The Eisner Award for Best New Series is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books. First distributed in 1988 and 1989, it has been given out every year since 1995, expect for 2012.
Winners and nominees
Year Title CreatorsPublihser 1980s 1988 Concrete Dark Horse The American , Chris Warner and Art Nichols Dark Horse Eddy Current Mad Dog Graphics 1989 Kings In Disguise and Dan BurrKitchen Sink Animal Man , Chas Truog and Doug Hazlewood DC Excalibur , Alan Davis and Paul Neary MarvelMaze Agency, Adam Hughes and Rick MagyarComicoV For Vendetta and David LloydDC 1990s 1990 There was no Eisner Award ceremony, or awards distributed, in 1990, due to widespread balloting mix-ups."Eisners Cancelled," The Comics Journal #137 (Sept. 1990), p. 16. 1991-1995 The Eisner Award for Best New Series was not given these years 1995Too Much Coffee ManAdhesiveDon Simpson's Bizarre HeroesFiascoRoarin' Rick's Rare Bit Fiends King HellS. R. Bissette's TyrantSpiderbaby GraphixTHBHorse Press 1996Kurt Busiek's Astro City and Brent AndersonJukebox Productions/ImageBlack HoleKitchen SinkThe Book of Ballads and Sagas and othersGreen Man PressOptic NerveDrawn & QuarterlyPreacher and Steve DillonDC/VertigoStray BulletsEl Capitan 1997Leave It to Chance and Paul SmithHomageBarry Windsor-Smith: StorytellerDark HorseCoventryFantagraphicsNowhereDrawn & QuarterlyThe Wretch and others Caliber 1998Castle WaitingOlioLost Stories, Garrett Berner, and Dave SharpeCreative FrontiersSoulwindImageSquee!Slave LaborA Touch of SilverImage 1999Inhumans and Jae LeeMarvelAge of BronzeImageColoniaColonia PressLenoreSlave LaborYoung Justice, Todd Nauck, and Lary Stucker DC 2000s 2000Top Ten, Gene Ha, and Zander CannonABCLouis RielDrawn & Quarterly100 Bullets and Eduardo Risso DC/VertigoPlanetary and John CassadayDC/WildstormPromethea, J. H. Williams III, and Mick GrayABC 2001Powers and Michael Avon OemingImageEagleVizLucifer and others Vertigo/DCThe Red Star and Team Red StarImage 2002Queen & Country and Steve RolstonOniPrivate BeachSlave LaborRuse, Butch Guice, and Michael PerkinsCrossGenThe Sandwalk AdventuresActive SynapseTrue Story, Swear to GodClib's Boy Comics 2003Fables, Lan Medina, Mark Buckingham, and Steve LeialohaDC/VertigoForlorn FunniesAbsence of InkGotham Central, , and Michael LarkDCNowhere Girlnowheregirl.comY: The Last Man, Pia Guerra, and Jose MarzanDC/Vertigo 2004Plastic ManDCEl Cazador and Steve EptingCrossGenInvincible and Cory WalkerImageThe Losers and JockVertigo/DCSleeper and Sean PhillipsWildStorm/DCThe Walking Dead and Tony MooreImage 2005Ex Machina, Tony Harris, and Tom FesiterWildStorm/DCAstonishing X-Men and John Cassaday MarvelDoc Frankenstein and Steve SkroceBurlymanThe Shaolin CowboyBurlyman 2006All Star Superman and Frank QuitelyDCDesolation Jones and J. H. Williams III WildStorm/DCFell and Ben TemplesmithImageRocketoSpeakeasyYoung Avengers, Jim Cheung, and John DellMarvel 2007Criminal and Sean PhillipsMarvel IconEast Coast RisingTokyopopGumby and Rick GearyWildcardJack of Fables, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins, and Andrew PepoyVertigo/DCThe Lone Ranger and Sergio Cariello Dynamite 2008Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, , Georges Jeanty, and Andy OwensDark HorseImmortal Iron Fist, , David Aja, and othersMarvelJohnny HiroAdHouseThe Infinite Horizon and Phil NotoImageScalped and R. M. GueraVertigo/DC 2009Invincible Iron Man and Salvador LaroccaMarvelAir and M. K. PerkerVertigo/DCEchoAbstract StudioMadame Xanadu, Amy Reeder Hadley, and Richard FriendVertigo/DCUnknown Soldier and Alberto