Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

 winners

• Maus
  Maus
  Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman, is a biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. It alternates between descriptions of Vladek's life in Poland before and during the Second World War and Vladek's later life in the Rego Park neighborhood of...
  
   aka. Maus: A Survivor's Tale — My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
  Art Spiegelman
  Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...
  
   (non-fiction; ISBN 0-679-40641-7)

Hugo Award

Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

 winners

• 1988: Watchmen
  Watchmen
  Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form...
  
   by Alan Moore
  Alan Moore
  Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
  
   and Dave Gibbons
  Dave Gibbons
  Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...
  
   (ISBN 0-930289-23-4), category "Other Forms"

• 2009: Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones by Kaja
  Kaja Foglio
  Kaja Foglio is a Seattle-based writer, artist, and publisher. Foglio co-won the first Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story in 2009 for Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones, and has continued to co-win two Hugo Awards the following years.-Early life and education:Born in...
  
   & Phil Foglio
  Phil Foglio
  Philip "Phil" Foglio is an American cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy work.-Early life and career:...
  
  , art by Phil Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment), Best Graphic Novel

• 2010: Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm by Kaja & Phil Foglio, art by Phil Foglio, colors by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment), Best Graphic Story

World Fantasy Award

World Fantasy Award

The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...

 winner

• The Sandman: Dream Country contains a story by Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
   and Charles Vess
  Charles Vess
  Charles Vess is an American fantasy artist and comic-book illustrator who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales. His illustrations are strongly influenced by the work of artists and illustrators such as Arthur Rackham and Alphonse Mucha...
  
   that earned this award.

Ignatz Award winners

• Black Hole
  Black Hole (comics)
  Black Hole was a twelve-issue comic book limited series written and illustrated by Charles Burns and published first by Kitchen Sink Press and then Fantagraphics...
  
   by Charles Burns
  Charles Burns (cartoonist)
  Charles Burns is an American cartoonist, illustrator and film director.-Life:Burns is renowned for his meticulous, high-contrast and creepy artwork and stories. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, painter Susan Moore, and their two daughters Ava and Rae-Rae.His father was an oceanographer for...
  
  
• Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man by John Porcellino
  John Porcellino
  John Porcellino is a popular creator of minicomics. Porcellino's self-published, photocopied, mostly autobiographical series King-Cat Comics is among the best-known and longest-running minicomics produced today, begun when Porcellino was a teenager and still going strong.Porcellino's work consists...
  
  
• Tricked by Alex Robinson
  Alex Robinson
  Alex Robinson is an award-winning American comic book writer and artist.-Early life:Alex Robinson grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York, and graduated from Yorktown High School in 1987...
  
  
• Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
  Marjane Satrapi
  Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author...
  
  
• Blankets (graphic novel)
  Blankets (graphic novel)
  Blankets is an autobiographical graphic novel by Craig Thompson, published in 2003 by Top Shelf Productions. As a coming-of-age autobiography, the book tells the story of Thompson's childhood in an Evangelical Christian family, his first love, and his early adulthood...
  
   by Craig Thompson
  Craig Thompson
  Craig Matthew Thompson is a graphic novelist best known for his books Good-Bye, Chunky Rice , Blankets , Carnet de Voyage and Habibi . Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, two Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards...
  
  
• Three Fingers by Rich Koslowski
• From Hell
  From Hell
  From Hell is a comic book series by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell, originally published from 1991 to 1996, speculating upon the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper. The title is taken from the first words of the "From Hell" letter, which some authorities believe was an authentic...
  
   by Alan Moore
  Alan Moore
  Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
  
   and Eddie Campbell
  Eddie Campbell
  Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell , Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus , a wry adventure...
  
  
• Cages (comic series)
  Cages (comic series)
  Cages is a ten-issue comic book limited series by Dave McKean between 1990 and 1996, later collected as a single volume.Cages is a story about artists, belief, creativity and cats, illustrated in a stripped-down pen and ink style influenced by José Muñoz and Lorenzo Mattotti.-Publication...
  
   by Dave McKean
  Dave McKean
  David McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician....
  
