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 | It Rhymes with Takei, by George Takei, Harmony Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin Eisinger |
| Website | www |
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 | [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 | ||
| 2024 | Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam (First Second/Macmillan) | Thien Pham | [6] |
| A First Time for Everything (First Second/Macmillan) | Dan Santat | ||
| In Limbo (First Second/Macmillan) | Deb J.J. Lee | ||
| Memento Mori (Oni Press) | Tiitu Takalo, translated by Maria Schroderus | ||
| Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me about Life, Death, and Hope (Scholastic Graphix) | Jarrett J. Krosoczka | ||
| The Talk (Henry Holt) | Darrin Bell | ||
| 2025 | Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | Tessa Hulls | [7] |
| Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60 (Conundrum) | Alison McCreesh | ||
| The Field (Conundrum) | Dave Lapp | ||
| I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir (Pantheon) | Maurice Vellekoop | ||
| Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love (Arsenal Pulp Press) | Sarah Leavitt | ||
| 2026 | It Rhymes with Takei | George Takei | [8] |
| My Life in 24 Frames Per Second | Rintaro, translated by Montana Kane | ||
| The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief | Carol Tyler | ||
| Precious Rubbish | Kayla E. | ||
| Raised by Ghosts | Briana Loewinsohn | ||
| Talking to My Father's Ghost: An Almost True Story | Alex Krokus | ||
References
- 1 2 3 "ComicCon@Home '21: The 2021 Eisner Award winners, The Beat".
- 1 2 "2021 Eisner Award Nominees Revealed, Image and Fantagraphics Lead With Most Nominations, comicbook.com".
- 1 2 "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".
- ↑ Puc, Samantha (27 July 2024). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
- ↑ Zalben, Alex (26 July 2025). "Eisner Awards 2025: See The Full Winners List | Comic Book Club". Comic Book Club. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
- ↑ "Eisner Awards". Comic-Con International. Retrieved 2026-06-03.