Denver Public Library, Denver, CO.

Natalie Romano, Ashlan Christensen, Madison Hosack, and Juno Kling of the Denver Public Library, Denver, CO., and supported by the Denver Public Library Friends Foundation − Their project “Sequences of Connection: Fostering ownership and agency through diverse graphic novels at Urban Peak” will feature a series of graphic novel programs at Urban Peak, Denver's only shelter for youth experiencing homelessness. Planned programs include a book club and comic making as well as a youth-led curation of a permanent graphic novel collection at Urban Peak. Aimed at fostering community and providing spaces for self-expression, the project empowers youth experiencing homelessness to engage with graphic novels and sequential art, both as readers and creators.

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	Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grant for Libraries - Growth Grant 91��ý 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.”	2024 - Recipient(s)

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Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grant for Libraries - Growth Grant

91��ý

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.”

2024 - Recipient(s)