2023 Election Nominee Bios
Nominations for 2nd Vice-President for CSS Election 2023 Aleksandra ChernyakAleksandra Chernyak graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine, in 2011; she received her Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies degree at Bay Path University in Longmeadow, MA, in 2015. She briefly attended American University’s School of International Service but realized her love for history […]
Inks Editorial Fellowship Program
Priority Deadline: May 12th, 2023 Applications are being accepted for the Inks Editorial Fellowship, a program designed to support the professional development of new scholars in comics studies and to provide administrative assistance to the editorial team of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. This is a paid fellowship that is open to members of the Graduate Student […]
CSS Executive Board Nominations Now Open
The Comics Studies Society (CSS) calls for nominations and self-nominations for officers on its Executive Board. The Board is interested in welcoming talented colleagues for the positions of Second Vice-President and two Members-at-Large. Details about the responsibilities of each position are available here. Information for joining the Society is at CSS website. We encourage nominations and self-nominations from comics scholars […]
Statement in Solidarity with Michigan State Community
The Comics Studies Society extends its deepest sympathy and affirms its ongoing solidarity with and support for the students, faculty, and staff of Michigan State University in response to the recent violent assault on their campus. MSU was the generous host and collaborator for our 2022 conference and will be again for future conferences: we […]
CSS is Looking to appoint an Executive Treasurer!
The Comics Studies Society (CSS) Executive Board is looking for candidates for the appointed position of Executive Treasurer to begin immediately. The candidate will have the option of working until 2024, or serving a complete three-year term. The CSS Executive Treasurer is appointed by the Executive Board for a three-year term, with a possibility of […]
Protected: CSS 2020 Program and Links for Virtual Attendance
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CSS 2022 Pop-Up: Cultures of Collecting Comics in India
Comics as a medium and subject of study in India remains marginalized in the absence of formal training programs and collections in libraries and archives. As a result, a wide range of informal collections and networks have become a way of bridging the gap in community knowledge and comics archives. In this virtual panel discussion, […]
CSS 2022 Pop-Up: Building and Using a Latin American Comics Archive (LACA)
The video for this pop-up will go live on July 22nd! We will share a link here and on various social media!
Michigan State University Library Tours at CSS 2022
As part of the 2022 Comics Studies Society Conference this month at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, MI on July 28-30, the staff at the Library will offer Behind the Scenes Tours of the Murray & Hong Special Collections, one of the world’s largest comics archives. Join members of the Special Collections unit and tour […]
2022 CSS and GSC Election Winners
The winners for the 2022 CSS election are noted below! These folks will join the current Executive Board members to do some amazing work for the society in the coming year! CSS Second Vice President – Zack Kruse Zack Kruse is the author of Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal […]
