Winners Of The 2026 Eisner Comic Industry Awards Announced

The winners of the 2026 Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for works published between January 1 and December 31, 2025, 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 24 2026 during the San Diego Comic Con weekend.

Best Short Story

• "Blood Harvest," in Brain Damage, by Shintaro Kago, translated by Zack Davisson (Fantagraphics)

Best One-Shot / Single Issue

• Absolute Batman 2025 Annual #1, by Daniel Warren Johnson, James Harren, and Meredith McClaren (DC)

Best Continuing Series

• Absolute Batman, by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, and others (DC)

Best Limited Series

• Absolute Martian Manhunter, by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez (DC)

Best New Series

• Assorted Crisis Events, by Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadski (Image)

Best Publication for Early Readers

• All the Hulk Feels, by Dan Santat (Abrams Fanfare / Marvel)

Best Publication for Kids

• The Cartoonists Club, by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud (Scholastic Graphix)

Best Publication for Teens

• This Place Kills Me, by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux (Abrams Fanfare)

Best Humour Publication

• Physics for Cats, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Anthology

• DC Pride 2025, edited by Andrea Shea and Jillian Grant (DC)

Best Reality-Based Work

• Black Arms To Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance, by Ben Passmore (Pantheon)

Best Graphic Memoir

• It Rhymes with Takei, by George Takei, Harmony Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin Eisinger (Top Shelf)

Best Graphic Album: New

• Drome, by Jesse Lonergan (23rd St. Books)

Best Graphic Album: Reprint

• Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen: The Deluxe Edition, by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber (DC)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

• Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel, by William Golding, adapted by Aimée De Jongh (Penguin Classics)

Best US Edition of International Material

• Nocturnos, by Laura Perez, translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)

Best US Edition of International Material: Asia

• Purgatory Funeral Cakes, by Sanho, translated by Danny Lim (Dark Horse)

Best Archival Collection / Project: Strips

• The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1928–1930, edited by J Michael Catron and Bill Blackbeard (Fantagraphics)

Best Archival Collection / Project: Comic Books

• AKIRA Volumes 1–5 Hardcover Collection, by Katsuhiro Otomo, edited by Haruko Hashimoto, Ajani Oloye, and Lauren Scanlan (Kodansha USA Publishing)

Best Academic / Scholarly Work

• Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989, by Andrea Horbinski (University of California Press)

Best Comics-Related Periodical / Journalism

• SKTCHD, by David Harper, www.sktchd.com

Best Comics-Related Book

• Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life, by Dan Nadel (Scribner)

Best Publication Design

• The Essential Peanuts, designed by Shawn Dahl with Chip Kidd (Abrams ComicArts)

Best Webcomic

• Tiger, Tiger, by Petra Erika Nordlund (tigertigercomic.com)

Best Digital Comic

• Practical Defense Against Piracy, by Tony Cliff (delilahdirk.com)

Best Writer

• Mariko Tamaki, This Place Kills Me (Abrams Fanfare)

Best Writer / Artist

• Jamal Campbell, Zatanna (DC)

Best Penciller / Inker

• Javier Rodriguez, Absolute Martian Manhunter (DC)

Best Painter / Multimedia Artist

• Martin Simmonds, The Department of Truth (Image)

Best Cover Artist

• Javier Rodriguez, Absolute Martian Manhunter, Batman & Robin: Year One #7, The New Gods #8 (DC)

Best Colouring

• Jordie Bellaire, Absolute Wonder Woman, The Nice House by the Sea (DC); The Exorcism at 1600 Penn (IDW); Assorted Crisis Events, The Department of Truth, Exquisite Corpses, W0RLDTR33 (Image); GI Joe (Image/Skybound); EC Catacomb of Torment, EC Epitaphs from the Abyss (Oni Press)

Best Lettering

• Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Ill Vacation, Stillman (Comixology Originals); Absolute Martian Manhunter, Challengers of the Unknown, DC K.O., The Flash, Green Arrow, Poison Ivy (DC); Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Starship Godzilla, (IDW); Author Immortal (Image); Our-Soot-Stained Heart (Mad Cave)

Finalists For The 2026 Eisner Comic Industry Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2026 Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for works published between January 1 and December 31, 2025, 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 will be announced July 24 2026 during the San Diego Comic Con weekend.

Best Short Story

• "Blood Harvest," in Brain Damage, by Shintaro Kago, translated by Zack Davisson (Fantagraphics)
• "The Curse Room," in Brain Damage, by Shintaro Kago, translated by Zack Davisson (Fantagraphics)
• "Football Is Not War," by RK Russell and Wilfred Santiago, in Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project (Stacked Deck Press)
• "Red Snapper in the Rea," by Michael D Kennedy, in Milk White Steed (Drawn & Quarterly)
• "trAPPed" by Anand RK, Suparna Sharma, and Natalie Obiko Pearson (Bloomberg News)

Best One-Shot / Single Issue

• Absolute Batman 2025 Annual #1, by Daniel Warren Johnson, James Harren, and Meredith McClaren (DC)
• Absolute Martian Manhunter #1, by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez (DC)
• Assorted Crisis Events #4, by Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadski (Image)
• Coin-Op no. 10: Wet Cement, by Peter and Maria Hoey (Coin-Op Books)
• Ice Cream Man #43: "One Page Horror Stories," by W Maxwell Prince and others (Image)
• Something Is Killing the Children: A Monster Walks into a Bar #1, by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera (BOOM! Studios)

Best Continuing Series

• Absolute Batman, by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, and others (DC)
• Absolute Wonder Woman, by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, and Mattia De Iulis (DC)
• The Department of Truth, by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds (Image)
• FML, by Kelly Sue DeConnick and David Lopez (Dark Horse)
• The Power Fantasy, by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard (Image)
• Storm, by Murewa Ayodele, Lucas Werneck, and others (Marvel)

Best Limited Series

• Absolute Martian Manhunter, by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez (DC)
• Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring, by Patrick Horvath (IDW)
• Bronze Faces, by Shobo, Shof, and Alexanre Tefenkgi (BOOM! Studios)
• Crownsville, by Rodney Barnes and Elia Bonetti (Oni Press)
• Everything Dead and Dying, by Tate Brombal and Jacob Phillips (Image)
• Out of Alcatraz, by Christopher Cantwell & Tyler Crook (Oni Press)

Best New Series

• Assorted Crisis Events, by Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadski (Image)
• Batman Vol. 4, by Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez (DC)
• Black Cat, by G. Willow Wilson and Gleb Melnikov (Marvel)
• Exquisite Corpses, by James Tynion IV, Pornsak Pichetshote, Michael Walsh, and others (Image)
• Ghost Pepper, by Ludo Lullabi (Image)
• Temporal, by Stephanie Williams and Asiah Fulmore (Mad Cave)

Best Publication for Early Readers

• All the Hulk Feels, by Dan Santat (Abrams Fanfare / Marvel)
• The Faraway Forest: Wally's Route, by Debbie Fong (Chronicle Books)
• The Fire-Breathing Duckling, by Frank Cammuso (TOON Books)
• Night Light, by Michael Emberley (Holiday House)
• Steve, A Rare Egg, by Kelly Collier (Kids Can Press)

Best Publication for Kids

• The Cartoonists Club, by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud (Scholastic Graphix)
• Chickenpox, by Remy Lai (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
• Creature Clinic, by Gavin Aung Than (First Second)
• Night Chef: An Epic Tale of Friendship with a Side of Deliciousness! By Mika Song (Random House Graphic)
• Oasis, by Guojing (Godwin Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
• A Song for You and I, by K O'Neill (Random House Graphic)

Best Publication for Teens

• Angelica and the Bear Prince, by Trung Le Nguyen (Random House Graphic)
• Clementine: Book Three, by Tillie Walden (Image Skybound)
• Everyone Sux But You, by K Wroten (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
• Hello Sunshine, by Keezy Young (Little, Brown Ink)
• This Place Kills Me, by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux (Abrams Fanfare)
• Trumpets of Death, by Simon Bournel-Bosson, translated by Edward Gauvin (Graphic Universe/Lerner)

Best Humour Publication

• And to Think We Started as a Book Club, by Tom Toro (Andrews McMeel Universal)
• Ew, It's Beautiful: A False Knees Comics Collection, by Joshua Barkman (Andrews McMeel Universal)
• The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt, by John Allison and Max Sarin (Dark Horse)
• Jeff the Land Shark, by Kelly Thompson and Tokitokoro (Marvel)
• Physics for Cats, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Spent: A Comic Novel, by Alison Bechdel (Mariner Books)

Best Anthology

• Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project, edited by Meghan Kemp-Gee and Megan Praz (Stacked Deck Press)
• DC Pride 2025, edited by Andrea Shea and Jillian Grant (DC)
• Noir Is the New Black Season 2 (FairSquare Graphics)
• Stardust the Super Wizard Anthology, edited by Van Jensen (Blue Creek Creative)
• 2000AD 2026 Annual Featuring Judge Dredd, edited by Oliver Pickles (Rebellion)

Best Reality-Based Work

• Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance, by Ben Passmore (Pantheon)
• Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me, by Mimi Pond (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Fela: Music Is the Weapon, by Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery (Amistad)
• Globetrotters: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's World Tour, by Julian Voloj and Julie Rocheleau (Abrams ComicArts)
• Muybridge, by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Daschert and Rob Aspinal (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Surrounded: America's First School for Black Girls, 1832, by Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert (ABLAZE)

Best Graphic Memoir

• The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief, by Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)
• My Life in 24 Frames Per Second, by Rintaro (Kana Manga US)
• It Rhymes with Takei, by George Takei, Harmony Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin Eisinger (Top Shelf)
• Precious Rubbish, by Kayla E (Fantagraphics)
• Raised by Ghosts, by Briana Loewinsohn (Fantagraphics)
• Talking to My Father's Ghost: An Almost True Story, by Alex Krokus (Chronicle)

