| Year | Nominee | Titles | Ref. |
|---|
| 1990s |
| 1994 | P. Craig Russell | The Sandman #50 (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) | [2] |
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| Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham | Death: The High Cost of Living (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) |
| Mike Mignola and Kevin Nowlan | Aliens: Salvation (Dark Horse Comics) |
| John Romita Jr. and Al Williamson | Daredevil: The Man Without Fear (Marvel Comics) |
| Dave Sim and Gerhard | Cerebus (Aardvark-Vanaheim) |
| Chris Sprouse and Karl Story | Legionnaires (DC Comics) |
| Bruce Timm | The Batman Adventures: Mad Love (DC Comics) |
| 1995 | Dave Gibbons | Martha Washington Goes to War (Dark Horse Comics) | [3] |
|---|
| Edvin Biuković | Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths (Dark Horse Comics) |
| Tony Harris and Wade von Grawbadger | Starman (DC Comics) |
| David Mazzucchelli | Paul Auster's City of Glass (Avon Books) |
| Mike Parobeck and Rick Burchett | The Batman Adventures (DC Comics) |
| P. Craig Russell | Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde , vol. 2 (NBM Publishing) |
| 1996 | Geof Darrow | The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (Dark Horse Comics) | [4] |
|---|
| Steve Dillon | Preacher (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) |
| Milo Manara | El Gaucho (NBM Publishing) |
| Al Williamson | Flash Gordon (Marvel Select) |
| Michael Zulli | The Sandman #70-72: "The Wake" (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) |
| 1997 | Charles Vess | The Book of Ballads and Sagas (Green Man Press), The Sandman #75 (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) | [5] |
|---|
| Brent Anderson /Will Blyberg | Kurt Busiek's Astro City vol. 2 (Jukebox Productions/Homage Comics) |
| Tony Harris /Wade von Grawbadger | Starman (DC Comics) |
| José Luis García-López /Kevin Nowlan | Dr. Strangefate (DC Comics) |
| Paul Smith | Leave It to Chance (Homage Comics) |
| Aron Weisenfeld /Richard Bennett | Deathblow/Wolverine (WildStorm/Image Comics/Marvel Comics) |
| 1998 | P. Craig Russell | Elric: Stormbringer (Dark Horse Comics/Topps Comics), Dr. Strange: What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen? (Marvel Comics) | [6] |
|---|
| Brent Anderson /Will Blyberg | Kurt Busiek's Astro City (Jukebox Productions/Homage Comics) |
| Rick Burchett /Terry Austin [note 1] | Batgirl Adventures (DC Comics), Superman Adventures (DC Comics) |
| Dave Gibbons | Martha Washington Saves the World #1 (Dark Horse Comics) |
| Michael Lark | Terminal City: Aerial Graffiti (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), The Little Sister (Byron Priess Visual Productions) |
| Paul Smith | Leave It to Chance (Homage Comics) |
| 1999 | Tim Sale | Superman for All Seasons (DC Comics), Grendel Black, White, and Red #1 (Dark Horse Comics) | [7] |
|---|
| Claudio Castellini | " Predator: Demon's Gold " in Dark Horse Presents #137 (Dark Horse Comics) |
| Gene Ha | Starman #46 (DC Comics) |
| Steve Lieber | Whiteout (Oni Press) |
| George Pérez /Al Vey | Avengers (Marvel Comics) |
| 2000s |
| 2000 | Kevin Nowlan | " Jack B. Quick " in Tomorrow Stories (America's Best Comics) | [8] |
|---|
| Travis Charest /Richard Friend | WildC.A.T.S. (DC Comics/WildStorm) |
| Ricardo Delgado | Hieroglyph (Dark Horse Maverick) |
| Gary Gianni | Gary Gianni's The Monstermen (Dark Horse Maverick) |
| Gene Ha | Top 10 (America's Best Comics) |
| J. H. Williams III /Mick Gray | Promethea (America's Best Comics) |
| 2001 | P. Craig Russell | Ring of the Nibelung (Dark Horse Maverick) | [9] |
|---|
| Michael Avon Oeming | Powers (Image Comics) |
| Frank Quitely /Trevor Scott | The Authority (WildStorm/DC Comics) |
| Eduardo Risso | 100 Bullets (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) |
| J. H. Williams III /Mick Gray | Promethea (America's Best Comics) |
| 2002 | Eduardo Risso | 100 Bullets (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) | [10] |
|---|
| John Cassaday | Planetary (DC Comics/WildStorm) |
| Butch Guice | Ruse (CrossGen) |
| Gene Ha /Zander Cannon | Top 10 (America's Best Comics) |
| Humberto Ramos /Sandra Hope | Out There (DC Comics/WildStorm) |
