Phoebe Gloeckner Selected for Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame

Stamps Professor Phoebe Gloeckner has been selected to be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame in 2025. Gloeckner was among twenty comic pioneers selected for this honor, a cohort that ranges from newspaper and magazine cartoonists and Golden and Silver Age creators to international and underground comix greats and industry innovators.

To be eligible for the Hall of Fame, a person must have made a significant contribution to the comic book/​graphic storytelling medium, whether by creating a major character (or characters), producing memorable stories that are considered ​“classics,” having an art style that influenced numerous others, innovating storytelling devices in the medium, advancing comics publishing, or otherwise having a lasting influence on the industry. The person’s first professional work must have occurred at least 35 years before the year of the awards (that would be 1990, for this year’s awards). 

Gloeckner’s biography was noted in the nomination announcement:

Phoebe Gloeckner’s first comics work appeared in underground comix publications when she was in her teens. She continued to do stories for such titles as Weirdo, Young Lust, Buzzard, Wimmen’s Comix, and Twisted Sisters. In 1998, her quasi-autobiographical strips were collected in A Child’s Life, and her shattering The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2002) was later made into a film.

Selections were made by a panel of six judges: William Foster, Michael T. Gilbert, Karen Green, Alonso Nuñez, Jim Thompson, and Maggie Thompson. Hall of Fame trophies will be presented in a special ceremony at the San Diego Convention Center on the morning of July 25, 2025.

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