Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir

The Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir is an award for "creative achievement" in non-fiction American comic books.

Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir
Awarded for	Best Graphic Memoir
Country	United States
First awarded	2021
Most recent winner (2023)	Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Website	www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

History

Up until 2020 memoirs were included in the category for Best Reality-Based Work, but in 2021 the judges created a new award as they felt there were too many high-quality non-fiction comics for one award.

Winners and nominees

Year	Title	Authors	Ref.
2020s
2021	The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist (Drawn & Quarterly)	Adrian Tomine
	Banned Book Club (Iron Circus Comics)	Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, and Ko Hyung-Ju
	Dancing After TEN: A Graphic Memoir (Fantagraphics)	Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber
	Ginseng Roots (Uncivilized Books)	Craig Thompson
	I Don't Know How to Give Birth! (Yen Press)	Ayami Kazama, translated by Julie Goniwich
	When Stars Are Scattered (Dial Books)	Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
2023	Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly)	Kate Beaton
	Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press)	Catherine Pioli, translated by J.T. Mahany
	It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth: An Auto-Bio-Graphic-Novel (Image)	Zoe Thorogood
	So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship (First Second/Macmillan)	Sophie Lambda
	Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (Scholastic Graphix)	Lewis Hancox