Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir

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Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir
Awarded forBest Graphic Memoir
Country United States
First awarded2021
Most recent winner (2023)Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Website www.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.

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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

YearTitleAuthorsRef.
2020s
2020 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

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References

  1. 1 2 "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".