Kish Guides: Graphic Novels & Comics: Eisner Award Winners

The Eisner Awards

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (Eisner Awards for short) are named for an early master of the comics medium. Awards are given in a number of categories, and are presented annually at the San Diego Comic-Con Convention. This page shows just a sample of the award-winners in over 30 categories that you can check out from the Kish Library.

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Eisner Winners for Best Single Issue/One-Shot

2016 - Silver Surfer #11: Never After by Dan Slott & MIchael Allred

2017 - Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, and Jill Thompson

2018 - Hellboy: Krampusnacht by Mike Mignola & Adam Hughes

2019 - Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, #310 by Chip Zdarsky

2020 - Our Favorite Thing Is My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

2021 - Sports Is Hell by Ben Passmore

2022 - Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick & Phil Jimenez

2023 - Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler by Tom King & Mitch Gerads

2024 - Nightwing #105 by Tom Taylor & Bruno Redondo

2025 - The War On Gaza by Joe Sacco

Eisner Winners for Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

2016 - Little Robot by Ben Hatke

2017 - Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea by Ben Clanton

2018 - Good Night, Planet by Liniers

2019 - Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream Computer by James Kochalka

2020 - Comics: Easy as ABC by Ivan Brunetti

2021 - Our Little Kitchen by Jillian Tamaki

2022 - Chibi Usagi: Attack of the Heebie Chibis by Julie & Stan Sakai

2023 - The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster by Mo Willems

2024 - Bigfoot and Nessie: The Art of Getting Noticed by Chelsea M. Campbell & Laura Knetzger

2025 - Hilda and Twig Hide From the Rain by Luke Pearson

Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream Computer by James Kochalka
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781684064618

Publication Date: 2018

Johnny Boo creates an incredible Ice Cream Computer that can turn anything into delicious ice cream. Old toys that you don't want to play with anymore? Ice cream! Clods of dirt and grass? Ice cream! It works great... until Squiggle decides to turn himself into ice cream! Then, Johnny Boo time-travels to the future, where the Mean Little Boy tries to add him to his butterfly collection. Can Squiggle save the day, or will everyone get turned into ice cream?
Chibi Usagi : attack of the heebie chibis by Julie & Stan Sakai
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

Publication Date: 2021

Stan Sakai’s enduring samurai masterpiece! Follow beloved rabbit ronin, Usagi Yojimbo, in a series of exciting adventures full of nonstop action and fun as he takes on a myriad of opponents, while never losing sight of the warrior’s code: truth, honor, loyalty, and sacrifice.

Eisner Winners for Best Publication for Kids (age 9-12)

2016 - Over the Garden Wall by Pat McHale, Amalia Levari, & JIm Campbell

2017 - Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

2018 - The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O'Neill

2019 - The Divided Earth by Faith Erin Hicks

2020 - Guts by Raina Telgemeier

2021 - Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang & Gurihiru

2022 - Salt Magic by Hope Larson & Rebecca Mock

2023 - Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega & Rose Bousamra

2024 - Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martin

2025 - Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol

Mexikid : a graphic memoir by Pedro. Martín (Illustrator)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9780593462287

Publication Date: 2023-08-01

Pedro Martín has grown up hearing stories about his abuelito--his legendary crime-fighting, grandfather who was once a part of the Mexican Revolution! But that doesn't mean Pedro is excited at the news that Abuelito is coming to live with their family. After all, Pedro has 8 brothers and sisters and the house is crowded enough! Still, Pedro piles into the Winnebago with his family for a road trip to Mexico to bring Abuelito home, and what follows is the trip of a lifetime, one filled with laughs and heartache. Along the way, Pedro finally connects with his abuelito and learns what it means to grow up and find his grito.

Eisner Winners for Best Publication for Teen (ages 13-17)

2016 - SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

2017 - The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North & Erica Henderson

2018 - Monstress by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

2019 - The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

2020 - Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O'Connell

2021 - Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang

2022 - The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor

2023 - Do a Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson

2024 - Danger and Other Unknown Risks by Ryan North & Erica Henderson

2025 - Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang & LeUyen Pham

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North & Erica Henderson
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781302481865

Publication Date: 2016

Collects The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1-4, Marvel Super-Heroes (1992) #8. Doctor Doom, Deadpool, even Thanos: There's one hero who's beaten them all - and now she's starring in her own series! That's right, it's SQUIRREL GIRL! The nuttiest and most upbeat super hero in the world is starting college! And as if meeting her new roommate and getting to class on time isn't hard enough, now she has to deal with Kraven the Hunter, too? At least her squirrel friend Tippy-Toe is on hand to help out. But what can one girl, and one squirrel, do when a hungry Galactus heads toward Earth? You'd be surprised! With time running out and Iron Man lending a helping hand (sort of), who will win in the battle between the Power Cosmic and the Power Chestnut? Plus: Squirrel Girl's classic debut!
Do a Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

Publication Date: 2022

Lona Steelrose wants to be a pro wrestler, but she's living under the shadow of her mother, the best to ever do it. Everything changes when a wrestling-obsessed necromancer asks her to join the grandest-and most dangerous-pro-wrestling tournament of all time! It's The Wrestler meets Dragonball Z in a tale where the competitors get more than they ever bargained for!

