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 for	Best Adaptation from Another Medium
Country	United States
First award	2010
Most recent winner (2021)	Superman Smashes the Klan adapted by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
Website	www.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

Award winners and nominees

Year	Title	Original Creator	Adapted by	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2010	Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter	Donald E. Westlake	Darwyn Cooke	IDW Publishing	Winner	[1]
	The Book of Genesis		Robert Crumb	W. W. Norton & Company	Nominee
	Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation	Charles Darwin	Michael Keller and Nicolle Rager Fuller	Rodale Books	Nominee
	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	Tim Hamilton	Hill & Wang	Nominee
	West Coast Blues	Jean-Patrick Manchette	Jacques Tardi	Fantagraphics	Nominee
2011	The Marvelous Land of Oz	L. Frank Baum	Eric Shanower and Skottie Young	Marvel Comics	Winner	[1]
	The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	Joann Sfar	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Nominee	[2]
	7 Billion Needles, vols. 1 and 2 (Inspired by Needle)	Hal Clement	Nobuaki Tadano	Vertical	Nominee	[2]
	Dante's Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	Seymour Chwast	Bloomsbury Publishing	Nominee	[2]
	SilverFin: A James Bond Adventure	Charlie Higson	Charlie Higson and Kev Walker	Disney-Hyperion	Nominee	[2]
2012	No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2012.[1][3]
2013	Richard Stark's Parker: The Score	Donald E. Westlake	Darwyn Cooke	IDW Publishing	Winner	[1]
	A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle	Hope Larson	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Nominee	[4]
	Chico and Rita		Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal	SelfMadeHero	Nominee	[4]
	Homer's Odyssey	Homer	Seymour Chwast	Bloomsbury Publishing	Nominee	[4]
	Road to Oz	L. Frank Baum	Eric Shanower and Skottie Young	Marvel Comics	Nominee	[4]
2014	Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground	Donald E. Westlake	Darwyn Cooke	IDW Publishing	Winner	[1][5]
	The Castle	Franz Kafka	David Zane Mairowitz and Jaromír 99	SelfMadeHero	Nominee	[5]
	The Complete Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	Rob Davis	SelfMadeHero	Nominee	[5]
	The Strange Tale of Panorama Island	Edogawa Ranpo	Suehiro Maruo	Last Gasp	Nominee	[5]
	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino	Reginald Hudlin, R. M. Guéra, et al.	DC Comics/Vertigo Comics	Nominee	[5]
2015	No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2015.[1][6]
2016	Two Brothers	Milton Hatoum	Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá	Dark Horse Comics	Winner	[1][7]
	Captive of Friendly Cove: Based on the Secret Journals of John Jewitt	John R. Jewitt	Rebecca Goldfield, Mike Short, and Matt Dembicki	Fulcrum Publishing	Nominee	[7]
	City of Clowns	Daniel Alarcón	Daniel Alarcón and Sheila Alvarado	Riverhead Books	Nominee	[7]
	Ghetto Klown	John Leguizamo	John Leguizamo, Christa Cassano, and Shamus Beyale	Abrams ComicArts	Nominee	[7]
	Lafcadio Hearn's “The Faceless Ghost” and Other Macabre Tales from Japan	Lafcadio Hearn	Sean Michael Wilson and Michiru Morikawa	Shambhala Publications	Nominee	[7]
2017	No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2017.[1][8]
2018	Kindred	Octavia E. Butler	Damian Duffy and John Jennings	Abrams ComicArts	Winner	[1]
	Beowulf		Santiago García and David Rubín	Image Comics	Nominee	[9]
	H. P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories	H. P. Lovecraft	Gou Tanabe, trans. by Zack Davisson	Dark Horse Comics	Nominee	[9]
	Herman Melville's Moby Dick	Herman Melville	Christophe Chabouté, trans. by Laure Dupont	Dark Horse Comics	Nominee	[9]
2019	”Frankenstein” in Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection	Mary Shelley	Junji Ito, trans. by Jocelyne Allen	Viz Media	Winner	[10][11]
	Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation	Anne Frank	Ari Folman and David Polonsky	Pantheon Books	Nominee	[12]
	Out in the Open	Jesús Carrasco	Javi Rey, trans. by Lawrence Schimel	SelfMadeHero	Nominee	[12]
	Speak: The Graphic Novel	Laurie Halse Anderson	Emily Carroll	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Nominee	[12]
	To Build a Fire: Based on Jack London's Classic Story	Jack London	Christophe Chabouté	Gallery 13	Nominee	[12]
2020	Snow, Glass, Apples	Neil Gaiman	Colleen Doran	Dark Horse Comics	Winner	[13][14][15]
	The Giver	Lois Lowry	P. Craig Russell	HMH Books for Young Readers	Nominee	[16]
	The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel	Margaret Atwood	Renee Nault	Nan A. Talese	Nominee	[16]
	The Seventh Voyage	Stanisław Lem	Jon J Muth, trans. by Michael Kandel	Scholastic Graphix	Nominee	[16]
	Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made	Salvador Dalí	Josh Frank, Tim Heidecker, and Manuela Pertega	Quirk Books	Nominee	[16]
	H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, vols. 1–2	H. P. Lovecraft	Gou Tanabe, trans. by Zack Davisson	Dark Horse Manga	Nominee	[16]
2021	Superman Smashes the Klan		Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru	DC Comics	Winner	[17]
	Constitution Illustrated		R. Sikoryak	Drawn & Quarterly	Nominee	[18]
	Parable of the Sower: The Graphic Novel Adaptation	Octavia E. Butler	Damian Duffy and John Jennings	Abrams Books	Nominee	[18]
	Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind, vol. 1		Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave	Harper Perennial	Nominee	[18]
	Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut	Ryan North and Albert Monteys	Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios	Nominee	[18]
2022	George Orwell’s 1984: The Graphic Novel	George Orwell	Fido Nesti	Mariner Books	Winner	[19][20]
	After the Rain	Nnedi Okorafor	John Jennings and David Brame	Megascope/Abrams ComicArts	Nominee	[19][20]
	Bubble	Kurt Vonnegut	Jordan Morris, Sarah Morgan, and Tony Cliff	First Second/Macmillan	Nominee	[19][20]
	Disney Cruella: Black, White, and Red		Hachi Ishie	VIZ Media	Nominee	[19][20]
	The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists	Robert Tressell	Sophie and Scarlett Rickard	SelfMadeHero	Nominee	[19][20]
2023	Chivalry	Neil Gaiman	Colleen Doran	Dark Horse Comics	Winner	[21]
	Rain	Joe Hill	David M. Booher and Zoe Thorogood	Syzygy/Image	Nominee	[21]
	Ten Days in a Madhouse	Nellie Bly	Brad Ricca and Courtney Sieh	Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster	Nominee	[21]
	Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album	Tori Amos	Rantz Hoseley (ed.)	Z2	Nominee	[21]
	A Visit to Moscow	Rabbi Rafael Grossman	Anna Olswanger and Yevgenia Nayberg	Turner	Nominee	[21]