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 | |
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Awarded for | Best Academic/Scholarly Work on Comic Books |
Country | United States |
First awarded | 2012 |
Most recent winner | EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest by Qiana Whitted (2020) |
Website | www |
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. |
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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 | ||
See also
References
- "Nominees Announced For 2012 Eisner Awards, Comic Book Resources".
- "Eisner Award Recipients 2010-Present, San Diego Comic-Con International".
- "2013 Eisner Award Nominees Announced, Comic Book Resources".
- "2014 Eisner Awards: Full List Of Winners And Nominees, Comic Alliance".
- "2015 Eisner Award Nominations Announced, Comic Alliance".
- "Brilliant Art, Tremendous Stories and Daring Creators: The 2016 Eisner Award Winners [SDCC 2016], Comics Alliance".
- "Fantagraphics and Image Comics Lead Eisner Awards Nominations, Syfy Wire".
- "Complete List of 2018 Eisner Award Nominees Announced, comicbook.com".
- "Eisner Award Nominees Revealed, Hollywood Reporter".
- "Eisner Awards: The Complete Winners List, Hollywood Reporter".
- "2020 Eisner Nominees: The Complete List, The Hollywood Reporter".
- "SDCC '20: The 2020 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award winners, The Beat".
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