Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic

Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic
Awarded for	Best Digital Comic
Country	United States
First award	2005
Most recent winner	My Journey to Her by Yuna Hirasawa (2025)
Website	www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

The Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books for material originally published digitally.

History and name change

Webcomics were eligible for the award when it was created in 2005. In 2014, the award was renamed Best Digital/Webcomic. In 2017, it was split into Best Digital Comic and Best Webcomic .

Winners and nominees

Year	Title	Authors	Publisher	Website	Ref.
2000s
2005	Mom's Cancer	Brian Fies		www.momscancer.com	[1]
	Athena Voltaire	Steve Bryant
	Copper	Kazu Kibuishi		www.boltcityproductions.com/copper
	Jonny Crossbones	Les McClaine		www.jonnycrossbones.com
	ojingogo	Matthew Forsythe
2006	PvP	Scott Kurtz		www.pvponline.com	[2]
	Copper	Kazu Kibuishi		www.boltcityproductions.com/copper
	Jellaby	Kean Soo		keaner.net/comics/jellaby/
	ojingogo	Matthew Forsythe
2007	Sam & Max	Steve Purcell			[3]
	Bee, in "Motel Art Improvement Service"	Jason Little
	Girl Genius	Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio		www.girlgeniusonline.com
	Minus	Ryan Armand
	Phables	Brad Guigar
	Shooting War	Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman
2008	Sugarshock!	Joss Whedon and Fábio Moon			[4]
	The Abominable Charles Christopher	Karl Kerschl		www.karlkerschl.com/abominable
	Billy Dogma, Immortal	Dean Haspiel
	The Process	Joe Infurnari
	PX!	Manny Trembley and Eric A. Anderson		www.pxcomic.com
2009	Finder	Carla Speed McNeil			[5] [6]
	BodyWorld	Dash Shaw
	The Lady's Murder	Eliza Frye
	Speak No Evil: Melancholy of a Space Mexican	Elan Trinidad
	Vs.	Alexis Sottile and Joe Infurnari
2010s
2010	Sin Titulo	Cameron Stewart			[7] [8]
	The Abominable Charles Christopher	Karl Kerschl		www.karlkerschl.com/abominable
	Bayou	Jeremy Love
	The Guns of Shadow Valley	Dave Wachter and James Andrew Clark		www.gunsofshadowvalley.com
	Power Out	Nathan Schreiber
2011	The Abominable Charles Christopher	Karl Kerschl		www.karlkerschl.com/abominable	[9] [10]
	The Bean	Travis Hanson		www.beanleafpress.com/comics-bean
	Lackadaisy	Tracy J. Butler		www.lackadaisycats.com
	Max Overacts	Caanan Grall		www.occasionalcomics.com
	Zahra's Paradise	Amir Soltani and Khalil Bendib
2012	Battlepug	Mike Norton		www.battlepug.com	[11] [10]
	Bahrain: Lines in Ink, Lines in the Sand	Josh Neufeld
	Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant	Tony Cliff		www.delilahdirk.com
	Outfoxed	Dylan Meconis		www.dylanmeconis.com/outfoxed
	Sarah and the Seed	Ryan Andrews		www.ryan-a.com/comics/sarahandtheseed01.htm
2013	Bandette	Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover			[12] [10]
	Ant Comic	Michael DeForge
	It Will All Hurt	Farel Dalrymple
	Our Bloodstained Roof	Ryan Andrews		www.ryan-a.com/comics/roof.htm
	Oyster War	Ben Towle
2014	The Oatmeal	Matthew Inman		theoatmeal.com	[13] [10]
	As the Crow Flies	Melanie Gillman		www.melaniegillman.com
	Failing Sky	Dax Tran-Caffee		www.failingsky.com
	High Crimes	Christopher Sebela and Ibrahim Moustafa
	The Last Mechanical Monster	Brian Fies
2015	The Private Eye	Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martín	Panel Syndicate		[14] [10]
	Bandette	Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover	MonkeyBrain Books/comiXology
	Failing Sky	Dax Tran-Caffee		www.failingsky.com
	The Last Mechanical Monster	Brian Fies
	Nimona	ND Stevenson
2016	Bandette	Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover	MonkeyBrain Books/comiXology		[15] [10]
	Fresh Romance	Janelle Asselin (editor)	Rosy Press
	The Legend of Wonder Woman	Renae De Liz	DC Comics
	Lighten Up	Ronald Wimberly	The Nib	thenib.com/lighten-up-4f7f96ca8a7e
	These Memories Won't Last	Stu Campbell		www.thesememorieswontlast.com
2017	Bandette	Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover	MonkeyBrain Books/comiXology		[16] [10]
