Eisner Award for Best Short Story

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Eisner Award for Best Short Story
Awarded forBest Short Story in Comic Books
CountryUnited States
First awarded1993
Most recent winner"When the Menopausal Carnival Comes to Town" by Mimi Pond (2021)
Websitewww.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

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 anthology of bigger work or else appear online."[1]

Winners and nominees[]

Year Title Authors Ref.
1990s
1993 "Two Cities" in Xenozoic Tales #12 (Kitchen Sink Press) Mark Schultz [2]
"The Artist's Life" in Eightball #9 (Fantagraphics) Dan Clowes
"Hippie Bitch Gets Laid" in Naughty Bits #6 (Fantagraphics) Roberta Gregory
"The Nemesis of Neglect" chapter of "From Hell" in Taboo #6 (Spiderbaby Graphix/Tundra Publishing) Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
"Escape #2 The Dry Creek Bed" chapter of in Taboo #7 (Spiderbaby Graphix/Tundra Publishing) Jeff Nicholson
"Frank in the River" in Tantalizing Stores Presents Frank in The River (Tundra Publishing) Jim Woodring
1994 "The Amazing Colossal Homer" in Simpsons Comics #1 (Bongo Comics) , , and Bill Morrison [3]
"Big Man" in Rubber Blanket #3 () David Mazzucchelli
"I Strive for Realism" in Concrete Eclectica #2 (Dark Horse Comics) Paul Chadwick
"The Origin of Dan Pussey" in Eightball #12 (Fantagraphics) Dan Clowes
"Tainted Love" in (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
1995 "The Babe Wore Red" in Sin City: The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories (Dark Horse Comics/Legend Comics) Frank Miller [4]
"The Hannah Story" in Drawn & Quarterly Vol. 2 #2 (Drawn & Quarterly) Carol Tyler
"Laughter After Midnight" in The Batman Adventures Annual #1 (DC Comics) Paul Dini and John Byrne
"The Lot" in (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) John Ney Rieber and
"The Virgin" in #1 (Fantagraphics) Peter Kuper
"We Can Get Them For You Wholesale" in Negative Burn #11 (Caliber Press) based on a story by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Joe Pruett and
1996 "The Eltingville Comic-Book, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Role-Playing Club in Bring Me the Head of Boba Fett" in Instant Piano #3 (Dark Horse Comics) Evan Dorkin [5]
"Caricature" in Eightball #15 (Fantagraphics) Dan Clowes
"Horsing Around with History" in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #33 (Gladstone Publishing) Carl Barks and William Van Horn
"Jimmy Corrigan" in BLAB! #8 (Kitchen Sink Press) Chris Ware
"Klingon Battle Helmet" in (NBM Publishing) and Scott Hampton
"Pink Frosting" in Optic Nerve #2 (Drawn & Quarterly) Adrian Tomine
1997 "Heroes" in Batman Black and White #4 (DC Comics) Archie Goodwin and Gary Gianni [6]
"Gentlemanhog" in Frank #1 (Fantagraphics) Jim Woodring
"Joy Ride" in (Kitchen Sink Press) Carol Lay
"The Nearness of You" in Wizard Presents Kurt Busiek's Astro City vol. 2 #1/2 (Homage Comics/Wizard Press) Kurt Busiek
"Oracle-Year One: Born of Hope" in The Batman Chronicles #5 (DC Comics) John Ostrander, Kim Yale, Brian Stelfreeze, and Karl Story
"Perpetual Mourning" in Batman Black and White #1 (DC Comics) Ted McKeever
1998 "The Eltingville Comic-Book, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Role-Playing Club In: The Marathon Men" in #4 (Slave Labor Graphics) Evan Dorkin [7]
"A Matter of Some Gravity" in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #610 (Gladstone Publishing) Don Rosa
"The New European" in Vampirella/Dracula: The Centennial (Harris Publications) Alan Moore, Gary Frank, and Cam Smith