Best Graphic Album: New

• Cannon, by Lee Lai (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Drome, by Jesse Lonergan (23rd St. Books)
• The Fable of Erkling Woods, by Juni Ba (Goats Flying Press)
• A Garden of Spheres, by Linnea Sterte (Peow2)
• More Weight: A Salem Story, by Ben Wickey (Top Shelf)
• Shadows of the Sea, by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics)

Best Graphic Album: Reprint

• Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Storybook Edition, by Patrick Horvath (IDW)
• Ginseng Roots: A Memoir, by Craig Thompson (Pantheon)
• Goes Like This, by Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics)
• Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen: The Deluxe Edition, by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber (DC)
• Tongues, by Anders Nilsen (Pantheon)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

• Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, Book 1), by Tamora Pierce, adapted by Vita Ayala and Sama Beck (Abrams Fanfare)
• The Compleat Angler: A Graphic Adaptation, by Izaak Walton, adapted by Gareth Brookes (SelfMadeHero)
• Dead Man Walking: Graphic Edition, by Sister Helen Prejean, adapted by Rose Vines and Catherine Anyango Grünewald (Random House)
• Ghost Boys: The Graphic Novel, by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Setor Fiadzigbey (Little, Brown Ink)
• Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel, by William Golding, adapted by Aimée De Jongh (Penguin Classics)
• A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel, by Ursula K Le Guin, adapted by Fred Fordham (Clarion Books)

Best US Edition of International Material

• Buff Soul, by Moa Romanova, translated by Melissa Bowers (Fantagraphics)
• Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog, by Marc Torices, translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Drawn & Quarterly)
• In the End We All Die, by Tobias Aeschbacher, translated by Andrew Shields (Helvetiq)
• Nocturnos, by Laura Perez, translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)
• Raging Clouds, by Yudori (Fantagraphics)
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, by Anaïs Flogny, translated by Dan Christensen (Abrams ComicArts)

Best US Edition of International Material: Asia

• Hirayasumi, vols. 4–7, by Keigo Shinzo, translated by Jan Mitsulo Cash (VIZ Media)
• Land, vol. 1, by Kazumi Yamashita, translated by Kevin Gifford (Yen Press)
• Purgatory Funeral Cakes, by Sanho, translated by Danny Lim (Dark Horse)
• Tokyo Alien Bros., vols. 1–3, by Keigo Shinzo, translated by Casey Loe (VIZ Media)
• Yan, vols. 1–2, by Chang Sheng, translated by Vanessa Liu (Titan Manga)
• Best Archival Collection/Project—StripsArthur Ferrier's Pin-Up Parade Box Set, edited by Rian Hughes (Korero Press)
• Barnaby, vol. 5: 1950–1952, by Crockett Johnson, edited by Eric Reynolds and Philip Nel (Fantagraphics)
• The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1928–1930, edited by J Michael Catron and Bill Blackbeard (Fantagraphics)
• Rea Irvin's The Smythes, edited by R. Kikuo Johnson and Dash Shaw (NYRC)
• Terminal Exposure: Comics, Sculpture, and Risky Behavior, by Michael McMillan, edited by Lucas Adams (NYRC)

Best Archival Collection / Project: Comic Books

• AKIRA Volumes 1–5 Hardcover Collection, by Katsuhiro Otomo, edited by Haruko Hashimoto, Ajani Oloye, and Lauren Scanlan (Kodansha USA Publishing)
• The Atlas Comics Library No. 7: Girl Comics, edited by Dr. Michael J Vassallo (Fantagraphics)
• Comics of the Movement #1, by Courtland Cox, Jennifer Lawson, Alfred Hassler, and Benton Resnik (Good Trouble Comics)
• Hothead Paisan, by Diane DiMassa, organized by Anika Banister (NYRC)
• Scream! The Specials 1985–2024, edited by Chiara Mestieri (Rebellion)
• Weird Science Vol. 1 XXL, edited by Grant Geissman (TASCHEN)

Best Academic / Scholarly Work

• Comic Art in Korea, by John A. Lent (University Press of Mississippi)
• Comics of the Anthropocene: Graphic Narrative at the End of Nature, by José Alaniz (University Press of Mississippi)
• Graphic Narratives of Resistance, by Jennifer Boum Make and Charly Verstraet (Edinburgh University Press)
• Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings, edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui (Rutgers University Press)
• Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989, by Andrea Horbinski (University of California Press)

Best Comics-Related Periodical / Journalism

• CANON, by Colin Blanchette and Alex Eklund
• Comic Book Creator, edited by Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows)
• Dummy, edited by John Kelly (The Dummy Corporation)
• Shelfdust, edited by Steve Morris, www.shelfdust.com
• SKTCHD, by David Harper, www.sktchd.com
• SOLRAD: The Online Literary Magazine for Comics, edited by Daniel Elkin, www.solrad.co (Fieldmouse Press)

Best Comics-Related Book

• Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life, by Dan Nadel (Scribner)
• Facing Feelings: Inside the World of Raina Telgemeier, by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic)
• How Comics Are Made, by Glenn Fleishman (Andrews McMeel)
• Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide to Graphic Narrative, by Eleri Harris and Shay Mirk (Abrams ComicArts)
• Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schultz and the Art of Peanuts, by Chip Kidd (Abrams ComicArts)
• Ooops…I Just Catharted!: Fifty Years of Cathartic Comics, by Rupert Kinnard, edited by William O. Tyler (Stacked Deck Press)

Best Publication Design

• The Art of Manga, designed by Tessa Lee (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco / VIZ Media)
• The Essential Peanuts, designed by Shawn Dahl with Chip Kidd (Abrams ComicArts)
• Fruits Basket: The Complete Box Set (Collector's Edition #13), designed by Wendy Chan (Yen Press)
• Red Light Properties: Unfinished Business, designed by Dan Goldman (Kinjin Storylab)
• The Marvel Art of Michael Allred Slipcase Edition, designed by Kurtis Findlay (Clover Press)
• Weird Science Vol. 1 XXL, designed by Anna-Tina Kessler (TASCHEN)

Best Webcomic

• The Accidental Undergrad by Christian Giroux (Fieldmouse Press)
• Keeping Time by Kody Okamoto (keepingtimecomic.com)
• The Legend of Parvaterra by Raúl Arnáiz (WEBTOON)
• Sable: A Ghost Story, by Ethan M. Aldridge (sablecomic.com)
• Superfish, by Peglo (WEBTOON)
• Terran Omega: The Ghosts of War, by PJ Holden (pauljholden.com)
• Tiger, Tiger by Petra Erika Nordlund (tigertigercomic.com)

Best Digital Comic

• DeadAss, by hakei (VIZ Media)
• In the Real Dark Night, by Jimmy Gownley (G-Ville Comics)
• The Lycan, by Mike Carey, Thomas Jane, David James Kelly, and Diego Yapur (Comixology Originals)
• Overwatch 2: Against the Tide, by Brandon Chen and Velinxi (Blizzard Entertainment)
• Practical Defense Against Piracy, by Tony Cliff (delilahdirk.com)
• The World of Lublu, by Charbak Dipta (The Charbax Store)

Best Writer

• Deniz Camp, Absolute Martian Manhunter (DC); Assorted Crisis Events (Image); The Ultimates (Marvel)
• Scott Snyder, Absolute Batman, Batman/Deadpool (DC); By a Thread: Book 2 (Comixology Originals), You Won't Feel a Thing (DSTLRY)
• Mariko Tamaki, This Place Kills Me (Abrams Fanfare)
• Kelly Thompson, Absolute Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey (DC); Jeff the Land Shark (Marvel)
• James Tynion IV, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd: The Power of the Blood (BOOM! Studios); Let This One Be a Devil, Red Book (Dark Horse); The City Beneath Her Feet (DSTLRY); The Department of Truth, Exquisite Corpses, W0RLDTR33 (Image); Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man (Image Skybound)
• Stephanie Williams, Street Sharks (IDW); Roots of Madness (Ignition Press); Temporal (Mad Cave)

Best Writer / Artist

• Juni Ba, The Boy Wonder (DC); The Fable of Erkling Woods (Goats Flying Press); Monkey Meat Summer Batch (Image)
• Jamal Campbell, Zatanna (DC)
• Jesse Lonergan, Drome (23rd St. Books)
• Chang Sheng, Yan, vols. 1–2 (Titan Manga)
• Linnea Sterte, A Garden of Spheres (Peow2)
• Kazumi Yamashita, Land, vol. 1 (Yen Press)

Best Penciller / Inker

• Elsa Charetier, The City Beneath Her Feet (DSTLRY)
• Sean Phillips, Giant Size Criminal #1, The Knives: A Criminal Book (Image)
• Javier Rodriguez, Absolute Martian Manhunter (DC)
• Chris Samnee, Batman and Robin: Year One (DC)
• Hayden Sherman, Absolute Wonder Woman, Batman: Dark Patterns (DC)
• Eric Zawadzki, Assorted Crisis Events (Image)

Best Painter / Multimedia Artist

• Teddy Kristiansen, Black Hammer: Spiral City (Dark Horse)
• Cathy Malkasian, Shadows of the Sea (Fantagraphics)
• Qu, Slices of Life: A Comic Montage (Bulgilhan Press)
• Martin Simmonds, The Department of Truth (Image)
• Mika Song, Night Chef: An Epic Tale of Friendship with a Side of Deliciousness! (Random House Graphic)
• Linnea Sterte, A Garden of Spheres (Peow)