	Edison Rex	Chris Roberson and Dennis Culver	MonkeyBrain Books/comiXology	www.edisonrex.net
	Helm	Jehanzeb Hasan and Mauricio Caballero
	On a Sunbeam	Tillie Walden		www.onasunbeam.com
	Universe!	Albert Monteys	Panel Syndicate
2018	Harvey Kurtzman's Marley's Ghost	Harvey Kurtzman , Josh O'Neill, Shannon Wheeler, and Gideon Kendall	comiXology Originals/Kitchen, Lind & Associates		[17] [10]
	Bandette	Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover	MonkeyBrain Books/comiXology
	Barrier	Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martín	Panel Syndicate
	The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya	Reimena Yee		www.reimenayee.com/the-carpet-merchant-of-konstantiniyya#readonline
	Contact High	James F. Wright and Josh Eckert
	Quince	Sebastian Kadlecik, Kit Steinkellner, and Emma Steinkellner (trans. Valeria Tranier)	Fanbase Press/comiXology
2019	Umami	Ken Niimura	Panel Syndicate		[18] [19]
	Aztec Empire	Paul Guinan , Anina Bennett, and David Hahn		www.bigredhair.com/books/aztec-empire/about
	The Führer and the Tramp	Sean McArdle , Jon Judy, and Dexter Wee
	The Journey	Pablo Leon	Rewire News Group	www.rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2018/01/08/rewire-exclusive-comic-journey
	The Stone King	Kel McDonald and Tyler Crook	comiXology Originals
2020	Afterlift	Chip Zdarsky and Jason Loo	comiXology Originals		[20] [21]
	Black Water Lilies	Michel Bussi , Frédéric Duval, Didier Cassegrain (trans. Edward Gauvin)	Europe Comics
	Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin	Tania de Montaigne, adapted by Emilie Plateau (trans. Montana Kane)	Europe Comics
	Elma, A Bear's Life, vol. 1	Ingrid Chabbert and Léa Mazé (trans. Jenny Aufiery)	Europe Comics
	Mare Internum	Der-shing Helmer	comiXology
	Tales from Behind the Window	Edanur Kuntman (trans. Cem Ulgen)	Europe Comics
2021	Friday	Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martín	Panel Syndicate		[22] [23]
	Genius Animals?	Vali Chandrasekaran and Jun-Pierre Shiozawa		www.geniusanimals.net
	Gentlemind	Juan Díaz Canales , Teresa Valero, Antonio Lapone (trans. Jeremy Melloul)	Europe Comics
	Promethee 13:13	Andy Diggle and Shawn Martinbrough	comiXology Originals/Delcourt
	Olive	Véro Cazot and Lucy Mazel (trans. Jessie Aufiery)	Europe Comics
	Soon	Thomas Cadène and Benjamin Adam (trans. Margaret Besser)	Europe Comics
2022	Snow Angels	Jeff Lemire and Jock	comiXology Originals		[24]
	Days of Sand	Aimée de Jongh (trans. Christopher Bradley)	Europe Comics
	Everyone Is Tulip	Dave Baker and Nicole Goux		www.everyoneistulip.com
	It's Jeff!	Kelly Thompson and Gurihiru	Marvel Comics
	Love After World Domination Vol. 1–3	Hiroshi Noda and Takahiro Wakamatsu (trans. Steven LeCroy)	Kodansha USA
2023	Barnstormers	Scott Snyder and Tula Lotay	comiXology Originals		[25]
	All Princesses Die Before Dawn	Quentin Zuttion (trans. M. B. Valente)
	Behind the Curtain	Sara del Giudice (trans. M. B. Valente)
	Ripple Effects	Jordan Hart, Bruno Chiroleu, Justin Harder, Shane Kadlecik
	Sixty Years in Winter	Ingrid Chabbert and Aimée de Jongh (trans. Matt Madden)	Europe Comics
2024	Friday, vols. 7–8	Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martín	Panel Syndicate		[26] [27]
	Blacksad, Vol. 7: They All Fall Down, Part 2	Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido (trans. Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander)	Europe Comics
	Parliament of Rooks	Abigail Jill Harding
	Delilah Dirk: Practical Defence Against Piracy	Tony Cliff		www.delilahdirk.com
	A Witch's Guide to Burning	Aminder Dhaliwal
2025	My Journey to Her	Yuna Hirasawa	Kodansha		[28] [29]
	The Beauty Salon	Quentin Zuttion, based on the novella by Mario Bellatin (trans. M. B. Valente)
	Beyond the Sea	Anaïs Flogny (trans. Dan Christensen)
	Gonzo: Fear and Loathing in America	Morgan Navarro (trans. Tom Imber)
	The Spider and the Ivy	Grégoire Carle (trans. M. B. Valente)

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