Backderf has won over 50 awards for his newspaper work , including a prestigious Bronze Medal from the Society of Newspaper Design . He was a member of the newsroom team for the '' Akron Beacon Journal '' that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 . In 2006 Derf won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for cartooning . He received the Prix Révélation at the 2014 Angoulême International Comics Festival in France . In 2016 , he won an Eisner Award for lettering for '' Trashed ''
Angoulême International Comics Festival
Angoulême International Comics Festival
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