Eisner Award for Best Webcomic

The Eisner Award for Best Webcomic is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books for material originally published as a webcomic.

Eisner Award for Best Webcomic
Awarded for	Best Webcomic
Country	United States
First award	2017
Most recent winner (2023)	Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe
Website	www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/

History and name change

Webcomics were eligible for the Best Digital Comic award when it was created in 2005. In 2014 the award was changed to Best Digital/Webcomic. In 2017 the award was split into Best Digital Comic and Best Webcomic.

Winners and nominees

Year	Title	Authors	Website	Ref.
2010s
2017	Bird Boy	Anne Szabla	bird-boy.com	[1][2]
	Deja Brew	Taneka Stotts and Sarah DuVall
	Jaeger	Ibrahim Moustafa
	The Middle Age	Steve Conley	steveconley.com/the-middle-age
	On Beauty	Christina Tran	sodelightful.com/comics/beauty/
2018	The Tea Dragon Society	Katie O'Neill	teadragonsociety.com	[3][2]
	Awaiting a Wave (The Weather Channel)	Dale Carpenter and Nate Powell
	Brothers Bond (Line Webtoon)	Kevin Grevioux and Ryan Benjamin	www.webtoons.com/en/action/brothersbond/list?title_no=1458&page=1
	Dispatch from a Sanctuary City (The Nib)	Mike Dawson	thenib.com/dispatch-from-a-sanctuary-city
	Welcome to the New World (New York Times Sunday Review)	Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan	www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/opinion/sunday/welcome-to-the-new-world.html
2019	The Contradictions	Sophie Yanow		[4][5]
	Lavender Jack (Line Webtoon)	Dan Schkade	www.webtoons.com/en/thriller/lavender-jack/list?title_no=1410&page=1
	Let's Play (Line Webtoon)	Mongie	www.webtoons.com/en/romance/letsplay/list?title_no=1218&page=1
	Lore Olympus (Line Webtoon)	Rachel Smythe	www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320&page=1
	Tiger, Tiger (Hiveworks)	Petra Erika Nordlund	www.tigertigercomic.com
2020s
2020	Fried Rice Comic	Erica Eng	friedricecomic.com	[6][7]
	Cabramatta	Matt Huynh	thebeliever.net/cabramatta/
	Chuckwagon at the End of the World	Erik Lundy	www.theknucklesammich.com/restauranthtml/
	The Eyes	Javi de Castro	www.javidecastro.com/theeyes
	reMIND	Jason Brubaker
	Third Shift Society	Meredith Moriarty	www.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/third-shift-society/list?title_no=1703
2021	Crisis Zone	Simon Hanselmann	www.instagram.com/simon.hanselmann/	[8][9]
	BFF	Clément C. Fabre, Joseph Saffiedine, and Thomas Cadène	www.webtoonfactory.com/en/webtoons/114-bff-saison-1/
	DPS! Only	Vel	tapas.io/series/dpsonly/
	Isle of Elsi	Alec Longstreth	www.isleofelsi.com
	The Kiss Bet	Ingrid Ochoa	www.webtoons.com/en/romance/the-kiss-bet/list?title_no=1617
	The Middle Age	Steve Conley	middleagecomic.com
2022	Lore Olympus	Rachel Smythe	www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320	[10] [11]
	Batman: Wayne Family Adventures	CRC Payne, Starbite	www.webtoons.com/en/slice-of-life/batman-wayne-family-adventures/list?title_no=3180
	Isle of Elsi	Alec Longstreth	www.isleofelsi.com
	Navillera: Like a Butterfly	Hun and Jimmy, translated by Kristianna Lee	tapas.io/series/navillera-like-a-butterfly/info
	Unmasked	Breri and Nuitt	www.webtoonfactory.com/en/serie/unmasked/
2023	Lore Olympus	Rachel Smythe	www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320	[12]
	Deeply Dave	Grover	https://deeplydave.com/
	Delilah Dirk: Practical Defence Against Piracy	Tony Cliff	https://www.delilahdirk.com/dd4/dd4-p46.html
	The Mannamong	Michael Adam Lengyel	https://www.mannamong.com/episode-1/
	Spores	Joshua Barkman	https://falseknees.com/

Notes

References

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