Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir
| Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Graphic Memoir |
| Country | United States |
| First award | 2021 |
| Most recent winner (2023) | Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton |
| Website | www |
The Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir is an American comic book award presented annually to recognise creative achievement in graphic memoirs, a form of non-fiction and autobiographical comics. The category was established in 2021 after being separated from the Best Reality-Based Work award, reflecting the growing prominence of graphic memoirs within the medium. It honours works that combine personal or factual narratives with the visual storytelling of comics and is presented as part of the Eisner Awards at San Diego Comic-Con.
History
Up until 2020 memoirs were included in the category for Best Reality-Based Work, but in 2021 the judges created a new award as they felt there were too many high-quality non-fiction comics for one award.[1]
Winners and nominees
| Year | Title | Authors | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020s | |||
| 2021 | The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist (Drawn & Quarterly) | Adrian Tomine | [2][1] |
| Banned Book Club (Iron Circus Comics) | Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, and Ko Hyung-Ju | [2][1] | |
| Dancing After TEN: A Graphic Memoir (Fantagraphics) | Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber | ||
| Ginseng Roots (Uncivilized Books) | Craig Thompson | ||
| I Don't Know How to Give Birth! (Yen Press) | Ayami Kazama, translated by Julie Goniwich | ||
| When Stars Are Scattered (Dial Books) | Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed | ||
| 2022 | Run: Book One (Abrams ComicArts) | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell | [3] |
| Factory Summers (Drawn & Quarterly) | Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall | [3] | |
| Parenthesis (Top Shelf) | Élodie Durand, translated by Edward Gauvin | ||
| The Secret to Superhuman Strength (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | Alison Bechdel | ||
| Save it for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest (Abrams ComicArts) | Nate Powell | ||
| 2023 | Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly) | Kate Beaton | [4][5] |
| Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press) | Catherine Pioli, translated by J.T. Mahany | ||
| It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth: An Auto-Bio-Graphic-Novel (Image) | Zoe Thorogood | ||
| So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship (First Second/Macmillan) | Sophie Lambda | ||
| Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (Scholastic Graphix) | Lewis Hancox | ||
References
- ^ a b c "ComicCon@Home '21: The 2021 Eisner Award winners, The Beat".
- ^ a b "2021 Eisner Award Nominees Revealed, Image and Fantagraphics Lead With Most Nominations, comicbook.com".
- ^ a b "The winners of the 2022 Eisner Awards are..." Popverse. 2023-05-28. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
- ^ "2023 Eisner Award Nominations Include Tom King, Zoe Thorogood, and Posthumous Kevin Conroy Nod, comicbook.com".
- ^ "SDCC '23: The 2023 Eisner Awards Winners, The Beat".