The Comics Studies Society is pleased to announce the winners and honorable mentions for our 2025 prizes. Read on or visit comicsstudies.org/.../2025-c… to see the full list! ✨

The Frederick Luis Aldama Emerging BIPOC Comics Studies Leadership Award Winner: Adrienne Resha, Rising Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, The University of Virginia

The Charles Hatfield Book Prize Honorable Mention: James Scorer, Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame (University of Texas Press, 2024)

The Charles Hatfield Book Prize Winner: Samantha Langsdale, Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel (University of Texas Press, 2024)

The CSS Article Prize Honorable Mention: Nicole Dib, “Who Benefits from Your Ignorance? Visualizing Black (Super)Heroism and Refuting Respectability Politics in Victor LaValle’s Destroyer” (Inks)

The CSS Article Prize Winner: Derek Lee, "“Is Psylocke Asian? The Racial Fantasy and Ambiguity of an Uncanny Oriental” (Inks)

Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship Honorable Mention: John A. Walsh et al., “Comic Book Paratexts” (Self-Published)

Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship Honorable Mention: Asher Elbein, “The Judgment Of Magneto” (Defector)

Gilbert Seldes Prize for Public Scholarship Winner: Felipe Rodolfo Hendriksen, “Batman patiens: Patience in Batman: Year One (1987)” (Vault of Culture)

The CSS Edited Book Prize Winner: Georgiana Banita and Lee Konstantinou, Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman (University Press of Mississippi, 2023)

The CSS Dissertation Prize Honorable Mention: Adrienne Resha, From Superman to Sana Amanat: Alienation, Assimilation, and American Superhero Comics, 1938 to Present

The CSS Dissertation Prize Winner: Christian Hines, #THEKIDSAREALRIGHT: Interrogating and Enacting Youth Empowerment Via Comics Pedagogies in a High School Book Club

Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Paper Honorable Mention: Ishita Sehgal, “Memory, Colors and Gutters: Reading Graphic Memoirs”

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 Mystery”

Thanks to everyone who joined us in East Lansing, Michigan over the weekend for CSS 2025! Here are some highlights from the conference, which included a roundtable celebrating a decade of the Comics Studies Society. We encourage you to share some of your own and tag us!

Comics educators, scholars, and professionals can vote in the Eisner Awards by registering through this link: bit.ly/EisnerBallotsApplicat… Voting for the Eisners closes on Thursday, June 5, 2025.

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: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53356

For your consideration: Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society is Eisner nominated! Please consider voting for Inks for Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism.