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Eisner Award for Best Lettering

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The Eisner Award for Best Lettering is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books. It is awarded to a Letterer.

Winners and nominees

Year Nominee Titles Ref.
1993 Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), The Demon (DC Comics) [1]
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Template:Sort Template:Sort (Marvel Comics/Epic Comics), Usagi Yojimbo (Fantagraphics Books)
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Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), RoboCop Versus The Terminator (Dark Horse Comics)
1994 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), The Sandman (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), The Demon (DC Comics), Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Batman/Dark Joker: The Wild (DC Comics), Hellblazer (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) [2]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Comico/DC Comics), Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop (DC Comics)
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1995 Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics/Dark Horse Comics), The Demon (DC Comics), The Sandman (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Uncle Scrooge (Gladstone Publishing) [3]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Epic Comics/Image Comics), Usagi Yojimbo (Mirage Studios)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
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1996 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Image Comics), Usagi Yojimbo (Mirage Studios) [4]
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Template:Sort Template:Sort in Zero Zero (Fantagraphics Books)
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1997 Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Death: The Time of Your Life (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), House of Secrets (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), The Dreaming (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Batman (DC Comics), The Spectre (DC Comics), Kingdom Come (DC Comics) [5]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), Space Usagi (Dark Horse Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), Generation X (Marvel Comics)
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1998 Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), Batman: Poison Ivy (DC Comics), The Dreaming (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), House of Secrets (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), The Invisibles (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Uncle Sam (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Uncle Scrooge Adventures (Gladstone Publishing); Castle Waiting (Olio Press) [6]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Bongo Comics), Adventures in the DC Universe (DC Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Drawn & Quarterly)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
1999 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Olio Press), House of Secrets (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), The Invisibles (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), The Dreaming (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), etc. [7]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), Star Wars: Crimson Empire (Dark Horse Comics), Nobody (Oni Press)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), Sergio Aragones' Groo (Dark Horse Comics), Sergio Aragones' Boogeyman, (Dark Horse Comics), Sergio Aragones' Dia de los Muertos (Dark Horse Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Archie Comics), Betty (Archie Comics), Veronica (Archie Comics), Jughead (Archie Comics), etc. (Archie Comics)
2000s
2000 Template:Sort Template:Sort (America's Best Comics), Tom Strong (America's Best Comics), Tomorrow Stories (America's Best Comics), Top 10 (America's Best Comics), The Dreaming (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Gifts of the Night (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), The Invisibles (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Sandman Presents: Lucifer (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) [8]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics/WildStorm/Homage Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics/Maverick), Sergio Aragones' Groo and Rufferto (Dark Horse Comics/Maverick)
Template:Sort/Comicraft Template:Sort (Marvel Comics), Avengers Forever (Marvel Comics), Avengers #1 1/2 (Marvel Comics), Daredevil (Marvel Comics), Inhumans (Marvel Comics), Witching Hour (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics)
2001 Template:Sort Template:Sort (America's Best Comics), Tom Strong (America's Best Comics), Tomorrow Stories (America's Best Comics), Top 10 (America's Best Comics), The Invisibles (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), The Dreaming (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Castle Waiting (Cartoon Books) [9]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics/Maverick)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
2002 Template:Sort Template:Sort (America's Best Comics), Tom Strong's Terrific Tales (America's Best Comics), Tomorrow Stories (America's Best Comics), Top 10 (America's Best Comics), Greyshirt (America's Best Comics), The Sandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams But Were Afraid to Ask (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Detective Comics (DC Comics), The Dark Knight Strikes Again (DC Comics), Castle Waiting (Olio Press), Universe X (Marvel Comics) [10]
Template:Sort Template:Sort #22 (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics/Maverick), Groo: Death & Taxes (Dark Horse Comics/Maverick)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
Template:Sort Template:Sort #15 (Fantagraphics Books)
2003 Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), Detective Comics (DC Comics), Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia (DC Comics), Fables (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Human Target: Final Cut (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Promethea (America's Best Comics), Tom Strong (America's Best Comics), Castle Waiting (Olio Press) [11]
Template:Sort/Comicraft Template:Sort (DC Comics), Adventures of Superman (DC Comics), Batman (DC Comics), Legion (DC Comics), Power Company (DC Comics), Supergirl (DC Comics), Superman (DC Comics), Wonder Woman (DC Comics), The Crusades (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Hunter: The Age of Magic (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Lucifer (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Vertigo Pop: Tokyo (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics), Wildcats Version 3.0 (WildStorm), Decoy (Penny-Farthing Press), The Victorian (Penny-Farthing Press), Hip Flask: Unnatural Selection (Comicraft)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), Detective Comics (DC Comics), Orion (DC Comics), Superman: Day of Doom (DC Comics), 100% (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics)
