The Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir is an award for "creative achievement" in non-fiction American comic books.
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 2020s 2021 (Drawn & Quarterly) Banned Book Club (Iron Circus Comics) , Ryan Estrada, and Ko Hyung-Ju Dancing after TEN (Fantagraphics) and Georgia Webber Ginseng Roots (Uncivilized Books) I Don't Know How to Give Birth! (Yen Press) , translated by Julie Goniwich When Stars Are Scattered (Dial Books) and Omar Mohamed2022Run: Book One (Abrams ComicArts), Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate PowellFactory Summers (Drawn & Quarterly), translated by Helge Dascher and Rob AspinallParenthesis (Top Shelf), translated by Edward Gauvin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Alison BechdelSave it for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest (Abrams ComicArts)Nate Powell 2023 Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly) Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story (Graphic Mundi/Penn State University Press) , translated by J.T. Mahany It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth: An Auto-Bio-Graphic-Novel () So Much for Love: How I Survived a Toxic Relationship (First Second/Macmillan) Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (Scholastic Graphix) 2024 Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam (First Second/Macmillan) (First Second/Macmillan) In Limbo (First Second/Macmillan) (Oni Press) , translated by Maria Schroderus Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me about Life, Death, and Hope (Scholastic Graphix) (Henry Holt) 2025 Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Degrees of Separation: A Decade North of 60 (Conundrum) (Conundrum) I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir (Pantheon) Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love (Arsenal Pulp Press) 2026It Rhymes with TakeiMy Life in 24 Frames Per SecondRintaro, translated by Montana KanePrecious RubbishRaised by GhostsTalking to My Father's Ghost: An Almost True Story
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