Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens

Annual literary award for young adult comic books

Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens

Awarded for| Best Publication for Teens
Country| United States
First award| 2008
Most recent winner (2022)| The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor
Website| comic-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

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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

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Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens winners and nominees  Year  | Author(s)  | Title  | Publisher  | Ref.

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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

## References

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