Harvey Awards Nominees 2025 Announced: See The Full List

The Harvey Awards have announced its nominees for 2025, including Book of the Year, Digital Book of the Year, Best Children’s Book, Best Young Adult Book, Best Manga, Best International Book, and Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel. And as you may notice, while the focus is on books, unlike the Eisner Awards, the Harveys include a category that pits musicals and plays against movies and TV shows.

Held yearly at New York Comic Con, the Harvey Awards are named for Harvey Kurtzman, best known for creating MAD Magazine. This year’s Harvey Awards nominees were, per PR, “selected by a curated committee of industry voices including creators, publishers, retailers, educators, and librarians.” Now that the nominations list is out, anyone approved for a Professional or Artist Alley badge at any ReedPop comic convention between 2016 and 2025 is eligible to vote — and in fact, have already received invitations to do so. Voting is open now until September 2. And speaking as an impartial member of the comic book press, they should really open this voting to people with Press badges, as well.

Anyway, in terms of who is out on top in the nominees, Webtoon snagged three of the five nominations in the Digital Book of the Year category, for Castle Swimmer, Morgana and Oz, and The Mafia Nanny. First Second tied those three with noms for Mixed Up, Weirdo, and Ash’s Cabin. And Fantagraphics also got three nominations, for Raised by Ghosts, Mothballs, and Sunday.

Dark Horse nabbed two nominations, for Helen of Wyndhorn and Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 2. Viz also grabbed two noms, for Resenter and Tokyo These Days. Yen Press got two as well, for The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All and The Summer Hikaru Died. And Kodansha got two for Witch Hat Atelier and Wind Breaker.

But the biggest nominee, if you include the multimedia properties, is Marvel. While the publisher only snagged one print nom for Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 1, Agatha All Along, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Daredevil: Born Again, and Thunderbolts* were all nominated, as well.

This year’s Harvey Awards will be streamed live from New York Comic Con on a TBA date and time. More info, including this year’s Hall of Fame will also be revealed at a later date. Check out the full list of nominees below.

Book of the Year 

·       Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath (IDW Publishing)

·       Final Cut by Charles Burns (Pantheon)

·       Helen of Wyndhorn by Tom King & Bilquis Evely (Dark Horse)

·       Precious Metal: From the World of Little Bird by Darcy Van Poelgeest & Ian Bertram (Image Comics)

·       Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman & Marco Checchetto (Marvel Comics)

Digital Book of the Year

·       Castle Swimmer by Wendy Lian Martin (Webtoon)

·       Morgana and Oz by Miyuli (Webtoon)

·       The Mafia Nanny by SH00 & Violet Matter (Webtoon)

·       Resenter by Gigi Murakami (VIZ Manga)

·       Sarah’s Scribbles by Sarah Anderson (Go Comics)

Best Children’s Book

·       The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud (Graphix)

·       Chickenpox by Remy Lai (Allen & Unwin)

·       Free Piano (Not Haunted) by Whitney Gardner (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

·       Mixed-Up by Kami Garcia & Brittney Williams (First Second)

·       Song for You and I by Kay O’Neil (RH Graphic)

·       Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr, Jess Wibowo, & Cin Wibowo (First Second)

Best Young Adult Book

·       Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang (First Second)

·       How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger (Greenwillow Books)

·       Navigating with You by Jeremy Whitley, Cassio Ribeiro & Nikki Foxrobot (Maverick/Mad Cave)

·       Raised by Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn (Fantagraphics)

·       Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley)

Best Manga

·       The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All by Sumiko Arai; translated by Ajani Oloye (Yen Press)

·       The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren; translated by Ajani Oloye (Yen Press)

·       Tokyo These Days by Taiyo Matsumoto; translated by Michael Arias (Viz Media)

·       Wind Breaker by Satoru Nii; translated by Jacqueline Fung (Kodansha Comics)

·       Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama; translated by Stephen Kohler (Kodansha Comics)

Best International Book

·       Blacksad: They All Fall Down Part 2 by Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido; translated by Diana Schutz & Brandon Kaner (Dark Horse Books)

·       Mothballs by Sole Otero; translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)

·       Muybridge by Guy Delisle; translated by Helge Dascher & Rob Aspinall (Drawn & Quarterly)

·       Sunday by Olivier Schrauwen (Fantagraphics)

·       The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Manu Larcenet; from the novel by Cormac McCarthy (Abrams)

Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel

·       Agatha All Along (Disney+), showrun by Jac Schaeffer. Based on Agatha Harkness (Marvel Comics), created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby

·       Berlin: The Play (Court Theatre), adapted by Mickle Maher & directed by Charles Newell. Based on Berlin by Jason Lutes (Drawn & Quarterly)

·       Boop! The Musical with music by David Foster, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and book by Bob Martin. Based on Betty Boop created by Max Fleischer & Grim Natwick

·       Cat Kid Comic Club!: The Musical with music by Brad Alexander, book and lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila. Based on Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey (Graphix)

·       Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+), showrun by Dario Scardapane. Inspired by Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli. Daredevil created by Stan Lee & Bill Everett

·       The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Marvel Studios), directed by Matt Shakman. Based on The Fantastic Four (Marvel Comics), created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby

·       Paying For It, directed by Sook-Yin Lee. Based on Paying For It by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly)

·       The Penguin (Max Original), showrun by Lauren LeFranc. Based on The Penguin (DC Comics), created by Bob Kane & Bill Finger

·       Superman (DC Studios), directed by James Gunn. Based on Superman (DC Comics), created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Schuster

·       Thunderbolts (Marvel Studios), directed by Jake Schreier. Based on Thunderbolts (Marvel Comics), created by Kurt Busiek & Mark Bagley

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