The 2018 PRISM Awards were presented at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 21. The awards are given to “recognize, promote and celebrate diversity and excellence in the field of queer comics.”

Short Form Comics

• To Measure by Noella Whitney, 2017 – http://no-whit.com/

Webcomics

• O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti, (excerpts from 2017) – http://ohumanstar.com/

Small To Midsize Press Comics and Graphic Novels

• The Boys Who Became Hummingbirds by Daniel Heath Justice and Weshoyot Alvitre, Alternate History Comics Inc., June 2017 – http://ahcomics.com/wordpress/moonshot-volume-2/

Mainstream Comics and Graphic Novels

• The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag, Scholastic Graphix, 2017 – https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/the-witch-boy-by-molly-ostertag/

Anthologies

• Dates: An Anthology of Queer Historical Fiction Volume 2 edited by Zora Gilbert and Cat Parra, August 2017 – http://datesanthology.com/collaborators2016

Prism Award Judges

• AJ Real (Advanced Death Saves edited by Josh Trujillo) – @darkshifter
• Ajuan Mance (Gender Studies; Alphabet; We’re Still Here) – http://8-rock.com/ @8_rock
• Brian Andersen (Stripling Warrior; So Super Duper; The Advocate) – www.sosuperduper.com, @superbrian
• e jackson (Flux; Drawing a Dialogue podcast) – @ehetja
• Gillian Pascasio (The Kiss of the Demoness) – @7CLUBS
• Gina Biggs (Love Not Found) – @ginabiggs
• Hari Conner (Finding Home) – hari-illustration.com @haridraws
• Heidi MacDonald (The Beat, The News Blog of Comics Culture) – http://www.comicsbeat.com/ @comixace
• H-P Lehkonen (Life Outside the Circle) – webtoons.com. @hplehkonen
• Jack Baur (Librarian, Berkeley Public Library) – inthelibrarywithacomicbook.org @kcorstel
• Mey Valdivia Rude (Autostraddle) – @meyrude
• Rob McMonigal (Panel Patter) – www.panelpatter.com @rob_mcmonigal
• Scout Tran-Caffee (Villainette; Falling Sky) – xo.villainette.com
• Sfé R. Monster (Beyond: The Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology, Vols. 1 and 2; webcomic Eths’ Skin) – sfemonster.com @sfemonster
• William O. Tyler (WoT’s Cinephilia) – @williamotyler

The Prism Awards organizing team is Ted Abenheim, Nina Taylor Kester and Maia Kobabe.

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