Eisner Winners for Best Humor Publication

2016 - Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection by Kate Beaton

2017 - Jughead by Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm

2018 - Baking With Kafka by Tom Gauld

2019 - Giant Days by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Julia Madrigal

2020 - The Way of the Househusband, Volume 1 by Kousuke Oono

2021 - Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen by Matt Fraction & Steve Lieber

2022 - Not All Robots by Mark Russell & Mike Deodato, Jr.

2023 - Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld

2024 - It's Jeff: The Jeff-Verse #1 by Kelly Thompson & Gurihiru

2025 - Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It by Tara Booth

Step Aside, Pops : a hark! a vagrant collection by Kate Beaton
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781770462083

Publication Date: 2015-09-15

Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips. Beaton began her infectiously popular web comic, Hark! A Vagrant, in 2007 and it quickly attracted the adoration of hundreds of thousands of fans. It was an unequivocal hit with critics and fans alike, topping best-of-the-year lists from E!, Amazon, Time, and more. Now Beaton returns with a refined pen, ready to make jokes at the expense of hunks, army generals, scientists, and Canadians in equal measure. With a few carefully placed lines, she captures the over-the-top evil of the straw feminists in the closet, the disgruntled dismay of Heathcliff, and Wonder Woman's all-conquering ennui. Step Aside, Pops is sure to be the comedic hit of the year: sharp, insightful, and very funny.
Giant Days, Vol. 1 by John Allison; Lissa Treiman (Illustrator); Whitney Cogar (Inked or colored by)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781613984604

Publication Date: 2015-11-18

Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends because their dorm rooms were next to each other. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.
The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 1 by Kousuke Oono
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781974709403

Publication Date: 2019-09-17

It's a day in the life of your average househusband--if your average househusband is the legendary yakuza "the Immortal Dragon"! A former yakuza legend leaves it all behind to become your everyday househusband. But it's not easy to walk away from the gangster life, and what should be mundane household tasks are anything but! He was the fiercest member of the yakuza, a man who left countless underworld legends in his wake. They called him "the Immortal Dragon." But one day he walked away from it all to travel another path--the path of the househusband! The curtain rises on this cozy yakuza comedy!

Eisner Winners for Best Reality-Based Work

2016 - March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, & Nate Powell

2017 - March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, & Nate Powell

2018 - Spinning by Tillie Walden

2019 - Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman by Box Brown

2020 - They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, & Harmony Becker

2021 - Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf

2022 - The Black Panther Party: A Graphic HIstory by David F. Walker & Marcus Kwame Anderson

2023 - Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis & Hannah Templer

2024 - Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith

2025 - Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the U.S. by Caitlin Cass

March: Book Two by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: Children's E840.8.L43 A34 2015

ISBN: 9781603094009

Publication Date: 2015-01-20

Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, inspired by a 1950s comic book that helped prepare his own generation to join the struggle. Now, March brings the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence - but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before. Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the movement's young activists place their lives on the line while internal conflicts threaten to tear them apart. But their courage will attract the notice of powerful allies, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy... and once Lewis is elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, this 23-year-old will be thrust into the national spotlight, becoming one of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement and a central figure in the landmark 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
March: Book Three by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: Children's E840.8.L43 A343 2016

ISBN: 9781603094023

Publication Date: 2016-08-02

Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. By the fall of 1963, the Civil Rights Movement has penetrated deep into the American consciousness, and as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, John Lewis is guiding the tip of the spear. Through relentless direct action, SNCC continues to force the nation to confront its own blatant injustice, but for every step forward, the danger grows more intense- Jim Crow strikes back through legal tricks, intimidation, violence, and death. The only hope for lasting change is to give voice to the millions of Americans silenced by voter suppression- "One Man, One Vote." To carry out their nonviolent revolution, Lewis and an army of young activists launch a series of innovative campaigns, including the Freedom Vote, Mississippi Freedom Summer, and an all-out battle for the soul of the Democratic Party waged live on national television. With these new struggles come new allies, new opponents, and an unpredictable new president who might be both at once. But fractures within the movement are deepening ... even as 25-year-old John Lewis prepares to risk everything in a historic showdown high above the Alabama river, in a town called Selma.
They Called Us Enemy by Justin Eisinger; Steven Scott; Harmony Becker; George Takei
Call Number: EBSCOhost Ebooks

