The Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books.
History and name change
The award was launched in 2008 as Best Publication for Teens. In 2009 the name was changed to Best Publication for Teens/Tweens for one year. In 2012 the name of the award was changed to 2012: Best Publication for Young Adults (Ages 12–17). In 2013 the name of the award was changed to Best Publication for Teens (ages 13–17). In 2020 the name was changed to Best Publication for Teens.
Winners and nominees
+Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens winners and nominees Year Author(s) Title Publisher 2000s 2008 Laika First Second Books Dark Horse Comics Oni Press and Eric A. Anderson PX! Book One: A Girl and Her PandaShadowline/Image Comics and Rich Tommaso Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim CrowCenter for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion Books for Children 2009 , adapted by P. Craig Russell Coraline HarperCollins Children’s Books Crogan’s VengeanceOni Press and Ted Naifeh , Book 1: KinScholastic Graphix & Dean Hale and Nathan Hale Rapunzel’s RevengeBloomsbury Children’s Books and Jillian Tamaki SkimGroundwood Books 2010s 2010 and Jill Thompson Beasts of Burden Dark Horse Comics Angora NapkinIDW Publishing Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Anne Frank House Far ArdenTop Shelf Productions and Ken Niimura I Kill GiantsImage Comics 2011 Smile Scholastic Graphix GhostopolisScholastic Graphix Hereville: How Mirka Got Her SwordAmulet Books and Janet K. Lee Return of the Dapper MenArchaia Entertainment and Randy DuBurke Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside ShortyLee & Low Books 2012 Anya's Ghost First Second Books Around the WorldCandlewick Press and Thien Pham Level UpFirst Second Books , Fernando Ruiz, Pat Kennedy & Tim Kennedy, Norm Breyfogle, et al. Life With ArchieArchie Comics and David López MysticMarvel Comics 2013 , adapted by Hope Larson Farrar, Straus and Giroux Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream QueensKaBOOM! Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen KellerCenter for Cartoon Studies/Disney Hyperion IchiroHoughton Mifflin Harcourt , et al. Spera, vol. 1Archaia Entertainment 2014 Battling Boy First Second Books Bluffton: My Summers with BusterCandlewick Press Boxers and SaintsFirst Second Books and Nathan Fox Dogs of WarScholastic Graphix , Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell March, Book OneTop Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing , LeUyen Pham, and Alex Puviland TemplarFirst Second Books 2015 , Grace Ellis, ND Stevenson, and Gus Allen Lumberjanes Boom! Box DoomboyMagnetic Press Scholastic Graphix and Sandy Jarrell Meteor MenOni Press and Sonny Liew First Second Books First Second Books 2016 SuperMutant Magic Academy Drawn & Quarterly AwkwardYen Press Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New OrleansHoughton Mifflin Harcourt , Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell March, Book Two Moose Conundrum Press Oyster WarOni Press 2017 and Erica Henderson Marvel Comics Bad Machinery, vol. 5: The Case of the Fire InsideOni Press and Rafael Albuquerque BatgirlDC Comics , Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm JugheadArchie Comics and Sana Takeda MonstressImage Comics Trish Trash: Roller Girl of MarsPapercutz/Super Genius 2018 and Sana Takeda Monstress Image Comics and Dice Tsutsumi First Second Books/Tonko House and Ramón K. Pérez JaneArchaia Entertainment and Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou Louis UndercoverGroundwood Books/House of Anansi Press SpinningFirst Second Books 2019 First Second Books All Summer LongFarrar, Straus and Giroux GumballsTop Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing and Jorge Corona MiddlewestImage Comics and Kit Seaton Norroway, Book 1: The Black Bull of NorrowayImage Comics translated Lucas Marangon WatersnakesMagnetic Press/Lion Forge Comics 2020s 2020 and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers and Steve Pugh Harley Quinn: Breaking GlassDC Comics Hot CombsDrawn & Quarterly and Ellen T. Crenshaw Kiss Number 8First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers , Greg Means, and Matt Wiegle Penny NicholsTop Shelf Productions 2021 Dragon Hoops First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & SconesFirst Second Books/Macmillan Publishers DisplacementFirst Second Books/Macmillan Publishers Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over ViolenceOni Press First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers and Omar Mohamed When Stars Are ScatteredDial Books2022 Kokila/Penguin Random House and Ariela KristantinaAdora and the DistanceComiXology and Raúl the ThirdClockwork Curandera, vol. 1: The Witch Owl Parliament Tu Books/Lee & Low Books and Humberto RamosStrange Academy Marvel Comics and Michael DialynasWyndBoom! Box2023Daniel Warren JohnsonDo a Powerbomb!Image ComicsJarrett Melendez and Danica BrineChef's KissOni PressAlice OsemanHeartstopper, Volume 4Scholastic GraphixJamila Rowser and Robyn SmithWash Day DiariesChronicle BooksTillie WaldenClementine: Book OneImage Comics2024Ryan North and Erica HendersonDanger and Other Unknown RisksPenguin Random HouseJulio Anta and Jacoby SalcedoFronteraHarperAlleyMamoru Aoi and Hana AllenMy Girlfriend's ChildSeven SeasLawrence LindellBlackwardDrawn & QuarterlySarah MeyerMonstrous: A Transracial Adoption StoryFirst Second Books/Macmillan PublishersBrenna ThummlerLightsOni Press2025Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen PhamLunar New Year Love StoryFirst Second Books/Macmillan PublishersJonah NewmanOut of Left FieldAndrews McMeel PublishingLee Knox OstertagThe Deep DarkScholastic GraphixAdam de SouzaThe GulfTundra BooksDavid F. Walker and Marcus Kwame AndersonBig Jim and the White BoyTen Speed PressJen WangAsh's CabinFirst Second Books/Macmillan Publishers 2026Mariko Tamaki, Nicole GouxThis Place Kills MeAbrams FanfareTrung Le NguyenAngelica and the Bear PrinceRandom House GraphicTillie WaldenClementine: Book ThreeImage SkyboundK. WrotenEveryone Sux But YouHenry Holt Books for Young ReaderKeezy YoungHello SunshineLittle, Brown InkSimon Bournel-Bosson, translated by Edward GauvinTrumpets of DeathGraphic Universe/Lerner
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