January 2, 2020

Event date: January 31, 2020 – January 31, 2020

Each year the Cartoonist Studio Prize will be awarded to work that exemplifies excellence in cartooning. The creators of two exceptional comics will be awarded $1000 each. Winners will be selected by Slate’s Dan Kois, the faculty and students of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), and this year’s guest judge, Candida Rifkind President of the Comics Studies Society and co-editor of the new Wilfrid Laurier UP book series Crossing Lines: Transcultural/Transnational Comics Studies. The deadline to enter is January 31.

Candida Rifkind is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, where she specializes in comics, graphic novels, and Canadian literature and culture. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters in Canadian Studies and Comics Studies, she is the co-editor of the scholarly collection Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2016) and the forthcoming essay collection Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories and Graphic Reportage (Palgrave, 2020). She is also the 2019-20 President of the Comics Studies Society and co-editor of the new Wilfrid Laurier UP book series Crossing Lines: Transcultural/Transnational Comics Studies.

The two award categories for the Cartoonist Studio Prize are Print Comic of the Year and Web Comic of the Year. To see past winners visit Slate!

For details and to submit, visit: cartoonstudies.org/studioprize