Eisner Award for Best Short Story | |
Awarded For: | Best Short Story in Comic Books |
Country: | United States |
Year: | 1993 |
Holder Label: | Most recent winner |
Holder: | "When the Menopausal Carnival Comes to Town" by Mimi Pond (2021) |
The Eisner Award for Best Short Story is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books that has been awarded every year since its creation in 1993. The Eisner Award rules state that "A short story must be within an anthologyof bigger work or else appear online."[1]
Year | Title | Authors | Result | |
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1990s | ||||
1993 | in Xenozoic Tales #12 (Kitchen Sink Press) | Winner | [2] | |
in Eightball #9 (Fantagraphics) | Nominee | |||
in Naughty Bits #6 (Fantagraphics) | ||||
chapter of "From Hell" in Taboo #6 (Spiderbaby Graphix/Tundra Publishing) | and Eddie Campbell | |||
chapter of Through the Habitrails in Taboo #7 (Spiderbaby Graphix/Tundra Publishing) | ||||
in Tantalizing Stores Presents Frank in The River (Tundra Publishing) | ||||
1994 | in Simpsons Comics #1 (Bongo Comics) | , Cindy Vance, and Bill Morrison | Winner | [3] |
in Rubber Blanket #3 (Rubber Blanket Press) | Nominee | |||
in Concrete Eclectica #2 (Dark Horse Comics) | ||||
in Eightball #12 (Fantagraphics) | ||||
in Vertigo Jam (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) | and Steve Dillon | |||
1995 | in Sin City: The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories (Dark Horse Comics/Legend Comics) | Winner | [4] | |
in Drawn & Quarterly Vol. 2 #2 (Drawn & Quarterly) | Nominee | |||
in The Batman Adventures Annual #1 (DC Comics) | and John Byrne | |||
in Vertigo Rave (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) | and Gary Amaro | |||
in Wild Life #1 (Fantagraphics) | ||||
in Negative Burn #11 (Caliber Press) | , adapted by Joe Pruett and Ken Meyer Jr. | |||
1996 | in Instant Piano #3 (Dark Horse Comics) | Winner | [5] | |
in Eightball #15 (Fantagraphics) | Nominee | |||
in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #33 (Gladstone Publishing) | and William Van Horn | |||
in BLAB! #8 (Kitchen Sink Press) | ||||
in Confessions of a Cereal Eater (NBM Publishing) | and Scott Hampton | |||
in Optic Nerve #2 (Drawn & Quarterly) | ||||
1997 | in Batman Black and White #4 (DC Comics) | and Gary Gianni | Winner | [6] |
in Frank #1 (Fantagraphics) | Nominee | |||
in Joy Ride and Other Stories (Kitchen Sink Press) | ||||
in Wizard Presents Kurt Busiek's Astro City vol. 2 #1/2 (Homage Comics/Wizard Press) | ||||
in The Batman Chronicles #5 (DC Comics) | , Kim Yale, Brian Stelfreeze, and Karl Story | |||
in Batman Black and White #1 (DC Comics) | ||||
1998 | in Dork! #4 (Slave Labor Graphics) | Winner | [7] | |
in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #610 (Gladstone Publishing) | Nominee | |||
in Vampirella/Dracula: The Centennial (Harris Publications) | , Gary Frank, and Cam Smith | |||
in Penny Century #1 (Fantagraphics) | ||||
in Weird War Tales #1 (DC Comics) | and Eric Shanower | |||
in Sin City: Sex & Violence (Dark Horse Comics) | ||||
1999 | in Grendel: Black, White, and Red #1 (Dark Horse Comics) | and Tim Sale | Winner | [8] |
in Gangland #4 (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) | and Mark Chiarello | Nominee | ||
in Treehouse of Horror #4 (Bongo Comics) | , Julius Priete and Tim Bavington | |||
in Flaming Carrot's Greatest Hits vol. 3 (Dark Horse Comics) | ||||
in The 3 Geeks #4 (3 Finger Prints) | ||||
2000s | ||||
2000 | in Elseworlds 80-Page Giant (DC Comics) | and Elizabeth Glass | Winner | [9] |
in Naughty Bits #28 (Fantagraphics) | Nominee | |||
in Dork! #7 (Slave Labor Graphics) | ||||
in Tomorrow Stories #2 (America's Best Comics) | and Rick Veitch | |||
in Jetlag (Actus Tragicus) | and Yirmi Pinkus | |||
in Dark Horse Presents Annual 1999 (Dark Horse Comics) | ||||
in Tomorrow Stories #2 (America's Best Comics) | and Kevin Nowlan | |||
2001 | in Streetwise (TwoMorrows Publishing) | Winner | [10] | |
in Little Lit (HarperCollins) | Nominee | |||
