Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Awarded forBest Academic/Scholarly Work on Comic Books
CountryUnited States
First awarded2012
Most recent winner (2021)The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging by Rebecca Wanzo
Websitewww.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

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.

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

Award winners and nominees
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2012 Ivan Brunetti Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice Yale University Press Winner [1]
Charles Hatfield Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby University Press of Mississippi Winner [1]
Eric Berlatsky (ed.) Alan Moore: Conversations University Press of Mississippi Nominee [2]
Jared Gardner Projections: Comics and the History of 21st Century Storytelling Stanford University Press Nominee [2]
Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan (eds.) Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods Routledge Nominee [2]
2013 Susan E. Kirtley Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass University Press of Mississippi Winner [1]
Bart Beaty Comics Versus Art University of Toronto Press Nominee [3]
Scott Bukatman The Poetics of Slumberland University of California Press Nominee [3]
Elisabeth El Refaie Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures University Press of Mississippi Nominee [3]
Philip Nel Crockett Johnson & Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature University Press of Mississippi Nominee [3]
2014 Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II (eds.) Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation Bloomsbury Publishing Winner [1][4]
Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester (eds.) The Superhero Reader University Press of Mississippi Nominee [4]
John A. Lent (ed.) International Journal of Comic Art Nominee [4]
Nathan Vernon Madison Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920–1960 McFarland & Company Nominee [4]
Jane Tolmie (ed.) Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art University Press of Mississippi Nominee [4]
2015 Sarah Lightman (ed.) Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews McFarland & Company Winner [1][5]
Michael Barrier Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books University of California Press Nominee [5]
Andrew Hoberek Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics Rutgers University Press Nominee [5]
A. David Lewis American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife Palgrave Macmillan Nominee [5]
Katherine Roeder Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay University Press of Mississippi Nominee [5]
Thierry Smolderen The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay University Press of Mississippi Nominee [5]
2016 Frances Gateward and John Jennings (eds.) The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art Rutgers University Press Winner [1][6]
M. K. Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith Graphic Medicine Manifesto Penn State University Press Nominee [6]
Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei-Ward (eds.) Superheroes on World Screens University Press of Mississippi Nominee [6]
Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker (eds.) Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan University Press of Mississippi Nominee [6]
Nick Sousanis Unflattening Harvard University Press Nominee [6]
2017 Carolyn Cocoa Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation Bloomsbury Publishing Winner [1][7]
Tim Jackson Pioneering Cartoonists of Color University Press of Mississippi Nominee
Daniel Marrone Forging the Past: Set and the Art of Memory University Press of Mississippi Nominee
Marc Sobel Brighter Than You Think: Ten Short Works by Alan Moore Uncivilized Books Nominee
Paul Young Frank Miller’s Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Rutgers University Press Nominee
2018 Frederick Luis Aldama Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics University of Arizona Press Winner [1]
Brannon Costello Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin LSU Press Nominee [8]
Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon (eds.) The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life University Press of Mississippi Nominee [8]
Mark Heimermann and Brittany Tullis (eds.) Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics University of Texas Press Nominee [8]
Kate Polak Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics Ohio State University Press Nominee [8]
2019 Anne Elizabeth Moore Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet Uncivilized Books Winner [9][10]
Eddie Campbell 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 Nominee [11]
Aaron Kashtan Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future Ohio State University Press Nominee [11]
Lara Saguisag Incorrigibles and Innocents, Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics Rutgers University Press Nominee [11]
Marc Singer Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies University of Texas Press Nominee [11]
2020 Qiana Whitted EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest Rutgers University Press Winner [12][13][14]
Andrew Blauner (ed.) The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life Library of America Nominee [15]
Benjamin Fraser The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape, and Comics Form University of Texas Press Nominee [15]
Kevin Haworth The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets University Press of Mississippi Nominee [15]
Christina Meyer Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid Ohio State University Press Nominee [15]
Fusami Ogi, Rebecca Suter, Kazumi Nagaike, and John A. Lent (eds.) Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities Palgrave Macmillan Nominee [15]
2021 Rebecca Wanzo The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging New York University Press Winner [16]
Neil Cohn Who Understands Comics: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension Bloomsbury Publishing Nominee [17]
Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty (eds.) Comic Studies: A Guidebook Rutgers University Press Nominee [17]
Sean Kleefeld Webcomics Bloomsbury Publishing Nominee [17]
Kim A. Munson (ed.) Comic Art in Museums University Press of Mississippi Nominee [17]
2022 Eike Exner Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History Rutgers University Press Winner [18][19]
Andrew J. Kunka The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth Rutgers University Press Nominee [18][19]
Zack Kruse   Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity University Press of Mississippi Nominee [18][19]
Paul S. Hirsch Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comics Imperialism University of Chicago Press Nominee [18][19]
David  Kunzle  Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847–1870 University Press of Mississippi Nominee [18][19]
2023 Josef Benson and Doug Singsen Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels University Press of Mississippi Nominee [20]
Erin La Cour and Anna Poletti (eds.) Graphic Medicine University of Hawaiʻi Press Nominee [20]
Katherine Kelp-Stebbins   How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies Ohio State University Press Nominee [20]
Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren (eds.) The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions University Press of Mississippi Nominee [20]
Tim Smyth Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels Routledge Nominee [20]

See also

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