# Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

The Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection/Project–Strips is an award for "creative achievement" in American comic books. It has been given out every year since 2006. From 1993 to 2005 an award called Best Archival Collection/Project was awarded between, at which point it was split into two awards, one for comic strips and the other for comic books. To be eligible, the original comics must be at least 20-years old.

## Name change

The award was launched as Best Archival Collection/Project–Comic Strips in 2006, but was later shortened to Best Archival Collection/Project–Strips.

## Winners and nominees

| Year | Title | Authors |
| 2000s ||||
| 2006 | The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Andrews McMeel) | by Bill Watterson |
| 2006 | The Complete Peanuts: 1955-1956, and The Complete Peanuts: 1957-1958 (Fantagraphics) | by Charles Schulz |
| 2006 | Krazy and Ignatz: The Komplete Kat Komics (Fantagraphics) | by George Herriman |
| 2006 | Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays (Sunday Press Books) | by Winsor McCay |
| 2006 | Walt and Skeezix (Drawn & Quarterly) | by Frank King |
| 2007 | The Complete Peanuts: 1959-1960 and The Complete Peanuts:1961-1962 (Fantagraphics) | by Charles Schulz |
| 2007 | Mary Perkins, On Stage (Classic Comics Press) | by Leonard Starr |
| 2007 | Moomin (Drawn & Quarterly) | by Tove Jansson |
| 2007 | Popeye: I Yam What I Yam (Fantagraphics) | by E.C. Segar |
| 2007 | Walt and Skeezix, vol. 2 (Drawn & Quarterly) | by Frank King |
| 2008 | Complete Terry and the Pirates, vol. 1 (IDW Publishing) | by Milton Caniff |
| 2008 | (The Complete) Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (Ulrich Merkl) | by Winsor McCay |
| 2008 | Little Sammy Sneeze (Sunday Press Books) | by Winsor McCay |
| 2008 | Popeye, vol. 2: Well Blow Me Down (Fantagraphics) | by E.C. Segar |
| 2008 | Sundays with Walt and Skeezix (Sunday Press Books) | by Frank King |
| 2009 | Little Nemo in Slumberland, Many More Splendid Sundays (Sunday Press Books) | by Winsor McCay |
| 2009 | The Complete Little Orphan Annie (IDW Publishing) | by Harold Gray |
| 2009 | Explainers (Fantagraphics) | by Jules Feiffer |
| 2009 | Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles (IDW Publishing) | by Noel Sickles |
| 2009 | Willie and Joe (Fantagraphics) | by Bill Mauldin |
| 2010s ||||
| 2010 | Bloom County: The Complete Library, vol. 1 (IDW Publishing) | by Berkeley Breathed, edited by Scott Dunbier |
| 2010 | Bringing Up Father, vol. 1: From SEA to Shining Sea (IDW Publishing) | by George McManus and Zeke Zekley, edited by Dean Mullaney |
| 2010 | The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons 1913–1940 (Fantagraphics) | by Nell Brinkley, edited by Trina Robbins |
| 2010 | Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons (Fantagraphics) | by Gahan Wilson, edited by Gary Groth |
| 2010 | Prince Valiant, vol. 1: 1937–1938 (Fantagraphics) | by Hal Foster, edited by Kim Thompson |
| 2010 | Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (Sunday Press Books) | by L. Frank Baum, Walt McDougall, and W. W. Denslow |
| 2011 | Archie: The Complete Daily Newspaper Strips, 1946–1948 (IDW Publishing) | by Bob Montana, edited by Greg Goldstein |
| 2011 | 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective (Andrews McMeel) | by G.B. Trudeau |
| 2011 | George Herriman's Krazy Kat: A Celebration of Sundays (Sunday Press Books) | by George Herriman, edited by Patrick McDonnell and Peter Maresca |
| 2011 | Polly and Her Pals Complete Sunday Comics, vol. 1 (IDW Publishing) | by Cliff Sterrett, edited by Dean Mullaney |
| 2011 | Roy Crane's Captain Easy, vol. 1 (Fantagraphics) | by Roy Crane, edited by Rick Norwood |
| 2012 | Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse vols. 1-2 (Fantagraphics) | by Floyd Gottfredson, edited by David Gerstein and Gary Groth |
