2022 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are presented annually at San Diego Comic-Con (or this year in a virtual ceremony) to the best comics creators of the year. You can read more about the Eisner Awards, including a full list of this year's nominees, on the Comic-Con website. Here are this year's winners. PS: Did you know that Hoopla has a great collection of digital comics with no waitlist, including some of this year's Eisner winners like Bitter Root, The Good Asian, Monsters, Run, Something Is Killing The Children, and more. You can find a tutorial about getting started with Hoopla here.

Bitter Root: Family Business
by David Walker

Best Continuing Series (TIE)

In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by tragedies and conflicting moral codes. A terrible tragedy has claimed most of the family, leaving the surviving cousins divided between by the desire to cure monsters or to kill them; they must heal the wounds of the past and move beyond their differences ... or sit back and watch a force of unimaginable evil ravage the human race.

Something is killing the children. Volume one
by James Tynion

Best Continuing Series (TIE)

Best Writer

When the children of Archer's Peak, a sleepy town in the heart of America, begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories, impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see.

The Good Asian

by Pornsak Pichetshote

Best Limited Series

Following Edison Harkï, a haunted, self-loathing Chinese-American detective on the trail of a killer in 1936 Chinatown, THE GOOD ASIAN is Chinatown noir starring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban, the Chinese, as they're besieged by rampant murders, abusive police, and a world that seemingly never changes.

The nice house on the lake
by James Tynion

Best New Series

Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter--well, they know him a little, anyway. Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago. And Walter's always been a little...off. But after the hardest year of their lives, nobody was going to turn down Walter's invitation to an astonishingly beautiful house in the woods, overlooking an enormous sylvan lake. It's beautiful, it's opulent, it's private--so a week of putting up with Walter's weird little schemes and nicknames in exchange for the vacationof a lifetime? Why not? All of them were at that moment in their lives when they could feel themselves pulling away from their other friends; wouldn't a chance to reconnect be...nice? In The Nice House on the Lake, the overriding anxieties of the 21st century get a terrifying new face-and it might just be the face of the person you once trusted most.

Chibi Usagi : attack of the Heebie Chibis
by Julie Fujii Sakai

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

While fishing for freshwater eels, Chibi Usagi, Tomoe, and Gen rescue a Dogu, a clay creature from Japan's prehistory. The Dogu's village has been enslaved by the Salamander King and his Heebie-Chibi minions and are forced to work in their mines. Chibi Usagi and his friends must rescue the Dogu people and eliminate the threat of the Salamander King forever in this feature-length story of adventure, humor, and slippery eels.

Salt magic
by Hope Larson

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)

Twelve-year-old Vonceil Taggart, willing to risk everything to set things right, leaves her family's Oklahoma farm in 1919 seeking the salt witch who cast a spell that turned their spring to saltwater.

The legend of auntie Po
by Shing Yin Khor

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po PanYin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch.

Not All Robots

by Mark Russell

Best Humor Publication

In the year 2056, robots have replaced human beings in the workforce. An uneasy co-existence develops between the newly intelligent robots and the ten billion humans living on Earth. Every human family is assigned a robot upon whom they are completely reliant. What could possibly go wrong? Meet the Walters, a human family whose robot, Razorball, ominously spends his free time in the garage working on machines which they're pretty sure are designed to kill them.

You Died : An Anthology of the Afterlife
by Kel McDonald

Best Anthology

A diverse comics anthology of tales both real and imagined honoring death as a natural part of life, featuring cultural expressions of death from around the world.

The Black Panther Party : a graphic novel history
by David Walker

Best Reality-Based Work

A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the Black Panther Party.

Run: Book one
by John Lewis

Best Graphic Memoir

This astounding graphic novel tells the story of an often overlooked chapter of civil rights history through the eyes of Congressman John Lewis,one of the Big Six leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington.

Monsters
by Barry Windsor-Smith

Best Graphic Album—New

Best Writer/Artist

The year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesn't realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join up. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Bailey's only ally and protector,Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone's control. As the titular monsters of the title multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning.

The complete American gods
by Neil Gaiman

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

Collects the entire American Gods comics series by Dark Horse comics in an oversized hardcover.

1984 : the graphic novel
by Fido Nesti

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

With evocative, immersive art from Fido Nesti, this vision of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece provides a new perspective for longtime fans but is also an accessible entry point for young readers and adults who have yet to discover the iconic storythat is still so relevant today.

The shadow of a man
by Benoît Peeters

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

The fourth release in Alaxis Press' The Obscure Cities series to be published by IDW brings the award-winning graphic novels to readers in English for the first time! Albert Chamisso, a newlywed of just a few weeks to Sarah, begins to have nightmares. Dr. Polydore Vincent helps him to get rid of the nightmares, but a strange side effect of the treatment is that his shadow is in color afterwards. He struggles with this, losing his wife and his job in the process. He moves to the outskirts of Blossfeldtstad where he meets the lovely Minna. Together, they create a light show that becomes very popular in this bittersweet romantic noir tale.

Lovesickness : Junji Ito story collection
by Junji Itō

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

Starting with the strikingly bloody 'Lovesickness,' this volume collects ten stories showcasing horror master Junji Ito in peak form, including 'The Strange Hikizuri Siblings' and 'The Rib Woman'.

Popeye : Olive Oyl & Her Sweety
by E. C. Segar

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

Well, blow me down! This new four-volume series collects the complete run of the original Popeye Sunday newspaper page adventures in an accessible and affordable slipcased paperback format!

Monstress : Volume six, The vow
by Marjorie M. Liu

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist, Sana Takeda

War has engulfed the Known World, and Maika Halfwolf is at its epicenter. As she and her friends grapple with the consequences of their actions,long-buried secrets and long-awaited reunions threaten to change everything.

Undiscovered country. Volume one, Destiny
by Scott Snyder

Best Coloring, Matt Wilson

More than a century after what had once been the United States was cut off from the rest of the world by a wall, an unexpected summons brings an expedition into this unknown land where its members must struggle to survive and to understand what they find.

All of the marvels : a journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told
by Douglas Wolk

Best Comics-Related Book

The Eisner Award-winning author of Reading Comics and podcast host of Voice of Latveria describes his endeavor to read all 27,000 plus comics that make up the Marvel Universe so far, from Alpha Flight to Omega the Unknown.