Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium explained

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.

History and name change

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.





Winners and nominees

Award winners and nominees!Year!Title!Original Creator!Adapted by!Publisher!Result!Ref.
2010IDW PublishingWinner [1]
W. W. Norton & CompanyNominee
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation and Nicolle Rager FullerRodale BooksNominee
Fahrenheit 451Hill & WangNominee
West Coast BluesFantagraphicsNominee
2011 and Skottie YoungMarvel ComicsWinner
Houghton Mifflin HarcourtNominee [2]
7 Billion Needles, vols. 1 and 2 (Inspired by Needle)VerticalNominee
Dante's Divine ComedyBloomsbury PublishingNominee
SilverFin: A James Bond Adventure and Kev WalkerDisney-HyperionNominee
2012No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2012.[3]
2013IDW PublishingWinner
Farrar, Straus and GirouxNominee [4]
Chico and Rita and Javier MariscalSelfMadeHeroNominee
Homer's OdysseyHomerBloomsbury PublishingNominee
Road to Oz and Skottie YoungMarvel ComicsNominee
2014Richard Stark's Parker: SlaygroundIDW PublishingWinner [5]
and Jaromír 99SelfMadeHeroNominee
SelfMadeHeroNominee
Last GaspNominee
Django Unchained, R. M. Guéra, et al.DC Comics/Vertigo ComicsNominee
2015No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2015.[6]
2016Two Brothers and Gabriel BáDark Horse ComicsWinner [7]
Captive of Friendly Cove: Based on the Secret Journals of John Jewitt, Mike Short, and Matt DembickiFulcrum PublishingNominee
City of Clowns and Sheila AlvaradoRiverhead BooksNominee
Ghetto Klown, Christa Cassano, and Shamus BeyaleAbrams ComicArtsNominee
Lafcadio Hearn's “The Faceless Ghost” and Other Macabre Tales from Japan and Michiru MorikawaShambhala PublicationsNominee
2017No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2017.[8]
2018Kindred and John JenningsAbrams ComicArtsWinner
Beowulf and David RubínImage ComicsNominee [9]
H. P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories, trans. by Zack DavissonDark Horse ComicsNominee
Herman Melville's Moby Dick, trans. by Laure DupontDark Horse ComicsNominee
2019”Frankenstein” in Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection, trans. by Jocelyne AllenViz MediaWinner [10] [11]
Anne Frank's Diary

The Graphic Adaptation

and David PolonskyPantheon BooksNominee [12]
Out in the Open, trans. by Lawrence SchimelSelfMadeHeroNominee
Farrar, Straus and GirouxNominee
To Build a Fire

Based on Jack London's Classic Story

Gallery 13Nominee
2020Snow, Glass, ApplesDark Horse ComicsWinner [13] [14] [15]
HMH Books for Young ReadersNominee [16]
Nan A. TaleseNominee
, trans. by Michael KandelScholastic GraphixNominee
Giraffes on Horseback Salad

Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made

, Tim Heidecker, and Manuela PertegaQuirk BooksNominee
H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, vols. 1–2 , trans. by Zack DavissonDark Horse MangaNominee
2021Superman Smashes the Klan and GurihiruDC ComicsWinner [17]
Constitution IllustratedR. SikoryakDrawn & QuarterlyNominee [18]
Parable of the Sower

The Graphic Novel Adaptation

and John JenningsAbrams BooksNominee
Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind, vol. 1 , David Vandermeulen, and Daniel CasanaveHarper PerennialNominee
Slaughterhouse-Five and Albert MonteysArchaia Entertainment/Boom! StudiosNominee
2022George Orwell’s 1984: The Graphic NovelMariner BooksWinner[19] [20]
After the RainMegascope/Abrams ComicArtsNominee
Bubble , Sarah Morgan, and Tony Cliff First Second/MacmillanNominee
Disney Cruella: Black, White, and RedVIZ MediaNominee
SelfMadeHeroNominee
2023ChivalryDark Horse ComicsWinner[21]
RainSyzygy/ImageNominee
Ten Days in a MadhouseGallery 13/Simon & SchusterNominee
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album (ed.) Z2Nominee
TurnerNominee

References

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