Awarded each year at San Diego Comic-Con and voted on by comic book professionals and experts, the Eisners celebrate the best in the comics industry, including graphic memoir, nonfiction titles about comics, and webcomics.
Winners for 2026 include:
Best Short Story: “Blood Harvest” by Shintaro Kago, collected in Brain Damage
Best Continuing Series: Absolute Batman by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta and others
Best Limited Series: Absolute Martian Manhunter by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez
Best New Series: Assorted Crisis Events by Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadski
Best Publication for Early Readers: All the Hulk Feels by Dan Santat
Best Publication for Kids: The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud
Best Publication for Teens: This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux
Best Humor Publication: Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld
Best Anthology: DC Pride 2025: The Heart Wants edited by Andrea Shea and Jillian Grant
Best Reality-Based Work: Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance by Ben Passmore
Best Graphic Memoir: It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei, Harmony Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin Eisinger
Best Graphic Album—New: Drome by Jesse Lonergan
Best Adaptation from Another Medium: Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel by William Golding, adapted by Aimée De Jongh
Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Nocturnos by Laura Perez, translated by Andrea Rosenberg
Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia: Purgatory Funeral Cakes by Sanho, translated by Danny Lim
Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips: The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1928–1930 edited by J. Michael Catron and Bill Blackbeard
Best Comics-Related Book: Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life, by Dan Nadel
Best Writer: Mariko Tamaki, in This Place Kills Me
Best Writer/Artist: Jamal Campbell, in Zatanna
Best Penciller/Inker: Javier Rodriguez, in Absolute Martian Manhunter