2025 Harvey Award Nominees Announced

The Harvey Awards have announced the slate of nominees for the 2025 awards to be handed out at New York Comic Con.

Named after legendary creator Harvey Kurtzman (MAD Magazine among others), the awards honor books and creators working in sequential art across a variety of categories. The nominees were selected by a curated committee made up of industry representatives including creators, publishers, retailers, educators, and librarians. Voting among select professionals in the industry will now run until September 2, 2025.

Those voting professionals include writers, artists, colorists, letterers, designers, and editors as well as retailers and librarians. If you would like to vote and don’t already have the means to do so, you can click here to open the “apply to vote” page.

Winners will be announced at a ceremony during New York Comic Con, running October 9-12 at the Javits Center in New York City.

Book of the Year

• Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath (IDW Publishing)
• Final Cut by Charles Burns (Pantheon)
• Helen of Wyndhorn by Tom King & Bilquis Evely (Dark Horse)
• Precious Metal: From the World of Little Bird by Darcy Van Poelgeest & Ian Bertram (Image Comics)
• Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman & Marco Checchetto (Marvel Comics)

Digital Book of the Year

• Castle Swimmer by Wendy Lian Martin (Webtoon)
• Morgana and Oz by Miyuli (Webtoon)
• The Mafia Nanny by SH00 & Violet Matter (Webtoon)
• Resenter by Gigi Murakami (VIZ Manga)
• Sarah’s Scribbles by Sarah Anderson (Go Comics)

Best Children’s Book

• The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud (Graphix)
• Chickenpox by Remy Lai (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan)
• Free Piano (Not Haunted) by Whitney Gardner (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Mixed-Up by Kami Garcia & Brittney Williams (First Second)
• Song for You and I by Kay O’Neil (RH Graphic)
• Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr, Jess Wibowo, & Cin Wibowo (First Second)

Best Young Adult Book

• Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang (First Second)
• How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger (Greenwillow Books)
• Navigating with You by Jeremy Whitley, Cassio Ribeiro & Nikki Foxrobot (Maverick/Mad Cave)
• Raised by Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn (Fantagraphics)
• Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley)

Best Manga

• The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All by Sumiko Arai; translated by Ajani Oloye (Yen Press)
• The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren; translated by Ajani Oloye (Yen Press)
• Tokyo These Days by Taiyo Matsumoto; translated by Michael Arias (VIZ Media)
• Wind Breaker by Satoru Nii; translated by Jacqueline Fung (Kodansha Comics)
• Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama; translated by Stephen Kohler (Kodansha Comics)

Best International Book

• Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 2 by Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido; translated by Diana Schutz & Brandon Kander (Dark Horse Books)
• Mothballs by Sole Otero; translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)
• Muybridge by Guy Delisle; translated by Helge Dascher & Rob Aspinall (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Sunday by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics)
• The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Manu Larcenet; from the novel by Cormac McCarthy (Abrams)

Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel

• Agatha All Along (Disney+), showrun by Jac Schaeffer. Based on Agatha Harkness (Marvel Comics), created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
• Berlin: The Play (Court Theatre), adapted by Mickle Maher & directed by Charles Newell. Based on Berlin by Jason Lutes (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Boop! The Musical with music by David Foster, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and book by Bob Martin. Based on Betty Boop created by Max Fleischer & Grim Natwick
• Cat Kid Comic Club!: The Musical with music by Brad Alexander, book and lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila. Based on Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey (Graphix)
• Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+), showrun by Dario Scardapane. Inspired by Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli. Daredevil created by Stan Lee & Bill Everett.
• The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Marvel Studios), directed by Matt Shakman. Based on The Fantastic Four (Marvel Comics), created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
• Paying For It, directed by Sook-Yin Lee. Based on Paying For It by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly)
• The Penguin (Max Original), showrun by Lauren LeFranc. Based on The Penguin (DC Comics), created by Bob Kane & Bill Finger
• Superman (DC Studios), directed by James Gunn. Based on Superman (DC Comics), created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Schuster
• Thunderbolts (Marvel Studios), directed by Jake Schreier. Based on Thunderbolts (Marvel Comics), created by Kurt Busiek & Mark Bagley