Eisner Award for Best Educational/Academic Work

The Eisner Award for Best Educational/Academic Work is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books for academic publishing.

Winners and nominees

Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

• 2012:^[1] (tie)
  • Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice by Ivan Brunetti
  • Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby by Charles Hatfield
    • Alan Moore: Conversations edited by Eric Berlatsky
    • Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods edited by Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan
    • Projections: Comics and the History of 21st Century Storytelling by Jared Gardner
• 2013:^[2] Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass by Susan E. Kirtley
  • Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures by Elisabeth El Refaie
  • Comics Versus Art by Bart Beaty
  • Crockett Johnson & Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children’s Literature by Philip Nel
  • The Poetics of Slumberland by Scott Bukatman
• 2014:^[3] Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation edited by Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II
  • Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920–1960 by Nathan Vernon Madison
  • Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art edited by Jane Tolmie
  • International Journal of Comic Art edited by John A. Lent
  • The Superhero Reader edited by Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester
• 2015:^[4] Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews edited by Sarah Lightman
  • American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife by A. David Lewis
  • Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics by Andrew Hoberek
  • Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books by Michael Barrier
  • The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay by Thierry Smolderen
  • Wide Awake in Slumberland: Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay by Katherine Roeder
• 2016:^[5] The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings
  • Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan edited by Mark McLelland
  • Graphic Medicine Manifesto by M. K. Czerwiec
  • Superheroes on World Screens edited by Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei-Ward
  • Unflattening by Nick Sousanis

References

1. ↑ "2012 Eisner nominations are out, topped by Daredevil". The Beat. 
2. ↑ "2013 Eisner Award Nominees Announced - Comic Book Resources". comicbookresources.com. 
3. ↑ Rich Johnston. "Live: The Eisner Awards 2014 - The Shortest Eisners Ever Storm Saga, Hawkeye, Dean Mullaney (UPDATE)". Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News. 
4. ↑ "DC, Marvel & Fantagraphics Top 2014 Eisner Award Nominations - Comic Book Resources". comicbookresources.com. 
5. ↑ http://www.newsarama.com/30298-2016-eisner-award-winners-full-list.html

External links

• Eisner Award on the comic-con web page