2004 Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), Fables (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), The Sandman: Endless Nights (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Tom Strong (America's Best Comics), Promethea (America's Best Comics), 1602 (Marvel Comics) [12]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), JSA (DC Comics), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II (America's Best Comics), Sleeper (WildStorm/DC Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), Planetary (WildStorm/DC Comics), Hulk: Gray (Marvel Comics), Hip Flask: Elephantmen (Comicraft)
2005 Template:Sort Template:Sort (America's Best Comics), Tom Strong (America's Best Comics), Tom Strong's Terrific Tales (America's Best Comics), Wonder Woman (DC Comics), Books of Magick: Life During Wartime (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Fables (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), We3 (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Creatures of the Night (Dark Horse Comics) [13]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Top Shelf Productions), "Eve O' Twins" in Rosetta 2 (Alternative Comics)
2006 Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), Justice (DC Comics, Seven Soldiers #0 (DC Comics), Desolation Jones (WildStorm/DC Comics), Promethea (America's Best Comics), Top 10: The Forty-Niners (America's Best Comics), Tomorrow Stories Special #1 (America's Best Comics), Fables (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), 1602: New World (Marvel Comics) [14]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Marvel Comics), Astonishing X-Men (Marvel Comics), The Ultimates 2 (Marvel Comics), House of M (Marvel Comics), Franklin Richards (Marvel Comics), Fell (Image Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), Revelations (Dark Horse Comics), Gødland (Image Comics), Gunpowder Girl and the Outlaw Squaw (Active Images), Hip Flask: Mystery City (Active Images)
Template:Sort Template:Sort #16 (The ACME Novelty Library)
2007 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Jack of Fables (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Pride of Baghdad (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Testament (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), 1602: Fantastick Four (Marvel Comics), Eternals (Marvel Comics), Lost Girls (Top Shelf Productions) [15]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), The Dark Horse Book of Monsters (Dark Horse Comics), Hellboy (Dark Horse Comics), Loveless (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), 100 Bullets (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Y: The Last Man (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books), Delphine (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort #17 (Acme Novelty Library)
2008 Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), Simon Dark (DC Comics), Fables (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Jack of Fables (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Crossing Midnight (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier (WildStorm/DC Comics), Nexus (Rude Dude Productions) [16]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), The Spirit (DC Comics), Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Renaissance Press)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books), Mome #7 & 8 (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort #18 (Acme Novelty Library)
2009 Template:Sort Template:Sort #18 (Acme Novelty Library) [17][18]
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Template:Sort Template:Sort (Renaissance Press)
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2010s
2010 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Pantheon Books) [19][20]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Abrams ComicArts)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Image Comics), X-Men Forever (Marvel Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (First Second Books), Delphine (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Drawn & Quarterly)
2011 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), The Unwritten (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Joe the Barbarian (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), iZOMBIE (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom (WildStorm/DC Comics), SHIELD (Marvel Comics), Driver for the Dead (Radical Publishing) [21][22]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (IDW Publishing)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Drawn & Quarterly)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster), Amelia Rules!: The Tweenage Guide to Not Being Unpopular (Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Scholastic Graphix)
Template:Sort Template:Sort #20: Lint (Drawn & Quarterly)
2012 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics) [23][22]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Archaia Entertainment), Jim Henson's Dark Crystal (Archaia Entertainment), Jim Henson's Tale of Sand (Archaia Entertainment), Mr. Murder Is Dead (Archaia Entertainment), Helldorado (Ape Entertainment), Puss in Boots (Ape Entertainment), Richie Rich (Ape Entertainment)
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Template:Sort Template:Sort (Amulet Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (with L. Lois Buhalis) (Dark Horse Comics), Mangaman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Savage Dragon (Image Comics)
2013 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Pantheon Books) [24][22]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Image Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (IDW Publishing)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (ZIP Comics/Top Shelf Productions)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
2014 Template:Sort Template:Sort (IDW Publishing) [25][22]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), "Finder" in Dark Horse Presents (Dark Horse Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Abstract Studio)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (kaBOOM!)
2015 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), Usagi Yojimbo Color Special: The Artist (Dark Horse Comics) [26][22]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Marvel Comics), Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), The Sandman: Overture (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), The Unwritten (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Nemo: The Roses of Berlin (Top Shelf Productions)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Archie Comics), Archie (Archie Comics), Betty and Veronica (Archie Comics), etc. (Archie Comics)
