After careful review of more than 120 submitted titles from over 50 publishers, our jurors and EGL awards team are ready to announce the finalists for the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards!
Excellence in Graphic Literature Finalists Announcements
Akissi: More Tales of Mischief
by Marguerite Abouet & Mathieu Sapin (Flying Eye Books)
Chicken Soup & Goji Berries
by Naomi Cui & Janice Liu (Cloudscape Comics)
Hex Vet: The Flying Surgery
by Sam Davies (BOOM! Studios)
Hilo 5: Then Everything Went Wrong
by Judd Winick (RH Children’s Books)
Kai and the Monkey King
by Joe Todd-Stanton (Flying Eye Books)
The Crossover
by Kwame Alexander & Dawud Anyabwile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Hicotea: A Nightlights Story
by Lorena Alvarez (Nobrow)
Pilu of the Woods
by Mai K. Nguyen (Oni Press)
Sincerely, Harriet
by Sarah Winifred Searle (Lerner Publishing Group)
White Bird: A Wonder Story
by R. J. Palacio (Random House Children’s Books)
Rocket to the Moon!: BIG IDEAS That Changed the World #1
by Don Brown (ABRAMS Amulet Books)
Guts
by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic)
Major Impossible (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #9)
by Nathan Hale (ABRAMS Amulet Books)
Survivors of the Holocaust
by Kath Shackleton & Zane Whittingham (Sourcebooks Explore)
Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up
by Heather Corinna & Isabella Rotman (Oni Press)
Hot Comb
by Ebony Flowers (Drawn & Quarterly)
King Shaka: Zulu Legend
Luke Molver (Catalyst Press/Story Press Africa)
Kiss Number 8
by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw (Macmillan Publishers)
Shout Out
by Andrew Wheeler, BC Holmes, Joamette Gil & various (TO Comix Press)
Stage Dreams
by Melanie Gillman (Lerner Publishing Group)
The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby Vol. 2
by Marek Bennett (Comics Workshop)
King of King Court
by Travis Dandro (Drawn & Quarterly)
Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 by Don Brown
by Don Brown (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem’s Legendary Theater
by Ted Fox & James Otis Smith (ABRAMS ComicArts)
The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito
by Shing Yin Khor (Lerner Publishing Group)
Bloodlust & Bonnets
by Emily McGovern (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga
by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Harbour Publishing)
Clyde Fans
by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
The Hard Tomorrow
by Eleanor Davis (Drawn & Quarterly)
Vanni: A Family’s Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict
by Benjamin Dix & Lindsay Pollock (Penn State University Press)
Americana (and the Act of Getting Over It.)
by Luke Healy (Nobrow)
A Fire Story
by Brian Fies (ABRAMS Books)
Hawking
by Jim Ottaviani & Leland Myrick (Macmillan Publishers)
In Waves
by AJ Dungo (Nobrow)
The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television
by Koren Shadmi (Humanoids)
Akissi: More Tales of Mischief
by Marguerite Abouet & Mathieu Sapin (Flying Eye Books)
Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga
by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Harbour Publishing)
The Crossover
by Kwame Alexander & Dawud Anyabwile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Grease Bats
by Archie Bongiovanni (BOOM! Studios)
Hicotea: A Nightlights Story
by Lorena Alvarez (Nobrow)
Kiss Number 8
by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw (Macmillan Publishers)
Putuga & Kublu and the Qalupalik
by Roselynn Akulukjuk, Danny Christopher, & Astrid Arijanto (Inhabit Media)
Shout Out
by Andrew Wheeler, BC Holmes, Joamette Gil & various (TO Comix Press)
Bury the Lede
by Gaby Dunn & Claire Roe (BOOM! Studios)
Camp
by Kayla Miller (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Clyde Fans
by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
The Crossover
by Kwame Alexander & Dawud Anyabwile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
King of King Court
by Travis Dandro (Drawn & Quarterly)
Kiss Number 8
by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw (Macmillan Publishers)
Putuga & Kublu and the Qalupalik
by Roselynn Akulukjuk, Danny Christopher, & Astrid Arijanto (Inhabit Media)
White Bird: A Wonder Story
by R. J. Palacio (Random House Children’s Books)
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