  
• Ghost World
  Ghost World
  Ghost World is a comic book written and illustrated by Daniel Clowes. It was originally serialized in issues #11 through #18 of Clowes's comic book series Eightball, and was first published in book form in 1997 by Fantagraphics Books...
  
   by Daniel Clowes
  Daniel Clowes
  Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books....
  
  
• It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken
  It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken
  It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken is a graphic novel by Canadian cartoonistSeth, published in collected form by Drawn and Quarterly in 1996. It was originally serialized in issues four through nine of Seth's comic book series Palookaville from December 1993 to June 1996...
  
   by Seth
  Seth (cartoonist)
  Seth is the pen name of Gregory Gallant , a Canadian comic book artist and writer. He is best known for comics such as Palookaville.Born in Clinton, Ontario, Seth attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto...
  
  
• Same Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim

Kirby Award

Kirby Award

The Jack Kirby Award for achievement in comic books was presented from 1985-1987 by Amazing Heroes magazine, and managed by Fantagraphics employee Dave Olbrich...

 for Best Graphic Album winners

• Beowulf
  Beowulf
  Beowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single...
  
   (First Comics
  First Comics
  First Comics was an American comic-book publisher that was active from 1983–1991, known for titles like American Flagg!, Grimjack, Nexus, Badger, Dreadstar, and Jon Sable...
  
  )
• The Rocketeer, by Dave Stevens
  Dave Stevens
  Dave Stevens was an American illustrator and comics artist. He is most famous for creating The Rocketeer comic book and film character, and for his pin-up style "glamour art" illustrations, especially of model Bettie Page...
  
   (Eclipse Comics
  Eclipse Comics
  Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1978, it published the first graphic novel intended for the newly created comic book specialty store market...
  
  )
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
  Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
  Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a four-issue comic book limited series written and drawn by Frank Miller, originally published by DC Comics under the title Batman: The Dark Knight in 1986. When the issues were released in a collected edition later that year, the story title for the first issue...
  
  , by Frank Miller
  Frank Miller (comics)
  Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
  
   and Klaus Janson
  Klaus Janson
  Klaus Janson is a German-born American comic book artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies...
  
   (DC
  DC Comics
  DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
  
  )

Original graphic novels

• Acme Novelty Library #13, by Chris Ware
  Chris Ware
  Franklin Christenson Ware , is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, widely known for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he resides in the Chicago area, Illinois...
  
  
• Batman: The Killing Joke
  Batman: The Killing Joke
  Batman: The Killing Joke is an influential one-shot superhero graphic novel written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland. First published by DC Comics in 1988, it has remained in print since then, and has also been reprinted as part of the trade paperback DC Universe: The Stories of Alan...
  
   by Alan Moore
  Alan Moore
  Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
  
   and Brian Bolland
  Brian Bolland
  Brian Bolland is a British comics artist, known for his meticulous, detailed linework and eye-catching compositions. Best known in the UK as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology 2000 AD, he spearheaded the 'British Invasion' of the American comics industry, and in...
  
  
• Batman: War on Crime by Paul Dini
  Paul Dini
  Paul Dini is an American writer and producer who works in the television and comic book industries. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics animated series, including Star Wars: Ewoks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated...
  
   and Alex Ross
  Alex Ross
  Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross is an American comic book painter, illustrator, and plotter. He is praised for his realistic, human depictions of classic comic book characters. Since the 1990s he has done work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an...
  
  
• Batman & Superman Adventures: World's Finest by Paul Dini
  Paul Dini
  Paul Dini is an American writer and producer who works in the television and comic book industries. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics animated series, including Star Wars: Ewoks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated...
  
  , Joe Staton
  Joe Staton
  Joe Staton is an American illustrator and writer of comic books.-Career:Staton started his work with Charlton Comics in 1971 and gained notability as the artist of the super-hero book E-Man...
  
   and Terry Beatty
  Terry Beatty
  Terry Beatty is an artist who has worked as a penciler and inker in the comic book industry.-Career:Beatty is the artist and co-creator of the long-running private eye series, Ms. Tree...
  
