Comics Studies Society Prizes | Past Winners
- 2018 | Brannon Costello, Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin, LSU Press, 2017
- 2019 | Lara Saguisag, Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics, Rutgers UP, 2018.
- 2020 | Jorge Santos, Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics (University of Texas Press, 2019)
- 2021 | Rebecca Wanzo, The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging (New York UP, 2020)
- Honorable Mention: Jean Lee Cole, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 (UP of Mississippi, 2020).
- 2022 | Susan E. Kirtley, Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips (The Ohio State UP)
- Honorable Mention: Esther De Dauw, Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic Books (Rutgers UP)
- Honorable Mention: Zack Kruse, Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity (UP of Mississippi)
- 2023 | 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 Press)
- 2018 | Benoît Crucifix, “Cut-up and Redrawn: Charles Burns’s Swipe Files” published in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
- 2019 | André M. Carrington, “Desiring Blackness: A Queer Orientation to Marvel’s Black Panther, 1998–2016,” published in American Literature
- 2020 | Dan Mazur, “Ibrahim Njoya, a Comics Artist in Colonial-Era Cameroon,” The Comics Journal
- 2021 | Sydney Phillips Heifler, “Romance Comics, Dangerous Girls, and the Importance of Fathers”
- Honorable Mention: Maite Urcaregui, “(Un)documenting Single-Panel Methdologies and Epistemologies in the Non-fictional Cartoons of Eric J. García and Alberto Ledesma”
- 2022 | Vincent Haddad, “Detroit vs. Everybody (Including Superheroes): Representing Race through Setting in DC Comics.” Inks 5.3
- Honorable Mention: Daniel Stein, “Black Bodies Swinging: Superheroes and the Shadow Archive of Lynching.” Closure 7.5
- Honorable Mention: Justin Wigard, “‘The Fearless Spaceman Spiff, Interplanetary Explorer Extraordinaire’: Parodic Imagination and the Pulp Aesthetic in Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.” Inks 5.2
- 2023 | 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)
- 2020 | Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O’Malley, The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell (University of Mississippi Press, 2019)
- 2021 | Anna F. Peppard, editor. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero
- Honorable Mention: Frederick Luis Aldama, editor. Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia
- Honorable Mention: Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, editors. Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
- Honorable Mention: Martha Kuhlman and José Alaniz, editors. Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and Intersections
- 2022 | Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll, editors of The Comics World
- Honorable Mention: Jamie Brassett and Richard Reynolds, editors of Superheroes and Excess
- 2023 | 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)
- 2018 | Alex Smith, “Breaking Panels: Gay Cartoonists’ Radical Revolt”
- 2019 | Isabelle Martin, “‘The Weight of Their Past’: Reconstructing Memory and History through Reproduced Photographs in Thi Bui’s Graphic Novel The Best We Could Do”
- 2020 | Haniyeh Barahouie, “Mapping the War in Zeina Abirached’s A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return”
- 2021 | Maite Urcaregui, “Political Geographies of Race in James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac’s Little Man, Little Man”
- Honorable Mention: Clémence Sfadj, “Windows on Everyday Harlem: The Cartoons of Ollie Harrington”
- 2022 | Kay Sohini, “The Peculiarity of Time”
- Honorable Mention:Bryan Bove, “It Can’t All Be Sorrow: Confronting Trauma Through Television in Marvel’s WandaVision“
- Honorable Mention: Adrienne Resha, “Good Is Not a Thing You Are, It’s a Thing Superheroes Do: Kamala Khan and the Identity Pause in Ms. Marvel, Superhero Bildungsroman”
- 2023 | 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”
- 2019 | Osvaldo Oyola
- Guess Who’s Coming Home for the Holidays: Intergenerational Conflict in Bitch Planet,” The Middle Spaces, Dec. 11, 2018
- “‘I AM (not) FROM BEYOND!’: Situating Scholarship & the Writing ‘I’”, The Middle Spaces, Dec. 25, 2018
- “YA = Young Avengers: Asserting Maturity on the Threshold of Adulthood,” The Middle Spaces, Oct. 16, 2018
- 2020 | Zoe D. Smith, “4 Colorism, or, the Ashiness of it All” and “4 Colorism, or, White Paper/Brown Pixels,” Women Wrote About Comics
- 2021 | Zachary J.A. Rondinelli, “#WelcomeToSlumberland Social Media Research Project”
- Honorable Mention: Anna F. Peppard, “(Behold?) The Vision’s Penis: The Presence of Absence in Mutant Romance Tales”
- 2022 | Ritesh Babu, “Civilized Monsters: These Savage Shores and the Colonialist Cage” (NeoText Review)
- Honorable Mention: Vincent Haddad, “‘That Wingnut is Insane’: Reality vs. Fictionality in Conspiracy Comics”
- Honorable Mention: Anna Peppard, Andrew Deman, Chrisopher Maverick, and Shawn Gilmore, Oh, Gosh! Oh, Golly! Oh, Wow! Episode #5: “Send in the Clowns”
- 2023 | 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
- 2023 | Eva Van de Wiele, Building a Glocalised Serial for Children (University of Ghent)
- 2023 | Kofi Bazzell-Smith (University of Illinois)
You can see the videos for 2022 Awardees Here!
