# 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.

## 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 |
| 2010 | Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter | Donald E. Westlake | Darwyn Cooke | IDW Publishing | Winner |
| 2010 | The Book of Genesis | | Robert Crumb | W. W. Norton & Company | Nominee |
| 2010 | Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation | Charles Darwin | Michael Keller and Nicolle Rager Fuller | Rodale Books | Nominee |
| 2010 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | Tim Hamilton | Hill & Wang | Nominee |
| 2010 | 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 |
| 2011 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Joann Sfar | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Nominee |
| 2011 | 7 Billion Needles, vols. 1 and 2 (Inspired by Needle) | Hal Clement | Nobuaki Tadano | Vertical | Nominee |
| 2011 | Dante's Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | Seymour Chwast | Bloomsbury Publishing | Nominee |
| 2011 | SilverFin: A James Bond Adventure | Charlie Higson | Charlie Higson and Kev Walker | Disney-Hyperion | Nominee |
| 2012 | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2012. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2012. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2012. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2012. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2012. |
| 2013 | Richard Stark's Parker: The Score | Donald E. Westlake | Darwyn Cooke | IDW Publishing | Winner |
| 2013 | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | Hope Larson | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Nominee |
| 2013 | Chico and Rita | | Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal | SelfMadeHero | Nominee |
| 2013 | Homer's Odyssey | Homer | Seymour Chwast | Bloomsbury Publishing | Nominee |
| 2013 | Road to Oz | L. Frank Baum | Eric Shanower and Skottie Young | Marvel Comics | Nominee |
| 2014 | Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground | Donald E. Westlake | Darwyn Cooke | IDW Publishing | Winner |
| 2014 | The Castle | Franz Kafka | David Zane Mairowitz and Jaromír 99 | SelfMadeHero | Nominee |
| 2014 | The Complete Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | Rob Davis | SelfMadeHero | Nominee |
| 2014 | The Strange Tale of Panorama Island | Edogawa Ranpo | Suehiro Maruo | Last Gasp | Nominee |
| 2014 | Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino | Reginald Hudlin, R. M. Guéra, et al. | DC Comics/Vertigo Comics | Nominee |
| 2015 | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2015. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2015. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2015. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2015. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2015. |
| 2016 | Two Brothers | Milton Hatoum | Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá | Dark Horse Comics | Winner |
| 2016 | 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 |
| 2016 | City of Clowns | Daniel Alarcón | Daniel Alarcón and Sheila Alvarado | Riverhead Books | Nominee |
| 2016 | Ghetto Klown | John Leguizamo | John Leguizamo, Christa Cassano, and Shamus Beyale | Abrams ComicArts | Nominee |
| 2016 | Lafcadio Hearn's “The Faceless Ghost” and Other Macabre Tales from Japan | Lafcadio Hearn | Sean Michael Wilson and Michiru Morikawa | Shambhala Publications | Nominee |
| 2017 | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2017. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2017. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2017. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2017. | No Eisner Award for Best Adaptation was presented in 2017. |
| 2018 | Kindred | Octavia E. Butler | Damian Duffy and John Jennings | Abrams ComicArts | Winner |
| 2018 | Beowulf | | Santiago García and David Rubín | Image Comics | Nominee |
| 2018 | H. P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories | H. P. Lovecraft | Gou Tanabe, trans. by Zack Davisson | Dark Horse Comics | Nominee |
| 2018 | Herman Melville's Moby Dick | Herman Melville | Christophe Chabouté, trans. by Laure Dupont | Dark Horse Comics | Nominee |
| 2019 | ”Frankenstein” in Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection | Mary Shelley | Junji Ito, trans. by Jocelyne Allen | Viz Media | Winner |
| 2019 | Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation | Anne Frank | Ari Folman and David Polonsky | Pantheon Books | Nominee |
| 2019 | Out in the Open | Jesús Carrasco | Javi Rey, trans. by Lawrence Schimel | SelfMadeHero | Nominee |
| 2019 | Speak: The Graphic Novel | Laurie Halse Anderson | Emily Carroll | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Nominee |
| 2019 | To Build a Fire: Based on Jack London's Classic Story | Jack London | Christophe Chabouté | Gallery 13 | Nominee |
| 2020 | Snow, Glass, Apples | Neil Gaiman | Colleen Doran | Dark Horse Comics | Winner |
| 2020 | The Giver | Lois Lowry | P. Craig Russell | HMH Books for Young Readers | Nominee |
| 2020 | The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel | Margaret Atwood | Renee Nault | Nan A. Talese | Nominee |
| 2020 | The Seventh Voyage | Stanisław Lem | Jon J Muth, trans. by Michael Kandel | Scholastic Graphix | Nominee |
| 2020 | 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 |
| 2020 | 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 |
| 2021 | Superman Smashes the Klan | | Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru | DC Comics | Winner |
| 2021 | Constitution Illustrated | | R. Sikoryak | Drawn & Quarterly | Nominee |
| 2021 | Parable of the Sower: The Graphic Novel Adaptation | Octavia E. Butler | Damian Duffy and John Jennings | Abrams Books | Nominee |
| 2021 | Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind, vol. 1 | | Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave | Harper Perennial | Nominee |
| 2021 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | Ryan North and Albert Monteys | Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios | Nominee |
| 2022 | George Orwell’s 1984: The Graphic Novel | George Orwell | Fido Nesti | Mariner Books | Winner |
| 2022 | After the Rain | Nnedi Okorafor | John Jennings and David Brame | Megascope/Abrams ComicArts | Nominee |
| 2022 | Bubble | Kurt Vonnegut | Jordan Morris, Sarah Morgan, and Tony Cliff | First Second/Macmillan | Nominee |
| 2022 | Disney Cruella: Black, White, and Red | | Hachi Ishie | VIZ Media | Nominee |
| 2022 | The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists | Robert Tressell | Sophie and Scarlett Rickard | SelfMadeHero | Nominee |
| 2023 | Chivalry | Neil Gaiman | Colleen Doran | Dark Horse Comics | Winner |
| 2023 | Rain | Joe Hill | David M. Booher and Zoe Thorogood | Syzygy/Image | Nominee |
| 2023 | Ten Days in a Madhouse | Nellie Bly | Brad Ricca and Courtney Sieh | Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster | Nominee |
| 2023 | Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album | Tori Amos | Rantz Hoseley (ed.) | Z2 | Nominee |
| 2023 | A Visit to Moscow | Rabbi Rafael Grossman | Anna Olswanger and Yevgenia Nayberg | Turner | Nominee |