Better late than never, right? As awards season is upon us for 2025, let's take a look back at what books won awards in 2024! Some of these books have become favorites of the 2024-2025 school year with my readers, particularly Pedro Martín's Mexikid, which appears on a lot of awards lists below. 

As always, it's good to skim through the winners and nominees for these industry recognitions to see what items could be included in your collections, paying attention to age relevancy and the needs of your particular collection. Worth noting is that these awards and recognitions all have human judges and their own criteria, but these titles all bring something valuable enough to achieve recognition within their field, and possibly deserve consideration for inclusion in your graphic libraries.

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by Sara Smith 
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There are a lot of great titles nominated each year for prestigious comics awards. Here are some of the relevant winners and nominees for categories that will help school librarians with their purchasing decisions. 

I definitely haven't read all of these amazing titles (yet!), but where I can, I have linked my review of the titles I have finished. As always, this list means I have even more titles to add to my towering TBR pile!

by Sara Smith 
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July means Eisner month! This year, ComicCon@Home happened mostly on YouTube, so you can watch the entire awards ceremony if you're into that sort of thing. The awards were held on July 23rd, 2021.

Titles are nominated by a panel of folks in the comics industry, a librarian, and an academic researcher. Then, comics industry folks, librarians, and comic academics can vote for the winners. While the panel of folks have read all of these titles (and many more!), those voting for winners definitely do not need to have read everything to vote. The entire list of winners AND nominees is full of some amazing titles because they were the BEST of what the small committee read this year. I suggest checking out the full list of winners and nominees posted here by the Comics Beat. Since this website is School Library related, I'll be posting the winners and nominees for categories that will help school librarians with their purchasing decisions.

I definitely haven't read all of these amazing titles (yet!), but where I can, I have linked my review of the titles I have finished. As always, this list means I have even more titles to add to my towering TBR pile!

by Sara Smith 
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Every year, there are several awards presented throughout the country, mostly at notable comic conventions.  Here is a list of these award-winning titles that may not appear as an award winner on purchasing services.  You may see duplicate titles, as I am not going to omit a title if it wins two or more different awards.  In some cases, I have included the nominees when available.  Even being nominated for these prestigious awards is an honor, so all of these books on the nominees list are quality titles that you can consider purchasing for your collection.

by Sara Smith 
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Every year, there are several awards presented throughout the country, mostly at notable comic conventions.  Here is a list of these award-winning titles that may not appear as an award winner on purchasing services, such as Titlewave.  You may see duplicate titles, as I am not going to omit a title if it wins two or more different awards.  In some cases, I have included the nominees when available.  Even being nominated for these prestigious awards is an honor, so all of these books on the nominees list are quality titles that you can consider purchasing for your collection.