The winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced and comics were well represented with two comic community members receiving recognition. The Pulitzer is an award recognizing the best in journalism, literature, music, and drama. You can find the full list of winners here.

Anand RK, Suparna Sharma, and Natalie Obiko have been recognized for traPPed in “Illustrated Reporting and Commentary.”

traPPed is a riveting account of a neurologist in India held under “digital arrest” by her phone, reporting that uses visuals and words to cast light on the growing global challenges of surveillance and digital scams.

Anand RK has previously won an Eisner and worked for Image, BOOM!, Dark Horse, 200AD, Heavy Metal, DC Comics, Vault, and more.

Daniel Kraus was recognized in the “Books, Drama, & Music” category and “Fiction” for Angel Down published by Atria Books. The book is a breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.

Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel Whalefall received a front-cover review in The New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, was an LA Times Book Prize Finalist, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he coauthored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar–winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus coauthored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. His also cowrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, and more. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. He lives with his wife in Chicago.

In comics, he’s written for Vault, AWA, Skybound and Image.

Congrats to all of the winners and those recognized for their amazing work.