Eisner Award for Best Limited Series
| Eisner Award for Best Limited Series | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Limited Series |
| Country | United States |
| Formerly called | Eisner Award for Best Finite Series |
| First award | 1988 |
| Most recent winner | Absolute Martian Manhunter, by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez |
| Website | www |
The Eisner Award for Best Limited Series is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books. It has been given out every year since 1988, with the exceptions of 1990 when no Eisner Awards were given out and 2013.
A title must have had at least half of its issues published in the previous year to eligible for the award.[1]
Winners and nominees
| Year | Title | Creators | Publihser | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | ||||
| 1988 | Watchmen | Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons | DC | [2] |
| Elektra: Assassin | Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz | Marvel | ||
| Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters | Mike Grell | DC | ||
| Jonny Quest Classics | Doug Wildey | Comico | ||
| Kafka | Steven Seagle and Stefano Gaudiano | Renegade | ||
| Valkyrie | Chuck Dixon, Paul Gulacy and Willie Blyberg | Eclipse | ||
| 1989 | Silver Surfer | Stan Lee and Jean "Moebius" Giraud | Marvel | [3] |
| Jezebel Jade | William Messner-Loebs and Adam Kubert | Comico | ||
| Scarlet in Gaslight | Powell and Makinen | Eternity | ||
| 1990s | ||||
| 1990 | There was no Eisner Award ceremony, or awards distributed, in 1990, due to widespread balloting mix-ups.[4] | |||
| 1991 | Give Me Liberty | Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons | Dark Horse | [5] |
| The Hobbit | Chuck Dixon and David Wenzel | Eclipse | ||
| The Last American | Marvel/Epic | |||
| The Magic Flute | P. Craig Russell | Eclipse | ||
| Tapping the Vein | Clive Barker and various artists | Eclipse | ||
| 1992 | Concrete: Fragile Creature | Paul Chadwick | Dark Horse | [6] |
| Billi 99 | Sarah Byam and Tim Sale | Dark Horse | ||
| Books of Magic | Neil Gaiman and various artists | DC | ||
| Brat Pack | Rick Veitch | King Hell/Tundra | ||
| David Chelsea In Love | David Chelsea | Eclipse | ||
| 1993 | Grendel: War Child | Matt Wagner and Patrick McEown | Dark Horse | [7] |
| Cages | Dave McKean | Tundra | ||
| Cereal Killings | James Sturm | Fantagraphics | ||
| Deadface: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire | Eddie Campbell | Dark Horse | ||
| Madman | Michael D. Allred | Tundra | ||
| The Maximortal | Rick Veitch | King Hell/Tundra | ||
| 1994 | Marvels | Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross | Marvel | [8] |
| Daredevil: The Man without Fear | Frank Miller and John Romita, Jr. | Marvel | ||
| Death: The High Cost of Living | Neil Gaiman and Chris Bachalo | DC/Vertigo | ||
| The Golden Age | James Robinson and Paul Smith | DC | ||
| Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo | Joe R. Lansdale and Timothy Truman | DC/Vertigo | ||
| 1995 | Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Frank Miller | Dark Horse/Legend | [9] |
| Concrete: Killer Smile | Paul Chadwick | Dark Horse/Legend | ||
| The Tale of One Bad Rat | Bryan Talbot | Dark Horse | ||
| Witchcraft | James Robinson, Teddy Kristiansen, Peter Snejberg, Steve Yeowell, and Michael Zulli | DC/Vertigo | ||
| 1996 | Sin City: The Big Fat Kill | Frank Miller | Dark Horse/Legend | [10] |
| Chiaroscuro: The Private Lives of Leonardo da Vinci, | Dave Rawson, Pat McGreal, Chas Truog and Rafael Kayanan | DC/Vertigo | ||
| Father & Son | Jeff Nicholson | Kitchen Sink | ||
| Nexus: The Wages of Sin | Mike Baron and Steve Rude | Dark Horse | ||
| 1997 | Kingdom Come | Mark Waid and Alex Ross | DC | [11] |
| Age of Reptiles: The Hunt | Ricardo Delgado | Dark Horse | ||
| Batman: Black and White | Mark Chiarello and Scott Peterson, eds. | DC | ||
| Death: The Time of Your Life | Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, and Mark Pennington | DC/Vertigo | ||
| Gon | Masashi Tanaka | Paradox Press | ||
| The System | Peter Kuper | DC/Vertigo Verite | ||
| Terminal City | Dean Motter and Michael Lark | DC/Vertigo | ||
| 1998 | Batman: The Long Halloween | Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale | DC | [12] |
| Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold | Alisa Kwitney, Kent Williams, Michael Zulli, Scott Hampton, and Rebecca Guay | DC/Vertigo | ||
| The Land of Nod | Jay Stephens | Dark Horse | ||
| Red Rocket 7 | Mike Allred | Dark Horse | ||
| Terminal City: Aerial Graffiti | Dean Motter and Michael Lark | DC/Vertigo | ||
| Uncle Sam | Steve Darnall and Alex Ross | DC/Vertigo | ||
| 1999 | 300 | Frank Miller and Lynn Varley | Dark Horse | [13] |
| Grendel: Black, White & Red | Matt Wagner and various artists | Dark Horse | ||
| Justice League of America: The Nail | Alan Davis and Mark Farmer | DC | ||
| Superman for All Seasons | Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale | DC | ||
| Whiteout | Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber | Oni Press | ||
| 2000s | ||||
| 2000 | Whiteout: Melt | Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber | Oni | [14] |
| Clan Apis | Jay Hosler | Active Synapse | ||
| Heart of Empire | Bryan Talbot | Dark Horse | ||
| Heavy Liquid | Paul Pope | DC/Vertigo | ||
| Scene of the Crime | Ed Brubaker, Michael Lark, and Sean Phillips | DC/Vertigo | ||
| 2001 | The Ring of the Nibelung | P. Craig Russell with Patrick Mason Dark | Dark Horse/Maverick | [15] |
| Blue Monday: The Kids Are Alright | Chynna Clugston-Major | Oni | ||
| Breakfast After Noon | Andi Watson | Oni | ||
| Fortune & Glory | Brian Michael Bendis | Oni | ||
| Sock Monkey, vol. 3 | Tony Millionaire | Dark Horse/Maverick | ||
| 2002 | Hellboy: Conqueror Worm | Mike Mignola | Dark Horse/Maverick | [16] |
| Enemy Ace: War in Heaven | Garth Ennis, Chris Weston, Christian Alamy, and Russ Heath | DC | ||
| Hopeless Savages | Jen Van Meter, Christine Norrie, and Chynna Clugston-Major | Oni | ||
| Rose | Jeff Smith and Charles Vess | Cartoon Books | ||
| Scary Godmother: Ghouls Out for Summer | Jill Thompson | Sirius | ||
| 2003 | League of Extraordinary Gentleman, vol. 2 | Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill | ABC | [17] |
| Courtney Crumrin & the Night Things | Ted Naifeh | Oni | ||
| Hellboy: Third Wish | Mike Mignola | Dark Horse | ||
| 2004 | Unstable Molecules | James Sturm and Guy Davis | Marvel | [18] |
| Arrowsmith | Kurt Busiek, Carlos Pacheco, and Jesús Meriño | WildStorm/DC | ||
| Empire | Mark Waid, Barry Kitson, and James Pascoe | DC | ||
| Global Frequency | Warren Ellis and various artists | WildStorm/DC | ||
| JSA: The Unholy Three | Dan Jolley, Tony Harris, and Ray Snyder | DC | ||
| Superman: Red Son | Mark Millar, Dave Johnson/Andrew Robinson, and Kilian Plunkett/Walden Wong | DC | ||
| 2005 | DC: The New Frontier | Darwyn Cooke | DC | [19] |
| Demo | Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan | AiT/Planet Lar | ||
| 30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow | Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith | IDW | ||
| WE3 | Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely | Vertigo/DC | ||
| Wanted | Mark Millar and J. G. Jones | Top Cow/Image | ||
| 2006 | Seven Soldiers | Grant Morrison and various artists | DC | [20] |
| Nat Turner | Kyle Baker | Kyle Baker Publishing | ||
| Ocean | Warren Ellis, Chris Sprouse, and Karl Story | WildStorm/DC | ||
| Smoke | Alex de Campi and Igor Kordey | IDW | ||
| 2007 | Batman: Year 100 | Paul Pope | DC | [21] |
| The Looking Glass Wars: Hatter M | Frank Beddor, Liz Cavalier, and Ben Templesmith | Desperado/Image | ||
| The Other Side | Jason Aaron and Cameron Stewart | Vertigo/DC | ||
| Scarlet Traces: The Great Game | Ian Edginton and D'Israeli | Dark Horse | ||
| Sock Monkey: The Inches Incident | Tony Millionaire | Dark Horse | ||
| 2008 | The Umbrella Academy | Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba | Dark Horse | [22] |
