Eisner Award for Best Webcomic

Eisner Award for Best Webcomic
Awarded for	Best Webcomic
Country	United States
First award	2017
Most recent winner (2025)	Life After Life by Joshua Barkman
Website	www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/

The Eisner Award for Best Webcomic is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books for material originally published as a webcomic.

History and name change

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

Winners and nominees

Year	Title	Authors	Website	Ref.
2010s
2017	Bird Boy	Anne Szabla	bird-boy.com	[1] [2]
	Deja Brew	Taneka Stotts and Sarah DuVall
	Jaeger	Ibrahim Moustafa
	The Middle Age	Steve Conley	steveconley.com/the-middle-age
	On Beauty	Christina Tran	sodelightful.com/comics/beauty/
2018	The Tea Dragon Society	Katie O'Neill	teadragonsociety.com	[3] [2]
	Awaiting a Wave (The Weather Channel)	Dale Carpenter and Nate Powell
	Brothers Bond	Kevin Grevioux and Ryan Benjamin	www.webtoons.com/en/action/brothersbond/list?title_no=1458&page=1
	Dispatch from a Sanctuary City (The Nib)	Mike Dawson	thenib.com/dispatch-from-a-sanctuary-city
	Welcome to the New World (New York Times Sunday Review)	Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan	www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/opinion/sunday/welcome-to-the-new-world.html
2019	The Contradictions	Sophie Yanow		[4] [5]
	Lavender Jack	Dan Schkade	www.webtoons.com/en/thriller/lavender-jack/list?title_no=1410&page=1
	Let's Play	Mongie	www.webtoons.com/en/romance/letsplay/list?title_no=1218&page=1
	Lore Olympus	Rachel Smythe	www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320&page=1
	Tiger, Tiger (Hiveworks)	Petra Erika Nordlund	www.tigertigercomic.com
2020s
2020	Fried Rice Comic	Erica Eng	friedricecomic.com	[6] [7]
	Cabramatta	Matt Huynh	thebeliever.net/cabramatta/
	Chuckwagon at the End of the World	Erik Lundy	www.theknucklesammich.com/restauranthtml/
	The Eyes	Javi de Castro	www.javidecastro.com/theeyes
	reMIND	Jason Brubaker
	Third Shift Society	Meredith Moriarty	www.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/third-shift-society/list?title_no=1703
2021	Crisis Zone	Simon Hanselmann	www.instagram.com/simon.hanselmann/	[8] [9]
	BFF	Clément C. Fabre, Joseph Saffiedine, and Thomas Cadène	www.webtoonfactory.com/en/webtoons/114-bff-saison-1/
	DPS! Only	Vel	tapas.io/series/dpsonly/
	Isle of Elsi	Alec Longstreth	www.isleofelsi.com
	The Kiss Bet	Ingrid Ochoa	www.webtoons.com/en/romance/the-kiss-bet/list?title_no=1617
	The Middle Age	Steve Conley	middleagecomic.com
2022	Lore Olympus	Rachel Smythe	www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320	[10] [11]
	Batman: Wayne Family Adventures	CRC Payne, Starbite	www.webtoons.com/en/slice-of-life/batman-wayne-family-adventures/list?title_no=3180
	Isle of Elsi	Alec Longstreth	www.isleofelsi.com
	Navillera: Like a Butterfly	Hun and Jimmy, translated by Kristianna Lee	tapas.io/series/navillera-like-a-butterfly/info
	Unmasked	Breri and Nuitt	www.webtoonfactory.com/en/serie/unmasked/
2023	Lore Olympus	Rachel Smythe	www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320	[12]
	Deeply Dave	Grover	https://deeplydave.com/
	Delilah Dirk: Practical Defence Against Piracy	Tony Cliff	https://www.delilahdirk.com/dd4/dd4-p46.html
	The Mannamong	Michael Adam Lengyel	https://www.mannamong.com/episode-1/
	Spores	Joshua Barkman	https://falseknees.com/comics/22ink1.html
2024	Lore Olympus	Rachel Smythe	www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320	[13]
	Asturias: The Origin of a Flag	Javi de Castro	https://www.javidecastro.com/asturias-the-origin-of-a-flag
	Daughter of a Thousand Faces	Vel (Velinxi)	https://tapas.io/series/daughter-of-a-thousand-faces/info
	Matchmaker, Vol. 6	Cam Marshall	https://matchmakercomic.com/
	3rd Voice	Evan Dahm	https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/3rd-voice/list?title_no=828919
	Unfamiliar	Haley Newsome	https://tapas.io/series/unfamiliar/info
2025	Life After Life	Joshua Barkman	falseknees.com/comics/24ink1.html	[14]
	The Accidental Undergrad	Christian Giroux	https://solrad.co/tag/the-accidental-undergrad
	Motherlover	Lindsay Ishihiro	https://motherlovercomic.com/
	Delilah Dirk: Practical Defence Against Piracy	Tony Cliff	https://www.delilahdirk.com/dd4/dd4-p188.html
	Rigsby WI	S. E. Case	https://rigsbywi.com

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