The Eisner Awards, presented each year at San Diego Comic-Con and named after the cartoonist Will Eisner, are the most prestigious honours in American comics. Best Graphic Album goes to the year’s best new book-length work, and its winners run from Watchmen and The Killing Joke through Blankets, American Born Chinese and Asterios Polyp to Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. This list collects the winning books by year.
Drome
Jesse Lonergan
Lunar New Year Love Story
Gene Luen Yang, LeUyen Pham
Roaming
Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki
The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night
Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda
Monsters
Barry Windsor-Smith
Pulp
Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips
Are You Listening?
Tillie Walden
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Emil Ferris
Wonder Woman: The True Amazon
Jill Thompson
Ruins
Peter Kuper
This One Summer
Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki
The Property
Rutu Modan
Building Stories
Chris Ware
Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand
Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl, Ramón K. Pérez
Wilson
Daniel Clowes
Asterios Polyp
David Mazzucchelli
Swallow Me Whole
Nate Powell
Exit Wounds
Rutu Modan
American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang
Top 10: The Forty-Niners
Alan Moore, Gene Ha
The Originals
Dave Gibbons
Blankets
Craig Thompson
One! Hundred! Demons!
Lynda Barry
The Name of the Game
Will Eisner
Safe Area Goražde
Joe Sacco
Acme Novelty Library #13
Chris Ware
Superman: Peace on Earth
Paul Dini, Alex Ross
Batman & Superman Adventures: World’s Finest
Paul Dini, Joe Staton, Terry Beatty
Fax from Sarajevo
Joe Kubert
Stuck Rubber Baby
Howard Cruse
The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2
P. Craig Russell
A Small Killing
Alan Moore, Oscar Zarate
Signal to Noise
Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean
To the Heart of the Storm
Will Eisner
Elektra Lives Again
Frank Miller, Lynn Varley
Batman: The Killing Joke
Alan Moore, Brian Bolland
Watchmen
Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
