2026 Eisner Award Winners
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The Eisner Award winners were officially announced Friday night at the Sand Diego Comic Con (the results of the voting had unintentionally been revealed earlier in the week).
The Will Eisner Hall of Fame inductees had been honored earlier during the Comic Con. This year the Judges’ Choice inductees were Bob Bolling, Gerry Conway, Denys Cowan, Edwina Dumm, Mike Friedrich, Oliver Harrington, Don Heck, Abe Kanegson, Lee Marrs, Go Nagai, Paul S. Newman, Hector German Osterheld, Tom Palmer Sr., Bud Plant, Mike Royer, Dave Sim, Jimmy Swinnerton, Carol Tyler, and Rick Veitch. While the four nominees that the Voters’ Selected for the Hall of Fame were Colleen Doran, Jeff Smith, Akira Toriyama, and Chris Ware.
Jenny Blake Isabella and the late Martin Pasko were awarded the 19th annual Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing.
The Eisner Awards website has the complete list of comic book winners while we will share a selection with the winners in bold type.
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 Archival Collection/Project—Strips
Arthur Ferrier’s Pin-Up Parade Box Set, edited by Rian Hughes (Korero Press)
Barnaby, vol. 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 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 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)
Terran Omega: The Ghosts of War, by PJ Holden (pauljholden.com)
Tiger, Tiger by Petra Erika Nordlund (tigertigercomic.com)
Mike Peterson has posted his "Comic Strip of the Day" column every day since 2010. His opinions are his own, but we welcome comments either agreeing or in opposition.
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