The nominees for the 2025 Ringo Awards have been announced, the annual awards program named for artist Mike Wieringo, who died in 2007.
Nominees were chosen by fans, along with a panel of judges, and the awards period included any materials published in 2024. The awards presentation will take place at the Baltimore Comic-Con in October.
Congratulations to this year’s nominees:
Best Cartoonist (Writer and Artist)
- Arechan
- Megan Grey
- Patrick Horvath
- Mikaël
- Eric Powell
Best Writer
- Jason Douglas
- Tom King
- Oscar Osorio
- Scott Snyder
- Kelly Thompson
- James Tynion IV
- David F. Walker
Best Artist or Penciller/Inker Team
- Bilquis Evely
- Kate Flynn
- Daniel HDR
- Eduardo Risso
- Chris Samnee
Best Letterer
- Aditya Bidikar
- Clayton Cowles
- Amal Desai
- DC Hopkins
- Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
- Richard Starkings
Best Colorist
- Michael Adams
- Jordie Bellaire
- Lee Loughridge
- Sabine Rich
- Dave Stewart
Best Cover Artist
- Oliver Barrett
- Evan Cagle
- Francine Delgado
- Bilquis Evely
- Francesca Fantini
- Greg Smallwood
Best Series
- Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, IDW Publishing
- The Blood Brothers Mother, DSTLRY
- Helen of Wyndhorn, Dark Horse Comics
- Masters of the Universe: Revolution, Dark Horse Comics
- The Pedestrian, Magma Comix
Best Single Issue or Story
- Batman and Robin Year One #1, DC Comics
- “A Blue Flame” in Second Hand Love, Drawn & Quarterly
- The Crying Boy, Keenspot Entertainment
- Death Ratio’d, AWA Studios
- FML #1, Dark Horse Comics
- Helen of Wyndhorn, Dark Horse Comics
- Navigating with You, Maverick
- A Never-Ending Adventure, Oscar Osorio
- Trinity Special: World’s Finest #1, DC Comics
Best Original Graphic Novel
- Big Jim and the White Boy, Ten Speed Graphic
- The Deep Dark, Scholastic/Graphix
- ERASED: An Actor of Color’s Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood, NBM Grpahic Novels
- Homestead, Source Point Press
- Jane American, self-published
Best Anthology
- DC Power 2024, DC Comics
- EC Cruel Universe, Oni Press
- Hello Darkness, BOOM! Studios
- The Savage Sword of Conan, Titan Comics
- Tales from the New World, Oscar Osorio
- Transphoria, Lifeline Comics
Best Humor Comic
- Action Philosophers: Omnipotence for Dummies, Rocketship Entertainment
- Archie: The Decision, Archie Comics
- Forces of Nature, Drawn & Quarterly
- Kids Are Still Weird: And More Observations from Parenthood, NBM Graphic Novels
- Smut #1, self-published
- Space Circus, Dark Horse Comics
Best Webcomic
- The Croaking, WEBTOON Entertainment
- Daughter of a Thousand Faces, Tapas Entertainment
- The Mafia Nanny, WEBTOON Entertainment
- Novae, WEBTOON Entertainment
- Renaissance of Raven, DC Go!/DC Comics
- Under the Oak Tree, Manta
- Vampire Family, WEBTOON Entertainment
Best Humor Webcomic
- Dealing with Demons, Manta
- Harley Quinn in Paradise, DC Go!/DC Comics
- High Class Homos, WEBTOON Entertainment
- Nothing Butt Nightwing, DC Go!/DC Comics
- Rosebuds, Comics Kingdom
- Wanna Be Friends?, WEBTOON Entertainment
Best Non-fiction Comic Work
- Adrift on a Painted Sea, Avery Hill
- Brittle Joints, Street Noise Books
- Djuna, Street Noise Books
- Feeding Ghosts, MCD
- In the Shadows of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones, Oni Press
Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel
- Double Booking, Papercutz/Mad Cave Studios
- Dudley Datson and the Forever Machine, Dark Horse Comics
- Hilda and Twig Hide from the Rain, Flying Eye Books
- The Legend of Tiger and Tail-Flower, Levine Querido
- The New Girl, Scholastic/Graphix
- Night Stories, Astra Books for Young Readers
- ZOR, Keenspot Entertainment
Best Presentation in Design
- Coins of Judas, Orange Cone Productions/Band of Bards
- David Mazzucchelli’s Batman Year One Artist’s Edition, IDW Publishing
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff and Bram Stoker’s Dracula starring Bela Lugosi Casket Edition, Rocketship Entertainment
- One Bite at a Time: The First 20 Years of Elephant Eater Comics, Elephant Eater Comics
- Scott Pilgrim 20th Anniversary Hardcover Box Set, Oni Press
- Warm Fusion, DSTLRY