Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work
Award for non-fictional US comics
Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work | |
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Awarded for | Best Reality-Based Work |
Country | United States |
First awarded | 2006 |
Most recent winner (2021) | Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf |
Website | www |
The Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work is an award for "creative achievement" in non-fiction American comic books.
Winners and nominees
Year | Title | Authors | Ref. |
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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 Delislefg | ||
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 (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 |
Notes
- ^ a b There was a tie between Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller and The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song.
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