Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium

The Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books.

Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium
Awarded forBest Adaptation from Another Medium
CountryUnited States
First awarded2010
Most recent winner (2021)Superman Smashes the Klan adapted by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
Websitewww.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

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
Year Title Authors Ref.
2010s
2010 Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter (IDW Publishing) Donald E. Westlake, adapted by Darwyn Cooke [1][2]
The Book of Genesis Illustrated (W. W. Norton & Company) Adapted by Robert Crumb
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation (Rodale Books) Charles Darwin, adapted by Michael Keller and Nicolle Rager Fuller
Fahrenheit 451 (Hill & Wang) Ray Bradbury, adapted by Tim Hamilton
West Coast Blues (Fantagraphics) Jean-Patrick Manchette, adapted by Jacques Tardi
2011 The Marvelous Land of Oz (Marvel Comics) L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young [3][4]
Dante's Divine Comedy (Bloomsbury Publishing) Dante Alighieri, adapted by Seymour Chwast
The Little Prince (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, adapted by Joann Sfar
7 Billion Needles, vols. 1 and 2 (Vertical) Inspired by Needle by Hal Clement, adapted by Nobuaki Tadano
SilverFin: A James Bond Adventure (Disney-Hyperion) Charlie Higson, adapted by Charlie Higson and Kev Walker
2012 There was no Eisner Award for Best Adaptation in 2012.[5]
2013 Richard Stark's Parker: The Score (IDW Publishing) Donald E. Westlake, adapted by Darwyn Cooke [4][6]
Chico and Rita (SelfMadeHero) Adapted by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
Homer's Odyssey (Bloomsbury Publishing) Homer, adapted by Seymour Chwast
Road to Oz (Marvel Comics) L. Frank Baum, adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young
A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Madeleine L'Engle, adapted by Hope Larson
2014 Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground (IDW Publishing) Donald E. Westlake, adapted by Darwyn Cooke [4][7]
The Castle (SelfMadeHero) Franz Kafka, adapted by David Zane Mairowitz and Jaromír 99
The Complete Don Quixote (SelfMadeHero) Miguel de Cervantes, adapted by Rob Davis
Django Unchained (DC Comics/Vertigo Comics) Quentin Tarantino, adapted by Reginald Hudlin, R. M. Guéra, et al.
The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (Last Gasp) Edogawa Ranpo, adapted by Suehiro Maruo
2015 There was no Eisner Award for Best Adaptation in 2015.[4][8]
2016 Two Brothers (Dark Horse Comics) Milton Hatoum, adapted by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá [4][9]
Captive of Friendly Cove: Based on the Secret Journals of John Jewitt (Fulcrum Publishing) John R. Jewitt, adapted by Rebecca Goldfield, Mike Short, and Matt Dembicki
City of Clowns (Riverhead Books) Daniel Alarcón, adapted by Daniel Alarcón and Sheila Alvarado
Ghetto Klown (Abrams ComicArts) John Leguizamo, adapted by John Leguizamo, Christa Cassano, and Shamus Beyale
Lafcadio Hearn's “The Faceless Ghost” and Other Macabre Tales from Japan (Shambhala Publications) Lafcadio Hearn, adapted by Sean Michael Wilson and Michiru Morikawa
2017 There was no Eisner Award for Best Adaptation in 2017.[4][10]
2018 Kindred (Abrams ComicArts) Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings [4][11]
Beowulf (Image Comics) Adapted by Santiago García and David Rubín
H. P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories (Dark Horse Comics) H. P. Lovecraft, adapted by Gou Tanabe, translated by Zack Davisson
Herman Melville's Moby Dick (Dark Horse Comics) Herman Melville, adapted by Christophe Chabouté, translated by Laure Dupont
2019 “Frankenstein” in Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection (Viz Media) Mary Shelley, adapted by Junji Ito, translated by Jocelyne Allen [12][13]
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation (Pantheon Books) Anne Frank, adapted by Ari Folman and David Polonsky
Out in the Open (SelfMadeHero) Jesús Carrasco, adapted by Javi Rey, translated by Lawrence Schimel
Speak: The Graphic Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Laurie Halse Anderson, adapted by Emily Carroll
To Build a Fire: Based on Jack London's Classic Story (Gallery 13) Jack London, adapted by Christophe Chabouté
2020s
2020 Snow, Glass, Apples (Dark Horse Comics) Neil Gaiman, adapted by Colleen Doran [14][15]
Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made (Quirk Books) Salvador Dalí, adapted by Josh Frank, Tim Heidecker, and Manuela Pertega
The Giver (HMH Books for Young Readers) Lois Lowry, adapted by P. Craig Russell
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel (Nan A. Talese) Margaret Atwood, adapted by Renee Nault
H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, vols. 1–2 (Dark Horse Manga) H. P. Lovecraft, adapted by Gou Tanabe, translation by Zack Davisson
The Seventh Voyage (Scholastic Graphix) Stanisław Lem, adapted by Jon J Muth, translation by Michael Kandel
2021 Superman Smashes the Klan (DC Comics) Adapted by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru [16][17]
Constitution Illustrated (Drawn & Quarterly) Adapted by R. Sikoryak
Parable of the Sower: The Graphic Novel Adaptation (Abrams Books) Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind, vol. 1 (Harper Perennial) Adapted by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave
Slaughterhouse-Five (Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios) Kurt Vonnegut, adapted by Ryan North and Albert Monteys

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