| François Schuiten | Brüsel (NBM Publishing) |
| 2003 | Kevin O'Neill | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (America's Best Comics) | [11] |
|---|
| Seth Fisher | Vertigo Pop: Tokyo (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), The Flash: Time Flies (DC Comics) |
| Bryan Hitch /Andrew Currie | The Ultimates (Marvel Comics) |
| Michael Lark | Batman: Nine Lives (DC Comics), Gotham Central (DC Comics) |
| J. H. Williams III /Mick Gray | Promethea (America's Best Comics) |
| 2004 | John Cassaday | Planetary (WildStorm/DC Comics), Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth (WildStorm/DC Comics), Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse Comics) | [12] |
|---|
| Tan Eng Huat | Doom Patrol (DC Comics), JLA #91 (DC Comics) |
| Alex Maleev | Daredevil (Marvel Comics) |
| Jim Lee /Scott Williams | Batman (DC Comics) |
| Eduardo Risso | 100 Bullets (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Batman (DC Comics), Boy Vampire: The Resurrection (Strip Art Features) |
| 2005 | John Cassaday [note 2] | Astonishing X-Men (Marvel Comics), Planetary (WildStorm/DC Comics), I Am Legion: The Dancing Faun (Humanoids Publishing/DC Comics) | [13] |
|---|
| Frank Quitely [note 2] | We3 (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) |
| Charlie Adlard | The Walking Dead (Image Comics) |
| Geof Darrow | Shaolin Cowboy (Burlyman Entertainment) |
| Cary Nord & Thomas Yeates | Conan (Dark Horse Comics) |
| 2006 | John Cassaday | Astonishing X-Men (Marvel Comics), Planetary (WildStorm/DC Comics) | [14] |
|---|
| Gene Ha | Top 10: The Forty-Niners (America's Best Comics) |
| J. G. Jones | Wanted (Top Cow Productions/Image Comics) |
| Frank Quitely | All-Star Superman (DC Comics) |
| J. H. Williams III | Promethea (America's Best Comics), Desolation Jones (WildStorm/DC Comics) |
| 2007 | Mark Buckingham / Steve Leialoha | Fables (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) | [15] |
|---|
| Tony Harris /Tom Feister | Ex Machina (WildStorm/DC Comics) |
| Niko Henrichon | Pride of Baghdad (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) |
| Michael Lark /Stefano Gaudiano | Daredevil (Marvel Comics) |
| Sonny Liew | Wonderland (Slave Labor Graphics) |
| Steve McNiven /Dexter Vines | Civil War (Marvel Comics) |
| 2008 | Pia Guerra / José Marzan Jr. | Y: The Last Man (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) | [16] |
|---|
| Steve Epting /Butch Guice/Mike Perkins | Captain America (Marvel Comics) |
| Jae Lee | The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born (Marvel Comics) |
| Takeshi Obata | Death Note (Viz Media), Hikaru no Go (Viz Media) |
| Ethan Van Sciver | Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps (DC Comics) |
| 2009 | Guy Davis | B.P.R.D. (Dark Horse Comics) | [17] [18] |
|---|
| Gabriel Bá | The Umbrella Academy (Dark Horse Comics) |
| Mark Buckingham /Steve Leialoha | Fables (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) |
| Olivier Coipel /Mark Morales | Thor (Marvel Comics) |
| Amy Reeder Hadley /Richard Friend | Madame Xanadu (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) |
| Jillian Tamaki | Skim (Groundwood Books) |
| 2010s |
| 2010 | J. H. Williams III | Detective Comics (DC Comics) | [19] [20] |
|---|
| Michael Kaluta | Madame Xanadu #11-15: "Exodus Noir" (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) |
| Steve McNiven /Dexter Vines | Wolverine: Old Man Logan (Marvel Comics) |
| Fiona Staples | North 40 (WildStorm) |
| Danijel Žeželj | Luna Park (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) |
| 2011 | Skottie Young | The Marvelous Land of Oz (Marvel Comics) | [21] [22] |
|---|
| Richard Corben | Hellboy (Dark Horse Comics) |
| Stephen DeStefano | Lucky in Love: A Poor Man's History , vol. 1 (Fantagraphics Books) |
| Rob Guillory | Chew (Image Comics) |
| Gabriel Rodriguez | Locke & Key (IDW Publishing) |
| 2012 | Ramón K. Pérez | Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand (Archaia Entertainment) | [23] [22] |
|---|
| Mike Allred | iZombie (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Madman All-New Giant-Size Super-Ginchy Special (Image Comics) |
