The 2025 Eisner Awards have been announced. These awards are the biggest in the comic industry and are announced every year at Comic-Con. The biggest winner this year was delightfully a teen graphic novel: Lunar New Year Love Story that won 3 of the awards, including overall Best Writer. Here are the youth finalists and winners:

BEST PUBLICATION FOR EARLY READERS

WINNER

Hilda and Twig Hide from the Rain by Luke Pearson

FINALISTS

Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp

Club Microbe by Elise Gravel

Night Stories by Liniers

Poetry Comics by Grant Snider

BEST PUBLICATION FOR KIDS

WINNER

Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol

FINALISTS

How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger

Next Stop by Debbie Fong

Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr. and Jes & Cin Wibowo

Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest by Isabel Greenberg

BEST PUBLICATION FOR TEENS

WINNER

Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham – Also won Best Graphic Album-New and Best Writer

FINALISTS

Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang

Big Jim and the White Boy by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson

The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

The Gulf by Adam de Souza

Out of Left Field by Jonah Newman