Comics Studies Society
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Script error: The function "infoboxTemplate" does not exist. Comics Studies Society (CSS) is the first US association dedicated to supporting the study of graphic narrative and sequential art.
History[edit]
In November 2014, during the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF), the California State University, Northridge professor Charles Hatfield made a motion to create the Comics Studies Society as an interdisciplinary association open to academics, non-academics or independent scholars, teachers, and students who had the goal of promoting the critical study of comics.[1][2][3]
At a meeting inside the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, the CSS's first Executive Committee was officially voted and the CSS mais focuses were defined as "promoting the critical study of comics, improving comics teaching, and engaging in open and ongoing conversations about the comics world". CSS also organizes the Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society since 2018.[4][5][3][6]
Inks[edit]
Since 2017, CSS is responsible by the journal Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, published by Ohio State University Press.[7][6]
The journal was nominated as Eisner Awards Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism in 2020.[8]
Comics Studies Society Prizes[edit]
Since 2018, CSS awards comics studies, books and articles with five annual prizes: the CSS Article Prize, the Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, the Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship, the Charles Hatfield Book Prize, and the CSS Prize for Edited Book Collections. The nominated scholars don't need to be CSS members, but only members can send the nomination letters. All first-time publications during the previous calendar year are eligible (in case of translated books, is considered the year of English publication).[9][7][10]
Winners[edit]
Charles Hatfield Book Prize[edit]
- 2018 - Brannon Costello, by Neon Visions: The Comics of Howard Chaykin (Louisiana State University Press)[11]
- 2019 - Lara Saguisag, by Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics (Rutgers University Press)[11]
- 2020 - Jorge Santos, by Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics (University of Texas Press)[11]
- 2021 - Rebecca Wanzo, by The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging (New York University Press)[12]
- Honorable Mention: Jean Lee Cole, by How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 (University Press of Mississippi)[12]
- 2022 - Susan E. Kirtley, by Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips (Ohio State University Press)[13]
- Honorable Mention: Esther De Dauw, by Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic Books (Rutgers University Press)[13]
- Honorable Mention: Zack Kruse, by Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity (University Press of Mississippi)[13]
CSS Article Prize[edit]
- 2018 - Benoît Crucifix, by "Cut-up and Redrawn: Charles Burns's Swipe Files", published in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society[11]
- 2019 - André M. Carrington, by "Desiring Blackness: A Queer Orientation to Marvel's Black Panther, 1998–2016", published in American Literature[11]
- 2020 - Dan Mazur, by "Ibrahim Njoya, a Comics Artist in Colonial-Era Cameroon", published in The Comics Journal[11]
- 2021 - Sydney Phillips Heifler, by "Romance Comics, Dangerous Girls, and the Importance of Fathers", published in Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics[12]
- Honorable Mention: Maite Urcaregui, by "(Un)documenting Single-Panel Methdologies and Epistemologies in the Non-fictional Cartoons of Eric J. García and Alberto Ledesma", published in Prose Studies: History, Theory, Critics[12]
- 2022 - Vincent Haddad, by "Detroit vs. Everybody (Including Superheroes): Representing Race through Setting in DC Comics", published in Inks[13]
- Honorable Mention: Daniel Stein, by "Black Bodies Swinging: Superheroes and the Shadow Archive of Lynching" published in Closure[13]
- Honorable Mention: Justin Wigard, by "'The Fearless Spaceman Spiff, Interplanetary Explorer Extraordinaire': Parodic Imagination & the Pulp Aesthetic in Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes", published in Inks[13]
CSS Prize for Edited Book Collections[edit]
- 2020 - Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O'Malley, by The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell (University of Mississippi Press)[11]