  
• Blankets
  Blankets (graphic novel)
  Blankets is an autobiographical graphic novel by Craig Thompson, published in 2003 by Top Shelf Productions. As a coming-of-age autobiography, the book tells the story of Thompson's childhood in an Evangelical Christian family, his first love, and his early adulthood...
  
   by Craig Thompson
  Craig Thompson
  Craig Matthew Thompson is a graphic novelist best known for his books Good-Bye, Chunky Rice , Blankets , Carnet de Voyage and Habibi . Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, two Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards...
  
  
• The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
  The Cartoon History of the Universe
  The Cartoon History of the Universe is a book series about the history of the world. It is written and illustrated by American cartoonist, professor, and mathematician Larry Gonick. The final two volumes, published in 2007 and 2009, are named The Cartoon History of the Modern World volumes one and...
  
   by Larry Gonick
  Larry Gonick
  Larry Gonick is a cartoonist best known for The Cartoon History of the Universe, a history of the world in comic book form, which he has been publishing in installments since 1977...
  
  
• Ed the Happy Clown
  Ed the Happy Clown
  Ed the Happy Clown is the title character of an award-winning and influential comic book story by the Canadian cartoonist, Chester Brown. It is dark and surreal, and largely improvised, having started from a series of unrelated short comic stories that Brown soon went on to tie together...
  
   by Chester Brown
  Chester Brown
  Chester William David Brown , is an award-winning, best-selling Canadian alternative cartoonist and, since 2008, the Libertarian Party of Canada's candidate for the riding of Trinity-Spadina in Toronto, Canada....
  
  
• Elektra Lives Again
  Elektra (comics)
  Elektra Natchios, usually referred to only by her first name Elektra, is a fictional character in publications from Marvel Comics.Elektra is a kunoichi – female ninja assassin – of Greek descent. She wields a pair of bladed sai as her trademark weapon. She is a love interest of the superhero...
  
   by Frank Miller
  Frank Miller (comics)
  Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
  
  
• Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde Vol. 2, by Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
  
   and P. Craig Russell
  P. Craig Russell
  Philip Craig Russell , also known as P. Craig Russell, is an American comic book writer, artist, and illustrator. His work has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards...
  
  
• Fax from Sarajevo
  Fax from Sarajevo
  Fax from Sarajevo is a graphic novel by veteran American comic book artist Joe Kubert. It was initially released as a 207-page hardcover book and two years later as a 224-page trade paperback....
  
   by Joe Kubert
  Joe Kubert
  Joe Kubert is an American comic book artist who went on to found The Kubert School. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman...
  
   (ISBN 1-56971-346-4)
• Fun Home
  Fun Home
  Fun Home is a 2006 graphic memoir by American writer Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, USA, focusing on her complex relationship with her father...
  
   by Alison Bechdel
  Alison Bechdel
  Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Golem's Mighty Swing by James Sturm
  James Sturm
  James Sturm is an American cartoonist, Xeric Award-winner, and co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont...
  
   (ISBN 1-896597-71-8)
• Last Day in Vietnam by Will Eisner
  Will Eisner
  William Erwin "Will" Eisner was an American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential series The Spirit; for his use of comics as an...
  
  
• The Name of the Game by Will Eisner
• One! Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry
  Lynda Barry
  Lynda Barry is an American cartoonist and author. One of the most successful non-mainstream American cartoonists, Barry is perhaps best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. Barry's cartoons often view family life from the perspective of pre-teen girls from the wrong side of the...
  
  
• The Originals by Dave Gibbons
  Dave Gibbons
  Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...
  
  
• Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar
  Harvey Pekar
  Harvey Lawrence Pekar was an American underground comic book writer, music critic and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name.Pekar described American Splendor as "an...
  
