| Year |
Title |
Author(s)/Editor(s) |
Publisher |
Result |
Ref. |
|---|
| 1990s |
| 1993 |
Sandman: Season of Mists |
Dave McKean |
DC Comics |
Winner |
[2] |
| The Mythology of an Abandoned City |
Jon J. Muth, The August Company |
Graphitti |
Nominee |
[3] |
| The Ray Bradbury Chronicles |
Dean Motter |
Bantam Books |
| Rubber Blanket |
David Mazzucchelli, Richmond Lewis |
Rubber Blanket Press |
| Signal to Noise |
Dave McKean |
VG Graphics/Dark Horse |
| Skin Deep |
Charles Burns, Dale Crain, Art Spiegelman |
Penguin |
| 1994 |
Marvels |
Comicraft, Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross |
Marvel Comics |
Winner |
[2] |
| Best of Drawn & Quarterly |
Chris Oliveros |
Drawn & Quarterly |
Nominee |
[4] |
| Death: The High Cost of Living |
Neil Gaiman, Chris Bachalo |
DC Comics/Vertigo |
| Love and Rockets X |
Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, Dale Yarger |
Fantagraphics |
| 1995 |
The Acme Novelty Library |
Chris Ware |
Fantagraphics |
Winner |
[2] |
| The Crow |
John Bergin |
Graphitti |
Nominee |
[5] |
| Drawn & Quartlerly |
Drawn & Quartlerly |
Drawn & Quarterly |
| Paul Auster's City of Glass |
Art Spiegelman |
Avon/NeonLit |
| Violent Cases |
Dave McKean |
Kitchen Sink |
| Worlds Collide #1 |
Curtis King |
Milestone |
| 1996 |
The Acme Novelty Library |
Chris Ware |
Fantagraphics |
Winner |
[2] |
| Betty Boop's Sunday Best |
Kevin Lison, Doug Bantz |
Kitchen Sink |
Nominee |
[6] |
| Blab #8 |
Monte Beauchamp |
Kitchen Sink |
| Bone vols. 1 and 2 |
Jeff Smith |
Cartoon Books |
| PalookaVille |
Seth |
Drawn & Quarterly |
| Voodoo Child: The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix deluxe edition |
Bobbi Bongard, Lisa Stone |
Kitchen Sink |
| 1997 |
Acme Novelty Library #7 |
Chris Ware |
Fantagraphics |
Winner |
[2] |
| Black Eye Productions: Berlin, Dear Julia, and The Sands |
Michel Vrana, Jason Lutes, Brian Biggs, Tom Hart |
Black Eye Productions |
Nominee |
[7] |
| Buzz Buzz and Giant THB Parade |
Paul Pope, C. Rambler |
Horse Press |
| Fax from Sarajevo |
Brian Gogolin |
Dark Horse |
| It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken |
Seth |
Drawn & Quarterly |
| Mr. Monster: Origins limited edition |
Richard Bruning, Beatman/Brainstorm |
Graphitti |
| The Sandman: The Wake |
Dave McKean |
DC Comics/Vertigo |
| 1998 |
Kingdom Come, deluxe edition |
Bob Chapman, Georg Brewer |
DC Comics |
Winner |
[2] |
| Isaac Mizrahi Presents the Adventures of Sandee the Supermodel |
Isaac Mizrahi, William Frawley |
Simon & Schuster |
Nominee |
[8] |
| R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book |
Pete Poplaski |
Kitchen Sink |
| The Sandman Dust Covers: The Selected Sandman Covers 1989-1996 |
Dave McKean |
DC Comics/Vertigo |
| Scary Godmother |
Jill Thompson |
Sirius |
| 1999 |
Batman Animated |
Chip Kidd |
HarperCollins |
Winner |
[2] |
| Cages, deluxe edition |
Dave McKean |
Kitchen Sink |
Nominee |
[9] |
| Comics: Between the Panels |
Tom Gould |
Dark Horse |
| Superman: The Dailies |
Chris Shadoian, Evan Metcalf, Pete Poplaski |
DC Comics/Kitchen Sink |
| Superman: The Complete History |
Chip Kidd |
Chronicle |
| 2000s |
| 2000 |
300 |
Mark Cox |
Dark Horse |
Winner |
[10] |
| Cave-In |
Jordan Crane, Tom Devlin, Brian Ralph |
Highwater Books |
Nominee |
[11] |
| Opus, vol. 1 |
Barry Windsor-Smith |
Fantagraphics |
| Sandman: The Dream Hunters |
Georg Brewer, Amie Brockway |
DC Comics/Vertigo |
| Veils |
Georg Brewer |
DC Comics/Vertigo |
| 2001 |
Jimmy Corrigan |
Chris Ware |
Pantheon |
Winner |
[10] |
| Drawn & Quarterly, vol. 3 |
Chris Oliveros |
Drawn & Quarterly |
Nominee |
[12] |
| The Last Lonely Sunday |
Jordan Crane |
Red Ink |
| Little Lit |
Chip Kidd, Art Spiegelman |
