Last week, the L.A. Times announced its nominees for its book prizes, to be awared at the L.A. Times Festival of the Book this April 19. Five nominees made the initial cut:
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Building Stories by Chris Ware (Pantheon)
Everything Together: Collected Stories by Sammy Harkham (PictureBox)
Cruisin' With the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred Toote by Spain Rodriguez (Fantagraphics)
Unterzakhn by Leela Corman (Schocken)