"Penny Century" in Penny Century #1 (Fantagraphics) Jaime Hernandez
"The Willow Warriors" in Weird War Tales #1 (DC Comics) Ian Edginton and Eric Shanower
"Wrong Turn" in Sin City: Sex & Violence (Dark Horse Comics) Frank Miller
1999 "Devil's Advocate" in Grendel: Black, White, and Red #1 (Dark Horse Comics) Matt Wagner and Tim Sale [8]
"Electric China Death" in #4 (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) Richard Bruning and Mark Chiarello
"The Illustrative Man" in Treehouse of Horror #4 (Bongo Comics) Batton Lash, and
"Invincible Man and Nifty Boy" in Flaming Carrot's Greatest Hits vol. 3 (Dark Horse Comics) Bob Burden
"Whhyyyyyy? (Oh God Why?)" in #4 ()
2000s
2000 "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" in Elseworlds 80-Page Giant (DC Comics) Kyle Baker and [9]
"Bye-Bye, Muffy" in Naughty Bits #28 (Fantagraphics) Roberta Gregory
"Cluttered Like My Head" in #7 (Slave Labor Graphics) Evan Dorkin
"How Things Work Out (Greyshirt)" in Tomorrow Stories #2 (America's Best Comics) Alan Moore and Rick Veitch
"Margolis" in (Actus Tragicus) Etgar Keret and
"Orange Glow" in Dark Horse Presents Annual 1999 (Dark Horse Comics) Paul Chadwick
"The Unbearableness of Being Light (Jack B. Quick)" in Tomorrow Stories #2 (America's Best Comics) Alan Moore and Kevin Nowlan
2001 "The Gorilla Suit" in (TwoMorrows Publishing) Sergio Aragonés [10]
"The Fisherman and the Sea Princess" in Little Lit (HarperCollins) David Mazzucchelli
"Monsieur Jean" in Drawn & Quarterly vol. 3 (Drawn & Quarterly) Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian
"A Prayer to the Sun" in Weird War Tales Special (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) Edvin Biuković and Darko Macan
"Prince Rooster" in Little Lit (HarperCollins) Art Spiegelman
2002 "The Eltingville Club in 'The Intervention'" in #9 (Slave Labor Graphics) Evan Dorkin [11]
"The Adventures of Hergé" in Drawn & Quarterly vol. 4 (Drawn & Quarterly) , , and
"His Story" in Bento #1 and (/) Dave McKean
"Me and Edith Head" in Cicada vol. 4 no. 1 (Carus Publishing) Sara Ryan and Steve Lieber
"Oh To Celebrate" in Drawn & Quarterly vol. 4 (Drawn & Quarterly) Miriam Katin
"The Willful Death of a Stereotype" in Expo 2001 (The Expo) Chris Staros and Bo Hampton
2003 "The Magician and the Snake" in Dark Horse Maverick: Happy Endings (Dark Horse Comics) and Mike Mignola [12]
"Between Two Worlds: The Strange and Sad Story of Erich Wolfgang Korngold" in The Comics Journal Summer Special 2002 (Fantagraphics) P. Craig Russell
"Green Tea" in (Sparkplug Comics) Sheridan Le Fanu, adapted by Kevin Huizenga
"Untitled (first story in book)" in (Fantagraphics) Jason
"Telekinetic" in Bipolar #3 (Alternative Comics) Tomer Hanuka
2004 "Death" in The Sandman: Endless Nights (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell [13]
"It Was a Dark and Silly Night . . ." in Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night (HarperCollins) Lemony Snicket and Richard Sala
"It Was a Dark and Silly Night" in Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night (HarperCollins) Carlos Nine
"Monsieur Jean" in Drawn & Quarterly vol. 5 (Drawn & Quarterly) Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian
"Same Difference" in () Derek Kirk Kim
"There Are No Flowers in the Real World" in The Matrix Comics (Burlyman Entertainment) David Lapham
2005 "Unfamiliar" in The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft (Dark Horse Comics) Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson [14]
"Eve O'Twins" in 2 (Alternative Comics) Craig Thompson
"Glenn Ganges: Jeepers Jacobs" in Kramers Ergot 5 () Kevin Huizenga