| 2012 | Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics) | by Alex Raymond and Don Moore, edited by Dean Mullaney |
| 2012 | Forgotten Fantasy: Sunday Comics 1900-1915 (Sunday Press Books) | edited by Peter Maresca |
| 2012 | Prince Valiant vols. 3-4 (Fantagraphics) | by Hal Foster, edited by Kim Thompson |
| 2012 | Tarpé Mills's Miss Fury Sensational Sundays, 1944-1949 (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics) | by Tarpé Mills, edited by Trina Robbins |
| 2013 | Pogo, vol. 2: Bona Fide Balderdash (Fantagraphics) | by Walt Kelly, edited by Carolyn Kelly and Kim Thompson |
| 2013 | Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim, vol. 2 (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics) | by Alex Raymond, edited by Dean Mullaney |
| 2013 | Mister Twee Deedle: Raggedy Ann's Sprightly Cousin (Fantagraphics) | by Johnny Gruelle, edited by Rick Marschall |
| 2013 | Percy Crosby's Skippy, vol. 1 (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics) | by Percy Crosby, edited by Jared Gardner and Dean Mullaney |
| 2013 | Roy Crane's Captain Easy: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips, vol. 3 (Fantagraphics) | by Roy Crane, edited by Rick Norwood |
| 2014 | Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, vol. 1 (Library of American Comics/IDW Publishing) | by Russ Manning, edited by Dean Mullaney |
| 2014 | Barnaby, vol. 1 (Fantagraphics) | by Crockett Johnson, edited by Philip Nel and Eric Reynolds |
| 2014 | Percy Crosby's Skippy Daily Comics, vol. 2: 1928–1930 (Library of American Comics/IDW Publishing) | by Percy Crosby, edited by Jared Gardner and Dean Mullaney |
| 2014 | Prince Valiant vols. 6-7 (Fantagraphics) | by Hal Foster, edited by Kim Thompson |
| 2014 | Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip (Sunday Press Books) | edited by Peter Maresca |
| 2014 | VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch (Fantagraphics) | by Virgil Partch, edited by Jonathan Barli |
| 2015 | Winsor McCay's Complete Little Nemo (Taschen) | by Winsor McCay, edited by Alexander Braun |
| 2015 | Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan: The Sunday Comics, 1933–1935 (Dark Horse Comics) | by Hal Foster, edited by Brendan Wright |
| 2015 | Moomin: The Deluxe Anniversary Edition (Drawn & Quarterly) | by Tove Jansson, edited by Tom Devlin |
| 2015 | Pogo, vol. 3: Evidence to the Contrary (Fantagraphics) | by Walt Kelly, edited by Carolyn Kelly and Eric Reynolds |
| 2015 | Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, vols. 5-6 (Fantagraphics) | by Floyd Gottfredson, edited by David Gerstein and Gary Groth |
| 2016 | The Eternaut (Fantagraphics) | by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López, edited by Gary Groth and Kristy Valenti |
| 2016 | Beyond Mars (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics) | by Jack Williamson and Lee Elias, edited by Dean Mullaney |
| 2016 | Cartoons for Victory (Fantagraphics) | by Warren Bernard |
| 2016 | The Complete Funky Winkerbean, vol. 4 (Black Squirrel Books) | by Tom Batiuk, edited by Mary Young |
| 2016 | Kremos: The Lost Art of Niso Ramponi, vols. 1 and 2 (Picture This Press/Lost Art Books) | by Niso Ramponi, edited by Joseph P. Procopio |
| 2016 | White Boy in Skull Valley (Sunday Press Books) | by Garrett Price, edited by Peter Maresca |
| 2017 | Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, Colorful Cases of the 1930s (Sunday Press Books) | by Chester Gould, edited by Peter Maresca |
| 2017 | Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings (New York Review Comics) | by Glen Baxter |
| 2017 | Barnaby, vol. 3 (Fantagraphics) | by Crockett Johnson, edited by Philip Nel and Eric Reynolds |
| 2017 | The Realist Cartoons (Fantagraphics) | edited by Paul Krassner and Ethan Persoff |
| 2017 | Walt and Skeezix 1931–1932 (Drawn & Quarterly) | by Frank King, edited by Jeet Heer and Chris Ware |
| 2018 | Celebrating Snoopy (Andrews McMeel) | by Charles M. Schulz, edited by Alexis E. Fajardo and Dorothy O'Brien |
