Eisner Award for Best Anthology

The Eisner Award for Best Anthology Shot is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books. It has been given out every year since 1992.

Eisner Award for Best Anthology
Awarded for	Best Anthology
Country	United States
First award	1992
Most recent winner	Menopause: A Comic Treatment edited by MK Czerwiec (2021)
Website	www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards-current-info

Winners and nominees

• 1990s
• 2000s
• 2010s
• 2020s

Eisner Award for Best Anthology winners and nominees

Year	Author(s)/Editor(s)	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1990s
1992	Randy Stradley (ed.)	Dark Horse Presents	Dark Horse Comics	Winner	[1]
	Stephen R. Bissette and others (eds.)	Taboo #5	Spiderbaby Grafix/Tundra Publishing	Nominee	[1]
	Dave Elliott and Gary Leach (eds.)	A1 #5	Atomeka Press	Nominee	[1]
	Diane Noomin (ed.)	Twisted Sisters	Penguin Books	Nominee	[1]
	Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly (eds.)	Raw vol. 2, #3	Raw Books/Penguin Books	Nominee	[1]
1993	Stephen R. Bissette (ed.)	Taboo	Spiderbaby Grafix/Tundra Publishing	Winner	[2]
	Dennis Eichhorn (ed.)	Real Stuff	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[2]
	David Mazzucchelli and Richmond Lewis (eds.)	Rubber Blanket	Rubber Blanket Press	Nominee	[2]
	Chris Oliveros (ed.)	Drawn & Quarterly	Drawn & Quarterly	Nominee	[2]
	Byron Preiss (ed.)	The Ray Bradbury Chronicles	Bantam Books	Nominee	[2]
	Jerry Prosser and Rich Shupe (eds.)	The Residents: Freak Show	Dark Horse Comics	Nominee	[2]
1994	Randy Stradley (ed.)	Dark Horse Presents	Dark Horse Comics	Winner	[3]
	Karen Berger (ed.)	Vertigo Comics Jam	DC Comics/Vertigo Comics	Nominee	[3]
	Dennis Eichhorn (ed.)	Real Stuff	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[3]
	Jerry Prosser (ed.)	Andrew Vachss' Hard Looks	Dark Horse Comics	Nominee	[3]
	Howard Zimmerman (ed.)	Ray Bradury Comics	Topps Comics	Nominee	[3]
1995	Andy Helfer (ed.)	Big Book of Urban Legends	Paradox Press	Winner	[4]
	Diane Noomin (ed.)	Twisted Sisters	Kitchen Sink Press	Nominee	[4]
	Chris Oliveros (ed.)	Drawn & Quarterly	Drawn & Quarterly	Nominee	[4]
	Randy Stradley and Bob Schreck (eds.)	Dark Horse Presents	Dark Horse Comics	Nominee	[4]
1996	Bronwyn Taggart (ed.)	Big Book of Conspiracies	Paradox Press	Winner	[5]
	Monte Beauchamp (ed.)	BLAB! #8	Kitchen Sink Press	Nominee	[5]
	Joe R. Lansdale and Richard Klaw (eds.)	Weird Business	Mojo Press	Nominee	[5]
	Chris Oliveros (ed.)	Drawn & Quarterly	Drawn & Quarterly	Nominee	[5]
	Kim Thompson (ed.)	Zero Zero	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[5]
1997	Mark Chiarello and Scott Peterson (eds.)	Batman Black and White	DC Comics	Winner	[6]
	Tony Bedard (ed.), by Peter Gutierrez and various artists	Shi: Kaidan	Crusade Comics	Nominee	[6]
	Jim Higgins (ed.), by Carl Sifakis and various artists	Big Book of Hoaxes	Paradox Press	Nominee	[6]
	Joe Pruett (ed.)	Negative Burn	Caliber Comics	Nominee	[6]
	Randy Stradley (ed.)	A Decade of Dark Horse Comics	Dark Horse Comics	Nominee	[6]
1998	Scott Allie (ed.)	Hellboy Christmas Special	Dark Horse Comics	Winner	[7]
	Monte Beauchamp (ed.)	BLAB! #9	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[7]
	Karen Hirsch (ed.)	Mind Riot	Simon & Schuster/Aladdin Paperbacks	Nominee	[7]
	Jim Ottaviani (ed.)	Two-Fisted Science	G.T. Labs	Nominee	[7]
	Shelly Roeberg (ed.)	Vertigo Comics: Winters Edge	DC Comics/Vertigo Comics	Nominee	[7]
	Kim Thompson (ed.)	Zero Zero	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[7]
1999	Diana Schutz (ed.), by Matt Wagner	Grendel: Black, White and Red & Red, White and Black	Dark Horse Comics	Winner	[8]
	Andy Helfe Kirchner, Steve Vance, and Anina Bennett	Big Book of Bad	Paradox Press/DC Comics	Nominee	[8]