  , Joyce Brabner and Frank Stack
  Frank Stack
  Frank Huntington Stack is an American underground cartoonist. Working under the name Foolbert Sturgeon to avoid persecution for his work while living in the bible belt, Stack published what is considered by many to be the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus, in 1962.He graduated...
  
   (non-fiction; ISBN 1-56858-011-8)
• Safe Area Goražde
  Safe Area Goražde
  Safe Area Goražde is a journalistic comic book about the Bosnian War, written by Joe Sacco. It was published in 2000.The book describes the author's experiences during four months spent in Bosnia in 1994-1995, and is based on conversations with Bosniaks trapped within the enclave of Goražde.Sacco...
  
   by Joe Sacco
  Joe Sacco
  Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American comics artist and journalist. He achieved international fame through the 1996 American Book Award-winning Palestine, and his graphic novel on the Bosnian War, Safe Area Goražde.- Biography :...
  
   (non-fiction; ISBN 1-56097-470-2)
• Signal to Noise by Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
   and Dave McKean
  Dave McKean
  David McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician....
  
  
• A Small Killing
  A Small Killing
  A Small Killing is a graphic novel by Alan Moore, published in 1991. It was illustrated by Oscar Zarate. The book has been published by a number of companies and in 2003 it was reprinted by Avatar Press.-Publication history:...
  
   by Alan Moore and Oscar Zarate
  Oscar Zarate
  Oscar Zarate is an Argentine comic book artist and illustrator. He has drawn for the UK comics magazine Crisis. He is probably best known in the United States as the artist for Alan Moore's graphic novel A Small Killing. He has drawn an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello...
  
   (ISBN 1-59291-009-2)
• Stuck Rubber Baby
  Stuck Rubber Baby
  Stuck Rubber Baby is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Howard Cruse, first published in 1995. Set mostly in the 1960s in the Southern United States, in the midst of the Black Civil Rights movement, it deals with homosexuality and racism....
  
   by Howard Cruse
  Howard Cruse
  Howard Cruse is an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics.Cruse was raised in Springville, Alabama, the son of a preacher and a homemaker. His earliest published cartoons were in The Baptist Student when he was in high school. His work later appeared...
  
  
• Superman: Peace on Earth
  Superman
  Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
  
   by Paul Dini and Alex Ross
• To the Heart of the Storm by Will Eisner
• Torso by Brian Michael Bendis
  Brian Michael Bendis
  Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim for his self-published, Image Comics and Marvel Comics work, and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics, with his books selling consistently highly for over a...
  
   and Marc Andreyko
  Marc Andreyko
  Marc Andreyko is a comic book and screenplay writer, known for writing the 2000s ongoing series Manhunter for DC Comics...
  
  
• Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
  Scott McCloud
  Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium...
  
   (non-fiction)
• Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker
  Kyle Baker
  Kyle John Baker is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man....
  
  
• You Are Here by Kyle Baker

Comic-book compilations

• Astonishing X-Men: Gifted
  Astonishing X-Men
  Astonishing X-Men is the name of three X-Men comic book series from Marvel Comics, the first two of which were limited series. The ongoing series began in 2004, with its first run written by Joss Whedon and art by John Cassaday. It was then written by Warren Ellis with art by Phil Jimenez. Daniel...
  
   by Joss Whedon
  Joss Whedon
  Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon is an American screenwriter, executive producer, director, comic book writer, occasional composer and actor, founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-creator of Bellwether Pictures...
  
   and John Cassaday
  John Cassaday
  John Cassaday is an American comic book artist and writer, born in Fort Worth, Texas and currently residing in New York City. He is known for having a high level of precision and realism in his work....
  
  
• Astro City: Life in the Big City
  Astro City
  Kurt Busiek's Astro City is a comic book series centered on a fictional American city of that name. Written by Kurt Busiek, the series is co-created and illustrated by Brent Anderson with character designs and painted covers by Alex Ross...
  
   by Kurt Busiek
  Kurt Busiek
  Kurt Busiek is an American comic book writer notable for his work on the Marvels limited series, his own title Astro City, and his four-year run on Avengers.-Early life:...
  
   and Brent Anderson
  Brent Anderson
  Brent Anderson is an American comic book artist known for his work on X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills and the comic book series Astro City.- Early life :...
  
