Every year, the Comics Studies Society recognizes outstanding contributions to the study of comic art with seven annual prizes. Here are this year’s winners!
Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
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- Winner: Marissa A. Zerangue, “‘So you thought you would exploit another person’s tragedy’: Mystery, Gender, and Race in Mat Johnson’s Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery”
- Honorable Mention: Ishita Sehgal, “Memory, Colors and Gutters: Reading Graphic Memoirs”
Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship
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- Winner: Felipe Rodolfo Hendriksen, “Batman patiens: Patience in Batman: Year One (1987)” (Vault of Culture)
- Honorable Mention: Asher Elbein, “The Judgment Of Magneto” (Defector)
- Honorable Mention: John A. Walsh et al.. “Comic Book Paratexts” (Self Published)
CSS Article Prize
Charles Hatfield Book Prize
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- Winner: Samantha Langsdale, Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics (University of Texas Press)
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- Honorable Mention: James Scorer, Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame (University of Texas Press)
CSS Edited Book Prize
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- Winner: Georgiana Banita and Lee Konstantinou, eds. Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman (University Press of Mississippi)
CSS Dissertation Prize
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- Winner: Christian Hines, #THEKIDSAREALRIGHT: Interrogating and Enacting Youth Empowerment Via Comics Pedagogies in a High School Book Club (The Ohio State University)
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- Honorable Mention: Adrienne Resha, From Superman to Sana Amanat: Alienation, Assimilation, and American Superhero Comics, 1938 to Present (The College of William and Mary)
Frederick Luis Aldama Award for Emerging BIPOC Comics Scholar
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- Winner: Adrienne Resha (University of Virginia)
