Eisner Award Winners 2025Best 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 Humor 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 U.S., 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 U.S. Edition of International Material: The Jellyfish, by Boum, translated by Robin Lang and Helge Dascher (Pow Pow Press)
Best U.S. 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,
https://www.comicsbeat.comBest 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,
https://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, Groupies (Comixology Originals), 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 Coloring: 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)