Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir

Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir
Awarded forBest Graphic Memoir
CountryUnited States
First awarded2021
Most recent winner (2023)Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Websitewww.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

The Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir is an award for "creative achievement" in non-fiction American comic books.

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
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
2023 Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly) Kate Beaton [3][4]
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

  1. ^ a b "ComicCon@Home '21: The 2021 Eisner Award winners, The Beat".
  2. ^ "2021 Eisner Award Nominees Revealed, Image and Fantagraphics Lead With Most Nominations, comicbook.com".
  3. ^ "2023 Eisner Award Nominations Include Tom King, Zoe Thorogood, and Posthumous Kevin Conroy Nod, comicbook.com".
  4. ^ "SDCC '23: The 2023 Eisner Awards Winners, The Beat".