| Year | Nominee | Titles | |
|---|
| 1990s |
| 1992 | | (DC) | [1] |
|---|
| (DC), Doom Patrol (DC) |
| (Dark Horse), Star Wars (Dark Horse) |
| (DC Comics) |
| 1993 | | (DC), Wonder Woman (DC) | [2] |
|---|
| (Dark Horse), The Terminator: Enemy Within (Dark Horse), Doom Patrol (DC) |
| (DC), The Spectre (DC) |
| (Aardvark-Vanaheim) |
| (DC Comics) |
| (Tundra), The Sandman (DC) |
| trade paperback (DC), Nexus: The Origin (Dark Horse) |
| (DC) |
| 1994 | | (DC), Wonder Woman (DC), #50 (DC) | [3] |
|---|
| (Dark Horse) |
| (DC/Vertigo), Vertigo Jam (DC/Vertigo) |
| (Marvel) |
| (Aardvark-Vanaheim) |
| 1995 | | (DC/Vertigo) | [4] |
|---|
| (DC) |
| (Abstract Studio) |
| (Gladstone) |
| (King Hell) |
| (DC/Vertigo) |
| 1996 | | (Jukebox Productions/Image) | [5] |
|---|
| #18-21 (Dark Horse), Sin City: The Big Fat Kill (Dark Horse), Silent Night (Dark Horse) |
| (DC/Vertigo), Ice Age on the World of Magic the Gathering (Acclaim/Armada), The Book of Ballads and Sagas #1 (Green Man Press) |
| (Fantagraphics), BLAB! #8 (Kitchen Sink) |
| (DC/Vertigo), Vamps: Hollywood & Vein (DC/Vertigo) |
| (Fantagraphics), Jim Special (Fantagraphics) |
| 1997 | | , (DC), Kurt Busiek's Astro City (Jukebox Productions/Homage) | [6] |
|---|
| (DC/Vertigo) |
| (DC) |
| (DC/Vertigo), Vermillion (Helix) |
| (DC) |
| (Dark Horse), Nexus Meets Madman (Dark Horse) |
| 1998 | | , (Jukebox Productions/Homage), Uncle Sam (DC/Vertigo) | [7] |
|---|
| (Dark Horse) |
| (Sirius) |
| (DC/Vertigo), Preacher Specials (DC/Vertigo) |
| (DC) |
| (Dark Horse), Nexus: God Con (Dark Horse) |
| (DC) |
| 1999 | | (DC/Vertigo) | [8] |
|---|
| (DC/Vertigo), Hellblazer (DC/Vertigo), Aliens vs. Predator: Eternal (Dark Horse) |
| (DC/Vertigo) |
| and Lynn Varley | (Dark Horse) |
| /Jimmy Palmiotti | (Marvel), Painkiller Jane/DarkChylde (Event), Painkiller Jane/Hellboy (Event) |
| 2000s |
| 2000 | | (DC), (DC), (DC), Kurt Busiek's Astro City (Homage/DC/WildStorm), ABC alternate #1 covers (ABC) | [9] |
|---|
| (DC/WildStorm) |
| (Insight Studios) |
| (DC/Vertigo) |
| (DC/Vertigo) |
| 2001 | | (DC), The Flash (DC), The Invisibles (Vertigo/DC) | [10] |
|---|
| (Vertigo/DC) |
| (Vertigo/DC), Vertigo Secret Files (Vertigo/DC), Flinch #11 (Vertigo/DC) |
| (DC), 100 Bullets (Vertigo/DC) |
| (Fantagraphics), Jimmy Corrigan (Pantheon), Drawn & Quarterly vol. 3 (Drawn & Quarterly) |
| 2002 | | (DC), 100 Bullets (Vertigo/DC) | [11] |
|---|
| (DC/Vertigo) |
| (DC/Vertigo), Transmetropolitan (DC/Vertigo) |
| specials (DC), (Marvel) |
| (Dark Horse Maverick) |
| 2003 | | (DC) | [12] |
|---|
| (Marvel) |
| (DC), 100 Bullets (DC/Vertigo) |
| (Abstract Studio) |
| (ABC) |
| 2004 | | (DC), Fables (Vertigo/DC) | [13] |
|---|
| # 620-622 (DC), 100 Bullets (DC/Vertigo) |
| (Marvel) |
| (Marvel), X-Men Unlimited (Marvel), New Mutants (Marvel) |
| (WildStorm/DC) |
| (WildStorm/DC) |
| 2005 | | (Vertigo/DC), Green Arrow (DC), Batgirl (DC) | [14] |
|---|
| (IDW) |
| (Image) |
| (Vertigo/DC), We3 (Vertigo/DC) |
| (DC) |
| 2006 | | (Vertigo/DC), Runaways (Marvel) | [15] |
|---|
| (Speakeasy) |
| (WildStorm/DC) |
| (Vertigo/DC) |
| (Dark Horse), (Dark Horse) |
| 2007 | | (Vertigo/DC), Jack of Fables (Vertigo/DC), 1001 Nights of Snowfall (Vertigo/DC) | [16] |
|---|
| (Marvel), Conan (Dark Horse), The Lone Ranger (Dynamite) |
| (Dark Horse), Ex Machina (WildStorm/DC) |
| (DC/Vertigo), Zombie Tales (Boom!), Cthulhu Tales (Boom!), The Black Plague (Boom!) |
| (DC) |
| 2008 | | (Vertigo/DC), The Umbrella Academy (Dark Horse), Process Recess 2 (AdHouse), Superior Showcase 2 (AdHouse) | [17] |
|---|
| (Marvel), The Lone Ranger (Dynamite) |
| (DC) |
| (Marvel) |
| (DC), World of Warcraft (WildStorm/DC) |
