2025 Ringo Awards nominations announced

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Nominations for the 2025 Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards have just been announced, with awards season favorites Helen of Wyndhorn and Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees well represented. Nominations are selected by a combination of public votings and choices by a jury. The 2025 jury includes Becky Cloonan, Steve Leaf, Mark Morales, Amy Reeder and Hannibal Tabu. Voting on the 2025 Final Ballot is restricted to comic book industry creative community — anyone involved in and credited with creating comics professionally.

Winners will be announced on the evening of Saturday, October 18, 2025 at Baltimore Comic-Con. Also presented that night: Fan-Only Favorites from the nomination ballot and Hero Initiative Awards (The Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award and The Dick Giordano Humanitarian Award).

And the nominees are:

* Best Cartoonist (Writer and Artist)

Arechan
Megan Grey
Patrick Horvath
Mikaël
Eric Powell

* Best Writer

Jason Douglas
Tom King
Oscar Osorio
Scott Snyder
Kelly Thompson
James Tynion IV
David F. Walker

* Best Artist or Penciller/Inker Team

Bilquis Evely
Kate Flynn
Daniel HDR
Eduardo Risso
Chris Samnee

* Best Letterer

Aditya Bidikar
Clayton Cowles
Amal Desai
DC Hopkins
Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Richard Starkings

* Best Colorist

Michael Adams
Jordie Bellaire
Lee Loughridge
Sabine Rich
Dave Stewart

* Best Cover Artist

Oliver Barrett
Evan Cagle
Francine Delgado
Bilquis Evely
Francesca Fantini
Greg Smallwood

* Best Series

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, IDW Publishing
The Blood Brothers Mother, DSTLRY
Helen of Wyndhorn, Dark Horse Comics
Masters of the Universe: Revolution, Dark Horse Comics
The Pedestrian, Magma Comix

* Best Single Issue or Story

Batman and Robin Year One #1, DC Comics
“A Blue Flame” in Second Hand Love, Drawn & Quarterly
The Crying Boy, Keenspot Entertainment
Death Ratio’d, AWA Studios
FML #1, Dark Horse Comics
Helen of Wyndhorn, Dark Horse Comics
Navigating with You, Maverick
A Never-Ending Adventure, Oscar Osorio
Trinity Special: World’s Finest #1, DC Comics

* Best Original Graphic Novel

Big Jim and the White Boy, Ten Speed Graphic
The Deep Dark, Scholastic/Graphix
ERASED: An Actor of Color’s Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood, NBM Grpahic Novels
Homestead, Source Point Press
Jane American, self-published

* Best Anthology

DC Power 2024, DC Comics
EC Cruel Universe, Oni Press
Hello Darkness, BOOM! Studios
The Savage Sword of Conan, Titan Comics
Tales from the New World, Oscar Osorio
Transphoria, Lifeline Comics

* Best Humor Comic

Action Philosophers: Omnipotence for Dummies, Rocketship Entertainment
Archie: The Decision, Archie Comics
Forces of Nature, Drawn & Quarterly
Kids Are Still Weird: And More Observations from Parenthood, NBM Graphic Novels
Smut #1, self-published
Space Circus, Dark Horse Comics

* Best Webcomic

The Croaking, WEBTOON Entertainment
Daughter of a Thousand Faces, Tapas Entertainment
The Mafia Nanny, WEBTOON Entertainment
Novae, WEBTOON Entertainment
Renaissance of Raven, DC Go!/DC Comics
Under the Oak Tree, Manta
Vampire Family, WEBTOON Entertainment

Best Humor Webcomic

Dealing with Demons, Manta
Harley Quinn in Paradise, DC Go!/DC Comics
High Class Homos, WEBTOON Entertainment
Nothing Butt Nightwing, DC Go!/DC Comics
Rosebuds, Comics Kingdom
Wanna Be Friends?, WEBTOON Entertainment

* Best Non-fiction Comic Work

Adrift on a Painted Sea, Avery Hill
Brittle Joints, Street Noise Books
Djuna, Street Noise Books
Feeding Ghosts, MCD
In the Shadows of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones, Oni Press

* Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel

Double Booking, Papercutz/Mad Cave Studios
Dudley Datson and the Forever Machine, Dark Horse Comics
Hilda and Twig Hide from the Rain, Flying Eye Books
The Legend of Tiger and Tail-Flower, Levine Querido
The New Girl, Scholastic/Graphix
Night Stories, Astra Books for Young Readers
ZOR, Keenspot Entertainment

* Best Presentation in Design

Coins of Judas, Orange Cone Productions/Band of Bards
David Mazzucchelli’s Batman Year One Artist’s Edition, IDW Publishing
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff and Bram Stoker’s Dracula starring Bela Lugosi Casket Edition, Rocketship Entertainment
One Bite at a Time: The First 20 Years of Elephant Eater Comics, Elephant Eater Comics
Scott Pilgrim 20th Anniversary Hardcover Box Set, Oni Press
Warm Fusion, DSTLRY

Comic pros can vote at the Ringos website.

The Ringo Awards are named after Michael Lance “Mike” Wieringo who was known to fans and friends as “Ringo”, which is how he signed his artwork. His comics artist graced the pages of DC Comics’ The Flash, Adventures of Superman, Batman, and Robin, Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Sensational Spider-Man, and Rogue, and his co-creation Tellos. He passed away on August 12, 2007 at the young age of 44 from an apparent heart attack.

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