Pantheon |
| Wonder Woman: The Complete History |
Chip Kidd |
Chronicle |
| 2002 |
Acme Novelty Library #15 |
Chris Ware |
Fantagraphics |
Winner |
[10] |
| Drawn & Quarterly, vol. 4 |
Chris Oliveros |
Drawn & Quarterly |
Nominee |
[13] |
| Non #5 |
Jordan Crane |
Red Ink |
| OPUS, vol. 2 |
Barry Windsor-Smith |
Fantagraphics |
| Red Star vol 1: The Battle of Kar Dathra's Gate |
Team Red Star |
Image |
| Scatterbrain |
Cary Grazzini, Craig Thompson |
Dark Horse |
| 2003 |
Batman: Nine Lives |
Amie Brockway-Metcalf |
DC Comics |
Winner |
[10] |
| Beg the Question |
Bob Fingerman |
Fantagraphics |
Nominee |
[14] |
| Corpus Monstrum |
Gary Gianni, Jim Keegan |
Hieronymous Press |
| House at Maakies Corner |
Chip Kidd |
Fantagraphics |
| One! Hundred! Demons! |
Lynda Barry |
Sasquatch Books |
| 2004 |
Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross |
Chip Kidd |
Pantheon |
Winner |
[10] |
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Absolute Edition, vol. 1 |
Todd Klein, Alex Sinclair, Larry Berry |
ABC |
Nominee |
[15] |
| Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography |
Chester Brown |
Drawn & Quarterly |
| Project: Telstar |
Chris Pitzer |
AdHouse |
| Quimby the Mouse |
Chris Ware |
Fantagraphics |
| Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions |
Brett Warnock, Robert Goodin[16] |
Top Shelf |
| 2005 |
The Complete Peanuts |
Seth |
Fantagraphics |
Winner |
[10] |
| The Art of Usagi Yojimbo |
Cary Grazzini |
Dark Horse |
Nominee |
[17] |
| Clyde's Fans |
Seth |
Drawn & Quarterly |
| In the Shadow of No Towers |
Art Spiegelman |
Pantheon |
| McSweeney's Quarterly #13 |
Chris Ware |
McSweeney's |
| 2006 |
Acme Novelty Library Annual Report to Shareholders |
Chris Ware |
Pantheon |
Winner |
[10] |
| Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays |
Philippe Ghielmetti |
Sunday Press Books |
Winner |
| Promethea #32 |
J. H. Williams III, Todd Klein |
ABC |
Nominee |
[18] |
| Walt and Skeezix |
Chris Ware |
Drawn & Quarterly |
| Wimbledon Green |
Seth |
Drawn & Quarterly |
| 2007 |
Absolute DC: The New Frontier |
Darwyn Cooke |
DC Comics |
Winner |
[10] |
| Castle Waiting |
Adam Grano |
Fantagraphics |
Nominee |
[19] |
| Lost Girls |
Matt Kindt, Brett Warnock |
Top Shelf |
| Popeye: I Yam What I Yam |
Jacob Covey |
Fantagraphics |
| The Ticking |
Jordan Crane |
Top Shelf |
| 2008 |
Process Recess 2 |
James Jean, Chris Pitzer |
AdHouse |
Winner |
[10] |
| (The Complete) Dream of the Rarebit Fiend |
Ulrich Merkl |
Ulrich Merkl |
Nominee |
[20] |
| Complete Terry and the Pirates |
Dean Mullaney |
IDW |
| Heroes, vol. 1 |
John Roshell/Comicraft |
WildStorm/DC Comics |
| Little Sammy Sneeze |
Philippe Ghielmetti |
AdHouse |
| Sundays with Walt and Skeezix |
Chris Ware |
Sunday Press |
| 2009 |
Hellboy Library Editions |
Cary Grazzini, Mike Mignola |
Dark Horse |
Winner |
[10] |
| Breakdowns: Portraits of the Artist as a Young %@&*! |
Art Spiegelman |
Pantheon |
Nominee |
[21] |
| Comic Book Tattoo |
Tom Muller, Rantz Hoseley |
Image |
| What It Is |
Lynda Barry |
Drawn & Quarterly |
| Willie and Joe |
Jacob Covey |
Fantagraphics |
| 2010s |
| 2010 |
Absolute Justice |
Curtis King, Josh Beatman |
DC Comics |
Winner |
[22] |
| The Brinkley Girls |
Adam Grano |
Fantagraphics |
Nominee |
[23] |
| Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons |
Jacob Covey |
Fantagraphics |
| Life and Times of Martha Washington |
David Nestelle |
Dark Horse |
| Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of OZ |
Philippe Ghielmetti |
Sunday Press |
| Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? |
Neil Egan, Brian Fies |
Abrams ComicArts |
| 2011 |
Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer Artist's Edition |
