Looking for the best of the best when it comes to comics? Then you’ll want to read your way into this year’s 2025 Harvey Award nominees. These represent some of the best of the best in comics over the last year.

The Harvey Awards were founded in 1998 and named after writer and artist Harvey Kurtzman. Nominees are judged by a host of comics publishing professionals, including publishers, retailers, librarians, and educators. Anyone who has attended a ReedPop comic convention between 2016 and 2025 with a Professional or Artist Alley badge is eligible to vote in each category to select winners, which will be announced at New York City Comicon in the fall. Comics fans will be able to watch the announcements live or via livestream, and information about when and where will be shared soon.

Take a peep at a handful of the categories and nominees this year.

Book of the Year

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

Best Children’s Comic

• The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud
• Chickenpox by Remy Lai
• Free Piano (Not Haunted) by Whitney Gardner
• Mixed-Up by Kami Garcia & Brittney Williams
• Song for You and I by Kay O’Neil
• Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr, Jess Wibowo, & Cin Wibowo

Best Young Adult Comic

• Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang
• How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger
• Navigating with You by Jeremy Whitley, Cassio Ribeiro & Nikki Foxrobot
• Raised by Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn
• Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries

Best Manga

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

You can read the full list of nominees, as well as learn how to vote in the awards if you’re eligible, at the Harvey Awards website.

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