Lunar New Year Love Story, by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham, won the award in two categories, Best Publication for Teens and Best Graphic Album—New; it was the only multiple award winner. Yang also took top honors in the Best Writer category.

The awards were presented in a live ceremony on Friday, July 25, during Comic-Con International in San Diego. At the end of the event, Eisner Awards administrator Jackie Estrada announced that she will step down from the post this year. Estrada has been running the awards program since it began in 1990 and has been involved with Comic-Con International since the early 1970s. She is the author of several books, including Comic Book People: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s (see “‘Comic Book People’”) and a past president of Friends of Lulu, and in 2018 she received the inaugural Harvey Awards Comics Industry Pioneer Award (see “Harvey Awards”).

Best Short Story
“Spaces,” by Phil Jimenez, in DC Pride 2024 #1 (DC)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot
The War on Gaza, by Joe Sacco (Fantagraphics)

Best Continuing Series
Santos Sisters, by Greg & Fake, Graham Smith, Dave Landsberger, and Marc Koprinarov (Floating World)

Best Limited Series
Zatanna: Bring Down the House, by Mariko Tamaki and Javier Rodriguez (DC)

Best New Series
Absolute Wonder Woman, by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman (DC)

Best Publication for Early Readers
Hilda and Twig Hide from the Rain, by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye)

Best Publication for Kids
Plain Jane and the Mermaid, by Vera Brosgol (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Publication for Teens
Lunar New Year Love Story, by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Humor Publication
Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It, by Tara Booth (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Anthology
Godzilla’s 70th Anniversary, edited by Jake Williams and others (IDW)

Best Reality-Based Work
Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the U.S., by Caitlin Cass (Fantagraphics)

Best Graphic Memoir
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir, by Tessa Hulls (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Best Graphic Album—New
Lunar New Year Love Story, by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint
The One Hand and The Six Fingers, by Ram V, Dan Watters, Laurence Campbell, and Sumit Kumar (Image)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, adapted by Manu Larcenet (Abrams)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material
The Jellyfish, by Boum, translated by Robin Lang and Helge Dascher (Pow Pow Press)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia
Tokyo These Days, vols. 1–3, by Taiyo Matsumoto, translated by Michael Arias (VIZ Media)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips
Thorn: The Complete Proto-BONE Strips 1982–1986, and Other Early Drawings, by Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books
David Mazzucchelli’s Batman Year One Artist’s Edition, by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism
The Beat, edited by Heidi MacDonald and others

Best Comics-Related Book
Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, by Caitlin McGurk (Fantagraphics)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women, edited by Margaret C. Flinn (Ohio State University Press)

Best Publication Design
David Mazzucchelli’s Batman Year One Artist’s Edition, designed by Chip Kidd (IDW)

Best Digital Comic
My Journey to Her, by Yuna Hirasawa (Kodansha)

Best Webcomic
Life After Life, by Joshua Barkman

Best Writer
Gene Luen Yang, Lunar New Year Love Story (First Second/Macmillan)

Best Writer/Artist
Charles Burns, Kommix (Fantagraphics); Final Cut (Pantheon); Unwholesome Love (co-published with Partners & Son)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team
Bilquis Evely, Helen of Wyndhorn (Dark Horse)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist
Eduardo Risso, The Blood Brothers Mother (DSTLRY)

Best Cover Artist
Tula Lotay, Groupies (Comixology Originals), Helen of Wyndhorn #1, Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter #3, Dawnrunner #1, Barnstormers TPB (Dark Horse); Somna and other titles (DSTLRY); The Horizon Experiment (Image)

Best Coloring
Jordie Bellaire, Absolute Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey, John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead in America, The Nice House by the Sea (DC); The City Beneath Her Feet (DSTLRY); The Exorcism at 1600 Penn (IDW); W0rldtr33 (Image); G.I. Joe, Duke (Image Skybound)

Best Lettering
Clayton Cowles, Animal Pound (BOOM! Studios); FML, Helen of Wyndhorn (Dark Horse); Absolute Batman, Batman, Batman & Robin: Year One, Birds of Prey, Jenny Sparks, Wonder Woman (DC); Strange Academy, Venom (Marvel)

Hall of Fame

Judges’ Choices (previously announced, see “Phil Seuling, Bill and Steve Schanes Named to Eisner Awards Hall of Fame”).

Peter Arno
Gus Arriola
Steve Bissette
Wilhelm Busch
Lucy Shelton Caswell
Philippe Druillet
Phoebe Gloeckner
Richard “Grass” Green
Rea Irvin
Jack Kamen
Joe Maneely
Shigeru Mizuki
Bob Oksner
Bob Powell
Joe Sacco
Bill Schanes
Steve Schanes
Ira Schnapp
Phil Seuling
Frank Stack
Angelo Torres

Voters’ Choices

Kyle Baker
Eddie Campbell
Roz Chast
Dan Clowes
Junji Ito
Todd Klein
John Romita, Jr.

Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award
Mad Cave Studios for their L.A. Strong charity comic

Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award
Richard Blake

Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing
Don Glut (Dagar the Invincible, The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor, The Invaders, Kull the Destroyer) and Sheldon Mayer (Sugar & Spike, Scribbly, The Three Mouseketeers)