| Year |
Author(s) |
Title |
Publisher |
Ref. |
|
| 2000s |
|
| 2008 |
Nick Abadzis |
Laika |
First Second Books |
[1] |
| Jacob Chabot |
The Mighty Skullboy Army |
Dark Horse Comics |
[1] |
| Scott Chantler |
The Annotated Northwest Passage |
Oni Press |
|
| Manny Trembley and Eric A. Anderson |
PX! Book One: A Girl and Her Panda |
Shadowline/Image Comics |
|
| James Sturm and Rich Tommaso |
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow |
Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion Books for Children |
|
| 2009 |
Neil Gaiman, adapted by P. Craig Russell |
Coraline |
HarperCollins Children’s Books |
[2] |
| Chris Schweizer |
Crogan’s Vengeance |
Oni Press |
[3] |
| Holly Black and Ted Naifeh |
The Good Neighbors, Book 1: Kin |
Scholastic Graphix |
| Shannon Hale & Dean Hale and Nathan Hale |
Rapunzel’s Revenge |
Bloomsbury Children’s Books |
| Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki |
Skim |
Groundwood Books |
| 2010s |
| 2010 |
Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson |
Beasts of Burden |
Dark Horse Comics |
[4][5] |
| Troy Little |
Angora Napkin |
IDW Publishing |
[6] |
| Eric Heuvel |
A Family Secret |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Anne Frank House |
| Kevin Cannon |
Far Arden |
Top Shelf Productions |
| Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura |
I Kill Giants |
Image Comics |
| 2011 |
Raina Telgemeier |
Smile |
Scholastic Graphix |
[5] |
| Doug TenNapel |
Ghostopolis |
Scholastic Graphix |
[7] |
| Barry Deutsch |
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword |
Amulet Books |
| Jim McCann and Janet K. Lee |
Return of the Dapper Men |
Archaia Entertainment |
| G. Neri and Randy DuBurke |
Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty |
Lee & Low Books |
| 2012 |
Vera Brosgol |
Anya's Ghost |
First Second Books |
[5] |
| Matt Phelan |
Around the World |
Candlewick Press |
[8] |
| Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham |
Level Up |
First Second Books |
| Paul Kupperberg, Fernando Ruiz, Pat Kennedy & Tim Kennedy, Norm Breyfogle, et al. |
Life With Archie |
Archie Comics |
| G. Willow Wilson and David López |
Mystic |
Marvel Comics |
| 2013 |
Madeleine L'Engle, adapted by Hope Larson |
A Wrinkle in Time |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
[5] |
| Meredith Gran |
Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens |
KaBOOM! |
[9] |
| Joseph Lambert |
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller |
Center for Cartoon Studies/Disney Hyperion |
| Ryan Inzana |
Ichiro |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Josh Tierney, et al. |
Spera, vol. 1 |
Archaia Entertainment |
| 2014 |
Paul Pope |
Battling Boy |
First Second Books |
[5][10] |
| Matt Phelan |
Bluffton: My Summers with Buster |
Candlewick Press |
[10] |
| Gene Luen Yang |
Boxers and Saints |
First Second Books |
| Sheila Keenan and Nathan Fox |
Dogs of War |
Scholastic Graphix |
| John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
March, Book One |
Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing |
| Jordan Mechner, LeUyen Pham, and Alex Puviland |
Templar |
First Second Books |
| 2015 |
Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, ND Stevenson, and Brooke A. Allen |
Lumberjanes |
Boom! Box |
[5] |
| Tony Sandoval |
Doomboy |
Magnetic Press |
[11] |
| Jimmy Gownley |
The Dumbest Idea Ever |
Scholastic Graphix |
| Jeff Parker and Sandy Jarrell |
Meteor Men |
Oni Press |
| Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew |
The Shadow Hero |
First Second Books |
| Farel Dalrymple |
The Wrenchies |
First Second Books |
| 2016 |
Jillian Tamaki |
SuperMutant Magic Academy |
Drawn & Quarterly |
[5][12] |
| Svetlana Chmakova |
Awkward |
Yen Press |
[12] |
| Don Brown |
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
March, Book Two |
|
| Max de Radiguès |
Moose |
Conundrum Press |
| Ben Towle |
Oyster War |
Oni Press |
| 2017 |
Ryan North and Erica Henderson |
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl |
Marvel Comics |
[5] |
| John Allison |
Bad Machinery, vol. 5: The Case of the Fire Inside |
Oni Press |
| Hope Larson and Rafael Albuquerque |
Batgirl |
DC Comics |
| Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm |
Jughead |
Archie Comics |
| Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda |
Monstress |
Image Comics |
| Jessica Abel |
Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars |
Papercutz/Super Genius |
| 2018 |
Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda |
Monstress |
Image Comics |
[5] |
| Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi |
The Dam Keeper |
First Second Books/Tonko House |
[13] |
| Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón K. Pérez |
Jane |
Archaia Entertainment |
| Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou |
Louis Undercover |
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press |
| Tillie Walden |
Spinning |
First Second Books |
| 2019 |
Jen Wang |
The Prince and the Dressmaker |
First Second Books |
[5][14] |
| Hope Larson |
All Summer Long |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
[15] |
| Erin Nations |
Gumballs |
Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing |
| Skottie Young and Jorge Corona |
Middlewest |
Image Comics |
| Cat Seaton and Kit Seaton |
Norroway, Book 1: The Black Bull of Norroway |
Image Comics |
| Tony Sandoval translated Lucas Marangon |
Watersnakes |
Magnetic Press/Lion Forge Comics |
| 2020s |
| 2020 |
Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell |
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me |
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers |
[16] |
| Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh |
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass |
DC Comics |
[16][17] |
| Ebony Flowers |
Hot Combs |
Drawn & Quarterly |
| Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw |
Kiss Number 8 |
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers |
| MK Reed, Greg Means, and Matt Wiegle |
Penny Nichols |
Top Shelf Productions |
| 2021 |
Gene Luen Yang |
Dragon Hoops |
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers |
[18] |
| Ngozi Ukazu |
Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones |
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers |
[18][19] |
| Kiku Hughes |
Displacement |
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers |
| Joel Christian Gill |
Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence |
Oni Press |
| Sloane Leong |
A Map to the Sun |
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers |
| Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed |
When Stars Are Scattered |
Dial Books |
| 2022 |
Shing Yin Khor |
The Legend of Auntie Po |
Kokila/Penguin Random House |
[20] |
| Marc Bernardin and Ariela Kristantina |
Adora and the Distance |
ComiXology |
[20] |
| David Bowles and Raúl the Third |
Clockwork Curandera, vol. 1: The Witch Owl Parliament |
Tu Books/Lee & Low Books |
| Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos |
Strange Academy |
Marvel Comics |
| James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas |
Wynd |
Boom! Box |