Former Washington Publish political cartoonist Ann Telnaes additionally gained this 12 months within the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary class.

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls has turn out to be the second graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.

The graphic novel gained the award within the “Memoir” class, which comes with a prize of $15,000. Hulls follows within the footsteps of Artwork Spiegelman, who gained a Pulitzer in 1992 for his work on Maus.

Pulitzer Prize administrator Marjorie Miller introduced the awards right now in a livestream on YouTube and described Feeding Ghosts as “an affecting work of literary artwork and discovery whose illustrations carry to life three generations of Chinese language girls — the writer, her mom and grandmother — and the expertise of trauma handed down with household histories.”

Revealed final March, Hulls’ memoir has gained quite a few different awards, together with the Nationwide Books Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the 2025 Anisfield Wolf Prize and the Libby Award for Greatest Graphic Novel.

In different comic-related Pulitzer information, Ann Telnaes, who give up the Washington Publish earlier this 12 months after the paper rejected a political carton she proposed that includes a number of tech and media executives bowing all the way down to President Donald Trump, gained the award this 12 months for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary.

About her award, the Pulitzer committee mentioned they gave it to her “for delivering piercing commentary on highly effective individuals and establishments with deftness, creativity – and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the information group after 17 years.”