Best Cover Artist

• Juni Ba, The Boy Wonder (DC); The Fable of Erkling Woods (Goats Flying Press); TMNT Nightwatcher, TMNT Godzilla (IDW); Monkey Meat Summer Batch (Image)
• Nick Dragotta, Absolute Batman, Absolute Batman 2025 Annual, Batman #1, Batman/Deadpool (DC)
• Francesco Francavilla, Cyberpunk 2077, Star Wars: Tales from the Nightlands (Dark Horse); Absolute Batman, Absolute Martian Manhunter, Batman: Full Moon, Nightwing variants (DC); Green Hornet/Miss Fury (Dynamite); Star Trek: The Last Starship, Twilight Zone (IDW); Dick Tracy (Mad Cave)
• Mateus Manhanini, Absolute Superman, Absolute Wonder Woman, Mr. Terrific: Year One variants (DC); Doctor Strange, Ironheart: Bad Chemistry, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Phases of the Moon Knight, Star Wars: The High Republic, Storm, The Ultimates (Marvel)
• Javier Rodriguez, Absolute Martian Manhunter, Batman & Robin: Year One #7, The New Gods #8 (DC)
• Hayden Sherman, Absolute Wonder Woman, Batman: Dark Patterns #3-12 (DC)

Best Colouring

• Jordie Bellaire, Absolute Wonder Woman, The Nice House by the Sea (DC); The Exorcism at 1600 Penn (IDW); Assorted Crisis Events, The Department of Truth, Exquisite Corpses, W0RLDTR33 (Image); GI Joe (Image/Skybound); EC Catacomb of Torment, EC Epitaphs from the Abyss (Oni Press)
• Ninakupenda Gaillard, Chickenpox (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
• Jesse Lonergan, Drome (23rd St. Books)
• Matheus Lopes, Batman and Robin Year One (DC); The Seasons (Image)
• Javier Rodriguez, Absolute Martian Manhunter (DC)
• José Villarrubia, This Ink Runs Cold (Alan Spiegel Fine Arts); Ghostbox (Comixology Originals); Dracula Book 2: The Brides, The Witcher: The Bear and the Butterfly (Dark Horse); It Rhymes with Takei (Top Shelf)

Best Lettering

• Janice Chiang, Acro and the Cat, All Upon a Time, Beyond the Aural Vault, Republica, Solarblader (Sandstorm); John Carpenter's Blood of the Taken: Next of Kin, Pause, Tales of Science Fiction (Storm King)
• Clayton Cowles, Absolute Batman, Batman, Batman & Robin: Year One, Birds of Prey, Black Canary: Best of the Best, Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman, (DC); Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell #1-3 (Marvel)
• Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Ill Vacation, Stillman (Comixology Originals); Absolute Martian Manhunter, Challengers of the Unknown, DC K.O., The Flash, Green Arrow, Poison Ivy (DC); Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Starship Godzilla, (IDW); Author Immortal (Image); Our-Soot-Stained Heart (Mad Cave)
• Nate Piekos, American Caper #1, Archie Vs. Minor Threats, Black Hammer: Spiral City, The Brood, Minor Threats: The Last Devil Left Alive, Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons, The Umbrella Academy Plan B, Welcome to Twilight (Dark Horse); I Hate Fairyland (Image)
• Ben Wickey, More Weight: A Salem Story (Top Shelf)

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

Finalists For The 2025 Eisner Comic Industry Awards Announced

The finalists for 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 will be announced July 25 2025 during the San Diego Comic Con weekend.

Best Short Story

• "Anything Sinister," by Ross Murray, in NOW #13 (Fantagraphics)
• "Day 1703," by Chris Ware, in Smoke Signal #43 (Desert Island)
• "Pig" by Stacy Gougoulis, in NOW #13 (Fantagraphics)
• "Spaces," by Phil Jimenez, in DC Pride 2024 #1 (DC)
• "Water I've Loved: Moving Day" by Pam Wye, in MUTHA magazine
• "You Cannot Live on Bread Alone" by Kayla E, in NOW #13 (Fantagraphics)

Best Single Issue / One-Shot

• Abortion Pill Zine: A Community Guide to Misoprostol and Mifepristone by Isabella Rotman, Marnie Galloway, and Sage Coffey (Silver Sprocket)
• Ice Cream Man #39: "Decompression in a Wreck, Part One," by W Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo (Image Comics)
• PeePee PooPoo #1, by Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)
• Sunflowers, by Keezy Young (Silver Sprocket)
• Unwholesome Love, by Charles Burns (co-published with Partners and Son)
• The War on Gaza, by Joe Sacco (Fantagraphics)

Best Continuing Series

• The Department of Truth, by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds (Image)
• Detective Comics, by Ram V, Tom Taylor, Riccardo Federici, Stefano Raffaele, Javier Fernandez, Christian Duce, March, and Mikel Janín (DC)
• Fantastic Four, by Ryan North, Carlos Gomez, Ivan Fiorelli, and others (Marvel)
• Santos Sisters, by Greg & Fake, Graham Smith, Dave Landsberger, and Marc Koprinarov (Floating World)
• Ultimate Spider-Man, by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto (Marvel)
• Wonder Woman, by Tom King and Daniel Sampere (DC)

Best Limited Series

• Alan Scott: The Green Lantern, by Tim Sheridan and Cian Tormey (DC)
• Animal Pound, by Tom King and Peter Gross (BOOM! Studios)
• The Deviant, by James Tynion IV and Joshua Hixson (Image)
• Helen of Wyndhorn, by Tom King and Bilquis Evely (Dark Horse)
• Rare Flavours, by Ram V and Filipe Andrade (BOOM! Studios)
• Zatanna: Bring Down the House, by Mariko Tamaki and Javier Rodriguez (DC)

Best New Series

• Absolute Batman, by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta (DC)
• Absolute Wonder Woman, by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman (DC)
• Minor Arcana, by Jeff Lemire (BOOM! Studios)
• The Pedestrian, by Joey Esposito and Sean Von Gorman (Magma Comix)
• The Power Fantasy, by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard (Image)
• Uncanny Valley, by Tony Fleecs and Dave Wachter (BOOM! Studios)

Best Publication for Early Readers

• Bog Myrtle, by Sid Sharp (Annick Press)
• Club Microbe, by Elise Gravel, translated by Montana Kane (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Hilda and Twig Hide from the Rain, by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye)
• Night Stories, by Liniers (Astra Books)
• Poetry Comics, by Grant Snider (Chronicle Books)

Best Publication for Kids

• How It All Ends, by Emma Hunsinger (Greenwillow / HarperCollins Early Readers)
• Next Stop, by Debbie Fong (Random House Graphic / Random House Children's Books)
• Plain Jane and the Mermaid, by Vera Brosgol (First Second / Macmillan)
• Weirdo, by Tony Weaver Jr. and Jes & Cin Wibowo (First Second/Macmillan)
• Young Hag and the Witches' Quest, by Isabel Greenberg (Abrams Fanfare)

Best Publication for Teens

• Ash's Cabin, by Jen Wang (First Second / Macmillan)
• Big Jim and the White Boy, by David F Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson (Ten Speed Graphic)
• The Deep Dark, by Molly Knox Ostertag (Scholastic)
• The Gulf, by Adam de Souza (Tundra)
• Lunar New Year Love Story, by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham (First Second / Macmillan)
• Out of Left Field, by Jonah Newman (Andrews McMeel)

Best Humour Publication

• Adulthood is a Gift!, by Sarah Andersen (Andrews McMeel)
• Forces of Nature, by Edward Steed (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Kids Are Still Weird: And More Observations from Parenthood, by Jeffrey Brown (NBM)
• A Pillbug Story, by Allison Conway (Black Panel Press)
• Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It, by Tara Booth (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Anthology

• EC Cruel Universe, edited by Sierra Hahn and Matt Dryer (Oni Press)
• Godzilla's 70th Anniversary, edited by Jake Williams and others (IDW)
• Now: The New Comics Anthology #13, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
• Peep #1, edited by Sammy Harkham and Steve Weissman (Brain Dead / Kyle Ng)
• So Buttons #14: "Life and Death," by Jonathan Baylis and various artists (So Buttons Comix)

Best Reality-Based Work

• Djuna, by Jon Macy (Street Noise Books)
• The Heart That Fed: A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War, by Carl Sciacchitano (Gallery 13/S&S)
• The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of CS Lewis & JRR Tolkien, by John Hendrix (Abrams Fanfare)
• The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History, by John Vasquez Mejias (Union Square)
• Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the US, by Caitlin Cass (Fantagraphics)

Best Graphic Memoir

• Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60, by Alison McCreesh (Conundrum)
• Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir, by Tessa Hulls (MCD / Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• The Field, by David Lapp (Conundrum)
• I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir, by Maurice Vellekoop (Pantheon)
• Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love, by Sarah Leavitt (Arsenal Pulp Press)

Best Graphic Album - New

• Final Cut, by Charles Burns (Pantheon)
• Lunar New Year Love Story, by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham (First Second / Macmillan)
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two, by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
• Sunday, by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics)
• Victory Parade, by Leela Corman (Pantheon)

Best Graphic Album - Reprint

• Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story, by Patrick McDonnell (Abrams ComicArts)
• Lackadaisy, Vols. 1–2, by Tracy J Butler (Iron Circus)
• The One Hand and The Six Fingers, by Ram V, Dan Watters, Laurence Campbell, and Sumit Kumar (Image)
• Rescue Party: A Graphic Anthology of COVID Lockdown, edited by Gabe Fowler (Pantheon)
• Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist's Perspective of the Japanese American Experience, by Kelly Goto and Sam Goto (Chin Music Press)
• UM Volume One, by buttercup (Radiator Comics)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