	Joe Pruett (ed.)	Negative Burn #50	Caliber Comics	Nominee	[8]
	Bob Schreck (ed.)	Oni Double Feature	Oni Press	Nominee	[8]
	Jeff Smith, Mark Crilley, Linda Medley, Stan Sakai, Jill Thompson, and Charles Vess	Trilogy Tour II Book	Cartoon Books	Nominee	[8]
2000s
2000	Scott Dunbier (ed.), by Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, Kevin Nowlan, Melinda Gebbie, and Jim Baikie	Tomorrow Stories	America's Best Comics	Winner	[9]
	Monte Beauchamp (ed.)	BLAB!	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[9]
	Brian Clopper (ed.)	Brainbomb	Behemoth Books	Nominee	[9]
	Etgar Keret, Mira Friedmann, Batia Kolton, Rutu Modan, Yirmi Pinkus, and Itzik Rennert	Jet Lag	Actus Tragicus	Nominee	[9]
	Jean-Christophe Menu (ed.)	Comix 2000	L'Association	Nominee	[9]
	Jim Ottaviani (ed.)	Dignifying Science	G.T. Labs	Nominee	[9]
2001	Chris Oliveros (ed.)	Drawn & Quarterly, vol. 3	Drawn & Quarterly	Winner	[10]
	Jon B. Cooke and John Morrow (eds.)	Streetwise	TwoMorrows Publishing	Nominee	[10]
	Patrizia Crivelli and others (eds.)	Strapazin: Bubbles 'n' Boxes and Beyond	Swiss Institute of New York/Swiss Federal Office of Culture	Nominee	[10]
	Tom Devlin and others (eds.)	Expo 2000	Small Press Expo	Nominee	[10]
	Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly (eds.)	Little Lit	HarperCollins	Nominee	[10]
2002	Joey Cavalieri (ed.)	Bizarro Comics	DC Comics	Winner	[11]
	Gary Groth and Anne Elizabeth Moore (eds.)	Comics Journal Winter Special 2002	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[11]
	Chris Oliveros (ed.)	Drawn & Quarterly, vol. 4	Drawn & Quarterly	Nominee	[11]
	Jamie S. Rich (ed.)	Oni Press Summer Color Special 2001	Oni Comics	Nominee	[11]
	Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly (eds.)	Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids	HarperCollins	Nominee	[11]
2003		SPX 2002	CBLDF	Winner	[12]
	Ben Catmull and Dylan Williams (eds.)	Orchid	Sparkplug Comics	Nominee	[12]
	Tim Ervin-Gore (ed.)	Super Manga Blast	Dark Horse Comics	Nominee	[12]
	Ng Suat Tong (ed.)	Rosetta: A Comics Anthology	Alternative Comics	Nominee	[12]
2004	Karen Berger and Shelly Bond (eds.), by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, P. Craig Russell, Miguelanxo Prado, Barron Storey, Frank Quitely, Glenn Fabry, Milo Manara, and Bill Sienkiewicz	The Sandman: Endless Nights	Vertigo Comics/DC Comics	Winner	[13]
	Scott Allie (ed.)	The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings	Dark Horse Comics	Nominee	[13]
	Chris Oliveros (ed.)	Drawn & Quarterly, vol. 5	Drawn & Quarterly	Nominee	[13]
	Chris Pitzer (ed.)	Project: Telstar	AdHouse Books	Nominee	[13]
	Diana Schutz (ed.)	AutobioGraphix	Dark Horse Comics	Nominee	[13]
	Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly (eds.)	Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night	HarperCollins	Nominee	[13]
2005	Diana Schutz and David Land (eds.)	Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist	Dark Horse Comics	Winner	[14]
	Scott Allie (ed.)	The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft	Dark Horse Books	Nominee	[14]
	Spencer Lamm (ed.)	The Matrix Comics, vol. 2	Burlyman Entertainment	Nominee	[14]
	Jim McLauchlin (ed.), by Troy Hickman and others	Common Grounds	Top Cow Productions/Image Comics	Nominee	[14]
	Chris Ware (ed.)	McSweeney's Quarterly #13	McSweeney's	Nominee	[14]
2006	Mark Chiarello (ed.)	Solo	DC Comics	Winner	[15]
	Scott Allie (ed.)	The Dark Horse Book of the Dead	Dark Horse Books	Nominee	[15]
	Nat Gertler (ed.)	24 Hour Comics Day Highlights 2005	About Comics	Nominee	[15]
	Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds (eds.)	Mome	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[15]
	Kazu Kibuishi (ed.)	Flight, vol. 2	Image Comics	Nominee	[15]
