Comic-Con International announced the winners of the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2023 at a ceremony on July 21.

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

• Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe (WEBTOON), https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320&page=5

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