Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers

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Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers
Awarded forBest Publication for Early Readers
CountryUnited States
First awarded2012
Most recent winner (2021)Our Little Kitchen by Jillian Tamaki (2020)
Websitewww.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

The Eisner Award for Best Publication for Early Readers is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books for early readers.

Name change[]

From 2012 to 2015 the award was appended with "(up to age 7)" and from 2016 to 2019 it was appended with "(up to age 8)". For the 2020 awards the age designation was dropped.

Winners and nominees[]

Year Title Authors Ref.
2010s
2012 (Top Shelf Productions) James Kochalka [1][2]
(Yen Press) Émile Bravo
(Candlewick Press/Toon Books)
(First Second Books) (editor)
(Candlewick Press/Toon Books) Geoffrey Hayes
2013 Babymouse for President (Random House) Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm [3][2]
(Candlewick Press/Toon Books) Geoffrey Hayes
(Yen Press/Hachette Book Group)
Maya Makes a Mess (Candlewick Press/Toon Books) Rutu Modan
(Candlewick Press/Toon Books) Nadja Spiegelman and
2014 Itty Bitty Hellboy (Dark Horse Comics) Art Baltazar and Franco [4][2]
(Toon Books)
(Toon Books) Liniers
(First Second Books) Cecil Castellucci and
(Toon Books) Frank Cammuso with Jay Lynch
2015 (First Second Books) and [5][2]
(Lerner Publishing Group/Graphic Universe) and
(Koyama Press)
(Viz Media) (editor) and (editor)
(Oni Press)
2016 (First Second Books) Ben Hatke [6][2]
(First Second Books) and
(Schwartz & Wade)
(Lerner Publishing Group/Graphic Universe) and
(Toon Books) Liniers
2017 (Tundra Books) [7][2]
(Toon Books) James Sturm
(Koyama Press)
(Abrams Books)
(Random House) Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm
2018 (Toon Books) Liniers [8][2]
(Toon Books) Claude Ponti, Skeeter Grant, (translator) and Françoise Mouly (translator)
(Flying Eye Books/Nobrow Press)
(Greenwillow Books) Kevin Henkes
(Lion Forge Comics/Magnetic Press) , , and (translator)
2019 (Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing) James Kochalka [9][10]
(KaBOOM!) Gustavo Borges
(First Second Books) Graham Annable
(/Lion Forge Comics) and
(First Second Books)
2020s
2020 (Toon Books) Ivan Brunetti [11][12]
(First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers)
(Hyperion Books) Mo Willems
(Toon Books)
(Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Raúl the Third
(Little, Brown) and
2021 (Abrams Books for Young Readers) Jillian Tamaki [13][14]
Bear (Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios) Ben Queen and
Cat Kid Comic Club (Scholastic Graphix) Dav Pilkey
(Random House Graphic/Random House Children's Books)
(Top Shelf Productions)
(Little, Brown Young Readers) and Dan Santat

References[]

  1. ^ "Nominees Announced For 2012 Eisner Awards, Comic Book Resources".
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Eisner Award Recipients 2010-Present, San Diego Comic-Con International".
  3. ^ "2013 Eisner Award Nominees Announced, Comic Book Resources".
  4. ^ "2014 Eisner Awards: Full List Of Winners And Nominees, Comic Alliance".
  5. ^ "2015 Eisner Award Nominations Announced, Comic Alliance".
  6. ^ "Brilliant Art, Tremendous Stories and Daring Creators: The 2016 Eisner Award Winners [SDCC 2016], Comics Alliance".
  7. ^ "Fantagraphics and Image Comics Lead Eisner Awards Nominations, Syfy Wire".
  8. ^ "Complete List of 2018 Eisner Award Nominees Announced, comicbook.com".
  9. ^ "Eisner Award Nominees Revealed, Hollywood Reporter".
  10. ^ "Eisner Awards: The Complete Winners List, Hollywood Reporter".
  11. ^ "2020 Eisner Nominees: The Complete List, The Hollywood Reporter".
  12. ^ "SDCC '20: The 2020 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award winners, The Beat".
  13. ^ "2021 Eisner Award Nominees Revealed, Image and Fantagraphics Lead With Most Nominations, comicbook.com".
  14. ^ "ComicCon@Home '21: The 2021 Eisner Award winners, The Beat".

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