2026 Eisner Award nominees announced, DC and Deniz Camp lead

comicsMay 14, 2026381,025

Comic-Con announced the 2026 Will Eisner Award nominees, with DC Comics receiving the most publisher nominations and Deniz Camp leading individual creators. The slate spans categories including Best New Series, Best Writer, Best Webcomic, Best Graphic Album, and Best Comics-Related Book. The list pairs established DC titles with independent and webcomic projects, reflecting a broad mix of mainstream and indie storytelling. Eisner nominations boost creators' visibility and sales and help shape which comics readers and retailers pay attention to ahead of the awards ceremony at Comic-Con.

Javier Rodríguez

@javierrodriguez.bsky.social

A huge thank you to the Eisner Awards for considering the work on AMM for a nomination. I’m nominated in five categories!! That’s way too much for a working-class kid like me. I’d be thrilled if Deniz and Hass won theirs. What a joy!! bleedingcool.com/comics/eisne...

16845d ago

David Aja3

¡Te lo dije!, jaja, enhorabuena, amigo, merecidísimas.

Javi de Castro 2

Alguna categoría en la que no te hayan nominado?? Enhorabuena master

DanSlott2

That's amazing and well-deserved news!!!

BIG OZ.2

Been saying for the past year I knew you'd get the nom But FIVE TIMES?!?!? Fuck yeah dudeeeee, love this for you!!! 💚

PJ Holden

@pauljholden.com

Screeches! TErran omega: The Ghosts of War is up for an Eisner! (Best welcome!) www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne... aaaiiiiiii!

13245d ago

PJ Holden11

“Best Welome“ - what a typo “Best Webcomic“. Ugh.

PJ Holden7

If you’re eligible to vote I hope you’ll cast your vote my way. Drawing a webcomic outside of your day to day comic drawing job is hard work, unpaid and a risky. Getting a nomination vindicates it a great deal, but winning would help give it attention that might make it something I can do more off.

PJ Holden6

Only now discovering that lots of people also got an Eisner nom.

David Wynne3

This is probably hypocritical given how much I bang on about awards being evil and all that- and I do believe that- but I am really, really chuffed for you about this!

David Harper

@davidharper.bsky.social

Some personal news. @sktchd.bsky.social was nominated for an Eisner Award this year in the Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism category! Big thanks to the judges for putting me in such a superb and eclectic group! I'm very proud to be amongst their number. www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

12545d ago

G. Willow Wilson

@gwillow.me

Thrilled to see BLACK CAT amongst such excellent company in the Best New Series Eisner noms! Thanks to partners in petty crime @biggleb.bsky.social and @joecaramagna.bsky.social and fearless leader @nicklowe.bsky.social. And congrats to all the nominees! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

7145d ago

Fell Hound ➡️ TCAF JUNE 6/7

@fellhound.bsky.social

EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR THE ONE AND ONLY @kodyisover.com 🥳🥳♥️🥳♥️♥️ No one deserves this nomination more holy fuck. So proud of you and your comic and your insane precision and attention to detail and commitment to THE (GAY) YEARN(ING). www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

5845d ago

Frankee White3

Holy moly, congrats @kodyisover.com!!!! This is incredible, wonderful news!!!

michele abounader2

if it has to be yaoi, at least it's kodyaoi.

Amalas2

Yess omg!!! I’m so hyped for this and Kody!!!

Patrick Horvath

@patrickhorvath.bsky.social

Ahoy! We pulled in two Eisner nominations this year!! ❤️😮❤️ Amazing! It's a HUGE honor to be included amongst all these heavy hitters. I'll be seated at the show with @idwpublishing.com See you in San Diegoooooooooo!

2026 Eisner nominations for Best Limited series: Absolute Martian Manhunter, by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez (DC)
Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring, by Patrick Horvath (IDW)
Bronze Faces, by Shobo, Shof, and Alexanre Tefengi (BOOM! Studios)
Crownsville, by Rodney Barnes and Elia Bonetti (Oni Press)
Everything Dead and Dying, by Tate Brombal and Jacob Phillips (Image)
Out of Alcatraz, by Christopher Cantwell & Tyler Crook (Oni Press)

6045d ago

Eike Exner

@eikeexner.com

A book on manga history that was so full of errors and false claims that I felt like I had to write a blog post about it to warn people got nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Academic Work. Truly post-truth society 🤷‍♂️ eikeexner.com/2025/11/26/n...

3245d ago

Nicole Goux@C2E2 B11

@nicolegoux.bsky.social

I can’t believe we’re Eisner Award noms! This Place Kills Me for best publication for Teens and @marikotamaki for best writer!

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Angelica and the Bear Prince, by Trung Le Nguyen (Random House Graphic)
Clementine: Book Three, by Tillie Walden (Image Skybound)
Everyone Sux But You, by K. Wroten (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
Hello Sunshine, by Keezy Young (Little,
Brown Ink)

This Place Kills Me, by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux (Abrams Fanfare)

Trumpets of Death, by Simon Bournel-Bosson, translated by Edward Gauvin (Graphic Universe/Lerner)

4945d ago

Keezy Young🌼2

CONGRATS!! i can't believe i wasn't following you yet haha. i love your work!!

Nicole Goux@C2E2 B112

It’d be pretty cool to win an Eisner so if you’re in the industry give us a vote!

Glenn Fleishman

@glennf.com

Who has three thumbs, received an Eisner nomination for *How Comics Are Made* (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2025) in Best Comics-Related Book, and needs to recheck his thumb count? This guy! So many people to think, starting with @drawmark and @michaelchabon.bsky.social

4245d ago

Glenn Fleishman3

That's Mark Kaufman @drawmark.bsky.social! Who designed both my book and another nominee, Making Nonfiction Comics, by @elerimai.bsky.social and Shay Mirk!

Comicsbeat

@comicsbeat.bsky.social

2026 Eisner Nominations are out: a great year for DC and Deniz Camp: Deniz Camp with five and DC Comics with 14 lead the pack in this year's Eisner Award nominations, announced this afternoon

2445d ago

Hannah Vardit

@hannahvardit.bsky.social

why haven't the eisner awards changed "graphic album" back to "graphic novel," a term literally coined by *checks notes* will eisner. does anyone remember that it was only changed to satisfy some weird racist who wound up getting pulled from the nomination list anyway.

3045d ago

Oni Press

@oni-press.bsky.social

💫ONI PRESS 2026 EISNER NOMINATIONS💫 BEST LIMITED SERIES: 🖋️OUT OF ALCATRAZ – @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social & @mrtylercrook.bsky.social 🖋️CROWNSVILLE – @bishop1888.bsky.social & #EliaBonetti BEST COLORING: 🖋️JORDIE BELLAIRE for @eccomics.bsky.social Epitaphs from the Abyss, Catacomb of Torment & more!

1745d ago

Adam P. Knave

@adampknave.com

Congratz to all the eisner noms,. including, of course, @keezyyoung.bsky.social for Hello Sunshine and @trungles.com for Angelica and the Bear Prince and @kodyisover.com for Keeping Time! Such a great list on nominees this year across the board!

2145d ago

AIPT

@aiptcomics.com

2026 Eisner nominations are here 🏆 DC leads the pack with a huge showing, with @imagecomics.com and @fantagraphics.bsky.social not far behind 👀 Big year ahead for #comics 🔥 See the nominees:

1545d ago

Andrew Farago

@andrewfarago.bsky.social

Congratulations to all the Eisner nominees, but especially @shaenon.bsky.social and our kid who contributed to the Stardust The Super Wizard book nominated for Best Anthology! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

1945d ago

Andrew Farago3

Vote early and vote Stardust!

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