Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

The Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work is the Eisner Award for "creative achievement" in American comic books for academic publishing. Prior to the creation of the award academic works could be nominated for Best Comics-Related Book.

Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Awarded forBest Academic/Scholarly Work on Comic Books
CountryUnited States
First awarded2012
Most recent winnerEC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest by Qiana Whitted (2020)
Websitewww.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

Name changes

From 2012 to 2013 the award was named Best Educational/Academic Work. From 2014 to 2015 the award was named Best Scholarly/Academic Work. The award took on its current name in 2016.

Winners and nominees

Year Title Authors Ref.
2010s
2012 Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice (Yale University Press) Ivan Brunetti [1][2]
Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby (University Press of Mississippi) Charles Hatfield
Alan Moore: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi) edited by Eric Berlatsky
Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods (Routledge) edited by Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan
Projections: Comics and the History of 21st Century Storytelling (Stanford University Press) Jared Gardner
2013 Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass (University Press of Mississippi) Susan E. Kirtley [3][2]
Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures (University Press of Mississippi) Elisabeth El Refaie
Comics Versus Art (University of Toronto Press) Bart Beaty
Crockett Johnson & Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature (University Press of Mississippi) Philip Nel
The Poetics of Slumberland (University of California Press) Scott Bukatman
2014 Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation (Bloomsbury Publishing) edited by Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II [4][2]
Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920–1960 (McFarland & Company) Nathan Vernon Madison
Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art (University Press of Mississippi) edited by Jane Tolmie
International Journal of Comic Art edited by John A. Lent
The Superhero Reader (University Press of Mississippi) edited by Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester
2015 Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews (McFarland & Company) edited by Sarah Lightman [5][2]
American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife (Palgrave Macmillan) A. David Lewis
Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics (Rutgers University Press) Andrew Hoberek
Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books (University of California Press) Michael Barrier
The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay (University Press of Mississippi) Thierry Smolderen
Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay (University Press of Mississippi) Katherine Roeder
2016 The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers University Press) edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings [6][2]
Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan (University Press of Mississippi) edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker
Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State University Press) M. K. Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith
Superheroes on World Screens (University Press of Mississippi) edited by Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei-Ward
Unflattening (Harvard University Press) Nick Sousanis
2017 Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation (Bloomsbury Publishing) Carolyn Cocoa [7][2]
Brighter Than You Think: Ten Short Works by Alan Moore (Uncivilized Books) Marc Sobel
Forging the Past: Set and the Art of Memory (University Press of Mississippi) Daniel Marrone
Frank Miller’s Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism (Rutgers University Press) Paul Young
Pioneering Cartoonists of Color (University Press of Mississippi) Tim Jackson
2018 Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics (University of Arizona Press) Frederick Luis Aldama [8][2]
The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life (University Press of Mississippi) edited by Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics (Ohio State University Press) Kate Polak
Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin (LSU Press) Brannon Costello
Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics (University of Texas Press) edited by Mark Heimermann and Brittany Tullis
2019 Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet (Uncivilized Books) Anne Elizabeth Moore [9][10]
Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future (Ohio State University Press) Aaron Kashtan
Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies (University of Texas Press) Marc Singer
The Goat-Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics (Library of American Comics/IDW Publishing/Ohio State University Press) Eddie Campbell
Incorrigibles and Innocents, Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics (Rutgers University Press) Lara Saguisag
2020s
2020 EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest (Rutgers University Press) Qiana Whitted [11][12]
The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape, and Comics Form (University of Texas Press) Benjamin Fraser
The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets (University Press of Mississippi) Kevin Haworth
The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life (Library of America) edited by Andrew Blauner
Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid (Ohio State University Press) Christina Meyer
Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities (Palgrave Macmillan) edited by Fusami Ogi, Rebecca Suter, Kazumi Nagaike, and John A. Lent

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