ISBN: 1603094709

Publication Date: 2020-08-25

George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his magnetic performances, sharp wit, and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's -- and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the terrors and small joys of childhood in the shadow of legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's tested faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do? To answer these questions, George Takei joins cowriters Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker for the journey of a lifetime.
Kent State : four dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781683358619

Publication Date: 2020-09-08

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, four students were killed and nine shot and wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children--a shocking event burned into our national memory. The fatal shootings triggered immediate and massive outrage on campuses around the country. More than four million students participated in organized walkouts at hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools, the largest student strike in the history of the United States at that time. It was a day that shocked the nation and helped turn the tide of public opinion against America's war in Vietnam. A few days prior, 10-year-old Derf Backderf saw those same guardsmen patrolling his nearby hometown, sent in by the governor to crush a trucker strike. Using the journalism skills he employed on My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, Backderf has conducted extensive interviews and research to explore the lives of these four young people and the events of those four days in May, when the country seemed on the brink of tearing apart. In this award-winning and powerful graphic novel, Derf Backderf takes us back to the age of the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon, Woodstock, and the Cold War and explores, in words and images, a scene of tragedy: the campus of Kent State University, where National Guard Troops attacked unarmed protestors and killed four students (Allison Beth Krause, age 19, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, age 20, Sandra Lee Scheuer, age 20, and William Knox Schroeder, age 19).

Eisner Winners for Best Graphic Memoir

This award was only recently separated from Best Reality-Based Work.

2021 - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine

2022 - Run: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell

2023 - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

2024 - Family Style: Memories of an American From Vietnam by Thien Pham

2025 - Feeding Ghosts: a Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls

Run: Book one by L. Fury (Illustrator); Nate Powell (Illustrator); John Lewis; Andrew Aydin
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781683353829

Publication Date: 2021-08-03

The sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel series March--the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Selma voting rights campaign. To John Lewis, the civil rights movement came to an end with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. But that was after more than five years as one of the preeminent figures of the movement, leading sit-in protests and fighting segregation on interstate busways as an original Freedom Rider. It was after becoming chairman of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and being the youngest speaker at the March on Washington. It was after helping organize the Mississippi Freedom Summer and the ensuing delegate challenge at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. And after coleading the march from Selma to Montgomery on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." All too often, the depiction of history ends with a great victory. But John Lewis knew that victories are just the beginning. In Run: Book One, John Lewis and longtime collaborator Andrew Aydin reteam with Nate Powell--the award-winning illustrator of the March trilogy--and are joined by L. Fury--making an astonishing graphic novel debut--to tell this often-overlooked chapter of civil rights history.

Eisner Winners for Best Graphic Album--New

2016 - Ruins by Peter Kuper

2017 - Wonder Woman: The True Amazon by Jill Thompson

2018 - My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

2019 - My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips

2020 - Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden

2021 - Pulp by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips

2022 - Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith

2023 - The Night Eaters, Book 1: She Eats the NIght by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

2024 - Roaming by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki

2025 - Lunar New Year Love Storyby Gene Luen Yang & LeUyen Pham

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Call Number: PN6727.F4646 M9 2017

ISBN: 9781606999592

Publication Date: 2017-02-14

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen's investigation takes us back to Anka's life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker; Sean Phillips (Illustrator)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781534312524

Publication Date: 2018-10-10

Teenage Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts. The tragic, artistic souls drawn to needles and pills have been an obsession since the death of her junkie mother ten years ago. But when Ellie lands in an upscale rehab clinic where nothing is what it appears to be, she 'll find another, more dangerous romance and find out how easily drugs and murder go hand-in-hand. MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES is a seductive coming-of-age story, a pop and drug culture-fueled tale of a young girl seeking darkness and what she finds there. This gorgeous, must-have hardback is the first original graphic novel from ED BRUBAKERand SEAN PHILLIPS, the bestselling creators of CRIMINAL,KILL OR BE KILLED, THE FADE OUT, FATALE, and INCOGNITO.
Pulp by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

Publication Date: 2020

Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word-tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past? One part thriller, one part meditation on a life of violence, PULP is unlike anything award-winning BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS have ever done before. This celebration of pulp fiction set in a world on the brink is another must-have hardcover from one of comics' most acclaimed teams.