| Chris Samnee | Captain America and Bucky (Marvel Comics), Ultimate Spider-Man #155 (Marvel Comics) |
| Marcos Martín | Daredevil (Marvel Comics) |
| Paolo Rivera /Joe Rivera | Daredevil (Marvel Comics) |
| 2013 | David Aja [note 3] | Hawkeye (Marvel Comics) | [24] [22] |
|---|
| Chris Samnee [note 3] | Daredevil (Marvel Comics), The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom (IDW Publishing) |
| Becky Cloonan | Conan the Barbarian (Dark Horse Comics), The Mire (self-published) |
| Colleen Coover | Bandette (MonkeyBrain Books) |
| Sean Phillips | Fatale (Image Comics) |
| Joseph Remnant | Harvey Pekar's Cleveland (ZIP Comics/Top Shelf Productions) |
| 2014 | Sean Murphy | The Wake (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) | [25] [22] |
|---|
| Nate Bellegarde | Nowhere Men (Image Comics) |
| Nick Dragotta | East of West (Image Comics) |
| Nate Powell | March: Book One (Top Shelf Productions) |
| Emma Ríos | Pretty Deadly (Image Comics) |
| Thomas Yeates | Law of the Desert Born (Bantam Books) |
| 2015 | Fiona Staples | Saga (Image Comics) | [26] [22] |
|---|
| Adrian Alphona | Ms. Marvel (Marvel Comics) |
| Mike Allred | Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics), Madman in Your Face 3D Special (Image Comics) |
| Frank Quitely | The Multiversity (DC Comics) |
| François Schuiten | The Leaning Girl (Alaxis Press) |
| Babs Tarr | Batgirl (DC Comics) |
| 2016 | Cliff Chiang | Paper Girls (Image Comics) | [27] [22] |
|---|
| Mike Allred | Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics), Art Ops (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) |
| Erica Henderson | Jughead (Archie Comics), The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Marvel Comics) |
| Joëlle Jones | Lady Killer (Dark Horse Comics), Brides of Helheim (Oni Press) |
| Nate Powell | March: Book Two (Top Shelf Productions) |
| 2017 | Fiona Staples | Saga (Image Comics) | [28] [22] |
|---|
| Mark Brooks | Han Solo (Marvel Comics) |
| Dan Mora | Klaus (Boom! Studios) |
| Greg Ruth | Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars (Grand Central Publishing) |
| François Schuiten | The Theory of Grain and Sand (IDW Publishing) |
| Brian Stelfreeze | Black Panther (Marvel Comics) |
| 2018 | Mitch Gerads | Mister Miracle (DC Comics) | [29] [22] |
|---|
| Isabelle Arsenault | Louis Undercover (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press) |
| Gary Gianni | Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea (Dark Horse Comics) |
| Ramón K. Pérez | Jane (Archaia Entertainment) |
| David Rubín | Black Hammer #9 & #12 (Dark Horse Comics), Ether (Dark Horse Comics), Sherlock Frankenstein #1–3 (Dark Horse Comics), Beowulf (Image Comics) |
| 2019 | Mitch Gerads | Mister Miracle (DC Comics) | [30] [31] |
|---|
| Matías Bergara | Coda (Boom! Studios) |
| Karl Kerschl | Isola (Image Comics) |
| Sonny Liew | Eternity Girl (DC Comics) |
| Sean Phillips | Kill or be Killed (Image Comics), My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies (Image Comics) |
| Yanick Paquette | Wonder Woman: Earth One , vol. 2 (DC Comics) |
| 2020s |
| 2020 | Rosemary Valero-O'Connell | Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) | [32] [33] |
|---|
| Ian Bertram | Little Bird (Image Comics) |
| Colleen Doran | Snow, Glass, Apples (Dark Horse Comics) |
| Bilquis Evely | The Dreaming (DC Comics) |
| Simon Gane | Ghost Tree (IDW Publishing) |
| Steve Pugh | Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (DC Comics) |
| 2021 | Mike Allred | Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams (Insight Editions) | [34] [35] |
|---|
| Marco Checchetto | Daredevil (Marvel Comics) |
| Jorge Corona | Middlewest (Image Comics) |
| Bertrand Gatignol | Pistouvi (Magnetic Press) |
| Mitch Gerads /Evan “Doc” Shaner | Strange Adventures (DC Black Label) |
| Sanford Greene | Bitter Root (Image Comics) |
| 2022 | Phil Jimenez | Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (DC Comics) | [36] |
|---|
| Filipe Andrade | The Many Deaths of Laila Starr (Boom! Studios) |
| Bruno Redondo | Nightwing (DC Comics) |
| Esad Ribić | Eternals (Marvel Comics) |
| P. Craig Russell | Norse Mythology (comics) (Dark Horse Comics) |
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