superhero fantasy film and action movie directed by Jake Schreier and produced by Marvel Studios.  It is the 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).  The film features Marvel Comics' “Thunderbolts,” an antihero and super-villain superhero team created by writer Kurt Busiek and artist Mark Bagley that first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #449 (cover dated: January 1997).  Thunderbolts* the movie focuses on an unconventional team of antiheroes that takes on a conniving CIA official and a dangerous super-being while confronting their own dark pasts.

Thunderbolts* opens in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  There, Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) destroys an O.X.E. Group laboratory on behalf of CIA director, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus).  Valentina is facing a Congressional committee that wants to impeach her in order to have her removed as CIA director, so she is having to conceal all her illicit programs.  One of those programs in need of concealment is the O.X.E. Group's “Sentry” project, which involves experimentation on humans in order to develop a superhuman.

Valentina dispatches Yelena to a remote O.X.E. facility on a mission to destroy sensitive materials.  After entering the facility, however, Yelena discovers that she is not alone.  John Walker/U.S. Agent (Wyatt Russell), Ava Starr/Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) are also there, under the pretense of a mission.  The real reason all of them are in the facility is so that Valentina can have them and any incriminating evidence against her be destroyed simultaneously.  Another of this mission's surprises is the sudden appearance of a mysterious man named “Bob” (Lewis Pullman).

Now, Yelena and this bunch of reprobates embark on mission to punish Valentina, and they are joined by Yelena's father, Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (David Harbour), and Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan).  They gather in New York City for a showdown, but there are wildcards.  Who is “Sentry?”  And what is “Void?”

Thunderbolts* is like a sequel, of sorts, to the 2021 Marvel Studios film, Black Widow.  It also references such previous Marvel Studios films as Marvel's The Avengers (2012) and the recent Captain America: Brave New World (2025), and also the Disney+ television series, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” (2021), to name a few.

At the center of Thunderbolts* is Yelena Belova, and the good thing is that the actress playing the character, Florence Pugh, is quite good.  Pugh gives Yelena gravitas, and I find myself believing almost everything about the character.  That said I would have preferred Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes a.k.a. “The Winter Soldier” as the “magnetic center” of Thunderbolts*, but I guess the character has already had plenty of time to showcase himself in previous Marvel Studios productions.

Beyond those two characters, I found myself bored with Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Valentina, although I am a long time fan of Louis-Dreyfus because of her role in the former NBC sitcom, “Seinfeld.”  I like actor David Harbour as “Red Guardian,” but the character is a bit overwrought, while Hannah John-Kamen is overly wasted as “Ghost.”  Geraldine Viswanathan is very nice in the supporting role of Mel, Valentina's assistant.  Lewis Pullman, who seems very skilled at creating a new personality for each acting role he takes on, is very, very good as “Bob.”  Marvel Studios would do well not to waste the potential of what Pullman can bring to the MCU.

All that said, Thunderbolts* is my least favorite MCU team movie.  Don't get me wrong.  It is a very entertaining film because director Jake Schreier makes the most of an offbeat screenplay and of the work of the film editors, cinematographers, and other collaborators.  The result is that they deliver a movie that is surprisingly humorous and is often laugh-out-loud funny.

I don't buy all the depression and battling-personal-demons melodrama of the film's story.  It is often overdone, contrived, and tedious enough to drag down the moments when that does feel genuine.  There is enough enjoyment in Thunderbolts* to make me give it a relatively high rating.  If this movie were made by most other film studios, however, I would give it a lower rating.

[Thunderbolts* has an extra scene in the middle of the credits and one at the end of the credits.]

B+

★★★½ out of 4 stars

Reviewed Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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