2018 Eisner Awards

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

• Hellboy: Krampusnacht, Mike Mignola & Adam Hughes (Dark Horse)

Best Continuing Series

• Monstress, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)

Best Limited Series

• Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates & Alitha E. Martinez (Marvel)

Best New Series

• Black Bolt, Saladin Ahmed & Christian Ward (Marvel)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)

• The Tea Dragon Society, Katie O’Neill (Oni)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

• Monstress, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)

Best Humor Publication

• Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Anthology

• Elements: Fire, A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color, Taneka Stotts, ed. (Beyond)

Best Graphic Album—New

• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

• Boundless, Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

• Kindred, Octavia Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy & John Jennings (Abrams ComicArts)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

• Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, Katsuhiro Otomo, edited by Haruko Hashimoto, Ajani Oloye & Lauren Scanlan (Kodansha)

Best Writer (tie)

• Tom King for Batman, Batman Annual #2, Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1, and Mister Miracle (DC)
• Marjorie Liu for Monstress (Image)

Best Writer/Artist

• Emil Ferris for My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics)

Best Penciller/Inker

• Mitch Gerads for Mister Miracle (DC)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

• Sana Takeda for Monstress (Image)

Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)

• Sana Takeda for Monstress (Image)

Best Coloring

• Emil Ferris for My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics)

Best Lettering

• Stan Sakai for Usagi Yojimbo and Groo: Slay of the Gods (Dark Horse)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

• Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics, Frederick Luis Aldama (University of Arizona Press)

Best Publication Design

• Akira 35th Anniversary Edition, designed by Phil Balsman, Akira Saito (Veia), NORMA Editorial, and MASH•ROOM (Kodansha)

Best Digital Comic

• Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost, Harvey Kurtzman, Josh O’Neill, Shannon Wheeler & Gideon Kendall (comiXology Originals/Kitchen, Lind & Associates)

Best Webcomic

• The Tea Dragon Society, Katie O’Neill (Oni)

Eisner Hall of Fame Inductees

• Charles Addams
• Karen Berger
• Dave Gibbons
• Carol Kalish
• Jackie Ormes
• Rumiko Takahashi