Brain Damage / Come Out and Play

Eisner Awards 2026 Best Short Story

• "Blood Harvest," in Brain Damage, by Shintaro Kago, translated by Zack Davisson (Fantagraphics)
• "The Curse Room," in Brain Damage, by Shintaro Kago, translated by Zack Davisson (Fantagraphics)
• "Football Is Not War," by R. K. Russell and Wilfred Santiago, in Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project (Stacked Deck Press)
• "trAPPed" by Anand RK, Suparna Sharma, and Natalie Obiko Pearson (Bloomberg News)