• Thomas Piketty's Capital & Ideology: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, by Clare Alot and Benjamin Adam (Abrams ComicArts)
• The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben, adapted by Benjamin Flao and Fred Bernard (Greystone)
• The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, adapted by Manu Larcenet (Abrams)
• Winnie-the-Pooh, by AA Milne, adapted by Travis Dandro (Drawn & Quarterly)
• The Worst Journey in the World, Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, adapted by Sarah Airriess (Iron Circus)

Best US Edition of International Material

• All Princesses Die Before Dawn, by Quentin Zuttion (Abrams ComicArts)
• The Jellyfish, by Boum, translated by Robin Lang and Helge Dascher (Pow Pow Press)
• Mothballs, by Sole Otero; translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)
• Return to Eden, by Paco Roca; translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)
• Sunday, by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics)

Best US Edition of International Material - Asia

• Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow, by Asao Takamori and Tetsuya Chiba, translated by Asa Yonola (Kodansha)
• Hereditary Triangle, by Fumiya Hayashi, translated by Alethea and Athena Nibley (Yen Press)
• Kagurabachi, Vol. 1, by Takeru Hokazono, translated by Camellia Nieh (VIZ Media)
• Last Quarter, Vol. 1, by Ai Yazawa, translated by Max Greenway (VIZ Media)
• Search and Destroy Vol. 1, by Atsushi Kaneko, based on the work of Osamu Tezuka; translated by Ben Applegate (Fantagraphics)
• Tokyo These Days, Vols. 1–3, by Taiyo Matsumoto, translated by Michael Arias (VIZ Media)

Best Archival Collection / Project - Strips

• All In Line, by Saul Steinberg (New York Review Books)
• Frank Johnson, Secret Pioneer of American Comics, Vol. 1, edited by Chris Byrne and Keith Mayerson (Fantagraphics)
• 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 (Fantagraphics)
• Thorn: The Complete Proto-BONE Strips 1982–1986, and Other Early Drawings, by Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books)

Best Archival Collection / Project - Comic Books

• The Complete Web of Horror, edited by Dana Marie Andra (Fantagraphics)
• David Mazzucchelli's Batman Year One Artist's Edition, by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)
• DC Comics Style Guide (Standards Manual)
• The Farewell Song of Marcel LaBrume, by Attilio Micheluzzi, edited by Gary Groth and Conrad Groth (Fantagraphics)
• Wally Wood from Witzend: Complete Collection, commentary by J David Spurlock (Vanguard)
• X-Men: The Manga Remastered, Vol. 1, edited by Glenn Greenberg and others (VIZ Media)

Best Comics-Related Periodical / Journalism

• The Beat, edited by Heidi MacDonald and others, (comicsbeat.com)
• ICv2: The Business of Pop Culture, edited by Milton Griepp, (icv2.com)
• INKS, The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, edited by Susan Kirtley (Ohio State University Press)
• SOLRAD: The Online Literary Magazine for Comics, edited by Daniel Elkin, solrad.co (Fieldmouse Press)
• Zdarsky Comics News, edited by Allison O'Toole (Chip Zdarsky)

Best Comics-Related Book

• American Comic Book Chronicles: 1945-49, by Keith Dallas, John Wells, Richard Arndt, and Kurt Mitchell (TwoMorrows)
• Kate Carew: America's First Great Woman Cartoonist, by Eddie Campbell with Christine Chambers (Fantagraphics)
• Q&A, by Adrian Tomine (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Reading Love and Rockets, by Marc Sobel (Fantagraphics)
• Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, by Caitlin McGurk (Fantagraphics)
• Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Ultimate History, edited by Daniel Kothen Schulte with text by David Gerstein and J. B. Kaufman (TASCHEN)

Best Academic / Scholarly Work

• Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture, edited by Jonathan Najarian (University Press of Mississippi)
• Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women, edited by Margaret C. Flinn (Ohio State University Press)
• From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics, by Neale Barnholden (University Press of Mississippi)
• Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics, by Daniel Worden (Ohio State University Press)
• Singular Sensations: A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States, by Michelle Ann Abate (Rutgers University Press)

Best Publication Design

• Bill Ward: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition, designed by Kayla E (Fantagraphics)
• Brian Bolland: Batman The Killing Joke and Other Stories & Art, Gallery Edition, designed by Josh Beatman (Graphitti Designs)
• David Mazzucchelli's Batman Year One Artist's Edition, designed by Chip Kidd (IDW)
• One Bite at a Time, designed by Ryan Claytor (Elephant Eater Comics)
• Scott Pilgrim 20th Anniversary Color Hardcover Box Set, designed by Patrick Crotty (Oni Press)
• Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Ultimate History, designed by Anna-Tina Kessler (TASCHEN)

Best Digital Comic

• The Beauty Salon, based on the novella by Mario Bellatin, adapted by Quentin Zuttion; translated by MB Valente (Europe Comics)
• Beyond the Sea, by Anaïs Flogny; translated by Dan Christensen (Europe Comics)
• Gonzo: Fear and Loathing in America, by Morgan Navarro; translated by Tom Imber (Europe Comics)
• My Journey to Her, by Yuna Hirasawa (Kodansha)
• The Spider and the Ivy, by Grégoire Carle; translated by MB Valente (Europe Comics)

Best Webcomic

• The Accidental Undergrad, by Christian Giroux, solrad.co/tag/the-accidental-undergrad (Fieldmouse Press)
• Life After Life, by Joshua Barkman, falseknees.com/comics/24ink1.html (False Knees)
• Motherlover, by Lindsay Ishihiro, motherlovercomic.com (Iron Circus)
• Practical Defence Against Piracy, by Tony Cliff, delilahdirk.com/dd4/dd4-p188.html
• Rigsby WI, by SE Case, rigsbywi.com (Iron Circus)

Best Writer

• Tom King, Archie: The Decision (Archie); Animal Pound (BOOM! Studios); Helen of Wyndhorn (Dark Horse); Jenny Sparks, The Penguin, Wonder Woman (DC)
• Ram V, Rare Flavours (BOOM! Studios); Dawnrunner (Dark Horse); The One Hand (Image); Universal Monsters: Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives! (Image Skybound)
• Kelly Thompson, Absolute Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey (DC); Scarlett (Image Skybound); Venom War: It's Jeff #1 (Marvel)
• James Tynion IV, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); Blue Book, The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos (Dark Horse); Spectregraph (DSTLRY); The Department of Truth, The Deviant, WORLDTR33 (Image)
• 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)
• Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two (Fantagraphics)
• Jon Macy, Djuna (Street Noise Books)
• Paco Roca, Return to Eden (Fantagraphics)
• Olivier Schrauwen, Sunday (Fantagraphics)
• Maria Sweeney, Brittle Joints (Street Noise Books)

Best Penciller / Inker or Penciller / Inker Team

• Filipe Andrade, Rare Flavours (BOOM! Studios)
• Nick Dragotta, Absolute Batman (DC)
• Bilquis Evely, Helen of Wyndhorn (Dark Horse)
• Manu Larcenet, The Road (Abrams ComicArts)
• Javier Rodriguez, Zatanna: Bring Down the House (DC)
• LeUyen Pham, Lunar New Year Love Story (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Painter / Multimedia Artist

• Frederic Bremaud and Federico Bertolucci, Donald Duck: Vacation Parade (Fantagraphics)
• Leela Corman, Victory Parade (Pantheon)
• Benjamin Flao, The Hidden Life of Trees (Greystone)
• Merwan, Aster of Pan (Magnetic Press)
• Eduardo Risso, The Blood Brothers Mother (DSTLRY)
• Maria Sweeney, Brittle Joints (Street Noise Books)

Best Cover Artist

• Juni Ba, The Boy Wonder (DC); Godzilla Skate or Die, TMNT Nightwatcher and others (IDW)
• Evan Cagle, Dawnrunner (Dark Horse), New Gods, Detective Comics
• Bilquis Evely, Animal Pound (BOOM!); Helen of Wyndhorn (Dark Horse)
• 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)
• Hayden Sherman, Absolute Wonder Woman, Batman: Dark Patterns, Superman, Ape-ril, Batman: The Brave and the Bold) (DC)

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)
• Matheus Lopes, Batman & Robin: Year One (DC); Helen of Wyndhorn (Dark Horse)
• Justin Prokowich, Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze (Titan Comics)
• Javier Rodriguez, Zatanna: Bring Down the House) (DC)
• Dave Stewart, Dawnrunner, Free Comic Book Day Comic 2024 [general], The Serpent in the Garden, Hellboy, Hellboy and the BPRD, Paranoid Gardens, Shaolin Cowboy Cruel to Be Kin Silent but Deadly Edition (Dark Horse); Ultramega, Universal Monsters: Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives! (Image Skybound)
• Quentin Zuttion, All Princesses Die Before Dawn (Abrams ComicArts); Beauty Salon (Europe Comics)

Best Lettering

• Becca Carey, Absolute Superman, Absolute Wonder Woman, Plastic Man No More! (DC); Radiant Black, Rogue Sun (Image); When the Blood Has Dried, Murder Kingdom (Mad Cave Studios)
• Leela Corman, Victory Parade (Pantheon)
• 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)
• Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book Two (Fantagraphics)
• Nate Powell, Fall Through (Abrams ComicArts); Lies My Teacher Told Me (New Press)

The Winners of the 2024 Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Announced

The winners of the 2024 Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for works published between January 1 and December 31, 2023, 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 on July 26 2024 during the San Diego Comic Con weekend.