Eisner Winners for Best Comics-Related Book

2016 - Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America by Bill Schelly

2017 - Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White by Michael Tisserand

2018 - How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels by Paul Karasik & Mark Newgarden

2019 - Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists by Martha H. Kennedy

2020 - Making Comics by Lynda Barry

2021 - Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books by Ken Quattro

2022 - All of the Marvels by Douglas Wolk

2023 - Charles M Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects by Benjamin L Clark & Nat Gertler

2024 - I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molder

2025 - Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund by Caitlin McGurk

Making Comics by Lynda Barry
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781770463691

Publication Date: 2019-11-05

Hello students, meet Professor Skeletor. Be on time, don't miss class, and turn off your phones. No time for introductions, we start drawing right away. The goal is more rock, less talk, and we communicate only through images. For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged. Making Comics is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling Syllabus, and this time she shares all her comics-making exercises. In a new hand-drawn syllabus detailing her creative curriculum, Barry has students drawing themselves as monsters and superheroes, convincing students who think they can't draw that they can, and, most important, encouraging them to understand that a daily journal can be anything so long as it is hand drawn. Barry teaches all students and believes everyone and anyone can be creative. At the core of Making Comics is her certainty that creativity is vital to processing the world around us.
Invisible Men: the trailblazing black artists of comic books by Ken Quattro
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781684069125

Publication Date: 2020

Read about the riveting stories of Black artists who drew, mostly behind the scenes, superhero, horror, and romance comics in the early years of the industry. The life stories of each man's personal struggles and triumphs are represented as they broke through into a world formerly occupied only by white artists. Using primary source material from World War II-era Black newspapers and magazines, this compelling book profiles pioneers like E.C. Stoner, a descendant of one of George Washington's slaves. Stoner became a renowned fine artist of the Harlem Renaissance. Perhaps more fascinating is Owen Middleton who was sentenced to life in Sing Sing. Then there is Matt Baker, the most revered of the Black artists, whose exquisite art spotlights stunning women and men, and who drew the first groundbreaking Black comic book hero, Vooda! Gorgeously illustrated with rare examples of each artist's work, including full stories from mainstream comic books to rare titles like All-Negro Comics and Negro Heroes, plus unpublished artist's photos and art. Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books features Ken Quattro's over 20 years of impeccable research and writing. The social and cultural environments that formed these extraordinary artists are deftly detailed by Quattro in this must-have book!
All of the Marvels by Douglas Wolk
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9780735222168

Publication Date: 2021-10-12

The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Everyone recognizes its protagonists. Eighteen of the hundred highest-grossing movies of all time are based on parts of it. And Douglas Wolk has read the whole thing. Wolk sees both into the ever-expanding story and through it, as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture. In his hands, the mammoth Marvel narrative becomes a fun-house-mirror history of the past sixty years--a boisterous, tragicomic, magnificently filigreed epic about power and ethics, set in a world transformed by wonders. A huge treat for Marvel fans, this book is also a revelation for readers who don't know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels.

Eisner Winners for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

2016 - The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art edited by Frances Gateward & John Jennings

2017 - Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation by Carolyn Cocca

2018 - Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics by Frederick Luis Aldama

2019 - Sweet Little C*nt: the Graphic Work of Julie Doucet by Anne Elizabeth Moore

2020 - EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest by Qiana Whitted

2021 - The Content of Our Caricature: African Ameircan Comic Art and Political Belonging by Rebecca Wanzo

2022 - Comics and the Origins of Manga: a Revisionist History by Eike Exner

2023 - The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions edited by Alison Halsall & Jonathan Warren

2024 - The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men by J. Andrew Deman

2025 - Drawing (In) the Feminine: Bande Dessinee and Women edited by Margaret C Flinn

The Blacker the Ink : constructions of black identity in comics and sequential art by Frances Gateward (Editor, Contribution by); Andre Carrington (Contribution by); Reynaldo Anderson (Contribution by); Blair Davis (Contribution by); Kinohi Nishikawa (Contribution by); Qiana Whitted (Contribution by); Craig Fischer (Contribution by); Hershini Bhana Young (Contribution by); James J. Zeigler (Contribution by); Rebecca Wanzo (Contribution by); John Jennings (Editor, Contribution by); Daniel F. Yezbick (Contribution by); Sally McWilliams (Contribution by); Patrick F. Walter (Contribution by); Nancy Goldstein (Contribution by); Robin Means Coleman (Contribution by); William Lafi Youmans (Contribution by); Consuela Francis (Contribution by)
Call Number: EBSCOhost Ebooks

