Year | Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Ref. |
2000s |
2008 | Nick Abadzis | Laika | First Second Books | [1] |
Jacob Chabot | The Mighty Skullboy Army | Dark Horse Comics | [1] |
Scott Chantler | The Annotated Northwest Passage | Oni Press | |
Manny Trembley and Eric A. Anderson | PX! Book One: A Girl and Her Panda | Shadowline/Image Comics | |
James Sturm and Rich Tommaso | Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow | Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion Books for Children | |
2009 | Neil Gaiman, adapted by P. Craig Russell | Coraline | HarperCollins Children’s Books | [2] |
Chris Schweizer | Crogan’s Vengeance | Oni Press | [3] |
Holly Black and Ted Naifeh | The Good Neighbors, Book 1: Kin | Scholastic Graphix |
Shannon Hale & Dean Hale and Nathan Hale | Rapunzel’s Revenge | Bloomsbury Children’s Books |
Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki | Skim | Groundwood Books |
2010s |
2010 | Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson | Beasts of Burden | Dark Horse Comics | [4][5] |
Troy Little | Angora Napkin | IDW Publishing | [6] |
Eric Heuvel | A Family Secret | Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Anne Frank House |
Kevin Cannon | Far Arden | Top Shelf Productions |
Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura | I Kill Giants | Image Comics |
2011 | Raina Telgemeier | Smile | Scholastic Graphix | [5] |
Doug TenNapel | Ghostopolis | Scholastic Graphix | [7] |
Barry Deutsch | Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword | Amulet Books |
Jim McCann and Janet K. Lee | Return of the Dapper Men | Archaia Entertainment |
G. Neri and Randy DuBurke | Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty | Lee & Low Books |
2012 | Vera Brosgol | Anya's Ghost | First Second Books | [5] |
Matt Phelan | Around the World | Candlewick Press | [8] |
Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham | Level Up | First Second Books |
Paul Kupperberg, Fernando Ruiz, Pat Kennedy & Tim Kennedy, Norm Breyfogle, et al. | Life With Archie | Archie Comics |
G. Willow Wilson and David López | Mystic | Marvel Comics |
2013 | Madeleine L'Engle, adapted by Hope Larson | A Wrinkle in Time | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | [5] |
Meredith Gran | Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens | KaBOOM! | [9] |
Joseph Lambert | Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller | Center for Cartoon Studies/Disney Hyperion |
Ryan Inzana | Ichiro | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Josh Tierney, et al. | Spera, vol. 1 | Archaia Entertainment |
2014 | Paul Pope | Battling Boy | First Second Books | [5][10] |
Matt Phelan | Bluffton: My Summers with Buster | Candlewick Press | [10] |
Gene Luen Yang | Boxers and Saints | First Second Books |
Sheila Keenan and Nathan Fox | Dogs of War | Scholastic Graphix |
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell | March, Book One | Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing |
Jordan Mechner, LeUyen Pham, and Alex Puviland | Templar | First Second Books |
2015 | Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, ND Stevenson, and Brooke A. Allen | Lumberjanes | Boom! Box | [5] |
Tony Sandoval | Doomboy | Magnetic Press | [11] |
Jimmy Gownley | The Dumbest Idea Ever | Scholastic Graphix |
Jeff Parker and Sandy Jarrell | Meteor Men | Oni Press |
Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew | The Shadow Hero | First Second Books |
Farel Dalrymple | The Wrenchies | First Second Books |
2016 | Jillian Tamaki | SuperMutant Magic Academy | Drawn & Quarterly | [5][12] |
Svetlana Chmakova | Awkward | Yen Press | [12] |
Don Brown | Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell | March, Book Two | |
Max de Radiguès | Moose | Conundrum Press |
Ben Towle | Oyster War | Oni Press |
2017 | Ryan North and Erica Henderson | The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl | Marvel Comics | [5] |
John Allison | Bad Machinery, vol. 5: The Case of the Fire Inside | Oni Press |
Hope Larson and Rafael Albuquerque | Batgirl | DC Comics |
Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm | Jughead | Archie Comics |
Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda | Monstress | Image Comics |
Jessica Abel | Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars | Papercutz/Super Genius |
2018 | Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda | Monstress | Image Comics | [5] |
Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi | The Dam Keeper | First Second Books/Tonko House | [13] |
Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón K. Pérez | Jane | Archaia Entertainment |
Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou | Louis Undercover | Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press |
Tillie Walden | Spinning | First Second Books |
2019 | Jen Wang | The Prince and the Dressmaker | First Second Books | [5][14] |
Hope Larson | All Summer Long | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | [15] |
Erin Nations | Gumballs | Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing |
Skottie Young and Jorge Corona | Middlewest | Image Comics |
Cat Seaton and Kit Seaton | Norroway, Book 1: The Black Bull of Norroway | Image Comics |
Tony Sandoval translated Lucas Marangon | Watersnakes | Magnetic Press/Lion Forge Comics |
2020s |
2020 | Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell | Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me | First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers | [16] |
Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh | Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass | DC Comics | [16][17] |
Ebony Flowers | Hot Combs | Drawn & Quarterly |
Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw | Kiss Number 8 | First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers |
MK Reed, Greg Means, and Matt Wiegle | Penny Nichols | Top Shelf Productions |
2021 | Gene Luen Yang | Dragon Hoops | First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers | [18] |
Ngozi Ukazu | Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones | First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers | [18][19] |
Kiku Hughes | Displacement | First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers |
Joel Christian Gill | Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence | Oni Press |
Sloane Leong | A Map to the Sun | First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers |
Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed | When Stars Are Scattered | Dial Books |
2022 | Shing Yin Khor | The Legend of Auntie Po | Kokila/Penguin Random House | [20] |
Marc Bernardin and Ariela Kristantina | Adora and the Distance | ComiXology | [20] |
David Bowles and Raúl the Third | Clockwork Curandera, vol. 1: The Witch Owl Parliament | Tu Books/Lee & Low Books |
Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos | Strange Academy | Marvel Comics |
James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas | Wynd | Boom! Box |