Comic-Con International has announced the 2026 nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Nominees were chosen for 32 categories, with around 75 publishers represented. The Eisner Awards will be presented at the San Diego Hilton Bayfront Hotel during Comic-Con on July 24, 2026.

DC led the publishers with 16 nominations (plus 10 shared), Fantagraphics got 14 nominations, Image Comics received 12 (plus 9 shared), Abrams imprints had 9 nominations, Drawn & Quarterly got 6, Random House got 5, Dark Horse earned 4 (plus 4 shared), and Marvel got 3 (plus 5 shared).

Some of the works that received the most nominations included Absolute Martian Manhunter, Absolute Batman, Assorted Crisis Events, Department of Truth, Drome, and A Garden of Spheres. Deniz Camp led the creators list with 5 nominations, followed by James Tynion IV with 4 nominations. Juni Ba, Javier Rodriguez, Jesse Lonergan, Linnea Sterte, Kelly Thompson, and Eric Zawadski all received 3 nominations.

The 2026 Eisner nominees are:

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” in Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project by R.K. Russell and Wilfred Santiago (Stacked Deck Press)
• “Red Snapper in the Rea” in Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy (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 Hunter 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 Alexandre 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 and 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, Michael Walsh, Pornsak Pichetshote, 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 Humor 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 4-7 by Keigo Shinzo, translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash (VIZ Media)
• Land 1 by Kazumi Yamashita, translated by Kevin Gifford (Yen Press)
• Purgatory Funeral Cakes by Sanho, translated by Danny Lim (Dark Horse)
• Tokyo Alien Bros. 1-3 by Keigo Shinzo, translated by Casey Loe (VIZ Media)
• Yan 1-2 by Chang Sheng, translated by Vanessa Liu (Titan Manga)

Best Archival Collection/Project – Strips

• Arthur Ferrier’s Pin-Up Parade Box Set edited by Rian Hughes (Korero Press)
• Barnaby 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. Schulz 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 (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 and Birds of Prey (DC); Jeff the Land Shark (Marvel)
• James Tynion IV, Something Is Killing the Children and Wynd: The Power of the Blood (BOOM! Studios); Let This One Be a Devil and Red Book (Dark Horse); The City Beneath Her Feet (DSTLRY); The Department of Truth, Exquisite Corpses, and 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 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 and 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 and 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 and TMNT Godzilla (IDW); Monkey Meat Summer Batch (Image)
• Nick Dragotta, Absolute Batman, Absolute Batman 2025 Annual, Batman #1, and Batman/Deadpool (DC)
• Francesco Francavilla, Cyberpunk 2077 and Star Wars: Tales from the Nightlands (Dark Horse); Absolute Batman, Absolute Martian Manhunter, Batman: Full Moon, and Nightwing variants (DC); Green Hornet/Miss Fury (Dynamite); Star Trek: The Last Starship and Twilight Zone (IDW); Dick Tracy (Mad Cave)
• Mateus Manhanini, Absolute Superman, Absolute Wonder Woman, and 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, and The Ultimates (Marvel)
• Javier Rodriguez, Absolute Martian Manhunter, Batman & Robin: Year One #7, and The New Gods #8 (DC)
• Hayden Sherman, Absolute Wonder Woman and Batman: Dark Patterns #3-12 (DC)

Best Coloring

• Jordie Bellaire, Absolute Wonder Woman and The Nice House by the Sea (DC); The Exorcism at 1600 Penn (IDW); Assorted Crisis Events, The Department of Truth, Exquisite Corpses, and W0RLDTR33 (Image); GI Joe (Image/Skybound); EC Catacomb of Torment and 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 and 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, and Solarblader (Sandstorm); John Carpenter’s Blood of the Taken: Next of Kin, Pause, and 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, and Wonder Woman (DC); Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell #1-3 (Marvel)
• Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Ill Vacation and Stillman (Comixology Originals); Absolute Martian Manhunter, Challengers of the Unknown, DC K.O., The Flash, Green Arrow, and Poison Ivy (DC); Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, and 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, and Welcome to Twilight (Dark Horse); I Hate Fairyland (Image)
• Ben Wickey, More Weight: A Salem Story (Top Shelf)