ISBN: 9780813572369

Publication Date: 2015-07-16

When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerged. But as this exciting new collection reveals, these superhero comics are only one small component in a wealth of representations of black characters within comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels over the past century. The Blacker the Ink is the first book to explore not only the diverse range of black characters in comics, but also the multitude of ways that black artists, writers, and publishers have made a mark on the industry. Organized thematically into "panels" in tribute to sequential art published in the funny pages of newspapers, the fifteen original essays take us on a journey that reaches from the African American newspaper comics of the 1930s to the Francophone graphic novels of the 2000s. Even as it demonstrates the wide spectrum of images of African Americans in comics and sequential art, the collection also identifies common character types and themes running through everything from the strip The Boondocks to the graphic novel Nat Turner. Though it does not shy away from examining the legacy of racial stereotypes in comics and racial biases in the industry, The Blacker the Ink also offers inspiring stories of trailblazing African American artists and writers. Whether you are a diehard comic book fan or a casual reader of the funny pages, these essays will give you a new appreciation for how black characters and creators have brought a vibrant splash of color to the world of comics.
Superwomen : gender, power, and representation by Carolyn Cocca
Call Number: EBSCOhost Ebooks

ISBN: 9781501316579

Publication Date: 2016-09-08

Over the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed most often as male, heterosexual, white, and able-bodied. Today, a time when many of these characters are billion-dollar global commodities, there are more female superheroes, more queer superheroes, more superheroes of color, and more disabled superheroes--but not many more. Superwomen investigates how and why female superhero characters have become more numerous but are still not-at-all close to parity with their male counterparts; how and why they have become a flashpoint for struggles over gender, sexuality, race, and disability; what has changed over time and why in terms of how these characters have been written, drawn, marketed, purchased, read, and reacted to; and how and why representations of superheroes matter, particularly to historically underrepresented and stereotyped groups. Specifically, the book explores the production, representations, and receptions of prominent transmedia female superheroes from their creation to the present: Wonder Woman; Batgirl and Oracle; Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Star Wars' Padmé Amidala, Leia Organa, Jaina Solo, and Rey; and X-Men's Jean Grey, Storm, Kitty Pryde, Rogue, and Mystique. It analyzes their changing portrayals in comics, novels, television shows, and films, as well as how cultural narratives of gender have been negotiated through female superheroes by creators, consumers, and parent companies over the last several decades.
EC Comics : race, shock, & social protest by Qiana Whitted
Call Number: EBSCOhost Ebooks

ISBN: 9780813573106

Publication Date: 2019-03-08

Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company's other titles, Mad magazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of comics: the so-called "preachies," socially conscious stories that boldly challenged the conservatism and conformity of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection of these works--sensationally-titled comics such as "Hate!," "The Guilty!," and "Judgment Day!"--and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice in America. Putting these socially aware stories into conversation with EC's better-known horror stories, Qiana Whitted discovers surprising similarities between their narrative, aesthetic, and marketing strategies. She also recounts the controversy that these stories inspired and the central role they played in congressional hearings about offensive content in comics. The first serious critical study of EC's social issues comics, this book will give readers a greater appreciation of their legacy. They not only served to inspire future comics creators, but also introduced a generation of young readers to provocative ideas and progressive ideals that pointed the way to a better America.
The Content of Our Caricature : African American comic art and political belonging by Rebecca Wanzo
Call Number: EBSCOhost Ebooks

ISBN: 1479840084

Publication Date: 2020-04-21

Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head Revealing the long aesthetic tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice, Rebecca Wanzo demonstrates how these artists have resisted histories of visual imperialism and their legacies. Moving beyond binaries of positive and negative representation, many black cartoonists have used caricatures to criticize constructions of ideal citizenship in the United States, as well as the alienation of African Americans from such imaginaries. The Content of Our Caricature urges readers to recognize how the wide circulation of comic and cartoon art contributes to a common language of both national belonging and exclusion in the United States. Historically, white artists have rendered white caricatures as virtuous representations of American identity, while their caricatures of African Americans are excluded from these kinds of idealized discourses. Employing a rich illustration program of color and black-and-white reproductions, Wanzo explores the works of artists such as Sam Milai, Larry Fuller, Richard "Grass" Green, Brumsic Brandon Jr., Jennifer Cruté, Aaron McGruder, Kyle Baker, Ollie Harrington, and George Herriman, all of whom negotiate and navigate this troublesome history of caricature. The Content of Our Caricature arrives at a gateway to understanding how a visual grammar of citizenship, and hence American identity itself, has been constructed.
Comics and the Origins of Manga : a revisionist history by Eike Exner
Call Number: EBSCOhost Ebooks

ISBN: 9781978827233

Publication Date: 2021-11-12

Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Orientalist framework, treating manga as the exotic antithesis to American and European comics. In reality, the history of manga is deeply intertwined with Japan's avid importation of Western technology and popular culture in the early twentieth century. Comics and the Origins of Manga reveals how popular U.S. comics characters like Jiggs and Maggie, the Katzenjammer Kids, Felix the Cat, and Popeye achieved immense fame in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Modern comics had earlier developed in the United States in response to new technologies like motion pictures and sound recording, which revolutionized visual storytelling by prompting the invention of devices like speed lines and speech balloons. As audiovisual entertainment like movies and record players spread through Japan, comics followed suit. Their immediate popularity quickly encouraged Japanese editors and cartoonists to enthusiastically embrace the foreign medium and make it their own, paving the way for manga as we know it today. By challenging the conventional wisdom that manga evolved from centuries of prior Japanese art and explaining why manga and other comics around the world share the same origin story, Comics and the Origins of Manga offers a new understanding of this increasingly influential artform.

