| Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work | |
| Awarded For: | Best Academic/Scholarly Work on Comic Books |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Holder Label: | Most recent winner (2023) |
| Holder: | The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions edited by Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren |
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.
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.
| 2012 | Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice | Yale University Press | Winner | [1] | |
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| Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby | University Press of Mississippi | Winner | |||
| (ed.) | Alan Moore: Conversations | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | [2] | |
| Projections: Comics and the History of 21st Century Storytelling | Stanford University Press | Nominee | |||
| and Randy Duncan (eds.) | Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods | Routledge | Nominee | ||
| 2013 | Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass | University Press of Mississippi | Winner | ||
| Comics Versus Art | University of Toronto Press | Nominee | [3] | ||
| University of California Press | Nominee | ||||
| Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | |||
| Crockett Johnson & Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | |||
| 2014 | and Ronald L. Jackson II (eds.) | Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation | Bloomsbury Publishing | Winner | [4] |
| , Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester (eds.) | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | |||
| (ed.) | International Journal of Comic Art | Nominee | |||
| Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920–1960 | McFarland & Company | Nominee | |||
| (ed.) | Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | ||
| 2015 | (ed.) | Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews | McFarland & Company | Winner | [5] |
| Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books | University of California Press | Nominee | |||
| Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics | Rutgers University Press | Nominee | |||
| American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife | Palgrave Macmillan | Nominee | |||
| Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | |||
| University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | ||||
| 2016 | and John Jennings (eds.) | Rutgers University Press | Winner | [6] | |
| , Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith | Graphic Medicine Manifesto | Penn State University Press | Nominee | ||
| and Rachel Mizsei-Ward (eds.) | Superheroes on World Screens | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | ||
| , Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker (eds.) | Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | ||
| Unflattening | Harvard University Press | Nominee | |||
| 2017 | Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation | Bloomsbury Publishing | Winner | [7] | |
| Pioneering Cartoonists of Color | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | |||
| Forging the Past: Set and the Art of Memory | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | |||
| Brighter Than You Think: Ten Short Works by Alan Moore | Uncivilized Books | Nominee | |||
| Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism | Rutgers University Press | Nominee | |||
| 2018 | Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics | University of Arizona Press | Winner | ||
| Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin | LSU Press | Nominee | [8] | ||
| and Ian Gordon (eds.) | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | |||
| and Brittany Tullis (eds.) | Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics | University of Texas Press | Nominee | ||
| Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics | Ohio State University Press | Nominee | |||
| 2019 | Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet | Uncivilized Books | Winner | [9] [10] | |
| Library of American Comics/IDW Publishing/Ohio State University Press | Nominee | [11] | |||
| Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future | Ohio State University Press | Nominee | |||
| Incorrigibles and Innocents, Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics | Rutgers University Press | Nominee | |||
| Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies | University of Texas Press | Nominee | |||
| 2020 | EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest | Rutgers University Press | Winner | [12] [13] [14] | |
| (ed.) | Library of America | Nominee | [15] | ||
| University of Texas Press | Nominee | ||||
| University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | ||||
| Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid | Ohio State University Press | Nominee | |||
| , Rebecca Suter, Kazumi Nagaike, and John A. Lent (eds.) | Women's Manga in Asia and Beyond: Uniting Different Cultures and Identities | Palgrave Macmillan | Nominee | ||
| 2021 | New York University Press | Winner | [16] | ||
| Who Understands Comics: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension | Bloomsbury Publishing | Nominee | [17] | ||
| and Bart Beaty (eds.) | Comic Studies: A Guidebook | Rutgers University Press | Nominee | ||
| Webcomics | Bloomsbury Publishing | Nominee | |||
| (ed.) | Comic Art in Museums | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | ||
| 2022 | Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History | Rutgers University Press | Winner | [18] [19] | |
| Rutgers University Press | Nominee | ||||
| Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | |||
| Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comics Imperialism | University of Chicago Press | Nominee | |||
| Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847–1870 | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | |||
| 2023 | Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | [20] | |
| and Anna Poletti (eds.) | Graphic Medicine | University of Hawaiʻi Press | Nominee | ||
| How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies | Ohio State University Press | Nominee | |||
| and Jonathan Warren (eds.) | University Press of Mississippi | Winner | |||
| Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels | Routledge | Nominee | |||
| 2024 | Asian Political Cartoons | University Press of Mississippi | Nominee | [21] | |
| The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X- Men | University of Texas Press | Nominee | |||
| edited by | Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics | Rutgers University Press | Nominee | ||
| If Shehrazad Drew: Critical Writings on Arab Comics | Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies and American University of Beirut Press | Nominee | |||
| In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s | University of Minnesota Press | Nominee | |||
| Super Bodies: Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact | University of Texas Press | Nominee | |||