Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir

Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir
Awarded for	Best Graphic Memoir
Country	United States
First awarded	2021
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.

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.

Winners and nominees

Year	Title	Authors
2020s
2021	The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist (Drawn & Quarterly)	Adrian Tomine
	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
	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

^ "ComicCon@Home '21: The 2021 Eisner Award winners, The Beat".
"2021 Eisner Award Nominees Revealed, Image and Fantagraphics Lead With Most Nominations, comicbook.com".
"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".

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Eisner Awards

Current Awards

Awards for People	Coloring Cover Artist (multiple covers) Lettering Painter/Digital Artist Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team Writer Writer/Artist
Awards for Works	Academic/Scholarly Work Adaptation from Another Medium Anthology Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books Archival Collection/Project—Strips Comics-Related Book Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism Continuing Series Digital Comic Early Readers Humor Graphic Album—New Graphic Album—Reprint Graphic Memoir Kids Limited Series New Series Publication Design Reality-Based Work Short Story Single Issue/One-Shot Teens U.S. Edition of International Material U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia Webcomic
Special Awards	Spirit of Comics Retailer Award Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame

Former awards

Awards for People	Art Team Artist Editor Inker Penciller Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition Writer/Artist — Humor Writer/Artist — Drama Writer/Artist–Nonfiction Special Recognition
Awards for Works	Adaptation from Another Work Archival Collection/Project Black-and-White Series Comics-Related Periodical/Publication Comics-Related Product/Item Comics-Related Publication Comics-Related Sculpted Figures Graphic Album Serialized Story U.S. Edition of International Material—Japan Younger Readers/Younger Audience

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