Eisner Awards for Best Continuing Series

2016 - Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron & Jason Latour

2017 - Saga by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

2018 - Monstress by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

2019 - Giant Days by John Allison, Max Sarin, & Julia Madrigal

2020 - Bitter Root by David Walker, Chuck Brown, & Sanford Greene

2021 - Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai

2022 - Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV & Werther Dell'Edera

2023 - Nightwing by Tom Taylor & Bruno Redondo

2024 - Transformers by Daniel Warren Johnson

2025 - Santos Sisters by Greg & Fake, Graham Smith, Dave Landsberger, & Mark Koprinarov

Southern Bastards, Vol. 1 by Jason Aaron; Jason Latour (Illustrator)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781632152190

Publication Date: 2014-10-01

Welcome to Craw County, Alabama, home of Boss BBQ, the state champion Runnin ' Rebs football team...and more bastards than you 've ever seen. When you 're an angry old man like Earl Tubb, the only way to survive a place like this...is to carry a really big stick. COLLECTS SOUTHERN BASTARDS #1-4.
Monstress, Vol. 1 by Marjorie Liu; Sana Takeda (Illustrator)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781534300699

Publication Date: 2016-07-13

Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900 's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steampunk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both. Entertainment Weekly praised MONSTRESS as one of "Image Comics " most imaginative and daring new series and dubbed it the "Best New Original Series " in their year-end Best Comics of 2015î list. Collects MONSTRESS #1-6
Giant Days, Vol. 1 by John Allison; Lissa Treiman (Illustrator); Whitney Cogar (Inked or colored by)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781613984604

Publication Date: 2015-11-18

Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends because their dorm rooms were next to each other. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.
Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business by David F. Walker; Chuck Brown; Sanford Greene (Illustrator)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781534314719

Publication Date: 2019-05-15

Once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, the Sangerye family specialized in curing the souls of those infected by hate. But those days are fading. A terrible tragedy has claimed most of the family, leaving the surviving cousins divided between by the desire to cure monsters or to kill them. Now, though, there 's a new breed of monster loose on the streets of Harlem, and the Sangerye family must either come together or watch the human race fall to untold evil. Collects BITTER ROOT #1-5
Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781506745138

Publication Date: 2020

A collection of fan-favorite short stories from the world of Usagi Yojimbo—a perfect introduction and celebration of the rabbit hero!Celebrating Usagi Yojimbo’s 40th anniversary, this value-priced collection includes eight fan-favorite and Stan Sakai-picked short stories in color starring the beloved rabbit ronin! Perfect for longtime fans and newcomers to the series, the Usagi Yojimbo: 40th Anniversary Reader collection includes the popular short story “Chanoyu” in color for the first time!Featuring Stan Sakai’s award-winning art and storytelling and expert hand lettering, with colors by Emi Fujii, Tom Luth, and Ronda Pattison.Collects “A Mother’s Love,” “Blade of the Gods,” “The Way of the Samurai,” “Chanoyu,” “Cut the Plum,” “The Artist,” “Buntori,” and “Adachi”.
Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV & Werther Dell'Edera
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781641447249

Publication Date: 2021

When the children of Archer's Peak begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. The few children that return alive have terrible stories-impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only adult who sees what they can see. Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it must be done.
Transformers Vol. 1 by Daniel Warren Johnson (Illustrator); Mike Spicer (Illustrator)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781534362383

Publication Date: 2024-05-08

THE TRANSFORMERS JOIN THE ENERGON UNIVERSE!? Optimus Prime was supposed to have led the Autobots to victory. Instead, the fate of Cybertron is unknown, and his allies have crash-landed far from home, alongside their enemies--the Decepticons.? As these titanic forces renew their war on Earth, one thing is immediately clear: the planet will never be the same. New alliances are struck. Battle lines are redrawn. And humanity's only hope of survival is Optimus Prime.? Superstar creator DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON (DO A POWERBOMB!, Wonder Woman: Dead Earth), alongside showrunner ROBERT KIRKMAN (THE WALKING DEAD, INVINCIBLE), reimagines Hasbro's robots in disguise for a brand-new generation.? Featuring a Direct Market Exclusive cover by JONBOY MEYERS that will only be printed once. Collects TRANSFORMERS #1-6?