BEST SHORT STORY

• "The Kelpie," by Becky Cloonan, in Four Gathered on Christmas Eve (Dark Horse)

BEST SINGLE ISSUE / ONE-SHOT

• Nightwing #105, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC)

BEST CONTINUING SERIES

• Transformers, by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image Skybound)

BEST LIMITED SERIES

• PeePee PooPoo, by Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)

BEST NEW SERIES

• Somna: A Bedtime Story, by Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay (DSTLRY)

BEST PUBLICATION FOR EARLY READERS

• Bigfoot and Nessie: The Art of Getting Noticed, by Chelsea M. Campbell and Laura Knetzger (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)

BEST PUBLICATION FOR KIDS

• Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir, by Pedro Martín (Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Young Readers)

BEST PUBLICATION FOR TEENS

• Danger and Other Unknown Risks, by Ryan North and Erica Henderson (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)

BEST HUMOR PUBLICATION

• It's Jeff: The Jeff-Verse #1, by Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru (Marvel)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

• Comics for Ukraine, edited by Scott Dunbier (Zoop)

BEST REALITY-BASED WORK

• Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy, by Bill Griffith (Abrams ComicArts)

BEST GRAPHIC MEMOIR

• Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam, by Thien Pham (First Second/Macmillan)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM - NEW

• Roaming, by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM - REPRINT

• Hip Hop Family Tree: The Omnibus, by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)
• Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott (DC)

BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM

• Watership Down, by Richard Adams, adapted by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin (Ten Speed Graphic)

BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL

• Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Part 2, by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Europe Comics)

BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL - ASIA

• My Picture Diary, by Fujiwara Maki, translation by Ryan Holmberg (Drawn & Quarterly)

BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION / PROJECT - STRIPS

• Dauntless Dames: High-Heeled Heroes of the Comic Strips, edited by Peter Maresca and Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics)

BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION / PROJECT - COMIC BOOKS

• All-Negro Comics 75th Anniversary Edition, edited by Chris Robinson (Very GOOD Books)

BEST WRITER

• Mariko Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)

BEST WRITER / ARTIST

• Daniel Warren Johnson, Transformers (Image Skybound)

BEST PENCILLER / INKER OR PENCILLER / INKER TEAM

• Jillian Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)

BEST PAINTER / MULTIMEDIA ARTIST (INTERIOR ART)

• Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)

BEST COVER ARTIST

• Peach Momoko, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin, various alternate covers (Marvel)

BEST COLOURING

• Jordie Bellaire, Batman, Birds of Prey (DC); Dark Spaces: Hollywood Special (IDW)

BEST LETTERING

• Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber, The Witcher: Wild Animals, and others (Dark Horse); Batman: City of Madness, The Flash, Poison Ivy, and others (DC); Black Cat Social Club (Humanoids); Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees (IDW); The Cull, What's the Furthest Place from Here? (Image); and others

BEST COMICS-RELATED PERIODICAL / JOURNALISM

• The Comics Journal #309; edited by Gary Groth, Kristy Valenti, and Austin English (Fantagraphics)

BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK

• I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, by Michael Molcher (Rebellion)

BEST ACADEMIC / SCHOLARLY WORK

• The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X- Men, by J. Andrew Deman (University of Texas Press)

BEST PUBLICATION DESIGN

• Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein boxed set, designed by Mike Kennedy (Magnetic)

BEST WEBCOMIC

• Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe, https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/s3-episode-226/viewer?title_no=1320&episode_no=231 (WEBTOON)

BEST DIGITAL COMIC

• Friday, by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin, vols. 7–8 (Panel Syndicate)

Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing

• Ralph Newman
• Jo Duffy

Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award

• Regina Sawyer

The Spirit of Comics Retailer Award

• Blackbird Comics, Maitland, Florida, USA

Finalists For The 2024 Eisner Comic Industry Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2024 Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for works published between January 1 and December 31, 2023, 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 will be announced in July 26 2024 during the San Diego Comic Con weekend.

BEST SHORT STORY

• "Friendship Is Forever," by Sam Maggs and Keisha Okafor, in My Little Pony 40th Celebration (IDW)
• "The Kelpie," by Becky Cloonan, in Four Gathered on Christmas Eve (Dark Horse)
• "The Lady of the Lake," by Joe S. Farrar and Guilherme Grandizolli, in BUMP: A Horror Anthology #3 (BUMP)
• "Talking to a Hill," by Larry Hancock and Michael Cherkas, in Comics for Ukraine (Zoop)
• "World's Finest, Part 1," by Tom King and Belen Ortega, in Wonder Woman #3 (DC)

BEST SINGLE ISSUE/ONE-SHOT

• Horologist, by Jared Lee and Cross (Grim Film)
• Nightwing #105, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC)
• Star Trek: Day of Blood - Shax's Best Day, by Ryan North and Derek Charm (IDW)
• Superman 2023 Annual, by Joshua Williamson and others (DC)
• Sweet Paprika: Black, White, & Pink, by Mirka Andolfo and others (Image)

BEST CONTINUING SERIES

• Birds of Prey, by Kelly Thompson and Leonardo Basto Romero (DC)
• Nightwing, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC Comics)
• Shazam! by Mark Waid and Dan Mora (DC)
• Transformers, by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image Skybound)
• Wonder Woman, by Tom King and Daniel Sampere (DC)

BEST LIMITED SERIES

• The Cull, by Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis (Image)
• Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons, by Frank Tieri and Inaki Miranda (IDW)
• Kill Your Darlings, by Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, and Robert Quinn (Image)
• PeePee PooPoo, by Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)
• Superman: Lost, by Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan (DC)

BEST NEW SERIES

• Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, by Patrick Horvath (IDW)
• Black Cloak, by Kelly Thompson and Meredith McClaren (Image)
• Local Man, by Tim Seeley and Tony Fleecs (Image)
• Phantom Road, by Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Hernández Walta (Image)
• Somna: A Bedtime Story, by Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay (DSTLRY)

BEST PUBLICATION FOR EARLY READERS

• Bigfoot and Nessie: The Art of Getting Noticed, by Chelsea M. Campbell and Laura Knetzger (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
• Burt the Beetle Lives Here! by Ashley Spires (Kids Can Press)
• Go-Go Guys, by Rowboat Watkins (Chronicle Books)
• The Light Inside, by Dan Misdea (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
• Milk and Mocha: Our Little Happiness, by Melani Sie (Andrews McMeel)
• Tacos Today: El Toro & Friends, by Raúl the Third (HarperCollins/Versify)

BEST PUBLICATION FOR KIDS

• Buzzing, by Samuel Sattin and Rye Hickman (Little, Brown Ink)
• Mabuhay!, by Zachary Sterling (Scholastic Graphix)
• Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir, by Pedro Martín (Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Young Readers)
• Missing You, by Phellip Willian and Melissa Garabeli. translation by Fabio Ramos (Oni Press)
• Saving Sunshine, by Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan (First Second/Macmillan)

BEST PUBLICATION FOR TEENS

• Blackward, by Lawrence Lindell (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Danger and Other Unknown Risks, by Ryan North and Erica Henderson (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)
• Frontera, by Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo (HarperAlley)
• Lights, by Brenna Thummler (Oni Press)
• Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story, by Sarah Myer (First Second/Macmillan)
• My Girlfriend's Child, vol. 1, by Mamoru Aoi, translation by Hana Allen (Seven Seas)

BEST HUMOR PUBLICATION

• How to Love: A Guide to Feelings & Relationships for Everyone, by Alex Norris (Candlewick/Walker Books)
• I Was a Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator, and Other Musical Meanderings, by Keith Knight (Keith Knight Press)
• It's Jeff: The Jeff-Verse #1, by Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru (Marvel)
• Macanudo: Optimism Is for the Brave, by Liniers (Fantagraphics)
• The Yakuza's Bias, by Teki Yatsuda. translation by Max Greenway (Kodansha)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

• Comics for Ukraine, edited by Scott Dunbier (Zoop)
• Deep Cuts, by Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Danilo Beyruth, and others (Image)
• The Devil's Cut, edited by Will Dennis (DSTLRY)
• Marvel Age #1000, edited by Tom Brevoort (Marvel)
• The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics, edited by The Kao, Min Christensen, and David Daneman (Andrews McMeel)
• Swan Songs by W. Maxwell Prince and others (Image)

BEST REALITY-BASED WORK

• Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? by Chris Oliveros (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century, by Adrian Matejka and Youssef Daoudi (Liveright)
• Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali, by Marc Bernardin and Ron Salas (First Second/Macmillan)
• Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood, by Samuel Machado and Cynthia Sousa Machado with Steven M. Wise (Island Press)
• Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy, by Bill Griffith (Abrams ComicArts)

BEST GRAPHIC MEMOIR

• Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam, by Thien Pham (First Second/Macmillan)
• A First Time for Everything, by Dan Santat (First Second/Macmillan)
• In Limbo, by Deb JJ Lee (First Second/Macmillan)
• Memento Mori, by Tiitu Takalo, translation by Maria Schroderus (Oni Press)
• Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me About Life, Death, and Hope, by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Scholastic Graphix)
• The Talk, by Darrin Bell (Henry Holt)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM - NEW

• Ashes, by Álvaro Ortiz, translation by Eva Ibarzabal (Top Shelf/IDW)
• Eden II, by K. Wroten (Fantagraphics)
• A Guest in the House, by Emily Carroll (First Second/Macmillan)
• Parasocial, by Alex De Campi and Erica Henderson (Image)
• Roaming, by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM - REPRINT

• Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise Treasury Edition, by Tradd Moore (Marvel)
• The Good Asian, by Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi (Image)
• Hip Hop Family Tree: The Omnibus, by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)
• Orange Complete Series Box Set, by Ichigo Takano, translation by Amber Tamosaitis (Seven Seas)
• Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott (DC)

BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM

• Bea Wolf, adapted by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet (First Second/Macmillan)
• #DRCL midnight children, vol. 1, based on Bram Stoker's Dracula, by Shin'ichi Sakamoto, translation by Caleb Cook (VIZ Media)
• HP Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth, adapted by Gou Tanabe, translation by Zack Davisson (Dark Horse Manga)
• The Monkey King: The Complete Odyssey, adapted by Chaiko, translation by Dan Christensen (Magnetic)
• Watership Down, by Richard Adams, adapted by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin (Ten Speed Graphic)

BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL

• Ashes, by Álvaro Ortiz, translation by Eva Ibarzabal (Top Shelf/IDW)
• Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Part 2, by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Europe Comics)
• A Boy Named Rose, by Gaëlle Geniller, translation by Fabrice Sapolsky (Fairsquare Comics)
• The Great Beyond, by Léa Murawiec, translation by Aleshia Jensen (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Shubeik Lubeik, by Deena Mohamed (Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House)
• Spa, by Erik Svetoft, translation by Melissa Bowers (Fantagraphics)

BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL - ASIA

• #DRCL midnight children, vol. 1, based on Bram Stoker's Dracula, by Shin'ichi Sakamoto, translation by Caleb Cook (VIZ Media)
• Goodbye, Eri, by Tatsuki Fujimoto, translation by Amanda Haley (VIZ Media)
• The Horizon, vol. 1, by JH, translation by ULTRAMEDIA Co. Ltd. (Yen/Ize Press)
• My Picture Diary, by Fujiwara Maki, translation by Ryan Holmberg (Drawn & Quarterly)
• River's Edge, by Kyoko Okazaki, translation by Alexa Frank (Kodansha)
• The Summer Hikaru Died, vol. 1, by Mokumokuren, translation by Ajani Oloye (Yen Press)

BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION / PROJECT - STRIPS

• Dauntless Dames: High-Heeled Heroes of the Comic Strips, edited by Peter Maresca and Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics)
• David Wright's Carol Day: Lance Hallam, edited by Roger Clark, Chris Killackey, and Guy Mills (Slingsby Bros, Ink!)
• Popeye Sundays Vol 3: The Sea Hag and Alice the Goon, by E.C. Segar, edited by Conrad Groth and Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
• Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck and Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies 1935-1939: Starring Donald Duck and Big Bad Wolf, edited by David Gerstein (Fantagraphics)
• Where I'm Coming From, by Barbara Brandon-Croft, edited by Peggy Burns and Tracy Hurren (Drawn & Quarterly)

BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION / PROJECT - COMIC BOOKS

• Adventures Into Terror: The Atlas Comics Library, vol. 1, edited by Michael J. Vassallo (Fantagraphics)
• All-Negro Comics 75th Anniversary Edition, edited by Chris Robinson (Very GOOD Books)
• The Ballad of Halo Jones Full Colour Omnibus, by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson, edited by Olivia Hicks (2000AD/Rebellion)
• The John Severin Westerns Featuring American Eagle, edited by Michael Dean (Fantagraphics)
• Michael Golden's Marvel Stories Artist's Edition, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)

BEST WRITER

• Stephen Graham Jones, Earthdivers (IDW)
• Mariko Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Tom Taylor, Nightwing, Titans (DC)
• Kelly Thompson, Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn, Black White and Redder (DC); Black Cloak, The Cull (Image); It's Jeff, Captain Marvel (Marvel)
• Mark Waid, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Shazam!, World's Finest: Teen Titans (DC)
• G Willow Wilson, Poison Ivy (DC); Hunger and the Dusk (IDW)

BEST WRITER / ARTIST

• Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House (First Second/Macmillan)
• Bill Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
• Daniel Warren Johnson, Transformers (Image Skybound)
• Mokumokuren, The Summer Hikaru Died, vol. 1 (Yen Press)
• Zoe Thorogood, Hack/Slash: Back To School (Image)
• Tillie Walden, Clementine Book Two (Image Skybound)

BEST PENCILLER / INKER OR PENCILLER / INKER TEAM

• Jason Shawn Alexander, Detective Comics (DC); Killadelphia, with Germán Erramouspe (Image)
• Tula Lotay, Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder (Comixology Originals/Best Jackett)
• Inaki Miranda, Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons (IDW)
• Dan Mora, Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Shazam! (DC)
• Chris Samnee, Fire Power (Image Skybound)
• Jillian Tamaki, Roaming (Drawn & Quarterly)

BEST PAINTER / MULTIMEDIA ARTIST (INTERIOR ART)

• Jason Shawn Alexander, Blacula: Return of the King (Zombie Love Studios)
• Chaiko, The Monkey King (Magnetic)
• Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Part 2 (Europe Comics)
• Liam Sharp, Nocterra: Nemesis Special (Best Jackett); Starhenge: The Dragon and the Boar (Image)
• Martin Simmonds, Universal Monsters: Dracula (Image Skybound)
• Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: Her Little Reapers (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)

BEST COVER ARTIST

• Jen Bartel, DC Pride 2023, Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1 (DC); Captain Marvel: Dark Tempest #1, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin #1, Scarlet Witch #9, Sensational She-Hulk (Marvel)
• Evan Cagle, Detective Comics (DC)
• Jenny Frison, Alice Never After #1, BRZRKR: Fallen Empire #1, and other alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Knight Terrors: Harley Quinn #1–2, Poison Ivy #8, #12 (DC)
• EM Gist, Expanse Dragon Tooth #1, Something Is Killing the Children #28 & #34, Wild's End, vol 2 #4 and other alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Amazing Spider-Man #23, Doctor Aphra #36, Moon Knight #3, Nightcrawlers #1, Wolverine #38 (Marvel)
• Peach Momoko, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin, various alternate covers (Marvel)
• Dan Mora, Coda #3, Damn Them All #4, MMPR 30th Anniversary Special #1, Rare Flavours #3 and other alternate covers (BOOM! Studios); Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Outsiders #1, Poison Ivy #9, Shazam!, Titans #1 (DC)

BEST COLOURING

• Jordie Bellaire, Batman, Birds of Prey (DC); Dark Spaces: Hollywood Special (IDW)
• Matt Hollingsworth, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy, Punisher (Marvel)
• Lee Loughridge, Red Zone (AWA); Edgeworld, Grammaton Punch, Nostalgia (Comixology Originals); The Devil's Cut, Gone, Somna (DSTLRY); Star Trek (IDW); Killadelphia (Image); Hunt. Kill. Repeat. (Mad Cave)
• Dave McCaig, The Sacrificers (Image), The Walking Dead Deluxe (Image Skybound)
• Dean White, Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)

BEST LETTERING

• Lauren Bowes, Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes (Titan Comics)
• Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House (First Second/Macmillan)
• Bill Griffith, Three Rocks (Abrams ComicArts)
• Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber, The Witcher: Wild Animals, and others (Dark Horse); Batman: City of Madness, The Flash, Poison Ivy, and others (DC); Black Cat Social Club (Humanoids); Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees (IDW); The Cull, What's the Furthest Place from Here? (Image); and others
• Richard Starkings, Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder, Canary (Comixology Originals/Best Jackett); Parliament of Rooks (Comixology); Astro City, Battle Chasers (Image); Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics)
• Rus Wooton, Monstress, The Sacrificers (Image); Fire Power, Kroma, Transformers, The Walking Dead Deluxe, Universal Monsters: Dracula, Void Rivals (Image Skybound); Hunt. Kill. Repeat., A Legacy of Violence, Nature's Labyrinth (Mad Cave)

BEST COMICS-RELATED PERIODICAL / JOURNALISM

• The Comics Journal #309; edited by Gary Groth, Kristy Valenti, and Austin English (Fantagraphics)
• "The Indirect Market," by Brandon Schatz and Danica LeBlanc, comicsbeat.com
• Rob Salkowitz, for Forbes, ICv2.com, Publishers Weekly
• SKTCHD, by David Harper, www.sktchd.com
• SOLRAD: The Online Literary Magazine for Comics, www.solrad.co (Fieldmouse Press)

BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK

• Bryan Talbot: Father of the British Graphic Novel, by J. D. Harlock and Bryan Talbot (Brainstorm Studios)
• Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography, by Dave Gibbons (Dark Horse)
• Flamed Out: The Underground Adventures and Comix Genius of Willy Murphy, edited by Mark Burstein (Fantagraphics)
• I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, by Michael Molcher (Rebellion)
• The Pacific Comics Companion, by Stephan Friedt and Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows)
• Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean (Dark Horse)

BEST ACADEMIC / SCHOLARLY WORK

• Asian Political Cartoons, by John A. Lent (University Press of Mississippi)
• The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X- Men, by J. Andrew Deman (University of Texas Press)
• Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics, edited by Qiana Whitted (Rutgers University Press)
• If Shehrazad Drew: Critical Writings on Arab Comics, by George Khoury-Jad (Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies and American University of Beirut Press)
• In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s, by Margaret Galvan (University of Minnesota Press)
• Super Bodies: Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact, by Jeffrey A. Brown (University of Texas Press)

BEST PUBLICATION DESIGN

• Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein boxed set, designed by Mike Kennedy (Magnetic)
• Gratuitous Ninja, by Ronald Wimberly, designed by Chloe Scheffe (Beehive Books)
• Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes, designed by Donna Askem (Titan Comics)
• Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind, designed by Josh Bernstein and Rob Schwager (Z2)
• Toilet-bound Hanako-kun First Stall Box Set, designed by Wendy Chan (Yen Press)

BEST WEBCOMIC

• Asturias: The Origin of a Flag, by Javi de Castro, https://www.javidecastro.com/asturias-the-origin-of-a-flag
• Daughter of a Thousand Faces, by Vel (Velinxi), https://tapas.io/series/daughter-of-a-thousand-faces/info (Tapas)
• Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe, https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/s3-episode-226/viewer?title_no=1320&episode_no=231 (WEBTOON)
• Matchmaker, vol. 6, by Cam Marshall at https://matchmakercomic.com/. (Silver Sprocket)
• 3rd Voice, by Evan Dahm, https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/3rd-voice/list?title_no=828919 (WEBTOON)
• Unfamiliar, by Haley Newsome: https://tapas.io/series/unfamiliar/info (Tapas)

BEST DIGITAL COMIC

• Blacksad, Vol 7: They All Fall Down, Part 2. by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Europe Comics)
• Friday, by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin, vols. 7–8 (Panel Syndicate)
• Parliament of Rooks, by Abigail Jill Harding (Comixology Originals)
• Practical Defense Against Piracy, by Tony Cliff (delilahdirk.com)
• A Witch's Guide to Burning, by Aminder Dhaliwal (Instagram.com/aminder_d)

Winners Of The 2023 Eisner Awards Announced

The winers of the 2023 Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for works published between January 1 and December 31, 2022, 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 during San Diego Comic Con.