PonticelliVertigo/DC 2010s 2010Chew and Rob GuilloryImageDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, art by Tony ParkerBOOMIreedeemable and Peter KrauseBOOMSweet ToothVertigo/DCThe Unwritten and Peter GrossVertigo/DC 2011American Vampire, Stephen King, and Rafael AlbuquerqueVertigo/DCiZombie and Michael Allred Vertigo/DCMarinemanImageMorning Glories and Joe EismaShadowline/ImageSuperboy and Pier GalloDC 2012 The Eisner Award for Best New Series was not given this year 2013Saga and Fiona StaplesImageAdventure Time, Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lambkaboom!Bandette and Colleen CooveMonkeybrainFatale and Sean Phillips ImageHawkeye and David AjaMarvel 2014Sex Criminals and Chip ZdarskyImageHigh Crimes and Ibrahim MoustafaMonkeybrainLazarus and Michael LarkImageRat Queens and Roc UpchurchImage/ShadowlineWatson and Holmes, Rick Leonardi, Paul Mendoza et al.New Paradigm Studio 2015Lumberjanes, Grace Ellis, ND Stevenson, and Gus AllenBOOM! BoxThe Fade Out and Sean PhillipsImageMs. Marvel and Adrian AlphonMarvelRocket RaccoonMarvelThe Wicked + The Divine and Jamie McKelvie Image 2016Paper Girls and Cliff ChiangImageBitch Planet and Valentine De LandroImageHarrow County and Tyler CrookDark HorseKaijumaxOniMonstress and Sana TakedaImageThe Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Erica HendersonMarvel 2017Black Hammer and Dean OrmstonDark HorseClean Room and Jon Davis-Hunt Vertigo/DCDeathstroke: Rebirth, Carlo Pagulayan, et al.DCFaith, Pere Pérez, and Marguerite Sauvage ValiantMockingbird and Kate NiemczykMarvel 2018Black Bolt and Christian WardMarvelGrass Kings and Tyler JenkinsBOOM! StudiosMaestrosImageRedlands and Vanesa Del ReyImageRoyal CityImage 2019Gideon Falls and Andrea SorrentinoImageBitter Root, Chuck Brown, and Sanford GreenImageCrowded, Ro Stein, and Ted BrandtImageIsola and Karl KerschlImageMan-Eaters and Kate NiemczykImageSkyward and Lee GarbettImage 2020s 2020Invisible Kingdom and Christian WardBerger Books/Dark HorseDoctor Doom and Salvador Larocca MarvelOnce & Future and Dan Mora BOOM! StudiosSomething Is Killing the Children and Werther Dell’Edera BOOM! StudiosUndiscovered Country, Charles Soule, Giuseppe Camuncoli, and Daniele OrlandiniImage 2021Black Widow and Elena CasagrandeMarvelCrossover and Geoff ShawImageThe Department of Truth and Martin SimmondsImageKilladelphia and Jason Shawn AlexanderImageWe Only Find Them When They’re Dead and Simone Di MeoBOOM! Studios 2022 The Nice House on the Lake and Álvaro Martínez BuenoDC Black LabelThe Human Target and Greg SmallwoodDCNot All Robots and Mike Deodato Jr.AWA UpshotRadiant Black and Marcelo Costa Image UltramegaImage Skybound 2023Public DomainImageThe Atonement Bell and Tyler B. RuffRed 5Love Everlasting and Elsa CharretierImageStar Trek, Jackson Lanzing, and Ramon RosanasIDWTraveling to Mars and Roberto Meli Ablaze 2024Somna: A Bedtime Story and Tula LotayDSTLRYBeneath the Trees Where Nobody SeesIDWBlack Cloak and Meredith McClarenImageLocal Man and Tony FleecsImagePhantom Road and Gabriel Hernández WaltaImage2025Absolute Wonder Woman and Hayden ShermanDCAbsolute Batman and Nick DragottaDCMinor ArcanaBOOM! StudiosThe Pedestrian and Sean Von GormanMagma ComixThe Power Fantasy and Caspar Wijngaard ImageUncanny Valley and Dave Wachter BOOM! Studios2026Assorted Crisis Events and Eric ZawadzkiImageBatman Vol. 4 and Jorge JiménezDCBlack Cat and Gleb MelnikovMarvelExquisite Corpses, Michael Walsh, Pornsak Pichetshote, and othersImageGhost PepperImageTemporal and Asiah FulmoreMad Cave
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