by James Hudnall and Robert P. Ortaleza
Nominated. Each year the judges shortlist only a handful of books in each category, so a nomination is a mark of a book the comics world rates among the best of its year.
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Winner2026Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black ResistanceBen Passmore2026 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work winner
Winner2025Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic MemoirTessa Hulls2025 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir winner
Winner2025Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the U.S.Caitlin Cass2025 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work winner
Winner2024Hip Hop Family TreeEd Piskor2024 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint winner
Winner2024Wonder Woman Historia: The AmazonsKelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott2024 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint winner
Winner2022Run: Book OneJohn Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell2022 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir winner