Best Short Story

• “Finding Batman” by Kevin Conroy and J Bone in DC Pride 2022 (DC)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

• Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)

Best Continuing Series

• Nightwing, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC)

Best Limited Series

• The Human Target, by Tom King and Greg Smallwood (DC)

Best New Series

• Public Domain, by Chip Zdarsky (Image)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

• The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! by Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)

• Frizzy, by Claribel A Ortega and Rose Bousamra (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

• Do A Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image)

Best Humour Publication

• Revenge of the Librarians, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Anthology

• The Nib Magazine, edited by Matt Bors (Nib)

Best Reality-Based Work

• Flung Out of Space, by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer (Abrams ComicArts)

Best Graphic Memoir

• Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Graphic Album - New

• The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the Night, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)

Best Graphic Album - Reprint

• Parker: The Martini Edition - Last Call, by Richard Stark, Darwyn Cooke, Ed Brubaker, and Sean Phillips (IDW)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

• Chivalry by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)

Best US Edition of International Material

• Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1, by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Dark Horse)

Best US Edition of International Material - Asia

• Shuna's Journey, by Hayao Miyazaki; translation by Alex Dudok de Wit (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Archival Collection/Project - Strips (at least 20 years old)

• Come Over Come Over, It’s So Magic, and My Perfect Life, by Lynda Barry, edited by Peggy Burns (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Archival Collection / Project - Comic Books (at least 20 Years Old)

• The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, edited by Dian Hansen (TASCHEN)

Best Writer

• James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country (DC), The Closet, The Department of Truth (Image)

Best Writer / Artist

• Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Penciller / Inker or Penciller / Inker Team

• Greg Smallwood, The Human Target (DC)

Best Painter / Multimedia Artist (interior art)

• Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)

Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)

• Bruno Redondo, Nightwing (DC)

Best Colouring

• Jordie Bellaire, The Nice House on the Lake, Suicide Squad: Blaze (DC); Antman, Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age (Marvel)

Best Lettering

• Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (IDW)

Best Comics-Related Periodical / Journalism

• PanelXPanel magazine, edited by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and Tiffany Babb (panelxpanel.com)

Best Comics-Related Book

• Charles M Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, by Benjamin L Clark and Nat Gertler (Schulz Museum)

Best Academic / Scholarly Work

• The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions, edited by Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren (University Press of Mississippi)

Best Publication Design

• Parker: The Martini Edition - Last Call, designed by Sean Phillips (IDW)

Best Webcomic

• Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe (WEBTOON),
• https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320&page=5

Best Digital Comic

• Barnstormers, by Scott Snyder and Tula Lotay (Comixology Originals)

Bill Finger Award

• Sam Glanzman
• Barbara Friedlander

Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award

• Beth Accomando
• Scott Dunbier

Will Eisner Hall of Fame Inductees

• Brian Bolland (by vote)
• Ann Nocenti (by vote)
• Tim Sale (by vote)
• Diana Schutz (by vote)
• Jay Johnson
• Gaspar Saladino
• Win Mortimer
• Jack Katz
• Tatjana Wood
• Tony DeZuniga
• Mort Walker
• Garry Trudeau
• Justin Green
• Aline Kominsky-Crumb
• Diane Noomin
• Bill Griffith
• Jerry Bails
• Jeffrey Catherine Jones
• Kim Thompson

Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Award

• Eitan Manhoff of Cape & Cowl Comics in Oakland, CA

Russ Manning Best Newcomer Award

• Zoe Thorogood

Finalists For The 2023 Eisner Awards Announced

The finalists for the 2023 Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for works published between January 1 and December 31, 2022, 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 will be announced in July 21 2023 during the San Diego Comic Con weekend.

Best Short Story

• “The Beekeeper’s Due,” by Jimmy Stamp and Débora Santos, in Scott Snyder Presents: Tales from the Cloakroom (Cloakroom Comics)
• “Finding Batman” by Kevin Conroy and J Bone in DC Pride 2022 (DC)
• "Good Morning," by Christopher Cantwell and Alex Lins, in Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood #4 (Marvel)
• “Silent All These Years,” by Margaret Atwood and David Mack, in Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes (Z2)
• “You Get It,” by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto, in Amazing Fantasy #1000 (Marvel)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

• Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)
• Mary Jane & Black Cat Beyond, by Jed Mackay and CF Villa (Marvel)
• Moon Knight: Black, White, and Blood #3, edited by Tom Brevoort (Marvel)
• Star Trek #400, edited by Heather Antos (IDW)
• A Vicious Circle Book 1, by Mattson Tomlin and Lee Bermejo (BOOM! Studios)

Best Continuing Series

• Daredevil, by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto and Rafael de Latorre (Marvel)
• The Department of Truth, by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds (Image)
• Killadelphia, by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander (Image)
• The Nice House on the Lake, by James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno (DC)
• Nightwing, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC)
• She-Hulk, by Rainbow Rowell, Rogê Antônio, Luca Maresca, and Takeshi Miyazawa (Marvel)

Best Limited Series

• Animal Castle, by Xavier Dorison and Felix Delep (Ablaze)
• Batman: One Bad Day, edited by Dave Wielgosz and Jessica Berbey (DC)
• The Human Target, by Tom King and Greg Smallwood (DC)
• Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age, by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham (Marvel)
• Superman: Space Age, by Mark Russell, Michael Allred, and Laura Allred (DC)

Best New Series

• The Atonement Bell, by Jim Ousley and Tyler B Ruff (Red 5)
• Love Everlasting, by Tom King and Elsa Charretier (Image)
• Public Domain, by Chip Zdarsky (Image)
• Star Trek, by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Ramon Rosanas (IDW)
• Traveling to Mars, by Mark Russell and Roberto Meli (Ablaze)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

• Beneath The Trees: A Fine Summer, by Dav (Magnetic Press)
• Fox + Chick: Up and Down: and Other Stories, by Sergio Ruzzier (Chronicle Books)
• Grumpy Monkey Who Threw That? by Suzanne Lang and Max Lang (Random House Studio)
• Hey, Bruce!: An Interactive Book, by Ryan Higgins (Disney/Hyperion)
• The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! by Mo Willems (Union Square Kids)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)

• Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan, by Jason Shiga (Amulet/Abrams)
• Frizzy, by Claribel A Ortega and Rose Bousamra (First Second/Macmillan)
• Isla To Island, by Alexis Castellanos (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)
• Little Monarchs, by Jonathan Case (Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House)
• Swim Team, by Johnnie Christmas (HarperAlley)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

• Chef's Kiss, by Jarrett Melendez and Danica Brine (Oni)
• Clementine Book One, by Tillie Walden (Image Skybound)
• Do A Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image)
• Heartstopper Volume 4, by Alice Oseman (Scholastic Graphix)
• Wash Day Diaries, by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith (Chronicle Books)

Best Humour Publication

• Cryptid Club, by Sarah Andersen (Andrews McMeel)
• I Hate This Place, by Kyle Starks and Artyom Topilin (Image Skybound)
• Killer Queens, by David Booher and Claudia Balboni (Dark Horse)
• Mr. Lovenstein Presents: Failure, by JL Westover (Image Skybound)
• Revenge of the Librarians, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Anthology

• Creepshow, edited by Alex Antone and Jon Moisan (Image Skybound)
• The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic, edited by Josh Bernstein (Z2)
• The Nib Magazine, edited by Matt Bors (Nib)
• Sensory: Life on the Spectrum, edited by Bex Ollerton (Andrews McMeel)
• Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album, edited by Rantz Hoseley (Z2)

Best Reality-Based Work

• Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense, by Noël Simsolo and Dominique Hé, translation by Montana Kane (NBM)
• Alice Guy: First Lady of Film, by José-Louis Bocquet and Catel Muller, translation by Edward Gauvin (SelfMadeHero)
• But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, edited by Charlotte Schallié (University of Toronto Press)
• Flung Out of Space, by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer (Abrams ComicArts)
• Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism, by Jess Ruliffson (Fantagraphics)
• Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball, by Jon Chad (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Graphic Memoir

• Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story, by Catherine Pioli, translated by JT Mahany (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press)
• Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
• It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth: An Auto-Bio-Graphic-Novel, by Zoe Thorogood (Image)
• So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship, by Sophie Lambda, translation by Montana Kane (First Second/Macmillan)
• Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure, by Lewis Hancox (Scholastic Graphix)

Best Graphic Album - New

• The Book of Niall, by Barry Jones (Ellie & Beatty)
• Crushing, by Sophie Burrows (Algonquin Young Readers)
• Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral, by Thomas Woodruff (Fantagraphics)
• The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the Night, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Abrams ComicArts)
• Ultrasound, by Conor Stechschulte (Fantagraphics)

