Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work

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Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work
Awarded forBest Reality-Based Work
CountryUnited States
First awarded2006
Most recent winner (2021)Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf
Websitewww.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

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.
2000s
2006 (Kyle Baker Publishing) Kyle Baker [1]
(Pantheon Books) Marjane Satrapi
Epileptic (Pantheon Books) David B.
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (Drawn & Quarterly) Guy Delisle
() and (AiT/Planet Lar)
2007 Fun Home (Houghton Mifflin) Alison Bechdel [2]
(Fantagraphics) Ellen Forney
Mom's Cancer (Abrams Books) Brian Fies
(Digital Manga)
(Image Comics) Derek McCulloch and
2008 (Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion Books for Children) James Sturm and [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
(Drawn & Quarterly)
2009 (Drawn & Quarterly) Lynda Barry [4][5]
(First Second Books)
Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story (Houghton Mifflin) Frederik Peeters
(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
(Little, Brown) Laurie Sandell
()
The Photographer (First Second Books) , Didier Lefèvre, and
Stitches (W. W. Norton & Company) David Small
2011 It Was the War of the Trenches (Fantagraphics) Jacques Tardi [8][9]
(Drawn & Quarterly) Lynda Barry
(Fantagraphics) Joyce Farmer
Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Terrible Axe Man of New Orleans (NBM Publishing) Rick Geary
(McClelland & Stewart) Scott Chantler
Book 2: Collateral Damage (Fantagraphics) Carol Tyler
2012 (Dark Horse Comics) Jeff Jensen and [10][9]
(Candlewick Press)
Marzi: A Memoir (Vertigo Comics/DC Comics) Marzena Sowa and
Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (Drawn & Quarterly) Shigeru Mizuki
(Villard) GB Tran
2013 (Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion Books for Children) [note 1] [11][9]
(Abrams ComicArts) [note 1] and David Lasky
A Chinese Life (SelfMadeHero) Li Kunwu and , translated by
(Koyama Press) Julia Wertz
(Gotham Books) Ellen Forney
Book 3: A Soldier's Heart (Fantagraphics) Carol Tyler
2014 The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story (/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, , and
Hip Hop Family Tree, Book 1: 1970s-1981 (Fantagraphics) Ed Piskor
March: Book One (Top Shelf Productions) John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
(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
(/) MariNaomi
El Deafo (Amulet Books/Abrams Books) Cece Bell
(Abrams Books)
() edited by and
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
(Fantagraphics) Lucy Knisley
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 3: 1983–1984 (Fantagraphics) Ed Piskor
(Fantagraphics) Bill Griffith
(Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing)
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
(NBM Publishing)
(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]
(Nobrow Press) and , translated by
The Best We Could Do (Abrams ComicArts) Thi Bui
Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary 1852–1903 (IDW Publishing) and , translated by Diana Schutz and
(IDW Publishing) David Foenkinos, , and , translated by
2019 (First Second Books) Box Brown [17][18]
(Gallery 13) Michael Kupperman
(Retrofit Comics/)
(First Second Books)
() Noah Van Sciver
2020s
2020 They Called Us Enemy (Top Shelf Productions) George Takei, , , and [19][20]
(/Random House) Mira Jacob
Grass (Drawn & Quarterly) , translation by Janet Hong
(First Second Books/Macmillan) Lucy Knisley
(Hill & Wang)
My Solo Exchange Diary, vol. 2 (Seven Seas Entertainment) Nagata Kabi, translation
2021 Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams Books) Derf Backderf [21][22]
Big Black: Stand at Attica (Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios) , , and
Dragon Hoops (First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers) Gene Luen Yang
(Oni Press) and Julie Dachez, translation by
(Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company) Joe Sacco
(Drawn & Quarterly) , translation by

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b There was a tie between Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller and The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song.

References[]

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  7. ^ "The 2010 Eisner Award winners include Ed Brubaker, Batwoman illustrator J.H. Williams III, IO9".
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  11. ^ "2013 Eisner Award Nominees Announced, Comic Book Resources".
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  13. ^ "2015 Eisner Award Nominations Announced, Comic Alliance".
  14. ^ "Brilliant Art, Tremendous Stories and Daring Creators: The 2016 Eisner Award Winners [SDCC 2016], Comics Alliance".
  15. ^ "Fantagraphics and Image Comics Lead Eisner Awards Nominations, Syfy Wire".
  16. ^ "Complete List of 2018 Eisner Award Nominees Announced, comicbook.com".
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  18. ^ "Eisner Awards: The Complete Winners List, Hollywood Reporter".
  19. ^ "2020 Eisner Nominees: The Complete List, The Hollywood Reporter".
  20. ^ "SDCC '20: The 2020 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award winners, The Beat".
  21. ^ "2021 Eisner Award Nominees Revealed, Image and Fantagraphics Lead With Most Nominations, comicbook.com".
  22. ^ "ComicCon@Home '21: The 2021 Eisner Award winners, The Beat".
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