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 (Andrews McMeel) (Fantagraphics) (Fantagraphics) (Sunday Press Books) (Drawn & Quarterly) 2007 (Fantagraphics) (Classic Comics Press) (Drawn & Quarterly) (Fantagraphics) (Drawn & Quarterly) 2008 (IDW Publishing) (Ulrich Merkl) (Sunday Press Books) (Fantagraphics) (Sunday Press Books) 2009 (Sunday Press Books) (IDW Publishing) (Fantagraphics) (IDW Publishing) (Fantagraphics) 2010s 2010 (IDW Publishing) , edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW Publishing) and Zeke Zekley, edited by Dean Mullaney (Fantagraphics) , edited by Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics) , edited by Gary Groth (Fantagraphics) , edited by Kim Thompson (Sunday Press Books) , Walt McDougall, and W. W. Denslow 2011 (IDW Publishing) , edited by Greg Goldstein (Andrews McMeel) (Sunday Press Books) , edited by Patrick McDonnell and Peter Maresca (IDW Publishing) , edited by Dean Mullaney (Fantagraphics) , edited by Rick Norwood 2012 (Fantagraphics) , edited by David Gerstein and Gary Groth (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics) and Don W. Moore, edited by Dean Mullaney (Sunday Press Books) (Fantagraphics) , edited by Kim Thompson (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics) , edited by Trina Robbins 2013 (Fantagraphics) , edited by Carolyn Kelly and Kim Thompson (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics) , edited by Dean Mullaney (Fantagraphics) , edited by Rick Marschall (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics) , edited by Jared Gardner and Dean Mullaney (Fantagraphics) , edited by Rick Norwood 2014 (Library of American Comics/IDW Publishing) , edited by Dean Mullaney (Fantagraphics) , edited by Philip Nel and Eric Reynolds (Library of American Comics/IDW Publishing) , edited by Jared Gardner and Dean Mullaney (Fantagraphics) , edited by Kim Thompson (Sunday Press Books) (Fantagraphics) , edited by Jonathan Barli 2015 (Taschen) , edited by Alexander Braun (Dark Horse Comics) , edited by Brendan Wright (Drawn & Quarterly) , edited by Tom Devlin (Fantagraphics) , edited by Carolyn Kelly and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics) , edited by David Gerstein and Gary Groth 2016 (Fantagraphics) and Francisco Solano López, edited by Gary Groth and Kristy Valenti (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics) and Lee Elias, edited by Dean Mullaney (Fantagraphics) (Black Squirrel Books) , edited by Mary Young (Picture This Press/Lost Art Books) , edited by Joseph P. Procopio (Sunday Press Books) , edited by Peter Maresca 2017 (Sunday Press Books) , edited by Peter Maresca (New York Review Comics) (Fantagraphics) , edited by Philip Nel and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics) (Drawn & Quarterly) , edited by Jeet Heer and Chris Ware 2018 (Andrews McMeel) , edited by Alexis E. Fajardo and Dorothy O'Brien (Sunday Press Books) , edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press Books) , edited by Peter Maresca and Paul C. Tumey (Hermes Press) , Wally Wood, et al., edited by Daniel Herman (Library of American Comics/IDW Publishing) , et al., edited by Dean Mullaney 2019 (Library of American Comics/IDW Publishing) and Al Williamson, edited by Dean Mullaney (Fantagraphics) , edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds (Amigo Comics) , Wally Wood, et al., edited by Ferran Delgado (Beehive Books) (Sunday Press Books) , edited by Peter Maresca 2020s 2020 (Taschen) , edited by Alexander Braun (University Press of Mississippi) (Sunday Press Books) , edited by Peter Maresca and Sammy Harkham (Fantagraphics) , edited by RJ Casey (Beehive Books) , edited by Violet Kitchen and Denis Kitchen (Fantagraphics) , edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds 2021 (Fantagraphics) (Sunday Press Books/IDW Publishing) , edited by Peter Maresca (Fantagraphics) , edited by RJ Casey (Labor of Love Publications) , edited by Frank Young (Fantagraphics) , edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds 2022 (Fantagraphics) , edited by Gary Groth and Conrad Groth (Ablaze Publishing) and Jorge Longarón, edited by Christopher Marlon, Rich Young, and Kevin Ketner (New York Review Comics) , edited by Norman Hathaway (Princeton University Press) , translated by Brian Bruya2023 (Drawn & Quarterly) (New York Review Comics) (Fantagraphics) (Fantagraphics) (Fantagraphics) 2024 Dauntless Dames: High-Heeled Heroes of the Comic Strips (Fantagraphics)| style="background:#FAEB86;" | edited by Peter Maresca and Trina Robbins | rowspan="5" | |- |David Wright’s Carol Day: Lance Hallam (Slingsby Bros, Ink!) |edited by Roger Clark, Chris Killackey, and Guy Mills |- |Popeye Sundays Vol 3: The Sea Hag and Alice the Goon (Fantagraphics) |by E.C. Segar, edited by Conrad Groth and Gary Groth |- |Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck and Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1935-1939: Starring Donald Duck and Big Bad Wolf |by David Gerstein |- |Where I’m Coming From (Drawn & Quarterly) |by Barbara Brandon-Croft, edited by Peggy Burns and Tracy Hurren |- ! rowspan="4" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" |2025 | style="background:#FAEB86;" |Thorn: The Complete Proto-BONE Strips 1982–1986, and Other Early Drawingsby Jeff SmithAll in Lineby Saul SteinbergFrank Johnson, Secret Pioneer of American Comics, vol. 1edited by Chris Byrne and Keith MayersonStan Mack’s Real-Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995by Stan Mack, edited by Gary Groth2026The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1928–1930 (Fantagraphics)edited by J. Michael Catron and Bill BlackbeardArthur Ferrier’s Pin-Up Parade Box Set (Korero Press)edited by Rian HughesBarnaby, vol. 5: 1950–1952, by Crockett Johnson (Fantagraphics)edited by Eric Reynolds and Philip NelRea Irvin’s The Smythes (NYRC)edited by R. Kikuo Johnson and Dash ShawTerminal Exposure: Comics, Sculpture, and Risky Behavior, by Michael McMillan (NYRC)edited by Lucas Adams

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