The Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work is the Eisner Award for "creative achievement" in American comic books for academic publishing. Before 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 nomineesYearAuthorTitlePublisherResultRef.2012Cartooning: Philosophy & PracticeYale University PressWinnerHand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack KirbyUniversity Press of MississippiWinner (ed.)Alan Moore: ConversationsUniversity Press of MississippiNomineeProjections: Comics and the History of 21st Century StorytellingStanford University PressNominee and Randy Duncan (eds.)Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and MethodsRoutledgeNominee2013Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking GlassUniversity Press of MississippiWinnerComics Versus ArtUniversity of Toronto PressNomineeUniversity of California PressNomineeAutobiographical Comics: Life Writing in PicturesUniversity Press of MississippiNomineeCrockett Johnson & Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s LiteratureUniversity Press of MississippiNominee2014 and Ronald L. Jackson II (eds.)Black Comics: Politics of Race and RepresentationBloomsbury PublishingWinner, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester (eds.)University Press of MississippiNominee (ed.)International Journal of Comic ArtNomineeAnti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920–1960McFarland & CompanyNominee (ed.)Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic ArtUniversity Press of MississippiNominee2015 (ed.)Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and InterviewsMcFarland & CompanyWinnerFunnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic BooksUniversity of California PressNomineeConsidering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, PoliticsRutgers University PressNomineeAmerican Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero AfterlifePalgrave MacmillanNomineeWide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCayUniversity Press of MississippiNomineeUniversity Press of MississippiNominee2016 and John Jennings (eds.)Rutgers University PressWinner, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. SmithGraphic Medicine ManifestoPenn State University PressNominee and Rachel Mizsei-Ward (eds.)Superheroes on World ScreensUniversity Press of MississippiNominee, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker (eds.)Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in JapanUniversity Press of MississippiNomineeUnflatteningHarvard University PressNominee2017Superwomen: Gender, Power, and RepresentationBloomsbury PublishingWinnerPioneering Cartoonists of ColorUniversity Press of MississippiNomineeForging the Past: Set and the Art of MemoryUniversity Press of MississippiNomineeBrighter Than You Think: Ten Short Works by Alan MooreUncivilized BooksNomineeFrank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of HeroismRutgers University PressNominee2018Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream ComicsUniversity of Arizona PressWinnerNeon Visions: The Comics of Howard ChaykinLSU PressNominee and Ian Gordon (eds.)University Press of MississippiNominee and Brittany Tullis (eds.)Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational ComicsUniversity of Texas PressNomineeEthics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in ComicsOhio State University PressNominee2019Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie DoucetUncivilized BooksWinnerLibrary of American Comics/IDW Publishing/Ohio State University PressNomineeBetween Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the FutureOhio State University PressNomineeIncorrigibles and Innocents, Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era ComicsRutgers University PressNomineeBreaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics StudiesUniversity of Texas PressNominee2020EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social ProtestRutgers University PressWinner (ed.)Library of AmericaNomineeUniversity of Texas PressNomineeUniversity Press of MississippiNomineeProducing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow KidOhio State University PressNominee, Rebecca Suter, Kazumi Nagaike, and John A. Lent (eds.)Women's Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and IdentitiesPalgrave MacmillanNominee2021New York University PressWinnerWho Understands Comics: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language ComprehensionBloomsbury PublishingNominee and Bart Beaty (eds.)Comic Studies: A GuidebookRutgers University PressNomineeWebcomicsBloomsbury PublishingNominee (ed.)Comic Art in MuseumsUniversity Press of MississippiNominee2022Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist HistoryRutgers University PressWinnerRutgers University PressNomineeMysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal IdentityUniversity Press of MississippiNomineePulp Empire: The Secret History of Comics ImperialismUniversity of Chicago PressNomineeRebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847–1870University Press of MississippiNominee2023 and Doug Singsen Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic NovelsUniversity Press of MississippiNominee and Anna Poletti (eds.)Graphic MedicineUniversity of Hawaiʻi PressNomineeHow Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical LiteraciesOhio State University PressNominee and Jonathan Warren (eds.)University Press of MississippiWinnerTeaching with Comics and Graphic NovelsRoutledgeNominee2024Asian Political CartoonsUniversity Press of MississippiNomineeSuper Bodies: Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative ImpactUniversity of Texas PressNomineeThe Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X- MenUniversity of Texas PressWinneredited by Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American ComicsRutgers University PressNomineeIf Shehrazad Drew: Critical Writings on Arab ComicsSawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies and American University of Beirut PressNomineeIn Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980sUniversity of Minnesota PressNominee2025Margaret C. FlinnDrawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and WomenOhio State University PressWinnerJonathan NajarianComics and Modernism: History, Form, and CultureUniversity Press of MississippiNomineeNeale BarnholdenFrom Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap ComicsUniversity Press of MississippiNomineeDaniel WordenPetrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American ComicsOhio State University PressNomineeMichelle Ann AbateSingular Sensations: A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United StatesRutgers University PressNominee2026Andrea HorbinskiManga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989University of California PressWinnerJohn A. LentComic Art in KoreaUniversity Press of MississippiNomineeJosé AlanizComics of the Anthropocene: Graphic Narrative at the End of NatureUniversity Press of MississippiJennifer Boum Make, Charly VerstraetGraphic Narratives of ResistanceEdinburgh University PressFernanda Díaz-Basteris, Maite UrcareguiLatinx Comic Studies: Critical and Creative CrossingsRutgers University Press
See also List of Eisner Award winners
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