The slate of 2024 Eisner Award decide have been introduced as as normal they’re an impressive group of comics professionals, protecting educators, librarians, retailing and creators: Ryan Claytor, N.C. Christopher Couch, Andréa Gilroy, Joe Illidge, Matias Lewis and Jillian Rudes.
Somewhat notable: librarian Jillian Rudes is likely one of the foremost expertson Manga within the US – it must be fascinating to see if manga makes itself felt in different classes this yr.
Ryan Claytor is the coordinator of the Comic Art and Graphic Novel minor and assistant professor at Michigan State University, the place he teaches Comics Studio programs and spearheaded the event of the interdisciplinary Comics minor between the Art and English departments. As a cartoonist, Claytor’s achievements have included six Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo prizes and two nominations for the Ringo Comic Industry Award. He is understood for his award-winning self-published nonfiction comics, together with his autobiographical sequence And Then One Day, in addition to his collaborative work on Coin-Op Carnival: Electrifying Tales of Mechanical Contraptions and A Hunter’s Tale.
N. C. Christopher Couch is a professor (Ph.D. Columbia U), writer, curator, and veteran comedian e book and graphic novel editor. His books embrace Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics (Abrams ComicArts) and The Will Eisner Companion (with Steve Weiner, DC Comics). At UMass Amherst, Amherst College, and the School of Visual Arts he teaches programs on comics, graphic novels, science fiction, movie, and Native American artwork historical past. He has curated exhibitions on the American Museum of Natural History, Smith College Museum, and UMass. He was senior editor at Kitchen Sink Press and editor-in-chief at CPM Manga.
Andréa Gilroy is the proprietor of Books With Pictures Eugene, Oregon. Before opening her store, Andréa labored in academia, incomes her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Oregon in 2015 after finishing a dissertation inspecting comics historical past and the best way comics characterize identification. She has labored as a comics educator, together with performing as 2016–17 interim director of the University of Oregon Comics & Cartoon Studies Program. She additionally served on the board of International Comics Art Forum and as an assistant curator on the primary two Marvel: A Universe of Superheroes exhibitions. In 2020 she pivoted to retail, constructing an area that makes use of the facility of comics and the eagerness of followers to construct group.
Joseph Illidge’s profession in comics ranges from the groundbreaking writer Milestone to DC Comics’ Batman franchise to Heavy Metal journal. He is the author of the newly introduced Harriet Tubman middle-grade graphic novel for HarperCollins, the MPLS Sound historic fiction graphic novel about Prince and 80s music from Humanoids, and co-author of the Judge Kim and the Kids Court sequence of kids’s graphic novels from Simon & Schuster. He is a board member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Mathias Lewis has been part of the comedian e book Industry for over 25 years, as a retailer, journalist, author, flatter, and direct market guide. He is the proprietor of San Marcos, CA’s Knowhere Games and Comics.
Jillian Rudes is the founding father of Manga in Libraries, a company that gives manga readers’ advisory lists and hosts manga webinars, workshops, and panels. In 2023, her e book Manga in Libraries: A Guide for Teen Librarians was revealed by the American Library Association. She presently serves as the college librarian at a grade 6–12 public college in New York City. Jillian instructs a manga course on the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College and is the present recipient of an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) analysis grant, specializing in teenage BIPOC readers of manga.
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