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- Who are the nominees for the 2025 Harvey Awards across all categories?
- Which comic book adaptations are competing at the 2025 Harvey Awards?
Harvey Awards 2025
The Harvey Awards — one of comics’ biggest nights — just dropped their 2025 nominees, and it’s a stacked lineup. From critically acclaimed indie darlings to superhero blockbusters, this year’s list is a love letter to every corner of the comics world.
The ceremony goes down during New York Comic Con this October, and with voting now open to industry pros, the race is officially on.
Here are some of the nominations below:
Book of the Year
- Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees — Patrick Horvath (IDW Publishing)
- Final Cut — Charles Burns (Pantheon)
- Helen of Wyndhorn — Tom King & Bilquis Evely (Dark Horse)
- Precious Metal: From the World of Little Bird — Darcy Van Poelgeest & Ian Bertram (Image Comics)
- Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 1 — Jonathan Hickman & Marco Checchetto (Marvel Comics)
Digital Book of the Year
- Castle Swimmer — Wendy Lian Martin (Webtoon)
- Morgana and Oz — Miyuli (Webtoon)
- The Mafia Nanny — SH00 & Violet Matter (Webtoon)
- Resenter — Gigi Murakami (VIZ Manga)
- Sarah’s Scribbles — Sarah Anderson (Go Comics)
Best Children’s Book
- The Cartoonists Club — Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud (Graphix)
- Chickenpox — Remy Lai (Allen & Unwin)
- Free Piano (Not Haunted) — Whitney Gardner (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
- Mixed-Up — Kami Garcia & Brittney Williams (First Second)
- Song for You and I — Kay O’Neil (RH Graphic)
- Weirdo — Tony Weaver Jr, Jess Wibowo, & Cin Wibowo (First Second)
Best Young Adult Book
- Ash’s Cabin — Jen Wang (First Second)
- How It All Ends — Emma Hunsinger (Greenwillow Books)
- Navigating with You — Jeremy Whitley, Cassio Ribeiro & Nikki Foxrobot (Maverick/Mad Cave)
- Raised by Ghosts — Briana Loewinsohn (Fantagraphics)
- Strange Bedfellows — Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley)
Best Manga
- The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All — Sumiko Arai; trans. Ajani Oloye (Yen Press)
- The Summer Hikaru Died — Mokumokuren; trans. Ajani Oloye (Yen Press)
- Tokyo These Days — Taiyo Matsumoto; trans. Michael Arias (Viz Media)
- Wind Breaker — Satoru Nii; trans. Jacqueline Fung (Kodansha Comics)
- Witch Hat Atelier — Kamome Shirahama; trans. Stephen Kohler (Kodansha Comics)
Best International Book
- Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 2 — Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido; trans. Diana Schutz & Brandon Kaner (Dark Horse Books)
- Mothballs — Sole Otero; trans. Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)
- Muybridge — Guy Delisle; trans. Helge Dascher & Rob Aspinall (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Sunday — Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics)
- The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation — Manu Larcenet (Abrams)
Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel
- Agatha All Along (Disney+)
- Berlin: The Play (Court Theatre)
- Boop! The Musical
- Cat Kid Comic Club!: The Musical
- Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+)
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Marvel Studios)
- Paying For It (Film)
- The Penguin (Max)
- Superman (DC Studios)
- Thunderbolts (Marvel Studios)
Voting closes September 2, and is open to professionals who have been approved for a Professional or Artist Alley badge at any ReedPop comic convention between 2016 and 2025.
The Harvey Awards — named after MAD creator Harvey Kurtzman — have been celebrating excellence in comics and sequential art since 1988. This year’s gala will be livestreamed during New York Comic Con, with additional announcements about the 2025 Hall of Fame inductees to come.
For more information, visit harveyawards.com.