in Drawn & Quarterly vol. 3 (Drawn & Quarterly) | and Charles Berberian | |||
in Weird War Tales Special (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) | and Darko Macan | |||
in Little Lit (HarperCollins) | ||||
2002 | in Dork! #9 (Slave Labor Graphics) | Winner | [11] | |
in Drawn & Quarterly vol. 4 (Drawn & Quarterly) | , Jean-Luc Fromental, and Stanislas Barthélémy | Nominee | ||
in Bento #1 and Pictures That Tick (Hourglass Studios/Allen Spiegel Fine Arts) | ||||
in Cicada vol. 4 no. 1 (Carus Publishing) | and Steve Lieber | |||
in Drawn & Quarterly vol. 4 (Drawn & Quarterly) | ||||
in Expo 2001 (The Expo) | and Bo Hampton | |||
2003 | in Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings (Dark Horse Comics) | and Mike Mignola | Winner | [12] |
in The Comics Journal Summer Special 2002 (Fantagraphics) | Nominee | |||
in Orchid (Sparkplug Comics) | , adapted by Kevin Huizenga | |||
in Sshhhh! (Fantagraphics) | ||||
in Bipolar #3 (Alternative Comics) | ||||
2004 | in (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) | and P. Craig Russell | Winner | [13] |
in Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night (HarperCollins) | and Richard Sala | Nominee | ||
in Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night (HarperCollins) | ||||
in Drawn & Quarterly vol. 5 (Drawn & Quarterly) | and Charles Berberian | |||
sty le="background:;" | in Same Difference and Other Stories (Small Stories) | |||
in The Matrix Comics (Burlyman Entertainment) | ||||
2005 | in The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft (Dark Horse Comics) | and Jill Thompson | Winner | [14] |
in Rosetta 2 (Alternative Comics) | Nominee | |||
in Kramers Ergot 5 (Gingko Press) | ||||
in McSweeney's Quarterly #13 (McSweeney's) | ||||
in Creatures of the Night (Dark Horse Comics) | and Michael Zulli | |||
in Common Grounds #5 (Top Cow Productions/Image Comics) | , Angel Medina, and Jon Holdredge | |||
2006 | in Solo #3 (DC Comics) | Winner | [15] | |
in Doomed #1 (IDW Publishing) | , adapted by Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood | Nominee | ||
in Flight vol. 2 (Image Comics) | ||||
in The Goon #14 (Dark Horse Comics) | ||||
in The Recidivist #3 (La Mano) | s tyle="background:;" | |||
2007 | in (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) | and James Jean | Winner | [16] |
in Uncle Scrooge #354 (Gemstone Publishing) | Nominee | |||
in Drawn & Quarterly Showcase 4 (Drawn & Quarterly) | ||||
in Flight vol. 3 (Ballantine Books) | ||||
in Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man (Marvel Comics) | , Olivier Coipel, and Mark Morales | |||
in Bart Simpsons's Treehouse of Horror #12 (Bongo Comics) | ||||
2008 | in New York Times Sunday Magazine (The New York Times) | Winner | [17] | |
in New Engineering (PictureBox) | Nominee | |||
in Mome #8 (Fantagraphics) | ||||
in Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (Last Gasp) | ||||
in I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! (Fantagraphics) | ||||
in Mome #8 (Fantagraphics) | ||||
2009 | in The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #14 (Bongo Comics) | , Nina Matsumoto, and Andrew Pepoy | Winner | [18] |
in Kramers Ergot 7 (Buenaventura Press) | Nominee | [19] | ||
in I Live Here (Pantheon Books) | ||||
in Superior Showcase #3 (AdHouse Books) | ||||
in Ganges #2 (Fantagraphics) | ||||
2010s | ||||
2010 | in The Eternal Smile (First Second Books) | and Derek Kirk Kim | Winner | [20] [21] |
in From Wonderland with Love: Danish Comics the 3rd Millennium (Fantagraphics/Aben malen) | Nominee | [22] | ||
in What Is Torch Tiger? (Torch Tiger) | ||||
in Syncopated (Villard Books) | ||||
in Bob Dylan Revisited (W. W. Norton & Company) | ||||
2011 | in I Am an Avenger #2 (Marvel Comics) | and Michael Lark | Winner | |
in Bart Simpson #54 (Bongo Comics) | Nominee | [23] | ||
in DCU Halloween Special 2010 (DC Comics) | ||||
in Fractured Fables (Silverline Books/Image Comics) | and Rodin Esquejo | |||
in Popgun vol. 4 (Image Comics) | ||||
in Fractured Fables (Silverline Books/Image Comics) | and Camilla d'Errico | |||
2012 | in Richard Stark's Parker: The Martini Edition (IDW Publishing) | Winner | ||
in Optic Nerve #12 (Drawn & Quarterly) | Nominee | [24] | ||
in The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror #17 (Bongo Comics) | ||||
in Metal Hurlant vol. 2 (Humanoids Publishing) | ||||
in Dark Horse Presents #7 (Dark Horse Comics) | ||||
2013 | in Tales Designed to Thrizzle#8 (Fantagraphics) | Winner | ||
in Injury #4 (Ted May/Alternative Comics) | and Ted May | Nominee | [25] | |
in Dockwood (Nobrow Press) | ||||
in Monsters Miracles & Mayonnaise (Epigram Books) | ||||
in Heads or Tails (Fantagraphics) | ||||
2014 | in #6 (Fantagraphics) | Winner | [26] | |
in Optic Nerve #13 (Drawn & Quarterly) | Nominee | |||
in The Witching Hour (DC Comics) | and Cliff Chiang | |||
in Habit #1 (Oily Comics) | ||||
in The Oatmeal | ||||
2015 | Winner | [27] | ||
in Mutha Magazine | Nominee | [28] | ||
in Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World (Simon & Schuster) | ||||
in Batman Black and White #3 (DC Comics) | ||||
in Adventures of Superman #14 (DC Comics) | and Jock | |||
2016 | in Optic Nerve #14 (Drawn & Quarterly) | Winner | ||
in Vertigo Quarterly CMYK #4: Black (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) | and John Paul Leon | Nominee | [29] | |
in 24 x 7 (Fanfare) | ||||
in The Oatmeal (theoatmeal.com/comics/plane | ||||
in Fable Comics (First Second Books) | ||||
2017 | in Batman Annual #1 (DC Comics) | and David Finch | Winner | |
in We Told You So: Comics as Art (Fantagraphics) | Nominee | [30] | ||
in Uptight #5 (Fantagraphics) | ||||
in One Week in The Library (Image Comics) | and John Amor | |||
in Island #8 (Image Comics) | ||||
in Kramers Ergot 9 (Fantagraphics) | ||||
2018 | in Columbia Magazine, Summer 2017 (Columbia University) | Winner | ||
in Mine: A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All Benefiting Planned Parenthood (ComicMix) | and Scott Chantler | Nominee | [31] | |
in Adventure Time #13 (KaBOOM!) | and Antonio Sandoval | |||
in Comics for Choice (Hazel Newlevant) | ||||
in Enough Space for Everyone Else (Bedside Press) | ||||
2019 | in Swamp Thing Winter Special (DC Comics) | and Jason Fabok | Winner | [32] |
in Get Naked (Image Comics) | and Emei Olivia Burrell | Nominee | ||
in Mad #4 (DC Comics) | and Marc Palm | |||
in I Feel Machine (SelfMadeHero) | ||||
in The Nib | ||||
in Coin-Op #7 (Coin-Op Books) | and Maria Hoey | |||
2020s | ||||
2020 | in Hot Comb (Drawn & Quarterly) | Winner | [33] | |
in The New Yorker | Nominee | [34] | ||
in The Believer | ||||
in The Nib | ||||
in The Oatmeal | ||||
2021 | in Menopause: A Comic Treatment (Graphic Medicine/Penn State University Press) | Winner | [35] | |
in Now #8 (Fantagraphics) | Nominee | [36] | ||
in The New York Times | ||||
in Elements: Earth A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color (Ascend Press) | ||||
in Detective Comics #1027 (DC Comics) | and Eduardo Risso | |||
2022 | in You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife (Iron Circus) | and Raina Telgemeier | Winner | [37] |
in Superman: Red and Blue #5 (DC Comics) | Nominee | |||
in Too Tough to Die (Birdcage Bottom Books) | and Michael Kamison | |||
in Green Arrow 80th Anniversary (DC Comics) | and Jorge Fornés | |||
in The Nib Vol 9: Secrets (The Nib) | Triple Dream (Mel Hilario, Katie Longua, and Lauren Davis) | |||
2023 | “Finding Batman” in DC Pride 2022 (DC Comics) | Kevin Conroy and J. Bone | Winner | [38] |
"Good Morning," in Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood #4 (Marvel) | Christopher Cantwell and Alex Lins | Nominee | ||
“The Beekeeper’s Due" in Scott Snyder Presents: Tales from the Cloakroom (Cloakroom Comics) | Jimmy Stamp and Débora Santos | |||
“Silent All These Years,” in Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes (Z2) | Margaret Atwood and David Mack | |||
“You Get It,” in Amazing Fantasy #1000 (Marvel) | Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto |