The Harvey Awards have announced its full list of nominees for 2026, which include the Billy Bat manga series and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle anime film, among others. Voting for the awards is now open to comic industry professionals from July 7, 2026 through August 28, 2026.
The nominees for Best Manga include:
- • Billy Bat by Naoki Urasawa (co-writer/artist) and Takashi Nagasaki (co-writer)— Kana/Abrams ComicArts
- • He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid by Yoshiharu Tsuge (story and art) — Drawn & Quarterly
- • Land by Kazumi Yamashita (story and art) — Yen Press
- • Miss Ruki by Fumiko Takano (story and art) — NYR Comics
- • My Gorilla Family by Iijima Ichiro (story and art) — Living the Line
- • My Life in 24 Frames Per Second by Rintaro — Kana/Abrams ComicArts
Ten nominees were listed for the Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel category, with the adaptations based on Japanese and Korean media consisting of:
- • Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
- • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
- • My Hero Academia Final Season
- • One Piece Live-Action Series Season 2
- • Your Letter
Kamome Shirahama‘s Witch Hat Atelier was voted as the Best Manga at the 2025 Harvey Awards. It competed against The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All (Sumiko Arai, translated by Ajani Oloye for Yen Press), The Summer Hikaru Died (Mokumokuren, translated by Ajani Oloye for Yen Press), Tokyo These Days (Taiyo Matsumoto, translated by Michael Arias for VIZ Media), and Wind Breaker (Satoru Nii, translated by Jacqueline Fung for Kodansha Comics).
Source: press release
