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
- Winner: Adrienne Resha, “‘Brown People with Bad Résumés’ in Four Color Comics: Simon Baz and Critical Color Theory in Green Lantern and Green Lanterns”
- Honorable Mention: Evelyn Vasquez, “Socializing the Tenement as Depicted in Comic Art”
Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship
- Winner: Reya River Enza, “Controlling Fascism with Surrealism on Tradd Moore’s Variant Cover for The Department of Truth #4” on WWAC
- Honorable Mention: Anna Peppard, “Nightcrawler is a Sex-Positive Superhero. Here’s How—And Why it Matters” on WWAC
CSS Article Prize
- Winner: Brannon Costello, “Strange Daddy: Uprooting the Environmentalist Family Romance in Nancy A. Collins’ Swamp Thing” in INKS (6:1)
- Honorable Mention: Margaret Galvan, “Of Anthologies and Activism: Building an LGBTQ+ Comics Community” in The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader (University Press of Mississippi)
Charles Hatfield Book Prize
- Winner: Ewa Stańczyk, Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland (The Ohio State University Press)
- Honorable Mention: Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies (The Ohio State University Pres)
CSS Edited Book Prize
- Winner: Eleanor Ty, editor, Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives (The Ohio State University Press, 2022)
- Honorable Mention: María Porras Sánchez and Gerardo Vilches, editors, Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives: Young Lives in Crisis (Routledge)
CSS Dissertation Prize
- Eva Van de Wiele, Building a Glocalised Serial for Children (University of Ghent)
Frederick Luis Aldama Emerging BIPOC Comics Studies Leadership Award
- Kofi Bazzell-Smith (University of Illinois)