| Atomic Robo | Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegender | Red 5 Comics | ||
| Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born | Peter David, Robin Furth, and Jae Lee | Marvel | ||
| Nightly News | Jonathan Hickman | Image | ||
| Parade (with Fireworks) | Michael Cavallaro | Shadowline/Image | ||
| 2009 | Hellboy: The Crooked Man | Mike Mignola and Richard Corben | Dark Horse | [23][24] |
| Groo: Hell on Earth | Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier | Dark Horse | ||
| Locke & Key | Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez | IDW | ||
| Omega the Unknown | Jonathan Lethem, Karl Rusnak, and Farel Dalrymple | Marvel | ||
| The Twelve | Michael Straczynski and Chris Weston | Marvel | ||
| 2010s | ||||
| 2010 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Eric Shanower and Skottie Young | Marvel | [25][26] |
| Blackest Night | Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis, and Oclair Albert | DC | ||
| Incognito | Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips | Marvel Icon | ||
| Pluto: Urasawa X Tezuka | Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki | VIZ Media | ||
| Wolverine #66–72 and Wolverine Giant-Size Special: “Old Man Logan” | Mark Millar, Steve McNiven, and Dexter Vines | Marvel | ||
| 2011 | Daytripper | Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá | Vertigo/DC | [27][28] |
| Baltimore: The Plague Ships | Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, and Ben Stenbeck | Dark Horse | ||
| Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love | Chris Roberson and Shawn McManus | Vertigo/DC | ||
| Joe the Barbarian | Grant Morrison and Sean Murphy | Vertigo/DC | ||
| Stumptown | Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth | Oni | ||
| 2012 | Criminal: The Last of the Innocent | Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips | Marvel Icon | [29][28] |
| Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X | Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener | Red 5 | ||
| Flashpoint: Batman - Knight of Vengeance | Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso | Vertigo/DC | ||
| The New York Five | Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly | Vertigo/DC | ||
| Who Is Jake Ellis? | Nathan Edmondson and Tonci Zonjic | Image | ||
| 2013 | The Best Limited Series category was not given this year | [30] | ||
| 2014 | The Wake | Scott Synder and Sean Murphy | Vertigo/DC | [31][28] |
| The Black Beetle: No Way Out | Francesco Francavilla | Dark Horse | ||
| Colder | Paul Tobin and Juan Ferreyra | Dark Horse | ||
| 47 Ronin | Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai | Dark Horse | ||
| Trillium | Jeff Lemire | Vertigo/DC | ||
| 2015 | Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland | Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez | IDW | [32][28] |
| Daredevil: Road Warrior | Mark Waid and Peter Krause | Marvel Infinite Comics | ||
| The Multiversity | Grant Morrison et al. | DC | ||
| The Private Eye | Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin | Panel Syndicate | ||
| The Sandman: Overture | Neil Gaiman and J. H. Williams III | Vertigo/DC | ||
| 2016 | The Fade Out | Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips | Image | [33][28] |
| Chrononauts | Mark Millar and Sean Murphy | Image | ||
| Lady Killer | Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich | Dark Horse | ||
| Minimum Wage: So Many Bad Decisions | Bob Fingerman | Image | ||
| The Spire | Simon Spurrier and Jeff Stokely | BOOM! Studios | ||
| 2017 | The Vision | Tom King and Gabriel Walta | Marvel | [34][28] |
| Archangel | William Gibson, Michael St. John Smith, Butch Guice, and Tom Palmer | IDW | ||
| Briggs Land | Brian Wood and Mack Chater | Dark Horse | ||
| Han Solo | Marjorie Liu and Mark Brooks | Marvel | ||
| Kim and Kim | Magdalene Visaggio and Eva Cabrera | Black Mask | ||
| We Stand on Guard | Brian K. Vaughan and Steve Skroce | Image | ||