2007	Shelly Bond (ed.), by Troy Hickman and others	Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall	Vertigo Comics/DC Comics	Winner	[16]
	Frédéric Boilet (ed.)	Japan as Viewed by 17 Creators	Fanfare/Ponent Mon	Nominee	[16]
	Sammy Harkham (ed.)	Kramers Ergot #6	Buenaventura Press	Nominee	[16]
	Glenn Head (ed.)	Hotwire Comix and Capers	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[16]
	Chris Pitzer (ed.)	Project: Romantic	AdHouse Books	Nominee	[16]
2008	Gabriel Bá, Becky Cloonan, Fábio Moon, Vasilis Lolos, and Rafael Grampá	5	self-published	Winner	[17]
	Ivan Brandon (ed.)	24Seven, vol. 2	Image Comics	Nominee	[17]
	Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds (eds.)	Mome	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[17]
	Anne Elizabeth Moore and Chris Ware (eds.)	The Best American Comics 2007	Houghton Mifflin	Nominee	[17]
	Jason Rodriguez (ed.)	Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened	Villard	Nominee	[17]
2009	Rantz Hoseley (ed.)	Comic Book Tattoo: Narrative Art Inspired by the Lyrics and Music of Tori Amos	Image Comics	Winner	[18]
	Scott Allie and Sierra Hahn (eds.)	MySpace Dark Horse Presents	Dark Horse Comics	Nominee	[19]
	Lynda Barry (ed.)	The Best American Comics 2008	Houghton Mifflin	Nominee	[19]
	Ivan Brunetti (ed.)	An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories, vol. 2	Yale University Press	Nominee	[19]
	Sammy Harkham (ed.)	Kramers Ergot #7	Buenaventura Press	Nominee	[19]
2010s
2010	Mark Andrew Smith, D. J. Kirkbride, and Joe Keatinge (eds.)	Popgun, vol. 3	Image Comics	Winner	[20]
	Paul Briggs (ed.)	What Is Torch Tiger?	Torch Tiger	Nominee	[21]
	Brendan Burford (ed.)	Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays	Villard	Nominee	[21]
	Kazu Kibuishi (ed.)	Flight, vol. 6	Villard	Nominee	[21]
	Andrei Molotiu (ed.)	Abstract Comics	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[21]
	Bob Weill (ed.)	Bob Dylan Revisited	W. W. Norton & Company	Nominee	[21]
2011	Paul Morrissey and David Petersen (eds.)	Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard	Archaia Entertainment	Winner	[22]
	Joy Ang and Nick Thornborrow (eds.)	The Anthology Project	Lucidity Press	Nominee	[23]
	Matt Dembicki (ed.)	Trickster: Native American Tales	Fulcrum Books	Nominee	[23]
	Nicolas Finet (ed.)	Korea as Viewed by 12 Creators	Fanfare/Ponent Mon	Nominee	[23]
	Sonny Liew and Lim Cheng Tju (eds.)	Liquid City, vol. 2	Image Comics	Nominee	[23]
2012	Mike Richardson (ed.)	Dark Horse Presents	Dark Horse Comics	Winner	[22]
	Michel Choquette (ed.)	The Someday Funnies	Abrams ComicArts	Nominee	[24]
	Rob Davis and Woodrow Phoenix (eds.)	Nelson	Blank Slate Books	Nominee	[24]
	Chris Duffy (ed.)	Nursery Rhyme Comics	First Second Books	Nominee	[24]
	Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle (eds.)	Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land	Abrams ComicArts	Nominee	[24]
2013	Mike Richardson (ed.)	Dark Horse Presents	Dark Horse Comics	Winner	[22]
	Justin Hall (ed.)	No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[25]
	Jeff Ranjo, Jed Diffenderfer, (eds.)	Where Is Dead Zero?	Dead Zero Publishing	Nominee	[25]
	Matt Smith (ed.)	2000 AD	Rebellion Developments	Nominee	[25]
	Alex Spiro and Sam Arthur (eds.)	Nobrow #7: Brave New World	Nobrow Press	Nominee	[25]
2014	Mike Richardson (ed.)	Dark Horse Presents	Dark Horse Comics	Winner	[22][26]
	Sam Arthur and Alex Spiro (eds.)	Nobrow #8: Hysteria	Nobrow Press	Nominee	[26]
	Gabe Fowler (ed.)	Smoke Signal	Desert Island	Nominee	[26]
	Matthew Levine and Cameron Chittock (eds.), by Ben Acker, Ben Blacker, et al.	Thrilling Adventure Hour	Archaia Entertainment/Boom! Studios	Nominee	[26]
	Michael Woods (ed.)	Outlaw Territory	Image Comics	Nominee	[26]
2015	Josh O'Neill, Andrew Carl, and Chris Stevens (eds.)	Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream	Locust Moon	Winner	[22][27]