- 2021 - Anna F. Peppard, by Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero (University of Texas Press)[12]
- Honorable Mention: Frederick Luis Aldama, by Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia (University Press of Mississippi)[12]
- Honorable Mention: Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, by Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage (Palgrave Macmillan)[12]
- Honorable Mention: Martha Kuhlman and José Alaniz, by Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and Intersections (Leuven University Press)[12]
- 2022 - Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll, by The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics (University Press of Mississippi)[13]
Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Paper[edit]
- 2018 - Alex Smith, by "Breaking Panels: Gay Cartoonists' Radical Revolt"[11]
- 2019 - Isabelle Martin, by "'The Weight of Their Past': Reconstructing Memory and History through Reproduced Photographs in Thi Bui’s Graphic Novel The Best We Could Do"[11]
- 2020 - Haniyeh Barahouie, by "Mapping the War in Zeina Abirached's A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return"[11]
- 2021 - Maite Urcaregui, by "Political Geographies of Race in James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac's Little Man, Little Man"[12]
- Honorable Mention: Clémence Sfadj, by "Windows on Everyday Harlem: 'The Cartoons of Ollie Harrington'"[12]
- 2022 - Kay Sohini, by "The Peculiarity of Time"[13]
- Honorable Mention: Bryan Bove, by "It Can't All Be Sorrow: Confronting Trauma Through Television in Marvel's WandaVision"[13]
- Honorable Mention: Adrienne Resha, by "Good Is Not a Thing You Are, It's a Thing Superheroes Do: Kamala Khan and the Identity Pause in Ms. Marvel, Superhero Bildungsroman"[13]
Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship[edit]
- 2019 - Osvaldo Oyola, by "Guess Who’s Coming Home for the Holidays: Intergenerational Conflict in Bitch Planet", The Middle Spaces, "'I AM (not) FROM BEYOND!': Situating Scholarship & the Writing 'I'", The Middle Spaces, and "YA = Young Avengers: Asserting Maturity on the Threshold of Adulthood", The Middle Spaces[11]
- 2020 - Zoe D. Smith, by "4 Colorism, or, the Ashiness of it All" and "4 Colorism, or, White Paper/Brown Pixels", Women Wrote About Comics[11]
- 2021 - Zachary J.A. Rondinelli, by "#WelcomeToSlumberland Social Media Research Project"[12]
- Honorable Mention: Anna F. Peppard, by "(Behold?) The Vision's Penis: The Presence of Absence in Mutant Romance Tales"[12]
- 2022 - Ritesh Badu, by "Civilized Monsters: These Savage Shores and the Colonialist Cage"[13]
- Honorable Mention: Vincent Haddad, by "'That Wingnut is Insane': Reality vs. Fictionality in Conspiracy Comics"[13]
- Honorable Mention: 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'"[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ "CSUN Professor Advocates Interdisciplinary Collaboration Through Comics Studies". CSUN Today. 2018-03-19.
- ↑ Matthew J. Smith; Randy Duncan (2017). The Secret Origins of Comics Studies. Routledge. ISBN 9781317505785. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Brittany Tullis and Mark Heimermann (2017). Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics. University of Texas Press. p. 2. ISBN 9781477311622. Search this book on
- ↑ "About the Comics Studies Society". Comics Studies Society official website.
- ↑ "Comics Studies Society goes public on Feb. 14, 2016, launches its founding membership drive". SciFi Pulse. 2016-02-15.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Washington People: Rebecca Wanzo". Washington University in St.Louis. 2017-02-03.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Announcement of open membership for new Comics Studies Society". Sacred and Sequential. 2016-02-19.
- ↑ "2020 Eisner Nominees: The Complete List". The Hollywood Reporter. 2020-06-04.
- ↑ "About the Comics Studies Society Prizes". Comics Studies Society official website.
- ↑ "Comics Studies Society Prizes 2022: Call for Nominations". Malmö Comics Research Lab. 2022-02-23.
- ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 "Comics Studies Society Prizes - Past Winners". Comics Studies Society official website.
- ↑ 12.00 12.01 12.02 12.03 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.08 12.09 12.10 12.11 "2021 Comics Studies Society Prizes". Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. 5 (3): 349–351. 2021 – via Project MUSE.
- ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 "2022 Comics Studies Society Prize Winners". Oregon Cartoon Project. March 2022.
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