| 2018 | Crazy Quilt: Scraps and Panels on the Way to Gasoline Alley (Sunday Press Books) | by Frank King, edited by Peter Maresca |
| 2018 | Foolish Questions and Other Odd Observations (Sunday Press Books) | by Rube Goldberg, edited by Peter Maresca and Paul C. Tumey |
| 2018 | Sky Masters of the Space Force: The Complete Dailies (Hermes Press) | by Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, et al., edited by Daniel Herman |
| 2018 | Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Strips, vol. 1 (Library of American Comics/IDW Publishing) | by Russ Manning, et al., edited by Dean Mullaney |
| 2019 | Star Wars: Classic Newspaper Strips, vol. 3 (Library of American Comics/IDW Publishing) | by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson, edited by Dean Mullaney |
| 2019 | Pogo, vol. 5: Out of This World at Home (Fantagraphics) | by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds |
| 2019 | Sky Masters of the Space Force: The Complete Sunday Strips in Color (1959–1960) (Amigo Comics) | by Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, et al., edited by Ferran Delgado |
| 2019 | The Temple of Silence: Forgotten Words and Worlds of Herbert Crowley (Beehive Books) | by Justin Duerr |
| 2019 | Thimble Theatre and the Pre-Popeye Comics of E. C. Segar (Sunday Press Books) | by E.C. Segar, edited by Peter Maresca |
| 2020s ||||
| 2020 | Krazy Kat: The Complete Color Sundays (Taschen) | by George Herriman, edited by Alexander Braun |
| 2020 | Cham: The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839–1862 (University Press of Mississippi) | by David Kunzle |
| 2020 | Ed Leffingwell's Little Joe (Sunday Press Books) | by Harold Gray, edited by Peter Maresca and Sammy Harkham |
| 2020 | The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1916–1918 (Fantagraphics) | by George Herriman, edited by RJ Casey |
| 2020 | Madness in Crowds: The Teeming Mind of Harrison Cady (Beehive Books) | by Harrison Cady, edited by Violet Kitchen and Denis Kitchen |
| 2020 | Pogo, Vol. 6: Clean as a Weasel (Fantagraphics) | by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds |
| 2021 | The Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age (Fantagraphics) | edited by Trina Robbins |
| 2021 | Gross Exaggerations: The Meshuga Comic Strips of Milt Gross (Sunday Press Books/IDW Publishing) | by Milt Gross, edited by Peter Maresca |
| 2021 | Krazy & Ignatz 1919-1921 by George Herriman (Fantagraphics) | by George Herriman, edited by RJ Casey |
| 2021 | Little Debbie and the Second Coming of Elmo: Daily Comic Strips, August 1960 – September 1961 (Labor of Love Publications) | by Cecil Jensen, edited by Frank Young |
| 2021 | Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Volume 7: Clean as a Weasel (Fantagraphics) | by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds |
| 2022 | Popeye: The E.C. Segar Sundays, vol. 1 (Fantagraphics) | by E.C. Segar, edited by Gary Groth and Conrad Groth |
| 2022 | Friday Foster: The Sunday Strips (Ablaze Publishing) | by Jim Lawrence and Jorge Longarón, edited by Christopher Marlon, Rich Young, and Kevin Ketner |
| 2022 | Trots and Bonnie (New York Review Comics) | by Shary Flenniken, edited by Norman Hathaway |
| 2022 | The Way of Zen (Princeton University Press) | adapted and illustrated by C. C. Tsai, translated by Brian Bruya |
| 2023 | Come Over Come Over, It’s So Magic, and My Perfect Life (Drawn & Quarterly) | by Lynda Barry |
| 2023 | Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos (New York Review Comics) | by Jay Jackson |
| 2023 | The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1922-1924 (Fantagraphics) | by George Herriman, edited by J. Michael Catron |
| 2023 | Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere (Fantagraphics) | by Liniers, edited by Gary Groth |
| 2023 | Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Volume 8: Hijinks from the Horn of Plenty (Fantagraphics) | by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds |