Every season since 2014, late in the game, the Big Brother house turns into a comic book shop. The houseguests get rendered as superheroes and villains — their personas, their blowups, their punishments turned into cover art — and then they have to race through their own season’s greatest hits from memory. BB Comics is the closest thing modern Big Brother has to OTEV or the Zingbot: an annual fixture the fans wait for, and the only competition where the show openly roasts its own cast in paint.
This page is the full record: every BB Comics competition ever played, who won, how fast, what the covers showed, and the one year production quietly broke its own format.
- Debut: Big Brother 16, August 6, 2014 — and it has run every season since.
- What it is: the houseguests view comic covers of themselves — classically from a zipline — then must spot the genuine covers among near-identical fakes and put them in order, against the clock.
- Almost always a veto: 11 of the 12 competitions have been for the Power of Veto. The lone exception: BB25 ran it as a Head of Household comp.
- Almost always late: 10 of 12 landed in the Week 9–12 stretch of their season.
- Only repeat winner: Nicole F, six seasons apart (BB18 and BB22).
- Fastest documented winning time: Jag, 8:30, in the BB25 HOH version.
How BB Comics is played
The classic version works like this: one at a time, each player rides a zipline (in most years) past a display window showing comic covers of the season’s houseguests. They get quick looks — then have to rebuild the display from memory, choosing the genuine cover from pairs with small differences: a changed color, a swapped detail, a different word. It’s individually timed, fastest correct board wins, and the times are close enough that a single wrong cover usually decides it.
The comp is a feeds-down event — usually played on a Saturday, aired the following Wednesday, with the feeds dark for hours while it runs. In BB22, the feeds cut to the adoptable shelter animals at 1:11pm and came back around 5:40pm — about four and a half hours for one veto comp. Feed watchers usually have the winner days before the broadcast.
One year broke the mold twice. In BB20, the name stayed but the zipline rebuild was replaced by a course where players hunted impostor versions of the covers — the biggest mechanical departure the comp has had. And in BB25, as part of that season’s Comic Week twist, BB Comics ran as a Head of Household competition for the first and so far only time, crowning an invisible HOH. Production has never explained why the comp switched chairs that year; the twist structure is the whole documented story.
Two things BB Comics is not. Clash of the Comics was a BB22 luxury competition that reused the artwork for a $10,000 prize — same covers, different game. And the BB23 premiere-night puzzle comp used the same artist and the same spot-the-difference comic panels in Episode 1 — same style, wrong end of the season. Neither counts as a BB Comics competition, and this page doesn’t count them.
Every BB Comics competition
Air dates are broadcast dates; where the feeds told the story first, the feed date is noted. Times are the winning times where they were documented.
Big Brother 28 · 2026 Yash wins by 26 seconds — his third veto of the summer
Yash — his third Power of Veto win this season. He finished the BB Comics course with 26 seconds to spare against a 45-minute time limit.
Week 9. Barrett was HOH with Devens, Angela, and Dee on the block. The veto comp ran on September 5, 2026.
Standard BB Comics format — houseguests zipline past a wall of comic-book covers, then rebuild the display from memory, picking out the real covers from fakes against the clock. Taylor spotted one of the tells after the comp: “Lala’s was the tongue.” Yash is not expected to use the veto; the house consensus heading into the ceremony is that either Devens or Dee is going home.
Big Brother 27 · 2025 The first one played on a three-nominee block
Morgan, in 12:34, for the Power of Veto. Episode 30, aired September 10, 2025.
Lauren’s HOH under the Blockbuster format, with Morgan, Will and Ashley all nominated. Morgan saved herself, Keanu went up as the replacement — then won the Blockbuster, leaving Will and Ashley exposed. Will was evicted 3–2.
Ashley came out frustrated after getting stuck on Rachel and Zach’s comics, saying she spent about 45 minutes on Rachel alone. Morgan, meanwhile, celebrated her second straight veto win and immediately confirmed she planned to use it on herself. The night Morgan won BB Comics and Ashley realized her game could come down to the Blockbuster.
Big Brother 26 · 2024 CBS spelled it “B.B. Comics” that year
Makensy, for the Power of Veto. Episode 35, aired October 3, 2024.
Her own HOH at final five, Kimo and Rubina nominated; she kept nominations and Kimo was evicted 2–0 later that same broadcast.
The house spent the afternoon reading each other’s covers out. Makensy was Makensy Mechanical — “she’ll control, alt, delete you.” Rubina was the Roller Rebel, Leah the Cubby Chaser, Kimo a volcano, Quinn was Quinn-Sanity with a “mad hair day,” Angela was Atomic Mom, Cedric was “barely legal, always lethal,” Kenny was a hot dog — “he’s a real wiener” — and Brooklyn was a charcuterie thief. Cam’s played on him being invisible. Makensy, on getting to play it at all: “I am so glad that we got to do it.”
She thought about using it — “I am debating taking off Rubina and putting him up” — before deciding against it: the afternoon Makensy’s BB Comics win turned into a Cam throwing-comps investigation.
Big Brother 25 · 2023 The one year it wasn’t a veto
Jag, in 8:30, for Head of Household. Episode 31, aired October 15, 2023. The fastest documented winning time in the comp’s history — in its only HOH outing.
Under the season’s Comic Week twist it crowned an invisible HOH: Jag won, nominated Blue and Felicia, and the week spiraled through a double-veto stage that ended with Cory evicted.
Big Brother 24 · 2022 Part of a record chase
Michael, in 9:06, for the Power of Veto. Played on the feeds September 3–4; aired September 7 (Episode 27).
The players counted their zipline trips out in the kitchen afterwards. Michael did eight or nine, Alyssa nine or ten, Taylor “six max.” Michael’s method: “I did half of each row.” Monte’s read on the difficulty: “it took a while to get the order right.” Michael, on the conditions: “it was really hot.” It is the fullest account of a BB Comics course anywhere on the feeds.
He went straight up to the HOH room and shouted it at the ceiling on his own — the night Michael won BB Comics and the house started planning for a life without him.
Big Brother 23 · 2021 The Cookout beginning to eat its own
Kyland, for the Power of Veto. Played on the feeds September 11, with the feeds down from 12:37pm to 6:37pm — six hours off air for a single veto; aired September 15 (Episode 30).
Kyland’s own HOH, Tiffany and Hannah nominated. He left nominations alone and Tiffany was evicted 3–0.
The house rebuilt the whole comp in the kitchen the moment the feeds came back. Xavier laid every cover side by side rather than working through them one at a time, so the differences showed on a sweep — and admitted he spent part of his run arguing with production over the detail: “you will watch it back and literally see me arguing with production for at least 8 minutes.” Azah thought she had gone in nine minutes. Kyland thought fifteen and assumed he had lost. Derek F knew he was beaten the moment his own time went up on the board first.
Tiffany never finished inside the time limit, and only worked out over dinner what had gone wrong — she had identified every genuine cover correctly and put them in the wrong order. “I was done! I was the f— done!” Getting the covers right is the part everyone talks about; the order is the part that loses it. The six hours that ended with Kyland holding the veto.
Big Brother 22 · 2020 The only repeat win in twelve seasons
Nicole F, in 11:21, for the Power of Veto. Played on the feeds October 10; aired October 14 (Episode 30).
Her own HOH at final five, with Christmas and Memphis nominated; she kept them there and Memphis was evicted. Her second BB Comics win, six years after the first. It was also the sixth time that season the HOH won the veto.
After Nicole’s 11:21 win, Cody said he knew somebody would beat his time and Enzo called hers “f**king crazy.” Cody dubbed her the defending champ — “She the Patriots when it comes to BB Comics!” — while Christmas immediately started working on Nicole to use the veto and open a backdoor. Read the live-feed report from the night Nicole won BB Comics again.
Big Brother 21 · 2019 The only winner who ever saved somebody else
Nicole A, in 10:58, for the Power of Veto. Played on the feeds September 7–8; aired September 11 (Episode 34).
She beat the field by more than four minutes, then celebrated alone in the storage room — the night Nicole’s 10:58 run locked the BB21 final four. Cliff, watching it happen: “people will talk about your veto win forever. That is the kind of thing where you would come back to host BB Comics.”
Big Brother 20 · 2018 The mechanic outlier — no zipline
Kaycee, for the Power of Veto. Episode 34, aired September 12, 2018.
Kaycee’s own HOH, with Haleigh and Sam on the block; she kept her nominations and Haleigh was evicted in the next night’s double.
The one year the format genuinely changed: no zipline rebuild — players moved through a course identifying impostor versions of the covers.
Kaycee finished in about two minutes while Haleigh took 18. Later, Kaycee, Brett and Angela compared the competition and their comics as the house settled on leaving the nominations alone — the night Kaycee won BB Comics and Level 6 started mapping out the endgame.
Big Brother 19 · 2017 The only houseguest who ever complained about his own cover
Paul, for the Power of Veto. Played on the feeds September 9, with the feeds down from 2pm to 6:40pm; aired September 13 (Episode 36).
Josh’s HOH, Alex and Kevin nominated. Paul left nominations intact and Alex went out in the episode’s surprise eviction.
The house came out of the comp and read the whole gallery to each other in the kitchen. Paul got Potty Mouth and did not take it well — “Potty mouth?! For sure my mom is pissed! I feel like you guys cussed way more than me this year.” Christmas’s had her as a mass murderer on a scooter. Jason’s suit was made out of nuts. Paul rated Jess’s the best of the lot, the hex-appeal, and called Raven’s the Arkan-sassy. Alex liked hers; Josh did not like his and said the meatball was Mark. The one complaint everyone agreed on was Raven’s, which Alex said was way cooler than Raven actually was and didn’t look like her — Paul’s rebuttal: “she had claws dude!”
The only account on record of how the buzzer actually works. Josh lost time on Mark’s cover, and Paul coached him afterwards on what he should have done: everything except the one you’re stuck on, hit the buzzer, switch it, hit the buzzer again, one after another. Josh’s answer — “that’s what I did at the end” — is why he lost.
Paul did a happy gnome dance in the bedroom, then spent the entire night in the storage room and the lounge rehearsing how to tell Alex he wouldn’t use the veto on her — trying out one excuse after another on Christmas and Josh until one of them held. The night Paul won BB Comics and started building the story he’d tell Alex.
Big Brother 18 · 2016 Nicole F’s first of two
Nicole F, for the Power of Veto. Episode 39, aired September 13, 2016.
Corey’s HOH, Paul and Victor on the block. Nicole didn’t use it, and Victor was evicted that night — his second of three exits that season.
Big Brother 17 · 2015 Zipline and ladder, thirteen minutes
Steve, in about 13 minutes, for the Power of Veto. Played on the feeds August 8; aired August 12 (Episode 22). The slowest documented winning time in the comp’s history.
Becky’s HOH, with Shelli and Steve nominated. Steve pulled himself off, Vanessa went up as the replacement, and Shelli was evicted 8–0.
Feed coverage that weekend described it — zipline and ladder, double sets with minor discrepancies — in the comp’s second-ever running.
Big Brother 16 · 2014 The debut that set the template
Christine, for the Power of Veto. Episode 19, aired August 6, 2014.
Zach and Jocasta were on the block; Christine kept nominations the same, and Jocasta was evicted the next night.
The feed sites were narrating it live: “Those comics are so funny!” hit the comment sections the night it aired.
The covers
The art is the point. Every cover caricatures a real houseguest — their persona, their catchphrase, their worst moment of the season — and production does not pull punches. A rotating roster of professional comic artists produces them: BB19’s credit line alone named six — Andy Smith, Brad Vancata, Robb Miller, Steven Gordon, Tom Nguyen, and Michael Borkowski — with Nguyen involved since the 2014 debut, the package assembled by production designers Jessie Lynn Whitney and Micki Boden, and art direction credited to Matt Pavlovich and Chris Denzel through Our House Productions. Nguyen has shared the work on his own accounts over the years — including one detail collectors would kill for: for BB23’s comic-style premiere comp he drew a backup illustration that never aired, a couple overlooking a harbor. Somewhere in a drawer is Big Brother comic art nobody has ever seen on television.
Complete cover lists survive in properly dated sources for only two seasons so far. The rest were narrated on the feeds at the time — we’re reconstructing those season by season from our own archive, and this section grows as they’re confirmed.
Big Brother 28 — 17 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 27 — 18 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 26 — 16 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 25 — 17 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 24 — 15 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 23 — 16 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 22 — 16 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 21 — 16 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 20 — 15 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 19 — 16 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 18 — 16 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 17 — 17 BB Comics covers
Big Brother 16 — 16 BB Comics covers
Covers that made their own news
Paul’s Potty Mouth (BB19) holds a distinction no other cover has: the houseguest visibly objected on the show. Paul questioned why he’d been made “Potty Mouth” and was plainly unhappy about it — the only confirmed case of a houseguest pushing back on their own cover in twelve seasons.
A few others drew fire from outside the house rather than inside it. Michelle’s “VomitCrybaby” (BB18) and Scottie’s “SNOTTIE” (BB20) were both called out by contemporary press as unusually harsh — though neither houseguest is on record objecting. Lisa’s “Glitter Critter” (BB26) got the same treatment from fans when the gallery dropped. And Matt’s “Crazy Eyes” (BB26) ran the other way: viewers had spent months expecting production to turn his most famous moment into a cover, and production delivered.
The strangest cover story is a cover that doesn’t exist: BB25’s gallery included every houseguest except Luke — expelled earlier that season for a racial slur, and quietly erased from the season’s own artwork. The press noticed the omission. It’s the comp’s one intersection with the show’s scandal history.
The Record Book
- Only repeat winner: Nicole F — BB18 and BB22, six years apart.
- Fastest documented time: Jag, 8:30 (BB25). Slowest documented winning time: Steve, about 13 minutes (BB17).
- Only winner to save someone else: Nicole A used her BB Comics veto on Cliff (BB21). Every other veto winner either saved themselves or left nominations alone.
- Only HOH version: BB25 — and it crowned an invisible HOH.
- Only mechanical redesign: BB20’s impostor-cover course.
- Never run before Week 6, never skipped a season since debuting — twelve for twelve and counting.