# 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.

## Winners and nominees

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