About The Eisners
A celebration of comic book excellence, tracking every winner and nominee from 1988 to present day.
The Awards
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly known as the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. They are named after the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit and a major contributor to the development of the graphic novel format.
First awarded in 1988, the Eisners are considered the comic book industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards. They are presented annually at San Diego Comic-Con International, honoring the best publications and creators of the preceding year.
This Project
This site is a personal project to catalog and explore the history of the Eisner Awards. It's very much a work in progress, and I'll be adding more comic data as I find time. Beyond browsing the archives, you can track which award-winning and nominated comics you've read — building your own reading list along the way.
The data is sourced from official Eisner Award records and verified against multiple comic book databases.
Tech Stack
This site is built with:
- Vite for development and production builds
- Node.js build scripts with EJS templates to generate year pages from JSON data
- LocalStorage API for a persistent reading list state