To read the list of 2009 Harvey Award Nominees visit Newsarama.

Canadians nominated include:

– Lar deSouza for Least I Could Do (Best Cartoonist)

– Jeff Lemire for Essex County Vol. 3: The Country Nurse (Best Graphic Album – Original)

– Mariko and Jillian Tamaki for Skim (Best Graphic Album – Original)

– Pia Guerra (and BKV) for Y The Last Man 60 (Best Single Issue or Story)

– Lar deSouza and Ryan Sohmer for Least I Could Do (Best On-Line Comics Work)

– Drawn and Quarterly for Red Colored Elegy (Best American Reprint of Foreign Material)

– Lar deSouza for Least I Could Do (Special Award for Humor in Comics)

– Steve Rolston (and the rest of the Q&C crew) for Queen & Country Vol. 3 (Special Award for Excellence in Publication)

– Plenty of Canadian participation in the Best Anthology Category including Popgun Vol. 2 (Jim Zubkavich), Flight Vol. 5 (Michel Gagne, Paul Rivoche, John Martz, Graham Annable, Svetlana & Sasha Chmakova, Tony Cliff) and Comic Book Tattoo (Pia Guerra, Salgood Sam, Craig Taillefer)

The Harvey Awards will be presented in October at the Baltimore Comicon.