Publishers Weekly Best Books - Comics (Awarded by Publishers Weekly)

Awards List

2023

Blood of the Virgin
(*)
Sammy Harkham

Impossible People
(*)
Julia Wertz

Roaming
(*)
Jillian Tamaki

Monica
(*)
Daniel Clowes

2022

The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere.
(*)
James Spooner

Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank
(*)
Eric Orner

A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun
(*)
Kate Gavino

Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories
(*)
Megan Kelso

2021

And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir
(*)
Margaret Kimball

The Secret to Superhuman Strength
(*)
Alison Bechdel

Stone Fruit
(*)
Lee Lai

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
(*)
Rebecca Hall

No One Else
(*)
R. Kikuo Johnson

The Waiting
(*)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

2020

Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
(*)
Derf Backderf

Paying the Land
(*)
Joe Sacco

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
(*)
Adrian Tomine

Come Home, Indio: A Memoir
(*)
Jim Terry

2019

Rusty Brown
(*)
Chris Ware

Award Categories

Comics

Fiction

Middle Grade

Mystery/Thriller

Picture Books

Romance

SF/Fantasy/Horror

Top 10

Young Adult

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018