Eisner Graphic Novel Grant for Libraries - Growth Grant

About the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grant for Libraries - Growth Grant The Will Eisner Graphic Novel Growth Grant will provide support to a library that would like to expand its existing graphic novel services and programs. This grant will encourage public awareness on the rise and importance of graphic literature, sequential art, and comics as a literary medium.  The objective of the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries is to facilitate library-generated programs and services that will promote graphic novels to library patrons and to the local community.Will Eisner (1917-2005) was an acclaimed American comics writer, artist, teacher, and entrepreneur.  He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of sequential art (a term he coined) and is known for the cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential comic series, The Spirit; for his use of comics as an instructional medium; for his leading role in establishing the graphic novel as a form of literature with his 1978 groundbreaking graphic novel, A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories; for his 20 years of teaching at the School of Visual Arts, leading to his three textbooks. In a career that spanned nearly seven decades—from the dawn of the comic book to the advent of digital comics—Will Eisner was truly the “Father of the Graphic Novel.”

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NameTitleYear
Blue Island Public Library in Blue Island2023 - Recipient
Billings Public Library in Billings, MT.2023 - Recipient
Miami Dade CollegeMiami Dade College2022 - Recipient
Evergreen Park Public LibraryEvergreen Park Public Library2022 - Recipient
University of Denver LibrariesUniversity of Denver Libraries 2021 - Recipient
Kansas City Public Library, North-East BranchKansas City Public Library, North-East Branch2021 - Recipient
Cape Fear Community College LibraryCape Fear Community College Library2020 - Recipient
Avon – Washington Township Public LibraryAvon – Washington Township Public Library2020 - Recipient
Cesar Chavez Middle School LibraryCesar Chavez Middle School Library2019 - Recipient
Sachem Public LibrarySachem Public Library2019 - Recipient
Kraemer Family Library, University of Colorado Colorado Springs Kraemer Family Library, University of Colorado Colorado Springs2018 - Recipient
Colorado State LibraryColorado State Library2017 - Recipient
Atlantic City Free Public LibraryAtlantic City Free Public Library2016 - Recipient
Yuma High School LibraryYuma High School Library2015 - Recipient
Ypsilanti District LibraryYpsilanti District Library2014 - Recipient