2022 Comics Studies Society Prize Winners
Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
Winner
Kay Sohini, “The Peculiarity of Time”
Honorable Mentions
Bryan Bove, “It Can’t All Be Sorrow: Confronting Trauma Through Television in Marvel’s WandaVision“
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”
Prize for Best Edited Book
Winner
Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll, editors of The Comics World
Honorable Mention
Jamie Brassett and Richard Reynolds, editors of Superheroes and Excess
Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship
Winner
Ritesh Babu, “Civilized Monsters: These Savage Shores and the Colonialist Cage” (NeoText Review)
Honorable Mentions
Vincent Haddad, “‘That Wingnut is Insane’: Reality vs. Fictionality in Conspiracy Comics”
Anna Peppard, Andrew Deman, Chrisopher Maverick, and Shawn Gilmore, Oh, Gosh! Oh, Golly! Oh, Wow! Episode #5: “Send in the Clowns”
CSS Prize for Best Published Article
Winner
Vincent Haddad, “Detroit vs. Everybody (Including Superheroes): Representing Race through Setting in DC Comics.” Inks 5.3
Honorable Mentions
Daniel Stein, “Black Bodies Swinging: Superheroes and the Shadow Archive of Lynching.” Closure 7.5
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
Charles Hatfield Award for Best Monograph
Winner
Susan E. Kirtley, Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips (The Ohio State UP)
Honorable Mentions
Esther De Dauw, Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic Books (Rutgers UP)
Zack Kruse, Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity (UP of Mississippi)
