Monday, March 12, 2012

Award Winning Graphic Novels for Adults

  
 Epileptic by David B.
* “One of the greatest graphic novels” - - Publishers Weekly
Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker
* 1991 Harvey Award Winner
One! Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry
* 2003 Eisner Winner
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
 * Time’s 10 Best Books of 2006 & Eisner Award Winner
Black Hole by Charles Burns
 * 2006 Eisner Award Winner
Wilson by Daniel Clowes
 * 2011 Eisner Award Winner
A Contract with God by Will Eisner
 * Widely considered the first major “graphic novel”
Mom’s Cancer by Brian Fies
 * 2005 Eisner Award Winner
The Originals by Dave Gibbons
* 2005 Eisner Award Winner
Fax from Sarajevo by Joe Kubert
* 1997 Eisner and Harvey Award Winner
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
 * 2011 Eisner & Harvey Award Winner
Return of the Dapper Men by Jim McCann
 * 2011 Eisner Award Winner
300 by Frank Miller
 * 1999 Harvey Award Winner
Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
 *2008 Eisner Winner
Watchmen by Alan Moore
 *Time’s 100 Greatest Novels of All-Time
Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar
 * 1995 Harvey Award Winner
Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell
 *2009 Eisner Winner
To Afghanistan and Back by Ted Rall
* American Library Association’s Best Books of 2002
Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson
* 2001 Eisner Award Winner
Too Cool To Be Forgotten by by Alex Robinson
 * 2009 Harvey Award Winner
Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco
 *2001 Eisner Award Winner
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
* 2001 Coup de Coeur Winner
Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower
 * 2001 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
* 1992 Pulitzer Prize Winner
The Golem’s Mighty Swing by James Sturm
* 2002 Harvey Award Winner
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
 * 2001 Eisner Award Winner
Pedro and Me by Judd Winick
 * Winner of six American Library Association Awards -2000
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
 * 2007 Eisner Winner

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for putting this list together! I'm starting to work my way through it now. If you have any other sources for more great graphic novels I would love to hear about it.

    Ammon

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