The winners of the LA Times Book Prizes were announced Friday night, and not one but two graphic novels took top honors.

Ulli Lust won the Graphic Novels/Comics prize for Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, which also picked up an Ignatz Award and won an award at Angouleme in 2011 for the original edition. The other finalists were David B.'s Incidents in the Night: Vol. 1, Ben Katchor's Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories, Anders Nilsen's The End, and Joe Sacco's The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme, so it was a tough field.

In the Young Adult category, Boxers & Saints was up against four prose books: Elizabeth Knox's Mortal Fire, Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Joyce Sidman's What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms and Blessings, and Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase. Yang's earlier book, American Born Chinese, was nominated for a National Book Award and won a Printz Award; both honors usually go to prose books.