Eisner Awards for Best New Series

2016 - Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang

2017 - Black Hammer by Jeff Lemire & Dean Ormston

2018 - Black Bolt by Saladin Ahmed & Christian Ward

2019 - Gideon Falls by Jeff Lemire & Andrea Sorrentino

2020 - Invisible Kingdom by G. Willow Wilson & Christian Ward

2021 - Black Widow by Kelly Thompson & Elena Casagrande

2022 - The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV & Alvaro Martinez Bueno

2023 - Public Domain by Chip Zdarsky

2024 - Somna: a Bedtime Story by Becky Cloonan & Tula Lotay

2025 - Absolute Wonder Woman by Kelly Thompson & Hayden Sherman

Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan; Cliff Chiang (Illustrator); Matt Wilson (Illustrator)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781632158574

Publication Date: 2016-03-30

In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood. Collects PAPER GIRLS #1-5.
Black Hammer by Jeff Lemire & Dean Ormston
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781506710723

Publication Date: 2016

The first chapter of the highly acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning superhero saga in deluxe, oversized hardcover format. Collects the first and second volumes of Black Hammer, and Black Hammer: Giant Sized Annual in a digital format with a new cover, sketchbook extras, and more! Mysteriously banished from existence by a multiversal event, the old superheroes of Spiral City now lead simple lives on a bizarre farm from which there is no escape! But as they employ all of their super abilities to free themselves from this strange purgatory, a mysterious stranger works to bring them back into action for one last adventure!
Black Bolt by Saladin Ahmed & Christian Ward
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781302501488

Publication Date: 2017

The king of the Inhumans has been imprisoned! But where? Why has he been jailed? And who could be powerful enough to hold the uncanny Black Bolt? The answers will shock you - and Blackagar Boltagon as well! For if he is to learn the truth, he must first win a fight to the death against a fellow inmate: the Absorbing Man! As a prison revolt begins, Death's Head enters the fray - but is he there to help, or to hunt? And who - or what - is the warden of this strange place? Whatever it is, the Jailer knows only penance and fear. And soon, so will the Silent King! Award-winning sci-fi writer Saladin Ahmed crafts a story fit for the mind-bending art of Christian Ward!
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: Black Barn by Jeff Lemire; Andrea Sorrentino (Illustrator)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781534312579

Publication Date: 2018-10-17

From the bestselling creative team behind Old Man Logan and Green Arrow comes a character-driven meditation on obsession, mental illness, and faith. The legend of the Black Barn an otherworldly building alleged to have appeared and reappeared throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake ensnares and entwines the lives of two very different men. Plus, this collection includes a variant cover gallery from some of comics best artists, including CLIFF CHIANG (PAPER GIRLS), JOCK (WYTCHES), SKOTTIE YOUNG (I HATE FAIRYLAND), and more! Collects GIDEON FALLS #1-6
Invisible Kingdom by G. Willow Wilson & Christian Ward
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781506712918

Publication Date: 2019

In a small solar system in a far-flung galaxy, two women--one a young religious acolyte and the other, a hard-bitten freighter pilot--uncover a conspiracy between the leaders of the most dominant religion and an all-consuming mega-corporation. On the run from reprisals on both sides, this unlikely pair must decide where their loyalties lie--and risk plunging the world into anarchy if they reveal the truth. One of AV Club's most anticipated comics of 2019! Collects Invisible Kingdom #1 - #5.
Black Widow by Kelly Thompson & Elena Casagrande
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781302528713

Publication Date: 2020

Something is very wrong with Natasha. She's…happy?! She's reveling in the perfect life she never dreamed she could have. But scratching the surface of that peaceful existence reveals something very wrong lurking beneath it - and a woman like Nat just can't help but scratch. Beyond the Golden Gate Bridge lies a mystery only the Marvel Universe's greatest spy can solve, but doing so will be the most emotional adventure of her long life! As the Black Widow adjusts to a revised status quo in San Francisco, allies old and new will help her target a mysterious emerging threat in the city by the bay - a dangerous villain known only as Apogee. But even more deadly is the Living Blade - the one skeleton in Natasha's closet she hoped she'd never encounter again!
Public Domain by Chip Zdarsky
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

Publication Date: 2022

Syd Dallas is responsible for pop culture's greatest hero: THE DOMAIN! But his sons Miles and David have a complicated relationship with both the creation and their creator. Can they convince their dad to fight for their family's legacy? This fun and heartfelt series written and illustrated by Eisner winner CHIP ZDARSKY (SEX CRIMINALS, Daredevil) explores a WILD ALTERNATE WORLD where comic book creators aren't properly acknowledged or compensated for their creations!! Crazy, I know!!

