Category: Excellence in Graphic Literature

[DENVER, June 10, 2024] — After months of careful evaluation by leading educators, librarians, and academics from across the country, the Denver-based arts and education nonprofit Pop Culture Classroom today announced the 7th annual Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Book of the Year and Mosaic Award winners.

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(June 4, 2024) — Just in time for summer reading, Pop Culture Classroom today announced its 7th annual Excellence in Graphic Literature (EGL) Awards category finalists and winners, along with finalists for the Book of the Year and Mosaic Award.

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Explore how Button Pusher by Tyler Page is teaching students about ADHD and the connection between thoughts, feelings, and decisions.

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[Denver, CO — Jan. 22, 2024] — Pop Culture Classroom today kicked off the seventh annual Excellence in Graphic Literature (EGL) Awards, inviting publishers and independent creators of graphic literature to submit their best titles from 2023 for consideration in this year’s EGL Awards.  

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[DENVER, MAY 30, 2023] – Pop Culture Classroom is proud to announce the finalists for the 6th Annual Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards. Celebrating the best in graphic literature across various categories, these awards recognize outstanding storytelling and artistic excellence within the industry.

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Pop Culture Classroom’s Awards are focused on graphic novels with educational value. For Immediate Release: Monday, Jan. 9, 2023 (Denver, CO) — The Denver-based education nonprofit Pop Culture Classroom today kicked off its sixth annual…

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The Denver-based educational nonprofit Pop Culture Classroom today announced the 2022 Winners of the organization’s fifth annual Excellence in Graphic Literature (EGL) Awards. “This year’s Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Winners are some of the…

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Each year, the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards celebrate the best in fiction and nonfiction graphic novels and comics. Finalists and winners are selected using a clearly defined and transparent process by juries and an advisory board comprised of diverse and informed professionals whose experiences span publishing, libraries, and education. 

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Today Pop Culture Classroom opened applications for student groups and community partners to get involved with the Denver-based education and community nonprofit’s programs at FAN EXPO Denver, July 1-3 at the Colorado Convention Center.

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“Our fifth EGL Awards is going to be special,” said Adam Kullberg, Interim Executive Director at Pop Culture Classroom. “We’re bringing back an in-person celebration — and, for the first time, offering readers a chance to vote on their favorite EGL Awards nominees.”

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In our previous post we covered why we believe the time is right for the EGL Awards. In today’s post we begin our ongoing series that introduces each of the awards, and gives you more…

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When we came together to create the Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards, the first question we asked was whether there was a need for such a thing; would it be different from all the other…

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Comics and graphic novels are taking a leading role in driving the circulation of libraries, and students are reading them from pre-K through higher education, in every learning environment possible. More today than ever before,…

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