The 2025 Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards were presented this weekend during Baltimore Comic-Con.

The Ringo Awards nomination features the participation a 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 was restricted to comic book industry creative community — anyone involved in and credited with creating comics professionally.

Stan Sakai was recipient of this year’s Dick Giordano Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Spirit Award was awarded to Welcome to Maynard by written by James Robinson, art by J. Bone, color by Ian Herring, lettering by Jim Campbell, and published by Dark Horse.

Kevin Nowlan received the The Lifetime Achievement Award.

The winners below are marked in bold with “winner” noted and you can watch the event. Congrats to everyone!

Fan and Pro Nomination Categories

Best Cartoonist (Writer and Artist)

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

Best Writer

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

Best Artist or Penciller/Inker Team

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

Best Letterer

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

Best Colorist

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

Best Cover Artist

• Oliver Barrett
• Evan Cagle
• Francine Delgado
• Bilquis Evely – WINNER
• 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 – WINNER

Best Single Issue or Story

• Batman and Robin Year One #1, DC Comics – WINNER
• “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 – WINNER

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 – WINNER

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 – WINNER
• 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 – WINNER
• 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 – WINNER
• 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 – WINNER

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 – WINNER
• 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 – WINNER
• 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

Fan Favorite Awards

• Fan Favorite Villain – Mister Barnaby – Warn Fusion (DSTLRY)
• Fan Favorite Hero – Alex – Senorita Cometa (Webtoons Entertainment)
• Fan Favorite New Series – The Pedestrian (Magma Comix)
• Fan Favorite New Talent – Annie Wright – Jane American
• Fan Favorite Publisher – Mad Cave Studios