2025 Eisner Award Winners
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The San Diego Comic Con hosted The Eisner Awards Friday night and there are a few categories among the mostly comic book groupings that connect to our subject matters of comics-mostly-other-than-comic-books.
Below are some of those categories’ cartoonist finalists we occasionally feature with the winners bolded.
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 HUMOR 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 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)
Feeding Ghosts by Teresa Hulls was a Pulitzer Prize winner this year.
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)
Gene Luen Yang and Lunar New Year Love Story also won as Best Publication for Teens and Best Writer. Noted here since Gene created a New York Times Magazine comic strip, Prime Baby: Conclusion in 2008/09.
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 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 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 WEBCOMIC
- The Accidental Undergrad by Christian Giroux (Fieldmouse Press)
- Life After Life by Joshua Barkman (False Knees)
- Motherlover by Lindsay Ishihiro (Iron Circus)
- Practical Defence Against Piracy by Tony Cliff
- Rigsby WI by S. E. Case (Iron Circus)
The above was cribbed from The Beat where all the 2025 Eisner Award finalists and winners are recorded. After all who better to turn to other than…
BEST COMICS-RELATED PERIODICAL/JOURNALISM
- The Beat, edited by Heidi MacDonald and others, https://www.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, www.solrad.co (Fieldmouse Press)
- Zdarsky Comics News, edited by Allison O’Toole (Chip Zdarsky)
A reminder that a few cartoonists with comic strip or magazine ties were inducted into the Hall of Fame:
The 2025 Hall of Fame inductees were awarded at a separate ceremony on Friday morning. The 21 inductees chosen by the judges’ panel are deceased creators Peter Arno; Gus Arriola; Wilhelm Busch; Richard “Grass” Green; Rea Irvin; Jack Kamen; Joe Maneely; Shigeru Mizuki; Bob Oksner; Bob Powell; Ira Schnapp; and Phil Seuling. The living creators are Steve Bissette; Lucy Shelton Caswell; Philippe Druillet; Phoebe Gloeckner; Joe Sacco; Bill Schanes; Steve Schanes; Frank Stack; and Angelo Torres.
The Voters’ Choice Hall of Fame inductees are Junji Ito; Kyle Baker; Eddie Campbell; Roz Chast; Dan Clowes; Todd Klein; and John Romita, Jr.
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