Most Eisner Comic Award wins in one category

American comic-book letterer Todd Klein has won the Eisner Award for Best Lettering 18 times, his most recent in 2019 for Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald (Dark Horse Comics); Batman: White Knight, Eternity Girl, Books of Magic (DC Comics); and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest (Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing).

Klein's 12 consecutive wins from 1997 to 2008 is also unrivalled in any category. His first win was in 1993, when Best Lettering was introduced as a category. Only once, in 2015, did Klein’s Best Lettering nomination fail to go on and win the award.

The letterer is the person responsible for putting the words on the page of a comic – a task that requires a steady hand. The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were first staged in 1988, with the Best Lettering category introduced in 1993. The Eisner Awards are named after the pioneering comic creator (USA, 1917–2005) and are the comic-book equivalent of the Oscars.