| 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. Prior to 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 | |||