It's time. Every year a select group of comics and creators are chosen as the best of the best in the world of comics. It's time for the Harvey Awards.

The Harvey Awards are an annual award intended to recognize the best in comics and adaptations of comics from around the globe. Unlike some other awards, the Harvey Awards is a succinct six-category awards ceremony, celebrating the best of the best in comics - the best book, the best physical book, the best manga, the best children's or young adult book, the best international book - and one additional category recognizing the amazing adaptations of comics to other mediums.

The Harvey Awards is steered by a committee consisting of Nellie Kurtzman, John Lind, and Chip Mosher. This year's Harvey Awards nominees were chosen by a curated committee of comic creators, publishing staff, retailers, educators, and librarians. The nominees will now voted on by comic creators and industry professionals, with those already in the voting pool to receive their ballots by email shortly. Anyone else who is in the industry industry and wishes to apply to vote, can do so on the Harvey Awards' website.

As first reported by Gizmodo, here are the 2023 Harvey Awards nominees. The winners will be announced in a gala ceremony during New York Comic Con 2023 on Friday, October 13:

2023 Harvey Awards' Book of the Year nominees

• Acting Class by Nick Drnaso (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Follow Me Down: A Reckless Book by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Jacob Phillips (Image Comics)
• Girl Juice by Benji Nate (Drawn and Quarterly)
• It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood (Image Comics)
• Little Monsters Vol. 1 by Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen (Image Comics)
• The Man in the McIntosh Suit by Rina Ayuyang (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni (Abrams ComicArts/Surely)
• Public Domain Vol. 1 by Chip Zdarsky (Image Comics)
• Who Will Make The Pancakes by Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics)

2023 Harvey Awards' Digital Book of the Year nominees

• Barnstormers by Scott Snyder and Tula Lotay (Comixology Originals)
• Deeply Dave by Grover
• Everything is Fine by Mike Birchall (WEBTOON)
• Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe (WEBTOON)
• Ripple Effects by Jordan Hart, Bruno Chiroleu, Justin Harder, and Shane Kadlecik

2023 Harvey Awards' Best Children’s or Young Adult Book nominees

• Clementine Fox and the Great Island Adventure by Leigh Luna (Graphix/Scholastic)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club: Roll Call by Molly Knox Ostertag and Xanthe Bouma (HarperAlley)
• Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega and Rose Bousamra (First Second)
• Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying (First Second)
• In Limbo: A Graphic Memoir by Deb JJ Lee (First Second)
• Northranger by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo (HarperAlley)

2023 Harvey Awards' Best Manga nominees

• Cat + Gamer by Wataru Nadatani, translated by Zack Davisson (Dark Horse Manga)
• Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto, translated by Amanda Haley (VIZ Media)
• Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto, translated by Amanda Haley (VIZ Media)
• Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki, translated by Alex Dudok de Wit (First Second)
• Spy X Family by Tatsuya Endo, translated by Casey Loe (VIZ Media)

2023 Harvey Awards' Best International Book nominees

• Alice on the Run: One Child's Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War by Gaspard Talmasse, translated by Nanette McGuinness (Life Drawn)
• Always Never by Jordi Lafebre and Clemence Sapin, translated by Montana Kane (Dark Horse Books)
• Ashes by Álvaro Ortiz, translated by Eva Ibarzabal (Top Shelf Productions)
• Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1 by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translated by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Dark Horse Books)
• The Extraordinary Part: Book One: Orsay's Hands by Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot, translated by M.B. Valente (Fantagraphics)
• Tiki: A Very Ruff Year by David Azencot, Fred Leclerc and Lucie Firou, translated by Nanette McGuinness (Life Drawn)

2023 Harvey Awards' Best Adaptation from a Comic/Graphic Novel nominees

• American Born Chinese (Disney+), based on American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (First Second)
• Drops of God (Apple TV+), based on Drops of God by Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto (Vertical)
• Nimona (Netflix), directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, based on Nimona by ND Stevenson (Quill Tree Books)
• The Sandman (Netflix), based on The Sandman (DC Comics)
• She-Hulk (Disney+) based on She-Hulk (Marvel Comics)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, based on Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
• The Stuff of Legend - The Board Game, based on The Stuff of Legend by Mike Raicht Brian Smith and Charles Paul Wilson III (Th3rd World Studios)
• Wednesday (Netflix), based on The Addams Family by Charles Addams