Eisner Awards for Best Limited Series

2016 - The Fade Out by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips

2017 - The Vision by Tom King & Gabriel Walta

2018 - Black Panther: World of Wakanda by Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, & Alitha E Martinez

2019 - Mister Miracle by Tom King & Mitch Gerads

2020 - Little Bird by Darcy Van Poelgeest & Ian Bertram

2021 - Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen by Matt Fraction & Steve Lieber

2022 - The Good Asian by Pornsak Pichetshote & Alexandre Tefenkgi

2023 - The Human Target by Tom King & Greg Smallwood

2024 - PeePee PooPoo by Caroline Cash

2025 - Zatanna: Bring Down the House by Mariko Tamaki & Javier Rodriguez

The Fade Out, Vol. 1 by Ed Brubaker; Sean Phillips (Illustrator); Elizabeth Breitweiser (Illustrator)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781632153906

Publication Date: 2015-02-25

BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' newest hit series, THE FADE OUT is an epic noir set in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the end of its Golden Era. A movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star and the lookalike hired to replace her. Nothing is what it seems in the place where only lies are true. THE FADE OUT is BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' most ambitious project yet.
Little Bird: the Fight for Elder's Hope by Darcy Van Poelgeest; Ian Bertram (Illustrator)
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781534316300

Publication Date: 2019-11-20

With the limitless scope of Star Wars and EAST OF WEST paired with the sociopolitical explorations of A Handmaid 's Tale and MONSTRESS, LITTLE BIRD tells the story of a young resistance fighter battling against an oppressive American Empire while searching for her own identity in a world on fire. A gorgeously illustrated epic from Award-winning filmmaker DARCY VAN POELGEEST and Angoul me-nominated artist IAN BERTRAM in which one girl risks everything to save her people, their land, and the freedom they so desperately deserve. Collects LITTLE BIRD #1-5
The Good Asian by Pornsak Pichetshote & Alexandre Tefenkgi
Call Number: OverDrive eBooks

ISBN: 9781534322028

Publication Date: 2021

Following Edison Hark-a haunted, self-loathing Chinese-American detective-on the trail of a killer in 1936 Chinatown, THE GOOD ASIAN is Chinatown noir starring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban, the Chinese, as they're besieged by rampant murders, abusive police, and a world that seemingly never changes. Collects THE GOOD ASIAN #1-4, plus covers by SANA TAKEDA, ANNIE WU, JEN BARTEL, DAVE JOHNSON, and more.

Winners for Best Writer

Sandman : Vol 1 Preludes and Nocturnes by N. Gaiman
Call Number: PN6728.S26 G35 2010

ISBN: 9781401225759

Publication Date: 2010-10-19

An occultist attempting to capture the physical embodiment of Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his seventy-year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power to reclaim his reign. From there, one of the greatest series in the history of the graphic novel genre begins... New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series The Sandman is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in comics storytelling. Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairy tales with his own distinct narrative vision. This graphic novel--a perfect jumping-on points for any reader--includes the introductions of Morpheus, Lucifer and The Endless, all intricate parts of this enduring series that is still as relevant today as ever. Includes issues #1-8 of the original series with completely new coloring, approved by the author.
Batman : The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Call Number: PN6728.B36 M663 2008

ISBN: 9781401216672

Publication Date: 2008-03-19

Presented for the first time with stark, stunning new coloring by Bolland, Batman: The Killing Joke is Alan Moore's unforgettable meditation on the razor-thin line between sanity and insanity, heroism and villainy, comedy and tragedy. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as The Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. And he's going to use Gotham City's top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it. Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight's closest friends. Can he finally put an end to the cycle of bloodlust and lunacy that links these two iconic foes before it leads to its fatal conclusion? And as the horrifying origin of the Clown Prince of Crime is finally revealed, will the thin line that separates Batman's nobility and The Joker's insanity snap once and for all? Legendary writer Alan Moore redefined the super-hero with Watchmen and V for Vendetta. In Batman: The Killing Joke, he takes on the origin of comics' greatest super-villain, The Joker--and changes Batman's world forever. Stunningly illustrated, Batman: The Killing Joke, The Deluxe Edition has been lushly re-colored by artist Brian Bolland, presenting his original vision of this modern classic for the first time.
From Hell : being a melodrama in sixteen parts by Alan Moore; Eddie Campbell (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN6737.M6 F7 2006

ISBN: 0958578346

Publication Date: 2004-05-01

Alan Moore (Watchmen) and Eddie Campbell (Bacchus), grandmasters of the comics medium, present a book often ranked among the greatest graphic novels of all time: From Hell. From the squalid alleys of the East End to the Houses of Parliament, from church naves to dens of the occult, all of London feels the uniquely irresistable blend of fascination, revulsion, and panic that the Ripper offers. The city teeters on the brink of the twentieth century, and only the slightest prodding is necessary to plunge it into a modern age of terror. Moore and Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell is a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction.