The 2025 Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards are to be presented on the evening of Saturday, October 18, 2025 as part of the fan- and pro-favorite convention, The Baltimore Comic-Con.

The Ringo Awards are thrilled to announce the 2025 nominees. The nomination process was completed with the participation of our esteemed 2025 jury as well as the voting public. Fans and comic book professionals alike showed strong support in promoting the voting process on their websites and social media feeds.

Voting on the 2025 Final Ballot is restricted to comic book industry creative community — anyone involved in and credited with creating comics professionally.

We now present the 2025 Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards Final Ballot. Congrats to all of the nominees and good luck!

Fan and Pro Nomination Categories

Best Cartoonist (Writer and Artist)

• Arechan
• Megan Grey
• Patrick Horvath
• Mikaël
• Eric Powell

Best Writer

• Jason Douglas
• Tom King
• Oscar Osorio
• Scott Snyder
• Kelly Thompson
• James Tynion IV
• David F. Walker

Best Artist or Penciller/Inker Team

• Bilquis Evely
• Kate Flynn
• Daniel HDR
• Eduardo Risso
• Chris Samnee

Best Letterer

• Aditya Bidikar
• Clayton Cowles
• Amal Desai
• DC Hopkins
• Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
• Richard Starkings

Best Colorist

• Michael Adams
• Jordie Bellaire
• Lee Loughridge
• Sabine Rich
• Dave Stewart

Best Cover Artist

• Oliver Barrett
• Evan Cagle
• Francine Delgado
• Bilquis Evely
• Francesca Fantini
• Greg Smallwood

Best Series

• Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, IDW Publishing
• The Blood Brothers Mother, DSTLRY
• Helen of Wyndhorn, Dark Horse Comics
• Masters of the Universe: Revolution, Dark Horse Comics
• The Pedestrian, Magma Comix

Best Single Issue or Story

• Batman and Robin Year One #1, DC Comics
• “A Blue Flame” in Second Hand Love, Drawn & Quarterly
• The Crying Boy, Keenspot Entertainment
• Death Ratio’d, AWA Studios
• FML #1, Dark Horse Comics
• Helen of Wyndhorn, Dark Horse Comics
• Navigating with You, Maverick
• A Never-Ending Adventure, Oscar Osorio
• Trinity Special: World’s Finest #1, DC Comics

Best Original Graphic Novel

• Big Jim and the White Boy, Ten Speed Graphic
• The Deep Dark, Scholastic/Graphix
• ERASED: An Actor of Color’s Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood, NBM Grpahic Novels
• Homestead, Source Point Press
• Jane American, self-published

Best Anthology

• DC Power 2024, DC Comics
• EC Cruel Universe, Oni Press
• Hello Darkness, BOOM! Studios
• The Savage Sword of Conan, Titan Comics
• Tales from the New World, Oscar Osorio
• Transphoria, Lifeline Comics

Best Humor Comic

• Action Philosophers: Omnipotence for Dummies, Rocketship Entertainment
• Archie: The Decision, Archie Comics
• Forces of Nature, Drawn & Quarterly
• Kids Are Still Weird: And More Observations from Parenthood, NBM Graphic Novels
• Smut #1, self-published
• Space Circus, Dark Horse Comics

Best Webcomic

• The Croaking, WEBTOON Entertainment
• Daughter of a Thousand Faces, Tapas Entertainment
• The Mafia Nanny, WEBTOON Entertainment
• Novae, WEBTOON Entertainment
• Renaissance of Raven, DC Go!/DC Comics
• Under the Oak Tree, Manta
• Vampire Family, WEBTOON Entertainment

Best Humor Webcomic

• Dealing with Demons, Manta
• Harley Quinn in Paradise, DC Go!/DC Comics
• High Class Homos, WEBTOON Entertainment
• Nothing Butt Nightwing, DC Go!/DC Comics
• Rosebuds, Comics Kingdom
• Wanna Be Friends?, WEBTOON Entertainment

Best Non-fiction Comic Work

• Adrift on a Painted Sea, Avery Hill
• Brittle Joints, Street Noise Books
• Djuna, Street Noise Books
• Feeding Ghosts, MCD
• In the Shadows of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones, Oni Press

Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel

• Double Booking, Papercutz/Mad Cave Studios
• Dudley Datson and the Forever Machine, Dark Horse Comics
• Hilda and Twig Hide from the Rain, Flying Eye Books
• The Legend of Tiger and Tail-Flower, Levine Querido
• The New Girl, Scholastic/Graphix
• Night Stories, Astra Books for Young Readers
• ZOR, Keenspot Entertainment

Best Presentation in Design

• Coins of Judas, Orange Cone Productions/Band of Bards
• David Mazzucchelli’s Batman Year One Artist’s Edition, IDW Publishing
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff and Bram Stoker’s Dracula starring Bela Lugosi Casket Edition, Rocketship Entertainment
• One Bite at a Time: The First 20 Years of Elephant Eater Comics, Elephant Eater Comics
• Scott Pilgrim 20th Anniversary Hardcover Box Set, Oni Press
• Warm Fusion, DSTLRY

In addition to Final Ballot categories, both Fan-Only Favorites from the nomination ballot and Hero Initiative Awards (The Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award and The Dick Giordano Humanitarian Award) will be presented at the Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards ceremony the evening of October 18, 2025.