"God (story on wrap-around dust jacket)" in McSweeney's Quarterly #13 (McSweeney's) Chris Ware
"The Price" in Creatures of the Night (Dark Horse Comics) Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli
"Where Monsters Dine" in Common Grounds #5 (Top Cow Productions/Image Comics) Troy Hickman, Angel Medina, and
2006 "Teenage Sidekick" in Solo #3 (DC Comics) Paul Pope [15]
"Blood Son" in #1 (IDW Publishing) Richard Matheson, adapted by Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood
"Monster Slayers" in Flight vol. 2 (Image Comics)
"Nameless" in The Goon #14 (Dark Horse Comics) Eric Powell
"Operation (story La Mano)" in #3 (La Mano) Zak Sally
2007 "A Frog's Eye View" in Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) Bill Willingham and James Jean [16]
"The Black Knight Glorps Again" in Uncle Scrooge #354 (Gemstone Publishing) Don Rosa
"Felix" in Drawn & Quarterly Showcase 4 (Drawn & Quarterly) Gabrielle Bell
"Old Oak Trees" in Flight vol. 3 (Ballantine Books)
"Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man" in Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man (Marvel Comics) Stan Lee, Olivier Coipel, and
"Willie: Portrait of a Groundskeeper" in Bart Simpsons's Treehouse of Horror #12 (Bongo Comics) Eric Powell
2008 "Mr. Wonderful" in New York Times Sunday Magazine (The New York Times) Dan Clowes [17]
"Book" in (PictureBox)
"At Loose Ends" in Mome #8 (Fantagraphics) Lewis Trondheim
"Town of Evening Calm" in Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (Last Gasp) Fumiyo Kōno
"Whatever Happened to Fletcher Hanks?" in I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! (Fantagraphics) Paul Karasik
"Young Americans" in Mome #8 (Fantagraphics) Émile Bravo
2009 "Murder He Wrote" in The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #14 (Bongo Comics) Ian Boothby, Nina Matsumoto, and Andrew Pepoy [18][19]
"Actual Size" in Kramers Ergot 7 (Buenaventura Press) Chris Ware
"Chechen War, Chechen Women" in (Pantheon Books) Joe Sacco
"Freaks" in #3 (AdHouse Books)
"Glenn Ganges in ‘Pulverize" in Ganges #2 (Fantagraphics) Kevin Huizenga
2010s
2010 "Urgent Request" in (First Second Books) Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim [20][21]
"Because I Love You So Much" in (Fantagraphics/)
"Gentleman John" in () Nathan Greno
"How and Why to Bale Hay" in (Villard Books) Nick Bertozzi
"Hurricane" in (W. W. Norton & Company) interpreted by Gradimir Smudja
2011 "Post Mortem" in #2 (Marvel Comics) Greg Rucka and Michael Lark [22][23]
"Bart on the Fourth of July" in Bart Simpson #54 (Bongo Comics) Peter Kuper
"Batman in Trick for the Scarecrow" in (DC Comics) Billy Tucci
"Cinderella" in (Silverline Books/Image Comics) Nick Spencer and
"Hamburgers for One" in Popgun vol. 4 (Image Comics)
"Little Red Riding Hood" in (Silverline Books/Image Comics) Bryan Talbot and Camilla d'Errico
2012 "The Seventh" in Richard Stark's Parker: The Martini Edition (IDW Publishing) Darwyn Cooke [24][23]
"A Brief History of the Art Form Known as Hortisculpture" in Optic Nerve #12 (Drawn & Quarterly) Adrian Tomine
"Harvest of Fear" in The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror #17 (Bongo Comics) Jim Woodring
"The Phototaker" in Metal Hurlant vol. 2 (Humanoids Publishing) Guy Davis
"The Speaker" in Dark Horse Presents #7 (Dark Horse Comics) Brandon Graham
2013 "Moon 1969: The True Story of the 1969 Moon Launch" in Tales Designed to Thrizzle#8 (Fantagraphics) Michael Kupperman [25][23]
"A Birdsong Shatters the Still" in #4 (/Alternative Comics) and
"Elmview" in (Nobrow Press)
