Comic-Con International announced the winners of the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2016 on July 22.

Best Short Story

• “Killing and Dying,” by Adrian Tomine, in Optic Nerve #14 (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

• Silver Surfer #11: “Never After,” by Dan Slott and Michael Allred (Marvel)

Best Continuing Series

• Southern Bastards, by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour (Image)

Best Limited Series

• The Fade Out, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)

Best New Series

• Paper Girls, by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (Image)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

• Little Robot, by Ben Hatke (First Second)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)

• Over the Garden Wall, by Pat McHale and Jim Campbell (BOOM! Studios/KaBOOM!)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

• SuperMutant Magic Academy, by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Humor Publication

• Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Digital/Webcomic

• Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)

Best Anthology

• Drawn & Quarterly, Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary, Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, edited by Tom Devlin (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Reality-Based Work

• March: Book Two, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Top Shelf/IDW)

Best Graphic Album—New

• Ruins, by Peter Kuper (SelfMadeHero)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

• Nimona, by Nicole Stevenson (Harper Teen)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

• Two Brothers, by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (Dark Horse)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

• The Realist, by Asaf Hanuka (BOOM! Studios/Archaia)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

• Showa, 1953–1989: A History of Japan, by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

• The Eternaut, by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano Lòpez, edited by Gary Groth and Kristy Valenti (Fantagraphics)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

• Walt Kelly’s Fairy Tales, edited by Craig Yoe (IDW)

Best Writer

• Jason Aaron, Southern Bastards (Image), Men of Wrath (Marvel Icon), Doctor Strange, Star Wars, Thor (Marvel)

Best Writer/Artist

• Bill Griffith, Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

• Cliff Chiang, Paper Girls (Image)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist

• Dustin Nguyen, Descender (Image)

Best Cover Artist

• David Aja, Hawkeye, Karnak, Scarlet Witch (Marvel)

Best Coloring

• Jordie Bellaire, The Autumnlands, Injection, Plutona, Pretty Deadly, The Surface, They’re Not Like Us, Zero (Image); The X-Files (IDW); The Massive (Dark Horse); Magneto, Vision (Marvel)

Best Lettering

• Derf Backderf, Trashed (Abrams)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism

• Hogan’s Alley, edited by Tom Heintjes (Hogan’s Alley)

Best Comics-Related Book

• Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America, by Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

• The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings (Rutgers)

Best Publication Design

• Sandman Gallery Edition, designed by Graphitti Designs and Josh Beatman/Brainchild Studios (Graphitti Designs/DC)

Named for comics creator the Will Eisner, the awards are celebrating their 28th year of highlighting the best publications and creators in comics and graphic novels.

Other Awards Presented at Ceremony

Hall of Fame Award

• Carl Burgos
• Tove Jansson
• Lynda Barry
• Rube Goldberg
• Jacques Tardi
• Matt Groening

Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing

• Elliot S! Maggin
• Richard E. Hughes

Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award

• The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman

Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award

• Orbital Comics & Gallery, Karl Asaa, Damian Keeng & James Wilson, London, UK

Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award

• Dan Mora

The awards ceremony was hosted by John Barrowman, who stretched his cosplaying wings tonight!

#SDCC #EisnerAwards @Team_Barrowman as Zapp Branigan pic.twitter.com/SPVUf2XJst

— ComicMix (@comicmix) July 23, 2016

Yes Squirrel Girl happened @Comic_Con #SDCC #EisnerAwards #cosplay #jbstyle JB pic.twitter.com/mLb4s9FY1I

— John Barrowman MBE (@Team_Barrowman) July 23, 2016

John Barrowman as Harley Quinn, with Phil LaMarr, close out the #eisnerawards @Team_Barrowman @phillamarr #SDCC2016 pic.twitter.com/uIqEPz6MMT

— Paul Guinan (@Boilerplate1893) July 23, 2016