Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work | |
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Awarded for | Best Academic/Scholarly Work on Comic Books |
Country | United States |
First awarded | 2012 |
Most recent winner (2021) | The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging by Rebecca Wanzo |
Website | www |
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
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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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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