Star Trek Comics Garner Two Eisner Nominations

Image: Ramon Rosanas /The Daily Cartoonist/Louie de Martinis/IDW/SDCC.

MAY 24, 2023 – Star Trek comics in various formats have been around for a long time. Now might be considered a more recent golden age for them, not unlike the current era of Star Trek on television. What has never happened to a Trek comic before, though, is nomination for a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award. Until now.

ComicBook is reporting that two Star Trek comic book titles, from IDW, have been nominated for Eisner Awards, each in a different category. Star Trek #400 was released last September and featured a story by Wil Wheaton. It has been nominated for Best Single Issue/One-Shot.

Then last October IDW released Star Trek #1, representing a new ongoing title. It has been nominated for Best New Series.

IDW’s Group Editor, Licensing, Heather Antos, said, “"Words literally cannot describe how humbling it is for these two books to be recognized for the first time in franchise history by the industry at large for these two very competitive categories.”

The Eisner Awards have been conferred since 1988, following the discontinuation of the Kirby Awards, named for legendary comic book artist, Jack Kirby. The Eisner Awards are named in honor of cartoonist Will Eisner, who popularized the term “graphic novel,” and are presented in 32 categories.

IDW titles received five nominations in all, and the slate of nominees for the categories that include the two Star Trek titles look like this:

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

• Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)

• Mary Jane & Black Cat Beyond, by Jed Mackay and C. F. Villa (Marvel)

• Moon Knight: Black, White, and Blood #3, edited by Tom Brevoort (Marvel)

• Star Trek #400, edited by Heather Antos (IDW)

• A Vicious Circle Book 1, by Mattson Tomlin and Lee Bermejo (BOOM! Studios)

Best New Series

•  The Atonement Bell, by Jim Ousley and Tyler B. Ruff (Red 5)

• Love Everlasting, by Tom King and Elsa Charretier (Image)

• Public Domain, by Chip Zdarsky (Image)

• Star Trek, by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Ramon Rosanas (IDW)

• Traveling to Mars, by Mark Russell and Roberto Meli (Ablaze)

The Eisner Awards ceremony will be held July 21 at the San Diego Hilton Bayfront Hotel during San Diego Comic-Con, under whose auspices the Eisners are presented.

For more on the Star Trek Eisner nominations, head over to ComicBook.