"Moving Forward" in (Epigram Books)
"Rainbow Moment" in (Fantagraphics) Lilli Carré
2014 "Untitled" in Love and Rockets: New Stories #6 (Fantagraphics) Gilbert Hernandez [26][23]
"Go Owls" in Optic Nerve #13 (Drawn & Quarterly) Adrian Tomine
"Mars to Stay" in The Witching Hour (DC Comics) Brett Lewis and Cliff Chiang
"Seaside Home" in Habit #1 ()
"When Your House Is Burning Down You Should Brush Your Teeth" in The Oatmeal (https://theoatmeal.com/comics/house) Matthew Inman
2015 "When the Darkness Presses" (http://emcarroll.com/comics/darkness/) Emily Carroll [27][23]
"Beginning’s End" in (http://www.muthamagazine.com/2014/06/beginnings-end-a-comic-by-rina-ayuyang/)
"Corpse on the Imjin!" in (Simon & Schuster) Peter Kuper
"Rule Number One" in Batman Black and White #3 (DC Comics) Lee Bermejo
"The Sound of One Hand Clapping" in Adventures of Superman #14 (DC Comics) Max Landis and Jock
2016 "Killing and Dying" in Optic Nerve #14 (Drawn & Quarterly) Adrian Tomine [28][23]
"Black Death in America" in CMYK #4: Black (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) Tom King and John Paul Leon
"Hand Me Down" in ()
"It’s Going to Be Okay" in The Oatmeal (theoatmeal.com/comics/plane Matthew Inman
"Lion and Mouse" in (First Second Books) R. Sikoryak
2017 "Good Boy" in Batman Annual #1 (DC Comics) Tom King and David Finch [29][23]
"The Comics Wedding of the Century" in (Fantagraphics) Simon Hanselmann
"The Dark Nothing" in Uptight #5 (Fantagraphics) Jordan Crane
"Monday" in (Image Comics) and
"Mostly Saturn" in #8 (Image Comics) Michael DeForge
"Shrine of the Monkey God!" in Kramers Ergot 9 (Fantagraphics) Kim Deitch
2018 "A Life in Comics: The Graphic Adventures of Karen Green" in , Summer 2017 [1] (Columbia University) Nick Sousanis [30][23]
"Ethel Byrne" in (ComicMix) Cecil Castellucci and Scott Chantler
"Forgotten Princess" in Adventure Time #13 (KaBOOM!) and
"Small Mistakes Make Big Problems" in (Hazel Newlevant) Sophia Foster-Dimino
"Trans Plant" in (Bedside Press) Megan Rose Gedris
2019 "The Talk of the Saints" in Swamp Thing Winter Special (DC Comics) Tom King and Jason Fabok [31]
"Get Naked in Barcelona" in (Image Comics) Steven T. Seagle and
"The Ghastlygun Tinies" in Mad #4 (DC Comics) and
"Here I Am" in (SelfMadeHero) Shaun Tan
"Life During Interesting Times" in The Nib (https://thenib.com/greatest-generation-interesting-times/) Mike Dawson
"Supply Chains" in #7 () and
2020s
2020 "Hot Comb" in (Drawn & Quarterly) Ebony Flowers [32][33]
"How to Draw a Horse" in The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/how-to-draw-a-horse)
"The Menopause" in The Believer (https://believermag.com/the-menopause/) Mira Jacob
"Who Gets Called an ‘Unfit’ Mother?" in The Nib (https://thenib.com/who-gets-called-an-unfit-mother/)
"You’re Not Going to Believe What I’m About to Tell You" in The Oatmeal (https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe) Matthew Inman
2021 "When the Menopausal Carnival Comes to Town" in (/Penn State University Press) Mimi Pond [34][35]
"Garden Boys" in #8 (Fantagraphics)
"I Needed the Discounts" in The New York Times January 3, 2020 (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/03/opinion/connor-willumsen-privacy-comic.html)
"Parts of Us" in ()
"Rookie" in Detective Comics #1027 (DC Comics) Greg Rucka and Eduardo Risso
"Soft Lead" (https://chanchauart.com/comics#/soft-lead/)

References[]

  1. ^ "Eisner Awards Submission Letter Guidelines, Eisner Awards" (PDF).
  2. ^ "1993 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees, Comic Book Awards Almanac".
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