Horror’s premier literary award
Nominations:
Chrysanthemum Under the Waves (Maggie Umber LLC), Graphic Novel, 2024
BIO: Maggie Umber paints, prints, and programs graphic novels and zines. She’s published four graphic novels — Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, Sound of Snow Falling, Time Capsule, 270° — and her work has been widely anthologized.
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Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees (Penguin Random House), Graphic Novel, 2024
Nominations:
Tender (Fantagraphics Books), Graphic Novel, 2024
BIO: Beth Hetland is a critically acclaimed cartoonist and award winning professor. Her book TENDER, recipient of the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for 2025, is a psychological thriller with body horror elements about a woman obsessed with her vision for a picture-perfect life. She has a long history of self-publishing and collaborating on graphic novels, mini-comics, and artist books. Find more about her work on her website: www.beth-hetland.com
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Tombs (Viz Media), Graphic Novel, 2023