  
• Batman: Black and White by various creators, ed. by Bob Kahan (ISBN 1-56389-332-0)
• Batman: Black & White, Volume Two by various creators, ed. by Mark Chiarello and Nick J. Napolitano (ISBN 1-56389-917-5)
• Batman: Dark Victory
  Batman: Dark Victory
  Batman: Dark Victory is a 14-part comic book limited series written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by Tim Sale. The series is a sequel to Batman: The Long Halloween and was originally published from 1999 to 2000 by DC Comics. The series takes place primarily during the third/fourth year of Batman's career...
  
   by Jeph Loeb
  Jeph Loeb
  Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III is an American film and television writer, producer and award-winning comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series Smallville and Lost, writer for the films Commando and Teen Wolf and was a writer and Co-Executive Producer on the NBC TV show Heroes from its...
  
   and Tim Sale
  Tim Sale (artist)
  Tim Sale is an American Eisner Award-winning comic book artist. He is primarily known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb.-Early life:...
  
   (ISBN 1-56389-868-3)
• Batman: The Long Halloween
  Batman: The Long Halloween
  Batman: The Long Halloween is a 13-issue comic book limited series written by Jeph Loeb with art by Tim Sale. It was originally published by DC Comics in 1996 and 1997. It was inspired by the three Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Specials by the same creative team...
  
   Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale (ISBN 1-56389-469-6)
• Batman Adventures: Dangerous Dames and Demons by Paul Dini
  Paul Dini
  Paul Dini is an American writer and producer who works in the television and comic book industries. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics animated series, including Star Wars: Ewoks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated...
  
  , Bruce Timm
  Bruce Timm
  Bruce Walter Timm is an American character designer, animator and producer. He is also a writer and artist working in comics, and is known for his contributions building the modern DC Comics animated franchise, the DC animated universe.-Animation:Timm's early career in animation was varied; he...
  
  , and others
• Blacksad 2
  Blacksad
  Blacksad is a comic album series created by Spanish authors Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido , and published by French publisher Dargaud. Though both authors are Spanish, their main target audience for Blacksad is the French market and thus they publish all Blacksad volumes in French first;...
  
   by Juanjo Guardno and Juan Diaz Canales
  Juan Díaz Canales
  Juan Díaz Canales is a Spanish comics artist and an animated film director, known as the co-creator of Blacksad.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Complete Bone Adventures (1994; ISBN 0-9636609-2-6), reissued in color as Bone: Out from Boneville (2005; ISBN 0-439-70640-8), by Jeff Smith
  Jeff Smith (cartoonist)
  Jeff Smith is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the self-published comic book series Bone. His current series, RASL, focuses on an art thief who hops through dimensional barriers, hiding out on various parallel worlds.-Early life and education:Jeff Smith was born in McKees...
  
  
• Bone: One Volume Edition by Jeff Smith (ISBN 1-888963-14-X)
• Cages by Dave McKean
  Dave McKean
  David McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician....
  
  
• Cerebus: Flight by Dave Sim
  Dave Sim
  David Victor Sim is an award-winning Canadian comic book writer and artist.A pioneer of self-published comics and creators' rights, Sim is best known as the creator of Cerebus the Aardvark, a comic book published from 1977 to 2004, which chronicles its main character in a 6,000-page self-contained...
  
   and Gerhard
• From Hell
  From Hell
  From Hell is a comic book series by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell, originally published from 1991 to 1996, speculating upon the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper. The title is taken from the first words of the "From Hell" letter, which some authorities believe was an authentic...
  
   by Alan Moore
  Alan Moore
  Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
  
   and Eddie Campbell
  Eddie Campbell
  Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell , Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus , a wry adventure...
  
