Mister Miracle, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)
Gideon Falls, by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino (Image)
Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Julia Madrigal (BOOM! Box)
Puerto Rico Strong, edited by Marco Lopez, Desiree Rodriguez, Hazel Newlevant, Derek Ruiz, and Neil Schwartz (Lion Forge)
Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman, by Box Brown (First Second)
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
The Vision hardcover, by Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, and Michael Walsh (Marvel)
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, by Pénélope Bagieu, translated by Montana Kane (First Second)
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, by Akiko Higashimura (Kodansha)
Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists, by Martha H. Kennedy (University Press of Mississippi)
Monstress, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image)
Black Panther: World of Wakanda, by Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Alitha E. Martinez (Marvel)
Black Bolt, by Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward (Marvel)
Baking with Kafka, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)
Elements: Fire, A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color, edited by Taneka Stotts (Beyond Press)
Spinning, by Tillie Walden (First Second)
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, by Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
Boundless, by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for the Freedom, by Marcelo D’Salete, translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Fantagraphics)
My Brother’s Husband, vol. 1, by Gengoroh Tagame, translated by Anne Ishii (Pantheon)
How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels, by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden (Fantagraphics)
Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)
The Vision, by Tom King and Gabriel Walta (Marvel)
Black Hammer, by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston (Dark Horse)
Jughead, by Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm (Archie)
Love Is Love, edited by Sarah Gaydos and Jamie S. Rich (IDW/DC)
Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover
March (Book Three), by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Top Shelf)
Wonder Woman: The True Amazon, by Jill Thompson (DC Comics)
Demon, by Jason Shiga (First Second)
Moebius Library: The World of Edena, by Jean “Moebius” Giraud et al. (Dark Horse)
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, designed by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White, by Michael Tisserand (Harper)
Southern Bastards, by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour (Image)
The Fade Out, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
Paper Girls, by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (Image)
Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
Drawn & Quarterly, Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary, Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, edited by Tom Devlin (Drawn & Quarterly)
Best Digital/Webcomic: Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
March: Book Two, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Top Shelf/IDW)
Ruins, by Peter Kuper (SelfMadeHero)
Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson (Harper Teen)
The Realist, by Asaf Hanuka (BOOM! Studios/Archaia)
Showa, 1953–1989: A History of Japan, by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America, by Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics)
Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)
Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, by Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
Lumberjanes, by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, and Brooke A. Allen (BOOM! Box)
Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, edited by Josh O'Neill, Andrew Carl, & Chris Stevens (Locust Moon)
The Private Eye, by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin
Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2, by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)
This One Summer, by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki (First Second)
Through the Woods, by Emily Carroll (McElderry Books)
Blacksad: Amarillo, by Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido (Dark Horse)
Showa 1939–1944 and Showa 1944–1953: A History of Japan, by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Showa 1939–1944 and Showa 1944–1953: A History of Japan, by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, designed by Jim Rugg (Locust Moon)
Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)
The Wake, by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy (Vertigo/DC)
Sex Criminals, by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky (Image)
Vader's Little Princess, by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle)
The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story, by Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson, and Kyle Baker (M Press/Dark Horse)
The Property, by Rutu Modan (Drawn & Quarterly)
RASL, by Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books)
Will Eisner's The Spirit Artist’s Edition, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)
Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, vol. 1, edited by Dean Mullaney (LOAC/IDW)
Goddam This War! by Jacques Tardi and Jean-Pierre Verney (Fantagraphics)
The Mysterious Underground Men, by Osamu Tezuka (PictureBox)
Genius, Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth, designed by Dean Mullaney (The Library of American Comics/IDW)
Genius, Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth, by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell (The Library of American Comics)
Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)
Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)
Darth Vader and Son, by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle)
Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain)
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller, by Joseph Lambert (Center for Cartoon Studies/Disney Hyperion)
The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song, by Frank M. Young and David Lasky (Abrams ComicArts)
Building Stories, by Chris Ware (Pantheon)
King City, by Brandon Graham (TokyoPop/Image)
Pogo, vol. 2: Bona Fide Balderdash, by Walt Kelly, edited by Carolyn Kelly and Kim Thompson (Fantagraphics)
Blacksad: Silent Hell, by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido (Dark Horse)
20th Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa (Viz Media)
Building Stories, designed by Chris Ware (Pantheon)
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, by Sean Howe (HarperCollins)
Daredevil, by Mark Waid, Marcos Martin, Paolo Rivera, and Joe Rivera (Marvel)
Criminal: The Last of the Innocent, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Marvel Icon)
Milk & Cheese: Dairy Products Gone Bad, by Evan Dorkin (Dark Horse Books)
Battlepug, by Mike Norton
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story, by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case (Dark Horse Books)
Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand, adapted by Ramón K. Pérez (Archaia)
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition, by Darwyn Cooke (IDW)
The Manara Library, vol. 1: Indian Summer and Other Stories, by Milo Manara with Hugo Pratt (Dark Horse Books)
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand, designed by Eric Skillman (Archaia)
MetaMaus, by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon)
Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image)
Daytripper, by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (Vertigo/DC)
Tiny Titans, by Art Baltazar and Franco (DC)
Smile, by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic Graphix)
I Thought You Would Be Funnier, by Shannon Wheeler (BOOM!)
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, edited by Paul Morrissey and David Petersen (Archaia)
Abominable Charles Christopher, by Karl Kerschl
It Was the War of the Trenches, by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics)
Return of the Dapper Men, by Jim McCann and Janet Lee (Archaia) andWilson, by Daniel Clowes (Drawn & Quarterly)
Wednesday Comics, edited by Mark Chiarello (DC)
It Was the War of the Trenches, by Jacques Tardi (Fantagraphics)
Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa (VIZ Media)
75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, by Paul Levitz (TASCHEN)
The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman and Charles Adlard (Image)
Best Limited Series or Story Arc
Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image)
Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe, by Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni Press)
Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Julia Madrigal (BOOM! Box)