Named for acclaimed comics creator Will Eisner, the awards are celebrating their 35th year of bringing attention to and highlighting the best publications and creators in comics and graphic novels. The 2023 Eisner Awards judging panel consists of librarian Moni Barrette, educator/collector Peter Jones, retailer Jen King, journalist Sean Kleefeld, scholar/comics creator A. David Lewis, and comics instructor/curator TJ Shevlin. The Eisner Awards are presented under the auspices of San Diego Comic Convention, a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation organized for charitable purposes and dedicated to creating the general public’s awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular art forms, including nonprofit educational organizations dedicated to creating awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular art forms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contributions of comics to art and culture. Last night they unveiled their winners, check out the full list below!

EISNER AWARDS 2023

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 HUMOR 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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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 (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 COLORING

  • 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

BEST DIGITAL COMIC

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

WILL EISNER SPIRIT OF COMICS RETAILER AWARD

  • Cape and Cowl Comics — Eitan Manhoff, Oakland, CA

BOB CLAMPETT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

  • Beth Accomando
  • Scott Dunbier

BILL FINGER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMIC BOOK WRITING

  • Barbara Friedlander
  • Sam Glanzman

RUSS MANNING PROMISING NEWCOMER AWARD

  • Zoe Thorogood, writer/artist of The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott (Avery Hill), writer/artist of It’s Lonely at the Center of the Earth (Image), artist of Rain (Image)

EISNER HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

DECEASED CREATORS

  • Jerry Bails
  • Tony DeZuniga
  • Justin Green
  • Jay Jackson
  • Jeffrey Catherine Jones
  • Aline Kominsky-Crumb
  • Win Mortimer
  • Diane Noomin
  • Gaspar Saladino
  • Kim Thompson
  • Mort Walker

LIVING LEGENDS

  • Bill Griffith
  • Jack Katz
  • Garry Trudeau
  • Tatjana Wood

VOTERS’ SELECTIONS

  • Brian Bolland
  • Ann Nocenti
  • Tim Sale
  • Diana Schutz