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

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.

External links

• Eisner Award on the comic-con web page