CSS 2026 Call for Papers
Everything I Know, I Learned From Comics June 11-13, 2026, The Ohio State University In her talk at 2023’s Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival, Susan Kirtley breaks comics studies pedagogy into three interrelated practices: teaching about comics, teaching with comics, and teaching through comics. In partnership with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, the 2026 […]
Frederick Luis Aldama Award Talk with Victoria Ramirez Rahbar
Life as a Comics-Focused PhD Student Victoria Ramirez Rahbar (she/they) is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia School of Information. Before coming to Canada, she earned a Master of Arts in East Asian Studies at Stanford University and received a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Washington. […]
2025 Comics Studies Society Prize Winners
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: Marissa A. Zerangue, “‘So you thought you would exploit another person’s tragedy’: Mystery, Gender, and Race in Mat Johnson’s Incognegro: A Graphic […]
Inks Was Nominated For an Eisner Award!
Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism! In honor of this recognition, Inks Issue 8.3, a special issue centered on Indigenous Comics, guest edited by Katherine Kelp-Stebbins and Jeremy Carnes, will be open to everyone through June 6th. Please check it out here. Also, if you are a comics educator, […]
2025 Comics Studies Society Awards Shortlist
Announcement The Comics Studies Society is proud to announce the finalists for each of our seven prizes for 2025! Many of these prizes had numerous strong nominees. Congratulations to the finalists! Winners will be announced in June. Shortlists for the 2025 CSS Awards The Charles Hatfield Book Prize Samantha Langsdale, Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, […]
Apply for the INKS EDITORIAL FELLOWSHIP!
INKS EDITORIAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM Priority Deadline: May 9, 2025 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 […]
Frederick Luis Aldama Award Talk with Christian Hines
#THEKIDSAREALRIGHT: Interrogating and Enacting Youth Empowerment via Comics Pedagogies Dr. Christian Hines is an Assistant Professor of Literacy and Reading at Texas State University. She is a Blerd (Black nerd), a comics and young adult literature in education scholar-practitioner and a former secondary English teacher. Her research highlights the representation of Black and marginalized youth […]
Frederick Luis Aldama Award Talk with Kofi Bazzell-Smith
Call for Webmaster for CSS
The Comics Studies Society is currently seeking a new Webmaster to run our digital presence in close conjunction with the current Social Strategist. The Webmaster should have some familiarity with website platforms and hosting services, though a detailed knowledge of coding is not necessary. CSS uses a WordPress instance and has a website hosted through […]
Belated Awards Congratulations and a Statement about CSS
Dear CSS Members, We want to take this opportunity to recognize and congratulate two outstanding scholars who belong in our cohort of CSS awards winners. We are thrilled to share that Ravynn Stringfield was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship. We are also proud to announce that Christian Hines […]
