The List of 2025 RINGO AWARD Nominees

EDITOR'S NOTE: One of the highlights for me at The Baltimore Comic Con are the Ringo Awards. While I can't vote (comic professionals only) it's a great night to meet the creators. But if I could vote, I put my choices in bold face and red font below. I'll let you know how close I came in a future article. Announcing the 2025 Ringo Awards Final Ballot BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - August 20, 2025 - 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.

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  (I won't vote, since I haven't read any of these) 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  (No vote, since I haven't read any of these) 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  (No Vote) 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  (No Vote) 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  (No Vote) 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  (No Vote) 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