The Comics Studies Society recently announced recipients of their annual awards, celebrating work released in 2021. If you’d like to nominate your work or the work of a colleague for future awards, please consult the awards portal on the CSS website for information about categories and guidelines (https://comicsstudies.org/prizes/).
Congratulations to all the winners! You can view past winners and watch acceptance videos from this year’s winners on the CSS website: https://comicsstudies.org/prizes/2022-prizes/
Winner of the Charles Hatfield Award for Best Monograph: Susan E. Kirtley, Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips (Ohio State University Press).
Honorable Mention for the Charles Hatfield Award for Best Monograph: Esther De Dauw, Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic Books(Rutgers University Press).
Honorable Mention for the Charles Hatfield Award for Best Monograph: Zack Kruse, Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity (University Press of Mississippi).
Winner of the CSS Prize for Best Published Article: Vincent Haddad, “Detroit vs. Everybody (Including Superheroes): Representing Race through Setting in DC Comics,” published in Inks5.3.
Honorable Mention for the CSS Prize for Best Published Article: Daniel Stein, “Black Bodies Swinging: Superheroes and the Shadow Archive of Lynching,” published in Closure 7.5.
Honorable Mention for the CSS Prize for Best Published Article: Justin Wigard, “‘The Fearless Spaceman Spiff, Interplanetary Explorer Extraordinaire’: Parodic Imagination & the Pulp Aesthetic in Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes,” published in Inks 5.2.
Winner of the Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship: Ritesh Badu, “Civilized Monsters: These Savage Shores and the Colonialist Cage,” published by NeoText Review.
Honorable Mention for The Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship: Vincent Haddad, “‘That Wingnut is Insane’: Reality vs. Fictionality in Conspiracy Comics,” published by The Middle Spaces.
Honorable Mention for The Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship: The Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, Oh Wow! Podcast with Anna Peppard, Christopher Maverick, J. Andrew Deman, and Shawn Gilmore, episode 5, “Excalibur #5: ‘Send in the Clowns.’”
Winner of the Prize for Best Edited Book: Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll, editors, The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics (University Press of Mississippi).
Honorable Mention for the Prize for Best Edited Book: Jamie Brassett and Richard Reynolds, editors, Superheroes and Excess: A Philosophical Adventure (Routledge).
Winner of the Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Paper: Kay Sohini, “The Peculiarity of Time.”
Honorable Mention for the Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Paper: Bryan Bove, “It Can’t All Be Sorrow: Confronting Trauma Through Television in Marvel’s WandaVision.”
Honorable Mention for the Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Paper: 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.”