Randall Dahlk |
IDW |
Winner |
[22] |
| Polly and Her Pals Complete Sunday Comics, vol. 1 |
Lorraine Turner, Dean Mullaney |
IDW |
Nominee |
[24] |
| Return of the Dapper Men |
Todd Klein |
Archaia |
| 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking |
Josh Baker |
TASCHEN |
| Two Generals |
Jennifer Lum |
McClelland & Stewart |
| 2012 |
Jim Henson's Tale of Sand |
Eric Skillman |
Archaia |
Winner |
[22] |
| Genius Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth |
Dean Mullaney |
IDW/Library of American Comics |
Nominee |
[25] |
| Kinky & Cosy |
Nix |
NBM |
| The MAD Fold-In Collection |
Michael Morris |
Chronicle |
| Richard Stark's Parker: The Martini Edition |
Darwyn Cooke |
IDW |
| 2013 |
Building Stories |
Chris Ware |
Pantheon |
Winner |
[22] |
| Dal Tokyo |
Gary Panter, Family Sohn |
Fantagraphics |
Nominee |
[26] |
| David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil Born Again: Artist's Edition |
Randy Dahlk |
IDW |
| Mister Twee Deedle: Raggedy Ann's Sprightly Cousin |
Tony Ong |
Fantagraphics |
| Wizzywig |
Ed Piskor, Chris Ross |
Top Shelf |
| 2014 |
Genius, Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth |
Dean Mullaney |
LOAC/IDW |
Winner |
[22] |
| The Art of Rube Goldberg |
Chad W. Beckerman |
Abrams ComicArts |
Nominee |
[27] |
| Beta Testing the Apocalypse |
Tom Kaczynski |
Fantagraphics |
| The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme: A Panorama |
Joe Sacco, Chin-Yee Lai |
Norton |
| Little Tommy Lost, Book 1 |
Cole Closser |
Koyama |
| 2015 |
Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream |
Jim Rugg |
Locust Moon |
Winner |
[22] |
| Batman: Kelley Jones Gallery Edition |
Josh Beatman, Brainchild Studios |
Graphitti/DC Comics |
Nominee |
[28] |
| The Complete ZAP Comix Box Set |
Tony Ong |
Fantagraphics |
| Street View |
Pascal Rabate |
NBM/Comics Lit |
| Winsor McCay's Complete Little Nemo |
Anna Tina Kessler |
TASCHEN |
| 2016 |
Sandman Gallery Edition |
Josh Beatman, Brainchild Studios |
Graphitti Designs, DC Comics |
Winner |
[22] |
| Beyond the Surface |
Nicolas André, Sam Arthur, Alex Spiro, Camille Pichon |
Nobrow |
Nominee |
[29] |
| The Eternaut |
Tony Ong |
Fantagraphics |
| Eventually Everything Connects |
Loris Lora, Sam Arthur, Alex Spiro, Camille Pichon |
Nobrow |
| King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate |
Dean Mullaney |
IDW |
| Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts |
Chip Kidd |
Abrams ComicArts |
| 2017 |
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye |
Sonny Liew |
Pantheon |
Winner |
[22] |
| The Complete Wimmin's Comix |
Keeli McCarthy |
Fantagraphics |
Nominee |
[30] |
| Frank in the Third Dimension |
Jacob Covey, Charles Barnard |
Fantagraphics |
| The Realist Cartoons |
Jacob Covey |
Fantagraphics |
| Si Lewen's Parade: An Artist's Odyssey |
Art Spiegelman |
Abrams Books |
| 2018 |
Akira 35th Anniversary Edition |
Phil Balsman, Akira Saito |
Kodansha |
Winner |
[22] |
| Celebrating Snoopy |
Spencer Williams, Julie Phillips |
Andrews McMeel |
Nominee |
[31] |
| Monograph |
Chris Ware |
Rizzoli |
| My Favorite Thing Is Monsters |
Jacob Covey |
Fantagraphics |
| WIll Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017 |
John Lind |
Kitchen Sink, Dark Horse |
| 2019 |
Will Eisner's A Contract with God: Curator's Collection |
John Lind |
Kitchen Sink, Dark Horse |
Winner |
[22] |
| A Sea of Love |
Wilfrid Lupano, Grégory Panaccione, Mike Kennedy |
Magnetic Press/Lion Forge |
Nominee |
[32] |
| The Stan Lee Story Collector's Edition |
Josh Baker |
TASCHEN |
| The Temple of Silence: Forgotten Worlds of Herbert Crowley |
Paul Kepple, Max Vandenberg |
Beehive Books |
| Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise Gallery Edition |
Josh Beatman, Brainchild Studios |
Abstract Studio/Graphitti Designs |
| 2020s |
| 2020 |
Making Comics |
Lynda Barry |
Drawn & Quarterly |
Winner |
[33] |
| Grunt: The Art and Unpublished Comics of James Stokoe |
Ethan Kimberling |
Dark Horse |
Nominee |
[34] |
| Krazy Kat: The Complete Color Sundays |
George Herriman, Anna-Tina Kessler |
TASCHEN |
| Logo a Gogo |
Rian Hughes |
Korero Press |
| Madness in Crowds: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady |
Paul Kopple, Alex Bruce |
Beehive Books |
| 2021 |
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist |
Adrian Tomine, Marcos Martin) |
Panel Syndicate |
Winner |
[33] |
| Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California Deluxe Edition |
David Chisholm, Tyler Boss |
Z2 |
Nominee |
[35] |
| Dbury@50: The Complete Digital Doonesbury |
G.B. Trudeau, George Corsillo, Susan McCaslin |
Andrews McMeel |
| J & K |
John Pham |
Fantagraphics |
| Original Art: The Dan Clowes Studio Edition |
Daniel Clowes |
Fantagraphics |
| 2022 |
Marvel Comics Library: Spider-Man Vol. 1: 1962-1964 |
Ralph Macchio |
TASCHEN |
Winner |
[33] |
| The Complete American Gods |
Ethan Kimberling |
Dark Horse |
Nominee |
[36] |
| The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Deluxe Edition |
Justin Allan-Spencer |
Fantagraphics |
| Crashpad |
Gary Panter, Justin Allan-Spencer |
Fantagraphics |
| Machine Gun Kelly's Hotel Diablo |
Tyler Boss |
Z2 |
| Popeye Vol. 1 |
E. C. Segar, Jacob Covey |
Fantagraphics |
| 2023 |
Parker: The Martini Edition — Last Call |
Sean Phillips |
IDW |
Winner |
[33] |
| Francis Rothbart! The Tale of a Fastidious Feral |
Thomas Woodruff, Jacob Covey, Ryan Dinnick |
Fantagraphics |
Nominee |
[37] |
| A Frog in the Fall (and later on) |
Linnea Sterte, Olle Forsslöf, Patrick Crotty |
PEOW Studio |
| Joan Jenn & the Blackhearts 40X40: Bad Reputation/I Love Rock-n-Roll |
Josh Bernstein, Jason Ullmeyer |
Z2 |
| Mazebook Dark Horse Direct Edition |
Tom Muller |
Dark Horse |
| Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album |
Lauryn Ipsum |
Z2 |
| 2024 |
Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein boxed set |
Mike Kennedy |
Magnetic Press |
Winner |
[33] |
| Gratuitous Ninja |
Ronald Wimberly, Chloe Scheffe |
Beehive Books |
Nominee |
[38] |
| Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes |
Donna Askem |
Titan Comics |
| Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind |
Josh Bernstein, Rob Schwager |
Z2 |
| Toilet-bound Hanako-kun First Stall Box Set |
Wendy Chan |
Yen Press |
| 2025 |
David Mazzucchelli's Batman Year One Artist's Edition |
Chip Kidd |
IDW |
Winner |
[33] |
| Bill Ward: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition |
Kayla E. |
Fantagraphics |
Nominee |
[39] |
| Brian Bolland: Batman the Killing Joke and Other Stories & Art, Gallery Edition |
Josh Beatman |
Graphitti Designs |
| One Bite at a Time |
Ryan Claytor |
Elephant Eater Comics |
| Scott Pilgrim 20th Anniversary color hardcover box set |
Patrick Crotty |
Oni Press |
| Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Ultimate History |
Anna-Tina Kessler |
TASCHEN |
| 2026 |
The Art of Manga |
Tessa Lee |
VIZ Media |
|
[40] |
| The Essential Peanuts |
Shawn Dahl, Chip Kidd |
Abrams ComicArts |
|
| Fruits Basket: The Complete Box Set, Collector's Edition #13 |
Wendy Chan |
Yen Press |
|
| Red Light Properties: Unfinished Business |
Dan Goldman |
Kinjin Storylab |
|
| The Marvel Art of Michael Allred, Slipcase Edition |
Kurtis Findlay |
Clover Press |
|
| Weird Science Vol. 1 XXL |
Anna-Tina Kessler |
TASCHEN |
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