| Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium | |
| Awarded For: | Best Adaptation from Another Medium |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Holder Label: | Most recent winner (2021) |
| Holder: | Superman Smashes the Klan adapted by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru |
The Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books.
The award was launched in 2010 as Best Adaptation from Another Work. No award was given in 2011. In 2012 the award was renamed to Best Adaptation from Another Medium. No award was given in 2015 or 2017.
| 2010 | IDW Publishing | Winner | [1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W. W. Norton & Company | Nominee | |||||
| Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation | and Nicolle Rager Fuller | Rodale Books | Nominee | |||
| Fahrenheit 451 | Hill & Wang | Nominee | ||||
| West Coast Blues | Fantagraphics | Nominee | ||||
| 2011 | and Skottie Young | Marvel Comics | Winner | |||
| Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Nominee | [2] | ||||
| 7 Billion Needles, vols. 1 and 2 (Inspired by Needle) | Vertical | Nominee | ||||
| Dante's Divine Comedy | Bloomsbury Publishing | Nominee | ||||
| SilverFin: A James Bond Adventure | and Kev Walker | Disney-Hyperion | Nominee | |||
| 2012 | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2012.[3] | |||||
| 2013 | IDW Publishing | Winner | ||||
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Nominee | [4] | ||||
| Chico and Rita | and Javier Mariscal | SelfMadeHero | Nominee | |||
| Homer's Odyssey | Homer | Bloomsbury Publishing | Nominee | |||
| Road to Oz | and Skottie Young | Marvel Comics | Nominee | |||
| 2014 | Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground | IDW Publishing | Winner | [5] | ||
| and Jaromír 99 | SelfMadeHero | Nominee | ||||
| SelfMadeHero | Nominee | |||||
| Last Gasp | Nominee | |||||
| Django Unchained | , R. M. Guéra, et al. | DC Comics/Vertigo Comics | Nominee | |||
| 2015 | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2015.[6] | |||||
| 2016 | Two Brothers | and Gabriel Bá | Dark Horse Comics | Winner | [7] | |
| Captive of Friendly Cove: Based on the Secret Journals of John Jewitt | , Mike Short, and Matt Dembicki | Fulcrum Publishing | Nominee | |||
| City of Clowns | and Sheila Alvarado | Riverhead Books | Nominee | |||
| Ghetto Klown | , Christa Cassano, and Shamus Beyale | Abrams ComicArts | Nominee | |||
| Lafcadio Hearn's “The Faceless Ghost” and Other Macabre Tales from Japan | and Michiru Morikawa | Shambhala Publications | Nominee | |||
| 2017 | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2017.[8] | |||||
| 2018 | Kindred | and John Jennings | Abrams ComicArts | Winner | ||
| Beowulf | and David Rubín | Image Comics | Nominee | [9] | ||
| H. P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories | , trans. by Zack Davisson | Dark Horse Comics | Nominee | |||
| Herman Melville's Moby Dick | , trans. by Laure Dupont | Dark Horse Comics | Nominee | |||
| 2019 | ”Frankenstein” in Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection | , trans. by Jocelyne Allen | Viz Media | Winner | [10] [11] | |
| Anne Frank's Diary The Graphic Adaptation | and David Polonsky | Pantheon Books | Nominee | [12] | ||
| Out in the Open | , trans. by Lawrence Schimel | SelfMadeHero | Nominee | |||
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Nominee | |||||
| To Build a Fire Based on Jack London's Classic Story | Gallery 13 | Nominee | ||||
| 2020 | Snow, Glass, Apples | Dark Horse Comics | Winner | [13] [14] [15] | ||
| HMH Books for Young Readers | Nominee | [16] | ||||
| Nan A. Talese | Nominee | |||||
| , trans. by Michael Kandel | Scholastic Graphix | Nominee | ||||
| Giraffes on Horseback Salad Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made | , Tim Heidecker, and Manuela Pertega | Quirk Books | Nominee | |||
| H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, vols. 1–2 | , trans. by Zack Davisson | Dark Horse Manga | Nominee | |||
| 2021 | Superman Smashes the Klan | and Gurihiru | DC Comics | Winner | [17] | |
| Constitution Illustrated | R. Sikoryak | Drawn & Quarterly | Nominee | [18] | ||
| Parable of the Sower The Graphic Novel Adaptation | and John Jennings | Abrams Books | Nominee | |||
| Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind, vol. 1 | , David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave | Harper Perennial | Nominee | |||
| Slaughterhouse-Five | and Albert Monteys | Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios | Nominee | |||
| 2022 | George Orwell’s 1984: The Graphic Novel | Mariner Books | Winner | [19] [20] | ||
| After the Rain | Megascope/Abrams ComicArts | Nominee | ||||
| Bubble | , Sarah Morgan, and Tony Cliff | First Second/Macmillan | Nominee | |||
| Disney Cruella: Black, White, and Red | VIZ Media | Nominee | ||||
| SelfMadeHero | Nominee | |||||
| 2023 | Chivalry | Dark Horse Comics | Winner | [21] | ||
| Rain | Syzygy/Image | Nominee | ||||
| Ten Days in a Madhouse | Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster | Nominee | ||||
| Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album | (ed.) | Z2 | Nominee | |||
| Turner | Nominee | |||||