Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone has won the first-ever Nebula Award for Best Comic. The award was announced this weekend at the 61st annual Nebula Awards, presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.
The Killing Stone is the second book in the graphic novel series, written by Jessica Maison and illustrated by Anna Wieszczyk, with lettering by Matt Krotzer. The series reimagines the Frankenstein author as having become an immortal monster who founded a school for other misunderstood creatures.
In this volume, a new student named Nari who is a vengeful spirit driven by deep-seated grudges, arrives at the school hungry for rage, threatening everyone around her. Meanwhile, Shelley and the team need her help: Someone has shattered Japan’s Sessho-Seki, the Killing Stone, releasing Tamamo-no-Mae, a powerful nine-tailed fox.
Other nominees in the inaugural category were Kit Anderson’s Second Shift, Amy Chu’s Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal, Bilquis Evely and Tom King’s Helen of Wyndhorn, Jeff Lemire’s Fishflies, Ariel Slamet Ries’s Strange Bedfellows, Jason Walz’s The Flip Side and G. Willow Wilson’s The Stoneshore Register.
The Nebulas also added a category for poems this year; you can see the complete list of all winners on the Nebula Awards website.