The Fifth Annual Prism Awards winners and finalists were December 27, 2021. The juried awards were founded by Prism Comics, The Queer Comics Expo and The Cartoon Art Museum to recognize, promote, and celebrate diversity and excellence in queer comics and graphic novels.
Winner and Finalist Awards are presented to comic works by queer creators that promote the growing body of diverse, powerful, innovative, positive or challenging representations of LGBTQAI+ characters and stories in fiction or nonfiction comics.
2021 PRISM AWARDS
Webcomics
- Winner: Superpose (Artist & Writer: Seosamh; Artist & Writer: Anka)
- Finalist: Shaderunners (Artist: Alex Assan; Writer: Lin Darrow)
- Finalist: A Guide To A Healthy Relationship (Creator: Copper)
Short Form Comics
- Winner: God Sees Me Crying in the Bathroom Stall (Creator: Vincy Lim)
- Finalist: QAT Person Number 3 (Creator: Dylan Edwards)
- Finalist: The Unfading Flower (Creator: Hari Conner)
Small/Midsize Press
- Winner: To Cut (Creator: Noella Whitney)
- Finalist: How To Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual (Creator: Rebecca Burgess)
- Finalist: Sasha From The Gym (Creator: Otava Heikkilä)
Mainstream Press
- Winner: The Low Low Woods (Publisher: DC Comics, Written by: Carmen Maria Machado & Joe Hill Art by: Dan McDaid & Dani Strips)
- Finalist: The Deep & Dark Blue (Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Creator: Niki Smith,)
- Finalist: Juliet Takes a Breath (Publisher: Boom Studios, Writer: Gabby Rivera; Illustrator, Celia Moscote; Colorist, James Fenner; Letterer: DC Hopkins)
Anthology
- Winner: A.B.O. Comix: A Queer Prisoners Anthology Vol 4 (Publisher: A.B.O. Comix, Editor: Casper Cendre,)
- Finalist: Ambrosia: Trans Masc & Non Binary Erotic Comics (Edited by: Tab Kimpton and Jade Sarson)
- Finalist: Confined Before COVID19: A Pandemic Anthology by LGBTQ Prisoners (Publisher: A.B.O. Comix, Editor: Casper Cendre)
Young Readers (13 and under)
- Winner: The Deep & Dark Blue (Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Creator: Niki Smith,)
- Finalist: The Magic Fish by (Publisher: Random House Graphic, Creator: Trung Le Nguyen)
- Finalist: Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 3: A Dish Best Served Cold (Publisher: Oni Press, Creator: Natalie Riess)
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“Glass walls do not a prism make,
Nor iron bars a grid.
If I could sell this verse, I’d make
At least a half a quid.”
I read “Superpose,” which is good. I used to read “Shaderunners,” which is also good, but I’m way behind on it (actually, I never got up to the present). I should return to it one day.
I’ll check some of the others here. 🙂
Oh, hey, I’ve read “The Unfading Flower” by Hari Conner; that’s good, too. Conner does the amazing “Finding Home” comic!