Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics, established in 2009, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.
Recipients[edit]
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | David Mazzucchelli | Asterios Polyp | Winner | [1] |
| Joe Sacco | Footnotes in Gaza | Finalist | [1] | |
| Taiyo Matsumoto | GoGo Monster | |||
| Gilbert Hernandez | Luba | |||
| Bryan Lee O’Malley | Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe | |||
| 2010 | Adam Hines | Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One | Winner | [2] |
| Dash Shaw | Bodyworld | Finalist | [2] | |
| Karl Stevens | The Lodger | |||
| Jim Woodring | Weathercraft | |||
| C. Tyler | You’ll Never Know, Book Two: Collateral Damage | |||
| 2011 | Carla Speed McNeil | Finder: Voice | Winner | [3] |
| Dave McKean | Celluloid | Finalist | [3] | |
| Jim Woodring | Congress of the Animals | |||
| Yuichi Yokoyama | Garden | |||
| Joseph Lambert | I Will Bite You! And Other Stories | |||
| 2012 | Sammy Harkham | Everything Together: Collected Stories | Winner | [4][5] |
| Alison Bechdel | Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama | Finalist | [6] | |
| Chris Ware | Building Stories | |||
| Spain Rodriguez | Cruisin’ With the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred Toote | |||
| Leela Corman | Unterzakhn | |||
| 2013 | Ulli Lust | Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life | Winner | [7] |
| Anders Nilsen | The End | Finalist | [8] | |
| Joe Sacco | The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme | |||
| Ben Katchor | Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories | |||
| David B. | Incidents in the Night: Volume 1 | |||
| 2014 | Jaime Hernandez | The Love Bunglers | Winner | [9] |
| Olivier Schrauwen | Arséne Schrauwen | Finalist | [10] | |
| Roz Chast | Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? A Memoir | |||
| Mana Neyestani | An Iranian Metamorphosis | |||
| Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki | This One Summer | |||
| 2015 | Riad Sattouf | Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978–1984 | Winner | [11][12] |
| Maggie Thrash | Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir | Finalist | [11] | |
| Sam Alden | New Construction: Two More Stories | |||
| Carol Tyler | Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father: A Daughter’s Memoir (You’ll Never Know) | |||
| Julian Hanshaw | Tim Ginger | |||
| 2016 | Nick Drnaso | Beverly | Winner | [13] |
| Anna Haifisch | The Artist | Finalist | [14][15] | |
| Jason Shiga | Demon: Volume 1 | |||
| Patrick Kyle | Don’t Come in Here | [14] | ||
| Rokudenashiko | What Is Obscenity: The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and Her Pussy | |||
| 2017 | Leslie Stein | Present | Winner | [16] |
| Connor Willumsen | Anti-Gone | Finalist | [16] | |
| Gabrielle Bell | Everything is Flammable | |||
| Yuichi Yokoyama | Iceland | |||
| Manuele Fior with Jamie Richards (trans.) | The Interview | |||
| 2018 | Tillie Walden | On A Sunbeam | Winner | no |
| Michelle Perez and Remy Boydell | The Pervert | Finalist | [17][18] | |
| Aisha Franz | Shit is Real | |||
| Jérôme Ruillier | The Strange | |||
| Eleanor Davis | Why Art? | |||
| 2019 | Eleanor Davis | The Hard Tomorrow | Winner | [19][20] |
| Keum Suk Gendry-Kim | Grass | Finalist | [21] | |
| Jaime Hernandez | Is This How You See Me? | |||
| Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell | Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me | |||
| Michael DeForge | Leaving Richard's Valley | |||
| 2020 | Bishakh Kumar Som | Apsara Engine | Winner | [22] |
| Kaito | Blue Flag (Vol. 1-4) | Finalist | [23] | |
| Jim Terry | Come Home, Indio: A Memoir | |||
| Ben Passmore | Sports Is Hell | |||
| Yeon-sik Hong with Janet Hong (trans.) | Umma’s Table | |||
| 2021 | R. Kikuo Johnson | No One Else | Winner | [24] |
| Michael DeForge | Heaven No Hell | Finalist | [25] | |
| Hiromi Goto with Ann Xu (illus.) | Shadow Life | |||
| Lee Lai | Stone Fruit | |||
| Keum Suk Gendry-Kim with Janet Hong (trans.) | The Waiting | |||
| 2022 | Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith | Wash Day Diaries | Winner | [26] |
| Alex Graham | Dog Biscuits | Finalist | ||
| Yamada Murasaki (translation by Ryan Holmberg) | Talk to My Back | |||
| Tommi Parrish | Men I Trust | |||
| Noah Van Sciver | Joseph Smith and the Mormons |
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