Best Graphic Album - Reprint

• Days of Sand, by Aimée de Jongh, translation by Christopher Bradley (SelfMadeHero)
• Geneviève Castrée: Complete Works, by Geneviève Castrée, translation by Phil Elverum and Aleshia Jensen (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Mazebook Dark Horse Direct Edition, by Jeff Lemire (Dark Horse)
• One Beautiful Spring Day, by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics)
• Parker: The Martini Edition - Last Call, by Richard Stark, Darwyn Cooke, Ed Brubaker, and Sean Phillips (IDW)
• Super Spy Deluxe Edition, by Matt Kindt (Dark Horse)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

• Chivalry by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)
• Rain by Joe Hill, adapted by David M Booher and Zoe Thorogood (Syzygy/Image)
• Ten Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly, adapted by Brad Ricca and Courtney Sieh (Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster)
• Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album, edited by Rantz Hoseley (Z2)
• A Visit to Moscow by Rabbi Rafael Grossman, adapted by Anna Olswanger and Yevgenia Nayberg (Turner)

Best US Edition of International Material

• Always Never, by Jordi Lafebre, translation by Montana Kane (Dark Horse)
• Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 1, by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido, translation by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander (Dark Horse)
• Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story, by Catherine Pioli, translation by JT Mahany (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press)
• The Pass, by Espé, translation by JT Mahany (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press)
• Tiki: A Very Ruff Year, by David Azencot and Fred Leclerc, translation by Nanette McGuinness (Life Drawn/Humanoids)

Best US Edition of International Material - Asia

• Black Paradox, by Junji Ito, translation by Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media)
• The Hellbound vols. 1-2, by Yeon Sang-ho and Choi Gyu-seok, translation by Danny Lim (Dark Horse)
• Look Back, by Tatsuki Fujimoto, translation by Amanda Haley (VIZ Media)
• PTSD Radio vol. 1, by Masaaki Nakayama, translation by Adam Hirsch (Kodansha)
• Shuna's Journey, by Hayao Miyazaki; translation by Alex Dudok de Wit (First Second/Macmillan)
• Talk to My Back, by Yamada Murasaki, translation by Ryan Holmberg (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Archival Collection/Project - Strips (at least 20 years old)

• Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos, by Jay Jackson (New York Review Comics)
• Come Over Come Over, It’s So Magic, and My Perfect Life, by Lynda Barry, edited by Peggy Burns (Drawn & Quarterly)
• The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1922-1924, by George Herriman, edited by J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)
• Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere, by Liniers, edited by Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
• Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Volume 8: Hijinks from the Horn of Plenty, by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)

Best Archival Collection / Project - Comic Books (at least 20 Years Old)

• The Deluxe Gimenez: The Fourth Power & The Starr Conspiracy, by Juan Gimenez, edited by Alex Donoghue and Bruno Lecigne (Humanoids)
• The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, edited by Dian Hansen (TASCHEN)
• Home to Stay! The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories, by Ray Bradbury and various; edited by J Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)
• The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus 1 (Abrams ComicArts)
• Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Diamond Jubilee Collection, by Carl Barks; edited by David Gerstein (Fantagraphics)

Best Writer

• Grace Ellis, Flung Out of Space (Abrams ComicArts)
• Tom King, Batman: Killing Time, Batman: One Bad Day, Gotham City: Year One, The Human Target, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (DC); Love Everlasting (Image)
• Mark Russell, Traveling to Mars (Ablaze), One-Star Squadron, Superman: Space Age (DC); The Incal: Psychoverse (Humanoids)
• James Tynion IV, House of Slaughter, Something Is Killing the Children, Wynd (BOOM! Studios); The Nice House on the Lake, The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country (DC), The Closet, The Department of Truth (Image)
• Chip Zdarsky, Stillwater (Image Skybound); Daredevil (Marvel)

Best Writer / Artist

• Sarah Andersen, Cryptid Club (Andrews McMeel)
• Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Espé, The Pass (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University)
• Junji Ito, Black Paradox, The Liminal Zone (VIZ Media)
• Zoe Thorogood, It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth (Image)

Best Penciller / Inker or Penciller / Inker Team

• Jason Shawn Alexander, Killadelphia, Nita Hawes’ Nightmare Blog (Image)
• Alvaro Martínez Bueno, The Nice House on the Lake (DC)
• Sean Phillips, Follow Me Down, The Ghost in You (Image)
• Bruno Redondo, Nightwing (DC)
• Greg Smallwood, The Human Target (DC)

Best Painter / Multimedia Artist (interior art)

• Lee Bermejo, A Vicious Circle (BOOM! Studios)
• Felix Delep, Animal Castle (Ablaze)
• Daria Schmitt, The Monstrous Dreams of Mr. Providence (Europe Comics)
• Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (Abrams ComicArts); Monstress (Image)
• Zoe Thorogood, Rain (Syzygy/Image)
• Thomas Woodruff, Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral (Fantagraphics)

Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)

• Jen Bartel, She-Hulk (Marvel)
• Bruno Redondo, Nightwing (DC)
• Alex Ross, Astro City: That Was Then . . . (Image); Fantastic Four, Black Panther (Marvel)
• Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)
• Zoe Thorogood, Joe Hill’s Rain (Syzygy/Image)

Best Colouring

• Jordie Bellaire, The Nice House on the Lake, Suicide Squad: Blaze (DC); Antman, Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age (Marvel)
• Jean-Francois Beaulieu, I Hate Fairyland 2022, Twig (Image)
• Dave McCaig, The Incal: Psychoverse (Humanoids)
• Jacob Phillips, Follow Me Down, The Ghost in You, That Texas Blood (Image)
• Alex Ross and Josh Johnson, The Fantastic Four: Full Circle (Abrams ComicArts)
• Diana Sousa, Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins; The Mighty Nein Origins: Yasha Nydoorin; The Mighty Nein Origins: Fjord Stone; The Mighty Nein Origins: Caleb Widogast (Dark Horse)

Best Lettering

• Pat Brosseau, Batman: The Knight, Wonder Woman: The Villainy of Our Fears (DC): Creepshow, Dark Ride, I Hate This Place, Skybound Presents: Afterschool (Image Skybound)
• Chris Dickey, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (Abrams ComicArts)
• Todd Klein, Chivalry (Dark Horse); Fables (DC); Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age (Marvel)
• Nate Piekos, Black Hammer Reborn, Minor Threats, Shaolin Cowboy, Stranger Things: Kamchatka (Dark Horse), I Hate Fairyland, Twig (Image)
• Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo (IDW)
• Thomas Woodruff, Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral (Fantagraphics)

Best Comics-Related Periodical / Journalism

• Alter Ego, edited by Roy Thomas (TwoMorrows)
• Comic Book Creator, edited by Jon B Cooke (TwoMorrows)
• The Comics Journal #308, edited by Gary Groth, Kristy Valenti, and Rachel Miller (Fantagraphics)
• PanelXPanel magazine, edited by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and Tiffany Babb (panelxpanel.com)
• Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, ICv2, Publishers Weekly

Best Comics-Related Book

• The Art of the News: Comics Journalism, edited by Katherine Kelp-Stebbins and Ben Saunders (Oregon State University Press)
• Charles M Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, by Benjamin L Clark and Nat Gertler (Schulz Museum)
• The Charlton Companion, by Jon B Cooke (TwoMorrows)
• Gladys Parker: A Life in Comics, A Passion for Fashion, by Trina Robbins (Hermes Press)
• Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia, by José Alaniz (Ohio State University Press)

Best Academic / Scholarly Work

• Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels, by Josef Benson and Doug Singsen (University Press of Mississippi)
• Graphic Medicine, edited by Erin La Cour and Anna Poletti (University of Hawai’i’ Press)
• How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies, by Katherine Kelp-Stebbins (Ohio State University Press)
• The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions, edited by Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren (University Press of Mississippi)
• Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels, by Tim Smyth (Routledge)

Best Publication Design

• Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral, designed by Thomas Woodruff, Jacob Covey, and Ryan Dinnick (Fantagraphics)
• A Frog in the Fall (and later on), designed by Linnea Sterte, Olle Forsslöf, and Patrick Crotty (PEOW)
• Joan Jett & the Blackhearts 40X40: Bad Reputation/I Love Rock-n-Roll, designed by Josh Bernstein and Jason Ullmeyer (Z2)
• Mazebook Dark Horse Direct Edition, designed by Tom Muller (Dark Horse)
• Parker: The Martini Edition - Last Call, designed by Sean Phillips (IDW)
• Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album, designed by Lauryn Ipsum (Z2)

Best Webcomic

• Deeply Dave, by Grover,
  http://www.deeplydave.com/
• Delilah Dirk: Practical Defence Against Piracy, by Tony Cliff, 
  https://www.delilahdirk.com/dd4/dd4-p46.html
• Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe (WEBTOON),
  https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320&page=5
• The Mannamong, by Michael Adam Lengyel,
  https://mannamong.com/episode-1/
• Spores, by Joshua Barkman,
  https://falseknees.com/22ink1.html

Best Digital Comic

• All Princesses Die Before Dawn, by Quentin Zuttion, translation by MB Valente (Europe Comics)
• Barnstormers, by Scott Snyder and Tula Lotay (Comixology Originals)
• Behind the Curtain, by Sara del Giudice, translation by MB Valente (Europe Comics)
• Ripple Effects, by Jordan Hart, Bruno Chiroleu, Justin Harder, and Shane Kadlecik (Fanbase Press)
• Sixty Years in Winter, by Ingrid Chabbert and Aimée de Jongh, translation by Matt Madden (Europe Comics)