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 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
|