The Eisner Awards gave out the lion’s share of this year’s awards to the Indie Comics realm with multiple winners from Drawn & Quarterly, DSTLRY, Zoop, Fantagraphics, and Image/Skybound.
Congratulations to all of the Eisner Award winners and nominees! Check out the entire awards list courtesy of the official Eisner Awards website, and start adding some to your summer reading list.
Check out all of the nominees for 2024 right here as well.
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) and Monstress (Image)
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—NEW: Roaming by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
BEST NEW SERIES: Somna: A Bedtime Story by Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay (DSTLRY)
BEST CONTINUING SERIES: Transformers by Daniel Warren Johnson (Image Skybound)
BEST LIMITED SERIES: PeePee PooPoo by Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)
BEST SINGLE ISSUE/ONE-SHOT: Nightwing #105 by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo (DC)
BEST ANTHOLOGY: Comics for Ukraine edited by Scott Dunbier (Zoop)
BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM: Watership Down by Richard Adams, adapted by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin (Ten Speed Graphic)
BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM—REPRINT: Hip Hop Family Tree: The Omnibus by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics) and Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott (DC) (Tie)
BEST SHORT STORY: “The Kelpie” by Becky Cloonan from Four Gathered on Christmas Eve (Dark Horse)
BEST COVER ARTIST: Peach Momoko, Demon Wars: Scarlet Sin, various alternate covers (Marvel)
BEST COLORING: 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)
BEST HUMOR PUBLICATION: It’s Jeff: The Jeff-Verse #1 by Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru (Marvel)
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 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 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)
