Sponsored by Diamond Comic Distributors, the American Library Association has announced the 2020 winners of the Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries award. The awards comprise of two grants.
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.
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