The Slate Book Review and The Center for Cartoon Studies are proud to announce the eighth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize

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.

Candida Rifkind is a 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. For more: candidarifkind.com.

The two award categories for the Cartoonist Studio Prize are Print Comic of the Year and Web Comic of the Year.

Finalists for each category will be announced in early March. The two winning comics will be announced in April.

Submission Forms

Eligible print comics must be written in (or translated into) English and published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of 2019. Creators or publishers may submit a print comic for consideration by clicking here.

must be written in (or translated into) English and published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of 2019. Creators or publishers may submit a print comic for consideration by clicking here. Eligible web comics must be written in (or translated into) English and published online between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of 2019. Creators or publishers may submit a web comic for consideration by clicking here.

Submissions in both categories must be received by January 31, 2020.

Currently enrolled CCS students and faculty are not eligible for the award. Creators may submit one—and no more than one—work in each of the two categories. The judging panel reserves the right to consider work that was not officially submitted.

Creators or publishers may submit a work for consideration by sending a physical copy of the book, along with a submission form, to:

The Center for Cartoon Studies

Cartoonist Studio Prize

PO Box 125

94 South Main Street (Fed Ex and UPS only)

White River Junction, Vermont 05001

No creator may submit more than one work in either category. The judging panel reserves the right to consider work that was not officially submitted.

Questions?

studioprize@cartoonstudies.org