2024 Eisner Awards

The 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced at San Diego Comic-Con on July 26, 2023. Winners of SF/F interest follow.

Best Short Story

  • “The Kelpie”, Becky Cloonan (Four Gathered on Christmas Eve)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

  • Nightwing #105, Bruno Redondo & Tom Taylor (DC)

Best Continuing Series

  • Transformers, Daniel Warren Johnson (Image Skybound)

Best New Series

  • Somna: A Bedtime Story, Becky Cloonan & Tula Lotay (DSTLRY)

Best Publication for Early Readers

  • Bigfoot and Nessie: The Art of Getting Noticed, Chelsea M. Campbell & Laura Knetzger (Penguin Workshop)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

  • Danger and Other Unknown Risks, Erica Henderson & Ryan North (Penguin Workshop/Penguin Random House)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

  • Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Gene Ha, Phil Jimenez, and Nicola Scott (DC)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

  • Watership Down, Richard Adams, adapted by James Sturm & Joe Sutphin (Ten Speed Graphic)

Best Archival Collection/Project — Comic Books (at least 20 Years Old)

  • All-Negro Comics 75th Anniversary Edition, Chris Robinson, ed. (Very GOOD Books)

Best Writer/Artist

  • Daniel Warren Johnson

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist

  • Sana Takeda

Best Cover Artist

  • Peach Momoko

Best Coloring

  • Jordie Bellaire

Best Lettering

  • Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

  • The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X- Men, J. Andrew Deman (University of Texas Press)

Best Webcomic

  • Lore Olympus, Rachel Smythe (WEBTOON)

Best Digital Comic

  • Friday, Volumes 7-8, Ed Brubaker & Marcos Martin, (Panel Syndicate)

Eisner Hall of Fame Inductees:

Judges’ Choices

  • Kim Deitch
  • Creig Flessel
  • A. B. Frost
  • Billy Graham
  • Gary Groth
  • Albert Kanter
  • Warren Kremer
  • Oscar Lebeck
  • Don McGregor
  • Keiji Nakaszawa
  • Noel Sickles
  • Elmer C. Stoner
  • Bryan Talbot
  • Ron Turner
  • George Tuska
  • Lynn Varley
  • James Warren

Voters’ Choices

  • Klaus Janson
  • Jim Lee
  • Mike Mignola
  • Jill Thompson

Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award

  • Women in Comics Collective International

Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award

  • Oliver Bly

Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing

  • Jo Duffy

For more information, including the full list of winners, see the official announcement.


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