| 2009 | | (Vertigo/DC), The Umbrella Academy (Dark Horse) | [18] [19] |
|---|
| (Image), The Umbrella Academy (Dark Horse) |
| (Dark Horse) |
| (DC/Vertigo) |
| (Dynamite) |
| 2010s |
| 2010 | | (DC) | [20] [21] |
|---|
| (Boom!), The Lone Ranger (Dynamite) |
| (Marvel) |
| (Marvel/Icon), Incognito (Marvel/Icon), 28 Days Later (Boom!) |
| (WildStorm), Project Superpowers (Dynamite) |
| 2011 | | (Dark Horse), Baltimore: The Plague Ships (Dark Horse) | [22] [23] |
|---|
| (Shadowline/Image) |
| (Dark Horse), Unknown Soldier (Vertigo/DC), Punisher Max (Marvel), Deadpool (Marvel) |
| (Archaia) |
| (Vertigo/DC) |
| 2012 | | (Marvel), The Lone Ranger (Dynamite), Lone Ranger/Zorro (Dynamite), Dark Shadows (Dynamite), Warlord of Mars (Dynamite), Archie Meets Kiss (Archie) | [24] |
|---|
| (Vertigo/DC) |
| (Image) |
| (Marvel), The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel) |
| (Marvel/Icon) |
| (Vertigo/DC) |
| 2013 | | (Marvel) | [25] |
|---|
| (Image), Multiple Warheads (Image), Elephantmen #43 (Image) |
| (Image) |
| (Vertigo/DC) |
| (DC) |
| 2014 | | (Marvel) | [26] |
|---|
| (Marvel) |
| (DC/Vertigo) |
| (Image) |
| (Marvel) |
| (Image) |
| 2015 | | (DC) | [27] |
|---|
| (Marvel), (Marvel), A+X (Marvel), Dexter (Marvel), Dexter Down Under (Marvel) |
| (Archie), Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight (Dark Horse), The Twilight Zone (Dynamite), Django/Zorro (Dynamite); X-Files (IDW) |
| (Image), Ms. Marvel (Marvel) |
| (Marvel) |
| (Vertigo/DC), Batman '66: The Lost Episode, Batman '66 Meets Green Hornet (DC/Dynamite) |
| 2016 | | (Marvel), Karnak (Marvel), Scarlet Witch (Marvel) | [28] |
|---|
| (Dark Horse), Huck (Image) |
| (DC) |
| (Dark Horse), Brides of Helheim (Oni) |
| (Fantagraphics) |
| 2017 | | (Image) | [29] |
|---|
| (Marvel), Carnage (Marvel), Mosaic (Marvel), The Vision (Marvel) |
| (Dark Horse), B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth (Dark Horse), Fight Club 2 (Dark Horse), Hellboy and the BPRD 1953 (Dark Horse) |
| (Image), Kill or Be Killed (Image) |
| (Image) |
| 2018 | | (Image) | [30] |
|---|
| (Image) |
| (DC), Doom Patrol (DC/Young Animal) |
| (Marvel) |
| (Marvel) |
| 2019 | | (Image), Submerged (Vault) | [31] |
|---|
| (DC) |
| (Image) |
| variants (DC), Aquaman variants (DC) |
| (Marvel), Life of Captain Marvel (Marvel) |
| 2020s |
| 2020 | | (Image) | [32] [33] |
|---|
| (Image) |
| (Archie), Archie 1955 (Archie), Archie vs. Predator II (Archie), Cosmo (Archie) |
| (Dark Horse), Fight Club 3 (Dark Horse), Cover (DC) |
| (Marvel) |
| (Dark Horse), Invisible Kingdom (Berger Books/Dark Horse) |
| 2021 | | #19 (Boom! Studios), Mighty Morphin #2 (Boom! Studios), Something Is Killing the Children #12 (Boom! Studios), Power Rangers #1 (Boom! Studios); Die!namite (Dynamite Entertainment); The Crow: Lethe (IDW Publishing); Marvel Variants (Marvel Comics) | [34] [35] |
|---|
| (Boom! Studios); Far Sector (DC Comics) |
| (Boom! Studios) |
| (Image Comics) |
| (Dark Horse Comics) |
| (Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment) |
| 2022 | | #1&2 (DC), Wonder Woman Black & Gold #1 (DC), Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary (DC), Women’s History Month variant covers (Marvel Comics) | [36] |
|---|
| (Dark Horse Comics) |
| (DC Comics) |
| , Captain America, Captain America/Iron Man #2, Immortal Hulk, Iron Man, The U.S. of The Marvels (Marvel Comics) |
| (Boom! Studios/KaBoom | ); (Boom! Studios); Action Comics (DC Comics); The Walking Dead Deluxe (Image Skybound) |
|---|
| (DC Comics); The Blue Flame, Giga, Witchblood (Vault Comics) |
|
The following individuals have received two or more nominations but never won Best Cover Artist:
