The Nebula Award for Best Comics is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy comics. To be eligible for Nebula Award consideration, a comic must be published in English in the United States. Works published in English elsewhere in the world are also eligible, provided they are released on either a website or in an electronic edition. The award is only given to the authors of the comic, not the artists. The inaugural comics award, for works created in 2025, was awarded in 2026. The Nebula Awards have been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards.
Nebula Award nominees and winners are selected by members of SFWA, although the authors of the nominees are not required to be members themselves. Each year, works are nominated by SFWA members during a period typically spanning from December 15 to January 31. The six works receiving the most nominations proceed to the final ballot, with additional nominees considered in the event of ties. Subsequently, members have about a month to vote on the final ballot, and the winners are announced at the Nebula Awards ceremony held in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received.
The inaugural year was won by Jessica Maison for Mary Shelley's School for Monsters: The Killing Stone.
Winners and nominees SFWA currently identifies the awards by the year of publication, that is, the year prior to the year in which the award is given. Entries with a yellow background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; the other entries are the other nominees on the shortlist.
* Winners and joint winners
+ YearAuthorWorkPublisher or publicationRef. 2025 * Mary Shelley's School for Monsters: The Killing Stone Wicked Tree Second Shift Avery Hill Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal Berger Books Helen of Wyndhorn Dark Horse Comics Fishflies Image Comics Strange Bedfellows HarperAlley Rocky Pond Berger Books
See also Eisner Awards Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic
References
External links Nebula Awards official site