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<div dir="ltr"><b><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Comics Studies Society Prizes 2022: Call for Nominations</font></span></b><br clear="all"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Nomination Deadline: March 25<sup>th</sup>, 2022</b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Comics Studies Society (CSS) recognizes outstanding contributions to the study of comic art 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.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The CSS defines comic art as the category of artistic production that incorporates all forms of cartooning, sequential art, and graphic narrative. This includes, but is not limited to, the following forms: comic strips, comic books, papers, and magazines; albums, graphic novels, and other graphic books; webcomics and other electronic formats; single-panel cartoons, including editorial and gag cartoons; caricature; animation; and other related forms and traditions.</font></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">The CSS is currently soliciting nominations for all five prizes, which will be awarded at the 5th</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society (July 28<sup>th</sup>-30<sup>th</sup>, 2022). Winners will receive a $300 cash award and a plaque. Please </span><span style="color:black">see the <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://comicsstudies.org/css-2022-conference/__;!!KGKeukY!lPSOWCd5pdN-9f6Et7PL4nU3VYS0zpnEU5RG8ZikwLmARHZVJDR62AY9BS9qGAtEuDOsHwxEANdf$" target="_blank" style="color:blue">CSS Website</a> </span><span style="color:black">for conference details.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Nominations for the CSS prizes may be historical, biographical, critical, analytical, pedagogical, and/or bibliographical in focus.</font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Nominations should draw on original research, acknowledge and advance existing scholarship where relevant, and include appropriate documentation and citation.</font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Reprints of or excerpts from previously published works are not eligible for prizes.</font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a name="m_-7145915043466273435_OLE_LINK1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a><a name="m_-7145915043466273435_OLE_LINK2" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Each piece of scholarship may only be nominated once across all categories of the CSS Prizes, and individuals nominated for a CSS Prize may only have one piece of scholarship competing in each category. However, nominees may compete simultaneously in multiple categories per awards cycle.</a></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;color:black;vertical-align:baseline">While individuals nominated for all CSS Prizes <b>do not need</b> to be members, <b><u>only</u></b><u> <b>members</b> can nominate scholars for the CSS Prizes.</u> Please visit the <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://comicsstudies.org/membership/__;!!KGKeukY!lPSOWCd5pdN-9f6Et7PL4nU3VYS0zpnEU5RG8ZikwLmARHZVJDR62AY9BS9qGAtEuDOsHwscNxb7$" target="_blank" style="color:blue;font-family:arial,sans-serif">CSS’s Membership Page</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> to join the CSS.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">For more information </span><span style="color:black">regarding the eligibility of CSS Executive Board Members and information on past winners of the CSS Prizes, please see the </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://comicsstudies.org/prizes/__;!!KGKeukY!lPSOWCd5pdN-9f6Et7PL4nU3VYS0zpnEU5RG8ZikwLmARHZVJDR62AY9BS9qGAtEuDOsH2iTMNDX$" target="_blank" style="color:blue">CSS Website</a><span style="color:black">.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="color:black">Frequency and time period</span></i><span style="color:black">: Prizes are awarded by the CSS at its annual conference for first-time publications (not reprints or revised editions) or (concerning the Chute only) unpublished work occurring during the previous calendar year. <u>For example, the 2022 prizes will cover publications and presentations © 2021</u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="color:black">Nomination process</span></i><span style="color:black">: Peer nominations and self-nominations are welcomed. Nomination letters are due <b>March 25, 2022.</b> The letter of nomination may take the form of an email and should do the following:</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Identify the work’s complete title, author(s) name(s), publisher, and original copyright date.</font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;color:black;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Include means of access to a complete digital copy of the work (such as a PDF or ebook, a link to a paywall-free article or media text, media file, etc.) that members of the CSS Prize Committee can access as needed.</font></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="color:black">Nominations and inquiries</span></i><span style="color:black"> should be sent by email to the CSS Awards Coordinator,<b> Biz Nijdam</b>, at </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:comicssociety.awards@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue">comicssociety.awards@gmail.com</a></span><span style="color:black">.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="color:black">Judging and awarding process</span></i><span style="color:black">: Nominees for each prize will be reviewed by an Awards Subcommittee of not less than three members of the Comics Studies Society, which is approved by the CSS Executive Board and includes the Awards Coordinator and/or the Awards Subcommittee Chair. 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