| Year |
Title |
Authors |
Ref. |
|---|
| 2000s |
|
| 2006 |
Nat Turner (Kyle Baker Publishing) |
Kyle Baker |
[1] |
| Embroideries (Pantheon Books) |
Marjane Satrapi |
| Epileptic (Pantheon Books) |
David B. |
| Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (Drawn & Quarterly) |
Guy Delisle |
| True Story, Swear to God (Clib's Boy Comics) and True Story, Swear to God: This One Goes to Eleven (AiT/Planet Lar) |
Tom Beland |
| 2007 |
Fun Home (Houghton Mifflin) |
Alison Bechdel |
[2] |
| I Love Led Zeppelin (Fantagraphics) |
Ellen Forney |
| Mom's Cancer (Abrams Books) |
Brian Fies |
| Project X: Cup Noodle (Digital Manga, ISBN 9781569709597) |
Tadashi Katoh (author) and Akira Imai (artist) |
| Stagger Lee (Image Comics) |
Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix |
| 2008 |
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion Books for Children) |
James Sturm and Rich Tommaso |
[3] |
| Laika (First Second Books) |
Nick Abadzis |
| The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (Riverhead Books/Penguin Group) |
Ann Marie Fleming |
| Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) |
Percy Carey and Ronald Wimberly |
| White Rapids (Drawn & Quarterly) |
Pascal Blanchet |
| 2009 |
What It Is (Drawn & Quarterly) |
Lynda Barry |
[4][5] |
| Alan's War (First Second Books) |
Emmanuel Guibert |
| Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story (Houghton Mifflin) |
Frederik Peeters |
| Fishtown (IDW Publishing) |
Kevin Colden |
| A Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Lindbergh Child (NBM Publishing) |
Rick Geary |
| 2010s |
| 2010 |
A Drifting Life (Drawn & Quarterly) |
Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
[6][7] |
| Footnotes in Gaza (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company) |
Joe Sacco |
| The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir (Little, Brown) |
Laurie Sandell |
| Monsters (Secret Acres) |
Ken Dahl |
| The Photographer (First Second Books) |
Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier |
| Stitches (W. W. Norton & Company) |
David Small |
| 2011 |
It Was the War of the Trenches (Fantagraphics) |
Jacques Tardi |
[8][9] |
| Picture This: The Nearsighted Monkey Book (Drawn & Quarterly) |
Lynda Barry |
| Special Exits: A Graphic Memoir (Fantagraphics) |
Joyce Farmer |
| Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Terrible Axe Man of New Orleans (NBM Publishing) |
Rick Geary |
| Two Generals (McClelland & Stewart) |
Scott Chantler |
| You'll Never Know Book 2: Collateral Damage (Fantagraphics) |
Carol Tyler |
| 2012 |
Green River Killer: A True Detective Story (Dark Horse Comics) |
Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case |
[10][9] |
| Around the World (Candlewick Press) |
Matt Phelan |
| Marzi: A Memoir (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) |
Marzena Sowa and Sylvain Savoia |
| Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (Drawn & Quarterly) |
Shigeru Mizuki |
| Vietnamerica (Villard) |
GB Tran |
| 2013 |
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller (Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion Books for Children) [note 1] |
Joseph Lambert |
[11][9] |
| The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song (Abrams ComicArts) [note 1] |
Frank M. Young and David Lasky |
| A Chinese Life (SelfMadeHero) |
Li Kunwu and Philippe Ôtié, translated by Edward Gauvin |
| The Infinite Wait and Other Stories (Koyama Press) |
Julia Wertz |
| Marbles: Mania Depression Michelangelo & Me (Gotham Books) |
Ellen Forney |
| You'll Never Know Book 3: A Soldier's Heart (Fantagraphics) |
Carol Tyler |
| 2014 |
The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story (M Press/Dark Horse Comics) |
Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson, and Kyle Baker |
[12][9] |
| A Bag of Marbles (Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group) |
Joseph Joffo, Kris, and Vincent Bailly |
| Hip Hop Family Tree, Book 1: 1970s-1981 (Fantagraphics) |
Ed Piskor |
| March: Book One (Top Shelf Productions) |
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
| Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life (Fantagraphics) |
Ulli Lust |
| Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story[broken anchor] (Drawn & Quarterly) |
Peter Bagge |
| 2015 |
Hip Hop Family Tree, Book 2: 1981-1983 (Fantagraphics) |
Ed Piskor |
[13][9] |
| Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury Publishing) |
Roz Chast |
| Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories (2d Cloud/Uncivilized Books) |
MariNaomi |
| El Deafo (Amulet Books/Abrams Books) |
Cece Bell |
| Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Treaties Trenches Mud and Blood (Abrams Books) |
Nathan Hale |
| To End All Wars: The Graphic Anthology of The First World War (Soaring Penguin Press) |
edited by Jonathan Clode and John Stuart Clark |
| 2016 |
March: Book Two (Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing) |
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
[14][9] |
| The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East 1978–1984 (Metropolitan Books) |
Riad Sattouf |
| Displacement: A Travelogue (Fantagraphics) |
Lucy Knisley |
| Hip Hop Family Tree Book 3: 1983–1984 (Fantagraphics) |
Ed Piskor |
| Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist (Fantagraphics) |
Bill Griffith |
| The Story of My Tits (Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing) |
Jennifer Hayden |
| 2017 |
March: Book Three (Top Shelf Productions) |
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
[15][9] |
| Dark Night: A True Batman Story (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) |
Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso |
| Glenn Gould: A Life Off Tempo (NBM Publishing) |
Sandrine Revel |
| Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir (St. Martin's Press) |
Tom Hart |
| Tetris: The Games People Play (First Second Books) |
Box Brown |
| 2018 |
Spinning (First Second Books) |
Tillie Walden |
[16][9] |
| Audubon: On the Wings of the World (Nobrow Press) |
Fabien Grolleau and Jerémie Royer, translated by Etienne Gilfillan |
| The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts) |
Thi Bui |
| Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary 1852–1903 (IDW Publishing) |
Christian Perrissin and Matthieu Blanchin, translated by Diana Schutz and Brandon Kander |
| Lennon: The New York Years (IDW Publishing) |
David Foenkinos, Éric Corbeyran, and Horne Perreard, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger |
| 2019 |
Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman (First Second Books) |
Box Brown |
[17][18] |
| All the Answers: A Graphic Memoir (Gallery 13) |
Michael Kupperman |
| All the Sad Songs (Retrofit Comics/Big Planet Comics) |
Summer Pierre |
| Monk! (First Second Books) |
Youssef Daoudi |
| One Dirty Tree (Uncivilized Books) |
Noah Van Sciver |
| 2020s |
| 2020 |
They Called Us Enemy (Top Shelf Productions) |
George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker |
[19][20] |
| Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations (One World/Random House) |
Mira Jacob |
| Grass (Drawn & Quarterly) |
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translation by Janet Hong |
| Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos (First Second Books/Macmillan) |
Lucy Knisley |
| Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight (Hill & Wang) |
Jonathan Fetter-Vorm |
| My Solo Exchange Diary, vol. 2 (Seven Seas Entertainment) |
Nagata Kabi, translation Jocelyne Allen |
| 2021 |
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams Books) |
Derf Backderf |
[21][22] |
| Big Black: Stand at Attica (Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios) |
Frank “Big Black” Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Améziane |
| Dragon Hoops (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) |
Gene Luen Yang |
| Invisible Differences: A Story of Asperger’s, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color (Oni Press) |
Mademoiselle Caroline and Julie Dachez, translation by Edward Gauvin |
| Paying the Land (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company) |
Joe Sacco |
| Year of the Rabbit (Drawn & Quarterly) |
Tian Veasna, translation by Helge Dascher |
| 2023 |
Flung Out of Space (Abrams ComicArts) |
Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer |
[23] |
| Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense (HBM) |
Noël Simsolo and Dominique Hé, translation by Montana Kane |
| Alice Guy: First Lady of Film (Self Made Hero) |
José-Louis Bocquet and Catel Muller, translation by Edward Gauvin |
| But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust (University of Toronto Press) |
edited by Charlotte Schallié |
| Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism (Fantagraphics) |
Jess Ruliffson |
| Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball (First Second/Macmillan) |
Jon Chad |
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