  
• Hellboy: Seed of Destruction
  Hellboy: Seed of Destruction
  Hellboy: Seed of Destruction is the first Hellboy comic book mini-series, published by Dark Horse Comics. It was conceived and illustrated by Mike Mignola and scripted by John Byrne.This was, in part, the basis for the first Hellboy motion picture....
  
   by Mike Mignola
  Mike Mignola
  Michael Joseph "Mike" Mignola is an American comic book artist and writer who created the comic book series Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics. He has worked for animation projects such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, The Amazing Screw-On Head.-Career:Mignola...
  
  
• Hellboy: The Wolves of Saint August by Mike Mignola
• Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
  Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
  Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth is a widely acclaimed graphic novel by Chris Ware, published in 2000. The story was previously serialized in the pages of Ware's comic book Acme Novelty Library, between 1995 and 2000 and previous to that, in the alternative Chicago weekly New City.-Plot...
  
   by Chris Ware
  Chris Ware
  Franklin Christenson Ware , is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, widely known for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he resides in the Chicago area, Illinois...
  
  
• Kings in Disguise
  Kings in Disguise
  Kings in Disguise is a six-issue comic book limited series, published in 1988 by Kitchen Sink Press. It was created by writer Jim Vance and artist Dan Burr. It is considered as one of the hundred best comic book stories of all time, and has been hailed by Alan Moore, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman...
  
   by James Vance
  James Vance (comics)
  James Vance is an American comic book writer, author and playwright, best known for his work from Kitchen Sink Press and in particular the lauded Kings in Disguise.-Biography:James Vance was born on April 2, 1953...
  
   and Dan Burr. (ISBN 0-393-32848-1)
• Lone Wolf and Cub
  Lone Wolf and Cub
  is a manga created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima. First published in 1970, the story was adapted into six films starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, four plays, a television series starring Yorozuya Kinnosuke, and is widely recognized as an important and influential work.Lone Wolf and Cub...
  
   by Kazuo Koike
  Kazuo Koike
  is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur.-Biography:Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series....
  
   and Goseki Kojima
  Goseki Kojima
  was a Japanese manga artist.-Biography:Kojima was born on the same day as Osamu Tezuka. After getting out of junior high school, Kojima painted advertising posters for movie theaters as his source of income....
  
  
• Louis Riel
  Louis Riel
  Louis David Riel was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. He led two resistance movements against the Canadian government and its first post-Confederation Prime Minister, Sir John A....
  
   by Chester Brown
  Chester Brown
  Chester William David Brown , is an award-winning, best-selling Canadian alternative cartoonist and, since 2008, the Libertarian Party of Canada's candidate for the riding of Trinity-Spadina in Toronto, Canada....
  
  
• Marvels
  Marvels
  Marvels is a four-issue comic book limited series written by Kurt Busiek, painted by Alex Ross and edited by Marcus McLaurin, and published by Marvel Comics in 1994....
  
   by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross
  Alex Ross
  Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross is an American comic book painter, illustrator, and plotter. He is praised for his realistic, human depictions of classic comic book characters. Since the 1990s he has done work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an...
  
  
• Maus II
  Maus
  Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman, is a biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. It alternates between descriptions of Vladek's life in Poland before and during the Second World War and Vladek's later life in the Rego Park neighborhood of...
  
   a.k.a. Maus: A Survivor's Tale — And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
  Art Spiegelman
  Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...
  
   (non-fiction; ISBN 0-679-72977-1)
• Same Difference and Other Stories by Derek Kirk Kim
• Sandman: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
   and various artists
• Sin City
  Sin City
  Sin City is the title for a series of neo-noir comics by Frank Miller. The first story originally appeared in "Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special" , and continued in Dark Horse Presents #51–62 from May 1991 to June 1992, under the title of Sin City, serialized in thirteen parts. Several...
  
   a.k.a. Sin City: The Hard Goodbye
  Sin City
  Sin City is the title for a series of neo-noir comics by Frank Miller. The first story originally appeared in "Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special" , and continued in Dark Horse Presents #51–62 from May 1991 to June 1992, under the title of Sin City, serialized in thirteen parts. Several...
  
