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Comics Represent! Anand RK and Daniel Kraus are Pulitzer Prize Winners

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Pulitzer Prize

The winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced and comics were well represented with two comic community members receiving recognition. The Pulitzer is an award recognizing the best in journalism, literature, music, and drama. You can find the full list of winners here.

Anand RK, Suparna Sharma, and Natalie Obiko have been recognized for traPPed in “Illustrated Reporting and Commentary.”

traPPed is a riveting account of a neurologist in India held under “digital arrest” by her phone, reporting that uses visuals and words to cast light on the growing global challenges of surveillance and digital scams.

Anand RK has previously won an Eisner and worked for Image, BOOM!, Dark Horse, 200AD, Heavy Metal, DC Comics, Vault, and more.

Daniel Kraus was recognized in the “Books, Drama, & Music” category and “Fiction” for Angel Down published by Atria Books. The book is a breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical realism and science fiction into a cohesive whole, told in a single sentence.

Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel Whalefall received a front-cover review in The New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, was an LA Times Book Prize Finalist, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he coauthored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar–winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus coauthored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. His also cowrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, and more. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. He lives with his wife in Chicago.

In comics, he’s written for Vault, AWA, Skybound and Image.

Congrats to all of the winners and those recognized for their amazing work.

Tessa Hulls wins the Pulitzer for graphic novel Feeding Ghosts

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Feeding Ghosts, A Graphic Memoir

The Pulitzer has a few ways to win for comic creators/cartoonists and most would think of political cartoons when thinking “comics” and that award. On Monday it was announced that Tessa Hulls had won a 2025 Pulitzer in “Memoir or Autobiography” for Feeding Ghosts, A Graphic Memoir, the second original graphic novel to win one. Art Spiegelman’s Maus was the first to win thirty-three years ago. Welcome to the New World won in 2018 for “Editorial Cartooning” and I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp won in 2022 for “Illustrated Reporting and Commentary.”

An affecting work of literary art and discovery whose illustrations bring to life three generations of Chinese women – the author, her mother and grandmother, and the experience of trauma handed down with family histories.

Hulls’ graphic novel, almost 10 years in the making, follows three generations of Chinese women. Her grandmother was a journalist during the Communist revolution who escapes to Hong Kong but suffers a mental breakdown. The story is of Hulls’ grandmother, her mother, and herself as they attempt to survive. Its won numerous awards including the National Books Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the 2025 Anisfield Wolf Prize, the Libby Award For Best Graphic Novel and the shortlist for the Carnegie Medal.

Hulls learned of the news will working at the Legislative Lounge in the Capitol building in Juneau. She started to receive calls and text messages congratulating her but she was busy preparing the daily special, beef stew and salmon Alfredo linguine.

It was state Rep. Justin Ruffridge who informed Hulls after looking up the news on his phone. Hulls still went about her day doing her job, a seasonal contract gig. Hulls wants to become an embedded comics journalist working with field scientists focused on climate change and ecological resilience, a job that doesn’t really exist, but we fully expect to see her will it into existence.

Feeding Ghosts, A Graphic Memoir is available through Bookshop, Amazon, your local comic shop or bookstore, and more.

(via Anchorage Daily News)

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How I escaped a Chinese internment camp wins the Pulitzer for Illustrated Reporting

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The use of comics for reporting (dubbed graphic journalism) has a long tradition and in recent years it has produced amazing works of art exploring our world and chronicling events with an intimate and personal focus missing from mainstream journalism. The Pulitzer Prize has recognized one of those projects, How I escaped a Chinese internment camp, as the 2022 winner for “Illustrated Reporting”. The award has been given since 1922 and only two “comic strips” have been recognized in those years.

The comic follows Zumrat Dawut, a mother of three from Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang autonomous region in China. In 2018 she was arrested and sent to a detention center for Uyghur women where she experience “brutal living conditions” and beatings.

The comic features Zumrat’s story told to Insider through interviews as well as testimony given to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The Pulitzer was given for:

For using graphic reportage and the comics medium to tell a powerful yet intimate story of the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, making the issue accessible to a wider public.

Recognized are Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams, and Walt Hickey.

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