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: Morgan Podraza, “‘Get Your Scissors’: Comics’ Black Paper Dolls and Their Readers”
- Honorable Mention: Anu Sugathan, “Drawing Justice: Narratives of Resilience and Disruption in Orijit Sin’s River of Stories“
Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship
- Winner: Nick Sousanis & Emily Beitiks, “Comics Beyond Sight: A Highly Visual Case for Blind Access” in Technology Review
- Honorable Mention: Regina Marie Mills, “‘Across the Spider-Verse’ and the Latino Legacy of Spider-Man” in The Conversation
- Honorable Mention: Ravynn K. Stringfield, “Flying Toward a Twenty-First Century Aesthetics of Technomagic Girlhood” in Vault of Culture
CSS Article Prize
- Winner: Maite Urcaregui, “Composing Crip Temporalities, or Decomposing Comics in Dumb and Dancing After TEN“ In Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies
- Honorable Mention: Lara Saguisag, “Labor in the Margins: Filipino Comics Workers in the US Comic Book Industry” in Inks
Charles Hatfield Book Prize
- Winner: Margaret Galvan, In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (University of Minnesota Press)
- Honorable Mention: Michelle Ann Abate, Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts (University Press of Mississippi)
CSS Edited Book Prize
- Winner: Qiana Whitted, ed. Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of Comics (Rutgers UP)
CSS Dissertation Prize
- Co-Winner: Anna Vuorinne, Understanding Abuse and Justice Through Genres: Migration and Human Rights in Contemporary German Comics
- Co-Winner: Safiyya Hosein, The Iconic Muslim Superhero: Muslim Female Audience Perspectives of Marvel’s Muslim Superheroines
Frederick Luis Aldama Emerging BIPOC Comics Studies Leadership Award
- Victoria Rahbar, University of British Columbia
- Christian Hines, Texas State University