   by Frank Miller
  Frank Miller (comics)
  Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
  
   (ISBN 1-59307-293-7)
• Sin City: Family Values by Frank Miller (ISBN 1-59307-297-X)
• Sin City: That Yellow Bastard by Frank Miller (ISBN 1-59307-296-1)
• Stray Bullets: Innocence of Nihilism
  Stray Bullets
  Stray Bullets is an independent American comic book series published in black and white by El Capitan Books. It is written and drawn by David Lapham....
  
   by David Lapham
  David Lapham
  David Lapham is an Eisner Award winning American comic book writer, artist, and cartoonist, best known for his work on his groundbreaking independent comic book Stray Bullets.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Tale of One Bad Rat
  The Tale of One Bad Rat
  The Tale of One Bad Rat is a 4-issue comic book limited series by Bryan Talbot. It was first published by Dark Horse Comics in 1994 and later brought out in a collected edition.The story is about a victim of child abuse...
  
   by Bryan Talbot
  Bryan Talbot
  Bryan Talbot is a British comic book artist and writer, born in Wigan, Lancashire, in 1952. He is best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its sequel Heart of Empire.-Career:...
  
  
• Twentieth Century Eightball
  Twentieth Century Eightball
  Twentieth Century Eightball is a book collection of comics by Daniel Clowes published by Fantagraphics Books in 2002. It consists of numerous short pieces originally published in Clowes's Eightball , and other venues...
  
   by Daniel Clowes
  Daniel Clowes
  Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books....
  
  
• Watchmen
  Watchmen
  Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form...
  
   by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
  Dave Gibbons
  Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...
  
   (ISBN 0-930289-23-4)
• Y: The Last Man
  Y: The Last Man
  Y: The Last Man is a comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra published by Vertigo beginning in 2002. The series is about the only man to survive the apparent simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth...
  
   by Brian K. Vaughan
  Brian K. Vaughan
  Brian Keller Vaughan is an American comic book and television writer. He is best known for the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, and Pride of Baghdad, and was one of the principal writers of the television series Lost, during seasons three through five...
  
  

Kodansha Manga Award

Kodansha Manga Award

is an annual award for serialized manga published in the previous year, sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. It is currently awarded in four categories: children's, shōnen, shōjo, and general. The awards began in 1977, initially with categories for shōnen and shōjo. The first award for the...

• Akira
  Akira (manga)
  is a manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo. Set in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo, the work uses conventions of the cyberpunk genre to detail a saga of turmoil. Initially serialized in the pages of Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990, the work was collected in six volumes by Japanese publisher Kodansha...
  
   by Katsuhiro Otomo
  Katsuhiro Otomo
  is a Japanese comic book creator, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation. Otomo has also directed several live-action films, such as the 2006 feature film adaptation of the manga Mushishi.-Biography:Katsuhiro Otomo was...
  
  
• 20th Century Boys
  20th Century Boys
  is a science fiction-mystery manga created by Naoki Urasawa. It won the 2001 Kodansha Manga Award in the General category, an Excellence Prize at the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival, and the 2003 Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category. The last two volumes of the story were serialized under...
  
   by Naoki Urasawa
  Naoki Urasawa
  is a Japanese manga artist.-Early life:He graduated from Meisei University with a degree in economics. In 2008, Urasawa had a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he taught classes on manga.-Manga career:...
  
  

See also

• List of graphic novels: Adapted into TV/film
• Kirby Award
  Kirby Award
  The Jack Kirby Award for achievement in comic books was presented from 1985-1987 by Amazing Heroes magazine, and managed by Fantagraphics employee Dave Olbrich...
  
  
• Eisner Award
• Harvey Award
• Doug Wright Awards
  Doug Wright Awards
  The Doug Wright Awards are literary awards handed out annually to Canadian cartoonists, honouring excellence in works published in English. The awards are named for Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright...