Eisner Awards 2021

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105 books

Eisner Awards are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the comics industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards.

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Best Single Issue

Winner

Sports Is Hell

Ben Passmore, 2021

Nominees

The Burning Hotels

Thomas Lampion, 2020

Other History of the DC Universe

John Ridley, 2021

Best Continuing Series

Winner

Usagi Yojimbo

Stan Sakai, 2016

Nominees

Bitter Root Volume 1: Family Business

David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, 2019

Daredevil By Chip Zdarsky Vol. 1

Chip Zdarsky, 2019

Department of Truth, Vol 1: the End of the World

James Tynion IV, 2021

Gideon Falls Volume 1

Jeff Lemire, 2018

Stillwater By Zdarsky & Pérez Vol. 1: Rage, Rage

Chip Zdarsky, 2021

Best Limited Series

Winner

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen?

Matt Fraction, 2020

Nominees

Barbalien: Red Planet--From the World of Black Hammer

Jeff Lemire, Tate Brombal, 2021

Decorum

Jonathan Hickman, 2021

Far Sector

N K Jemisin, 2021

Strange Adventures

We Live

Inaki Miranda, Roy Miranda, 2021

Best New Series

Winner

Black Widow By Kelly Thompson Vol. 1

The Ties That Bind

Kelly Thompson, 2021

Nominees

Crossover Vol. 1: Kids Love Chains

Donny Cates, 2021

Department of Truth, Vol 1: the End of the World

James Tynion IV, 2021

Killadelphia Volume 1: Sins of the Father

Rodney Barnes, 2020

We Only Find Them When They're Dead

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

Winner

Our Little Kitchen

Jillian Tamaki, 2020

Nominees

Bear

Ben Queen, 2020

Cat Kid Comic Club: From the Creator of Dog Man

Dav Pilkey, 2020

Donut Feed the Squirrels

Mika Song, 2020

Kodi

Jared Cullum, 2020

Lift

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)

Winner

Superman Smashes the Klan

Gene Luen Yang, 2020

Nominees

Doodleville

Chad Sell, 2020

Go With the Flow

Karen Schneemann, Lily Williams, 2020

Mr. Invincible

Pascal Jousselin, 2020

Snapdragon

Twins (Twins #1)

Varian Johnson, 2020

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

Winner

Dragon Hoops

Gene Luen Yang, 2020

Nominees

Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones

Ngozi Ukazu, 2020

Displacement

Kiku Hughes, 2020

Fights

One Boy's Triumph Over Violence

Joel Christian Gill, 2020

A Map to the Sun

Sloane Leong, 2020

When Stars Are Scattered

Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, 2020

Best Humor Publication

Winner

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen?

Matt Fraction, 2020

Nominees

The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski

Noah Van Sciver, 2020

Department of Mind-Blowing Theories

Tom Gauld, 2020

Fangs

Sarah Andersen, 2020

Wendy, Master of Art

Walter Scott, 2020

What If We Were...

Axelle Lenoir, 2020

Best Anthology

Winnner

Menopause

A Comic Treatment

M. K. Czerwiec, 2020

Nominees

Guantanamo Voices

True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison

Sarah Mirk, 2020

Hey, Amateur! Go from Novice to Nailing It in 9 Panels

Shelly Bond, 2020

Now #1

The New Comics Anthology

Various Artists, 2017

Best Reality-Based Work

Winner

Kent State

Four Dead in Ohio

Derf Backderf, 2020

Nominees

Big Black: Stand at Attica

Frank "Big Black" Smith, Jared Reinmuth, 2020

Dragon Hoops

Gene Luen Yang, 2020

Invisible Differences

Julie Dachez, 2020

Paying the Land

Joe Sacco, 2020

Year of the Rabbit

Tian Veasna, 2021

Best Graphic Memoir

Winner

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

Adrian Tomine, 2020

Nominees

Banned Book Club

Kim Hyun Kim, Ryan Estrada, 2020

Dancing after TEN

Vivian Chong, Georgia Webber, 2020

Ginseng Roots

Craig Thompson, 2020

I Don't Know How to Give Birth!

Ayami Kazama, 2020

When Stars Are Scattered

Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, 2020

Best Graphic Album—New

Winner

Pulp

Ed Brubaker, 2020

Nominees

The Book Tour

Andi Watson, 2020

Dragman

Steven Appleby, 2020

Flake

Matthew Dooley, 2020

The Labyrinth

An Existential Odyssey with Jean-Paul Sartre

Ben Argon, 2020

Paul at Home

Michel Rabagliati, 2020

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

Winner

Seeds and Stems

Simon Hanselmann, 2020

Nominees

Black Hammer Library Edition Volume 2

Jeff Lemire, 2020

Criminal Deluxe Edition, Volume 3

Ed Brubaker, 2020

Eight-Lane Runaways

Henry McCausland, 2020

The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski

Noah Van Sciver, 2020

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

Winner

Superman Smashes the Klan

Gene Luen Yang, 2020

Nominees

Constitution Illustrated

R. Sikoryak, 2020

Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Octavia E. Butler, 2020

Sapiens: a Graphic History

The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)

Yuval Noah Harari, 2020

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut, 2009

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

Winner

Goblin Girl

Moa Romanova, 2020

Nominees

Altitude 3954

Oliver Bocquet, 2020

Gamayun Tales I

An Anthology of Modern Russian Folk Tales

Alexander Utkin, 2020

Irena

Book Two: Children of the Ghetto

Jean-David Morvan, Séverine Tréfouël, 2020

When You Look Up

The Winter of the Cartoonist

Paco Roca, 2020

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

Winner

Remina

Junji Ito, 2020

Nominees

I Had That Same Dream Again (Novel)

Yoru Sumino, 2020

I Wish I Could Say Thank You

Yukari Takinami, 2020

A Journal of My Father

Jiro Taniguchi, 2020

Ping Pong, Vol. 1

Taiyo Matsumoto, 2020

Spy x Family, Vol. 1

Tatsuya Endo, 2020

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

Winner

The Flapper Queens

Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age

Trina Robbins, 2020

Nominees

Gross Exaggerations: the Meshuga Comic Strips of Milt Gross

Milt Gross, 2020

The George Herriman Library

Krazy & Ignatz 1919–1921

George Herriman, 2020

Little Debbie and the Second Coming of Elmo

Daily Comic Strips August 1960-September 1961

Frank Young, 2019

Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comics Strips Vol. 7

Pockets Full of Pie

Walt Kelly, 2020

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

Winner

The Complete Hate

Peter Bagge, 2020

Nominees

Art Young's Inferno

Art Young, 2020

Atlas at War!

Michael J. Vassallo, 2020

Corto Maltese: Ballad of the Salty Sea

Hugo Pratt, 2020

Little Lulu: The Fuzzythingus Poopi

John Stanley, 2020

Man and Superman

and Other Stories

Harvey Kurtzman, Al Feldstein, 2020

Best Comics-Related Book

Winner

Invisible Men: Black Artists of the Golden Age of Comics

Ken Quattro, 2020

Nominees

American Daredevil

Comics, Communism, and the Battles of Lev Gleason

Brett Dakin, 2020

Ditko Shrugged: The Uncompromising Life of the Artist Behind Spider-Man

David Currie, 2019

Drawing Fire: The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin

Todd Depastino, 2020

The History of EC Comics

Grant Geissman, 2020

Masters of British Comic Art

David Roach, 2020