| 2018 | Black Panther: World of Wakanda | Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Alitha E. Martinez | Marvel | [35][28] |
| Extremity | Daniel Warren Johnson | Image/Skybound | ||
| The Flintstones | Mark Russell, Steve Pugh, Rick Leonardi, and Scott Hanna | DC | ||
| Mister Miracle | Tom King and Mitch Gerads | DC | ||
| X-Men: Grand Design, by Ed Piskor | Ed Piskor | Marvel | ||
| 2019 | Mister Miracle | Tom King and Mitch Gerads | DC | [36][37] |
| Batman: White Knight | Sean Murphy | DC | ||
| Eternity Girl | Magdalene Visaggio and Sonny Liew | Vertigo/DC | ||
| Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles | Mark Russell, Mike Feehan, and Mark Morales | DC | ||
| X-Men: Grand Design: Second Genesis | Ed Piskor | Marvel | ||
| 2020s | ||||
| 2020 | Little Bird | Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram | Image | [38][39] |
| Ascender | Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen | Image | ||
| Ghost Tree | Bobby Curnow and Simon Gane | IDW | ||
| Naomi | Brian Michael Bendis, David Walker, and Jamal Campbell | DC | ||
| Sentient | Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta | TKO | ||
| 2021 | Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen | Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber | DC | [40][41] |
| Barbalien: Red Planet | Jeff Lemire, Tate Brombal, and Gabriel Hernandez Walta | Dark Horse | ||
| Decorum | Jonathan Hickman and Mike Huddleston | Image | ||
| Far Sector | N. K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell | DC | ||
| Strange Adventures | Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Evan “Doc” Shaner | DC Black Label | ||
| We Live | Inaki Miranda and Roy Miranda | AfterShock | ||
| 2022 | The Good Asian | Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi | Image | [42][43] |
| Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star | Daniel Warren Johnson | Marvel | ||
| Hocus Pocus | Rik Worth and Jordan Collver | hocuspocuscomic.squarespace.com | ||
| The Many Deaths of Laila Starr | Ram V and Filipe Andrade | BOOM! Studios | ||
| Stray Dogs | Tony Fleecs and Trish Forstner | Image | ||
| Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow | Tom King and Bilquis Evely | DC | ||
| 2023 | The Human Target | Tom King and Greg Smallwood | DC | [44][45] |
| Animal Castle | Xavier Dorison and Felix Delep | Ablaze | ||
| Batman: One Bad Day | Dave Wielgosz and Jessica Berbey (ed.) | DC | ||
| Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age | Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham | Marvel | ||
| Superman: Space Age | Mark Russell, Michael Allred, and Laura Allred | DC | ||
| 2024 | PeePee PooPoo | Caroline Cash | Silver Sprocket | [46] |
| The Cull | Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis | Image | ||
| Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons | Frank Tieri and Inaki Miranda | IDW | ||
| Kill Your Darlings | Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan, and Robert Quinn | Image | ||
| Superman: Lost | Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan | DC | ||
| 2025 | Zatanna: Bring Down the House | Mariko Tamaki and Javier Rodríguez | DC | [47] |
| Alan Scott: The Green Lantern | Tim Sheridan and Cian Tormey | DC | ||
| Animal Pound | Tom King and Peter Gross | BOOM! Studios | ||
| The Deviant | James Tynion IV and Joshua Hixson | Image | ||
| Helen of Wyndhorn | Tom King and Bilquis Evely | Dark Horse | ||
| Rare Flavours | Ram V and Filipe Andrade | BOOM! Studios | ||
| 2026 | Absolute Martian Manhunter | Deniz Camp and Javier Rodríguez | DC | [48][49] |
| Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring | Patrick Horvath | IDW | ||
| Bronze Faces | Shobo, Shof, and Alexandre Tefenkgi | BOOM! Studios | ||
| Crownsville | Rodney Barnes and Elia Bonetti | Oni Press | ||
| Everything Dead and Dying | Tate Brombal and Jacob Phillips | Image | ||
| Out of Alcatraz | Christopher Cantwell and Tyler Crook | Oni Press | ||
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