Comics Studies Society

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

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!

Looking forward to presenting with @unciv at MSU's Comics Studies Conference hosted by @cssorg ! Our paper: "Silent Stories: Radical Decoding and the Return of the Image". The Future is Wordless!

So much love for my (newfound) @cssorg family. Thx for the friendships, hugs, & wisdoms! Here's to our next 50 meets.

Comics educators, scholars, and professionals can vote in the Eisner Awards by registering through this link: bit.ly/EisnerBallotsA… 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.