	Monte Beauchamp (ed.)	Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World	Simon & Schuster	Nominee	[27]
	Jonathan Clode and John Stuart Clark (eds.)	To End All Wars: The Graphic Anthology of The First World War	Soaring Penguin	Nominee	[27]
	Rachel Deering (ed.)	In the Dark: A Horror Anthology	Tiny Behemoth Press/IDW Publishing	Nominee	[27]
	Anne Ishii, Chip Kidd, and Graham Kolbeins (eds.)	Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[27]
2016	Tom Devlin (ed.)	Drawn & Quarterly, Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary, Cartooning Comics, and Graphic Novels	Drawn & Quarterly	Winner	[22][28]
	Dan Berry (ed.)	24 x 7	Fanfare	Nominee	[28][29]
	Matt Bors (ed.)	Eat More Comics: The Best of the Nib	The Nib	Nominee	[28][29]
	David Petersen (ed.)	Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, vol. 3	Boom! Studios/Archaia Entertainment	Nominee	[28][29]
	Shannon Watters (ed.)	Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz	Boom! Studios/KaBOOM!	Nominee	[28][29]
2017	Sarah Gaydos and Jamie S. Rich (eds.)	Love Is Love	IDW Publishing/DC Comics	Winner	[22][30]
	Santiago Garcia (ed.)	Spanish Fever: Stories by the New Spanish Cartoonists	Fantagraphics	Nominee
	Brandon Graham and Emma Ríos (eds.)	Island Magazine	Image Comics	Nominee
	Sammy Harkham (ed.)	Kramers Ergot #9	Fantagraphics	Nominee
	David Schilter and Sanita Muižniece (eds.)	Baltic Comics Anthology š! #26: dADa	kuš!	Nominee
2018	Taneka Stotts (ed.)	Elements: Fire, A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color	Beyond Press	Winner	[22]
	Max B. Perlson, Trina Robbins, et al.	A Bunch of Jews (and Other Stuff): A Minyen Yidn	Bedside Press	Nominee	[31][32]
	Sean Phillips (ed.)	The Spirit Anthology	Lakes International Comic Art Festival	Nominee	[31][32]
	Eric Reynolds (ed.)	Now #1	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[31][32]
	Jamie Rhodes, et al.	A Castle in England	Nobrow Press	Nominee	[31][32]
2019	Marco Lopez, Desiree Rodriguez, Hazel Newlevant, Derek Ruiz, and Neil Schwartz (eds.)	Puerto Rico Strong	Lion Forge Comics	Winner	[33]
	Shelly Bond (ed.)	Femme Magnifique: 50 Magnificent Women Who Changed the World	Black Crown/IDW Publishing	Nominee	[34]
	Alex de Campi (ed.)	Twisted Romance	Image Comics	Nominee	[34]
	Will Dennis (ed.), curated by J. H. Williams III and Wendy Wright-Williams	Where We Live: A Benefit for the Survivors in Las Vegas	Image Comics	Nominee	[34]
2020s
2020	Diane Noomin (ed.)	Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment and Survival	Abrams ComicArts	Winner	[35][36][37]
	Matt Bors (ed.)	The Nib #2–4	The Nib	Nominee	[35][38]
	Sammy Harkham (ed.)	Kramers Ergot #10	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[35][38]
	David Rault	ABC of Typography	SelfMadeHero	Nominee	[35][38]
	David Schilter, Sanita Muižniece, et al. (eds.)	Baltic Comics Anthology š! #34-37	kuš!	Nominee	[35][38]
2021	MK Czerwiec (ed.)	Menopause: A Comic Treatment	Graphic Medicine/Pennsylvania State University Press	Winner	[39]
	Shelly Bond (ed.)	Hey, Amateur! Go From Novice to Nailing It in 9 Panels	IDW Publishing/Black Crown	Nominee	[40]
	Sammy Harkham (ed.)	Los Angeles Times	NTWRK	Nominee	[40]
	Wren McDonald (ed.)	Ex Mag, vols. 1-2	Peow Studio	Nominee	[40]
	Sarah Mirk (ed.)	Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison	Abrams ComicArts	Nominee	[40]
	Eric Reynolds (ed.)	Now	Fantagraphics	Nominee	[40]
2023	Matt Bors (ed)	The Nib Magazine	Nib	Winner	[41]
	Alex Antone and Jon Moisan (eds)	Creepshow	Image Skybound	Nominee
	Josh Bernstein (ed)	The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic	Z2
	Bex Ollerton (ed)	Sensory: Life on the Spectrum	Andrews McMeel
	Rantz Hoseley (ed)	Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes, The Graphic Album	Z2