Winners Of The 2025 Eisner Comic Industry Awards Announced

Winners of the 2025 Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for works published between January 1 and December 31, 2024, given for creative achievement in American comic books, often referred to as the Comics Industry's equivalent of the Oscar Awards, have been announced.

The winners were announced July 25 2025 during the San Diego Comic Con weekend.

Best Short Story

• "Spaces," by Phil Jimenez, in DC Pride 2024 #1 (DC)

Best Single Issue / One-Shot

• The War on Gaza, by Joe Sacco (Fantagraphics)

Best Continuing Series

• Santos Sisters, by Greg & Fake, Graham Smith, Dave Landsberger, and Marc Koprinarov (Floating World)

Best Limited Series

• Zatanna: Bring Down the House, by Mariko Tamaki and Javier Rodriguez (DC)

Best New Series

• Absolute Wonder Woman, by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman (DC)

Best Publication for Early Readers

• Hilda and Twig Hide from the Rain, by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye)

Best Publication for Kids

• Plain Jane and the Mermaid, by Vera Brosgol (First Second / Macmillan)

Best Publication for Teens

• Lunar New Year Love Story, by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham (First Second / Macmillan)

Best Humour Publication

• Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It, by Tara Booth (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Anthology

• Godzilla's 70th Anniversary, edited by Jake Williams and others (IDW)

Best Reality-Based Work

• Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the US, by Caitlin Cass (Fantagraphics)

Best Graphic Memoir

• Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir, by Tessa Hulls (MCD / Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Best Graphic Album - New

• Lunar New Year Love Story, by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham (First Second / Macmillan)

Best Graphic Album - Reprint

• The One Hand and The Six Fingers, by Ram V, Dan Watters, Laurence Campbell, and Sumit Kumar (Image)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

• The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, adapted by Manu Larcenet (Abrams)

Best US Edition of International Material

• The Jellyfish, by Boum, translated by Robin Lang and Helge Dascher (Pow Pow Press)

Best US Edition of International Material - Asia

• Tokyo These Days, Vols. 1–3, by Taiyo Matsumoto, translated by Michael Arias (VIZ Media)

Best Archival Collection / Project - Strips

• Thorn: The Complete Proto-BONE Strips 1982–1986, and Other Early Drawings, by Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books)

Best Archival Collection / Project - Comic Books

• David Mazzucchelli's Batman Year One Artist's Edition, by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)

Best Comics-Related Periodical / Journalism

• The Beat, edited by Heidi MacDonald and others, (comicsbeat.com)

Best Comics-Related Book

• Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, by Caitlin McGurk (Fantagraphics)

Best Academic / Scholarly Work

• Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women, edited by Margaret C. Flinn (Ohio State University Press)

Best Publication Design

• David Mazzucchelli's Batman Year One Artist's Edition, designed by Chip Kidd (IDW)

Best Digital Comic

• My Journey to Her, by Yuna Hirasawa (Kodansha)

Best Webcomic

• Life After Life, by Joshua Barkman, falseknees.com/comics/24ink1.html (False Knees)

Best Writer

• Gene Luen Yang, Lunar New Year Love Story (First Second / Macmillan)

Best Writer / Artist

• Charles Burns, Kommix (Fantagraphics); Final Cut (Pantheon); Unwholesome Love (co-published with Partners & Son)

Best Penciller / Inker or Penciller / Inker Team

• Bilquis Evely, Helen of Wyndhorn (Dark Horse)

Best Painter / Multimedia Artist

• Eduardo Risso, The Blood Brothers Mother (DSTLRY)

Best Cover Artist

• Tula Lotay, Helen of Wyndhorn #1, Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter #3, Dawnrunner #1, Barnstormers TPB (Dark Horse); Somna and other titles (DSTLRY); The Horizon Experiment (Image)

Best Colouring

• Jordie Bellaire, Absolute Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey, John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead in America, The Nice House by the Sea (DC); The City Beneath Her Feet (DSTLRY); The Exorcism at 1600 Penn (IDW; W0rldtr33 (Image); G.I. Joe, Duke (Image Skybound)

Best Lettering

• Clayton Cowles, Animal Pound (BOOM! Studios); FML, Helen of Wyndhorn (Dark Horse); Absolute Batman, Batman, Batman & Robin: Year One, Birds of Prey, Jenny Sparks, Wonder Woman (DC); Strange Academy, Venom (Marvel)

Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing

• Don Glut and Sheldon Mayer

The Bob Clampett Award

• LA Strong, Mad Cave Studios, raising funds for LA wildfire victims

Hall Of Fame

• Chosen by voters: Kyle Baker, Eddie Campbell, Roz Chast, Dan Clowes, Junji Ito, Todd Klein, John Romita Jr. Chosen by judges: Steve Bissette, Lucy Shelton Caswell, Philippe Druillet, Phoebe Gloeckner, Joe Sacco, Bill Schanes, Steve Schanes, Frank Stack and Angelo Torres and, chosen in memorium, Peter Arno, Gus Arriola, Wilhelm Busch, Richard "Grass" Green, Rea Irvin, Jack Kamen, Joe Maneely, Shigeru Mizuki, Bob Oksner, Bob Powell, Ira Schnapp, Phil Seuling.

Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award

• Akira Comics, Madrid, Spain

Russ Manning Award for new talent worthy of consideration

• Richard Blake