“My Favorite Thing is Monsters” by Emil Ferris, published by Fantagraphics Books, has won the 2018 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year. Penn State University Libraries sponsors the juried annual award and its administrator, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. The jury, composed of Penn State faculty, alumni and students with graphic novel expertise, also named two honor books.
A working visit to Berlin led a Penn State Abington art professor to explore the Holocaust in a graphic novel.
Sarah Glidden, 2017 winner of the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year, will receive the award Sept. 28 for “Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq” and discuss how she began making comics and the creation of “Rolling Blackouts.” The award ceremony and author talk, open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.
“Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq” by Sarah Glidden has won the 2017 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year. Penn State University Libraries sponsors the juried award and its administrator, the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.
Nick Sousanis, the first person at Columbia University to produce a doctoral dissertation in comic book form, will receive the 2016 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year for “Unflattening.” Following the award presentation, he will speak about the importance of visual thinking in teaching and learning at 4 p.m. on Oct. 6 in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, on the University Park campus.
Penn State’s University Libraries and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book are pleased to announce that “Unflattening” by Nick Sousanis, published by Harvard University Press, has won the 2016 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year. The Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize is presented annually to the best graphic novel, fiction or nonfiction, published in the previous calendar year by a living U.S. or Canadian citizen or resident.
How can the story of the Civil War, one of America's most documented events, be told in a way that's fresh, accessible, and brief? Penn State historian Ari Kelman answered that challenge by turning to an unlikely literary form: the graphic novel.
Author Mariko Tamaki spoke Oct. 22 before receiving the 2015 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year in Paterno Library. Tamaki received the award, sponsored by the University Libraries and administered by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, on behalf of herself and her collaborator and cousin, artist Jillian Tamaki, for their coming-of-age graphic novel, “This One Summer.”
“This One Summer” author Mariko Tamaki will accept the University Libraries' 2015 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize also on behalf of her cousin, artist Jillian Tamaki, during a public presentation Oct. 22 in the Libraries' Foster Auditorium.
Penn State’s University Libraries and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book announced that “This One Summer” by Mariko Tamaki (writer) and Jillian Tamaki (artist), published by First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, has won the 2015 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year.
Jim Woodring, winner of the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year, will speak from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 19 in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.
Penn State University Libraries and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book are pleased to announce that "Big Questions" by Anders Nilsen, published by Drawn & Quarterly, has won the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year.
The Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize honors Ward's influence in the development of the graphic novel and celebrates the gift of an extensive collection of Ward's wood engravings, original book illustrations and other graphic art donated to the Libraries by his daughters Robin Ward Savage and Nanda Weedon Ward.
Graphic novel fans and cosplay enthusiasts will not want to miss the first Wildcat Comic Con, on April 13 and 14, at Penn State's Pennsylvania College of Technology (Penn College) in Williamsport, Pa. This event will be a great opportunity to meet writers and artists in person, get books signed and learn more about the world of graphic novels, comic books, manga, animation and videogames.
Penn State University Libraries and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book are pleased to announce that "Duncan the Wonder Dog" by Adam Hines, published by AdHouse Books, has won the inaugural Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year.
Jerry Zolten, associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State Altoona, recently was invited to serve on the inaugural award selection jury for the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize. The award is sponsored by the Penn State University Libraries and administered by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. It honors Ward's influence in the development of the graphic novel. The first award recipient will be announced in the spring.
