Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens

Annual literary award for young adult comic books
Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens
Awarded forBest Publication for Teens
CountryUnited States
First awarded2008
Most recent winner (2022)The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor
Websitecomic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

The Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books.

History and name change

The award was launched in 2008 as Best Publication for Teens. In 2009 the name was changed to Best Publication for Teens/Tweens for one year. In 2012 the name of the award was changed to 2012: Best Publication for Young Adults (Ages 12–17). In 2013 the name of the award was changed to Best Publication for Teens (ages 13–17). In 2020 the name was changed to Best Publication for Teens.

Winners and nominees

Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens winners and nominees
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

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