2016 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Abrams Books) [27][22]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), Midnight Society (Dark Horse Comics), Plants vs. Zombies (Dark Horse Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Toon Books)
2017 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Dark Night: A True Batman Story (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Lucifer (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), Black Hammer (Dark Horse Comics) [28][22]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Drawn & Quarterly)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Drawn & Quarterly)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Pantheon Books)
2018 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), Groo: Play of the Gods (Dark Horse Comics) [29][22]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Image Comics), Redlands (Image Comics), The Wicked + The Divine (Image Comics), Black Bolt (Marvel Comics), Spider-Gwen (Marvel Comics), Astonishing X-Men (Marvel Comics), Star Wars (Marvel Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics Books)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC's Young Animal), Ragnarok (IDW Publishing)
2019 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald (Dark Horse Comics), Batman: White Knight (DC Comics), Eternity Girl (DC's Young Animal), Books of Magic (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest (Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing) [30][31]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Berger Books/Dark Horse Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Black Mask Studios), Calexit (Black Mask Studios), Gravetrancers (Black Mask Studios), Snap Flash Hustle (Black Mask Studios), Survival Fetish (Black Mask Studios), The Wilds (Black Mask Studios), Abbott (Boom! Studios), Alice: From Dream to Dream (Boom! Studios), Black Badge (Boom! Studios), Clueless (Boom! Studios), Coda (Boom! Studios), Fence (Boom! Studios), Firefly (Boom! Studios), Giant Days (Boom! Studios), Grass Kings (Boom! Studios), Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass (Boom! Studios), Low Road West (Boom! Studios), Sparrowhawk (Boom! Studios), Angelic (Image Comics), Wasted Space (Vault Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Gallery 13), Twisted Romance (Image Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), The Gravediggers Union (Image Comics), Moonshine (Image Comics), Paper Girls (Image Comics), Southern Bastards (Image Comics)
2020s
2020 Template:Sort Template:Sort (IDW Publishing) [32][33]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), Green Arrow (DC Comics), Justice League (DC Comics), Martian Manhunter (DC Comics), Canto (IDW Publishing), Assassin Nation (Skybound Entertainment/Image Comics), Excellence (Skybound Entertainment/Image Comics), To Drink and To Eat, vol. 1 (Lion Forge Comics), Resonant (Vault Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Boom! Studios), Coda (Boom! Studios), Giant Days (Boom! Box), Lumberjanes: The Shape of Friendship (Boom! Box), Rocko’s Modern Afterlife (KaBOOM!), At the End of Your Tether (Lion Forge Comics), Blade Runner 2019 (Titan), The Mall (Scout Comics), The Plot (Vault Comics), Wasted Space (Vault Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), Batman (DC Comics), Batman and the Outsiders (DC Comics), Heroes in Crisis (DC Comics), Superman: Up in the Sky (DC Comics), Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen (DC Comics), Bitter Root (Image Comics), Pretty Deadly (Image Comics), Moonstruck (Image Comics), Redlands (Image Comics), The Wicked + The Divine (Image Comics), Reaver (Skybound Entertainment/Image Comics), Daredevil (Marvel Comics), Ghost-Spider (Marvel Comics), Silver Surfer Black (Marvel Comics), The Superior Spider-Man (Marvel Comics), Venom (Marvel Comics)
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Template:Sort Template:Sort (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers)
2021 Template:Sort Template:Sort (IDW Publishing) [34][35]
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Insight Editions)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Archaia Entertainment), The Sacrifice of Darkness (Archaia Entertainment); King of Nowhere (Boom! Studios), Something Is Killing the Children (Boom! Studios), We Only Find Them When They’re Dead (Boom! Studios); Far Sector (DC Comics), Harley Quinn: Black + White + Red (DC Comics), Martian Manhunter (DC Comics); Excellence (Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment); A Dark Interlude (Vault Comics), Dark One (Vault Comics), Relics of Youth (Vault Comics), Resonant (Vault Comics), Shadow Service (Vault Comics), Vampire: The Masquerade: Winter’s Teeth (Vault Comics); Ping Pong (Viz Media)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (Dark Horse Comics), Grafity’s Wall Expanded Edition (Dark Horse Comics); John Constantine, Hellblazer (DC Comics); A Map to the Sun (First Second Books); The Department of Truth (Image Comics), Lost Soldiers (Image Comics); Giga (Vault Comics), The Picture of Everything Else (Vault Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics), Batman (DC Comics), Batman and the Outsiders (DC Comics), Strange Adventures (DC Comics), Superman: Man of Tomorrow (DC Comics), Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen (DC Comics); Adventureman (Image Comics), Bitter Root (Image Comics), Bog Bodies (Image Comics), Die (Image Comics); Reaver (Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment); Morbius (Marvel Comics), X of Swords (Marvel Comics)
Template:Sort Template:Sort (DC Comics); Decorum (Image Comics), Monstress (Image Comics); Die!Die!Die! (Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment), Fire Power (Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment), Oblivion Song (Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment), Outcast (Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment), Stillwater (Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment)
2022 Template:Sort Template:Sort (Fantagraphics) [36]
2023 Template:Sort The Unlikely Story of Felix and Macabber, The Witcher: Wild Animals, and others (Dark Horse); Batman: City of Madness, The Flash, Poison Ivy, and others (DC); Black Cat Social Club (Humanoids); Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees (IDW); The Cull, What’s the Furthest Place from Here? (Image); and others [37]

Multiple awards and nominations

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The following individuals have won Best Letterer two or more times:

Letterer Wins Nominations
Todd Klein 18 19
Stan Sakai 6 13
Chris Ware 2 12

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The following individuals have received two or more nominations but never won Best Letterer:

Letterer Nominations
Dave Sim 8
Dan Clowes 6
Richard Starkings / Comicraft 5
Jimmy Gownley 4
Tom Orzechowski 3
John Workman 3
Richard Sala 3
Deron Bennett 3
Clayton Cowles 3
Bill Yoshida 2
Troy Little 2
Jim Campbell 2

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See also

References

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