We are pleased to announce the 2023 Association for Mormon Letters Awards finalists in comics. The final awards will be announced and presented on July 20, as part of the 2024 Association for Mormon Letters Virtual Conference. The finalists and winners are chosen by juries of authors, academics, and critics. The announcements include blurbs and author biographies, usually adapted from the creator and distributor websites.
Comics
Anna M. Wright. Apos
Wright explores the “darker, more nuanced sides of an LDS missionary experience” (link) in Apos. She examines difficulties and concerns that missionaries have about rules, relationships with their companions, and the tension between the efficiency of “missionary work” and Christian service Her initial zine collects the comics recounting her own mission. Her project has expanded to include other people’s experiences, which she plans to collect in a future volume by the same name.
Brittany Long Olsen. Are You My Mother?
Inspired by versions of Mother God from around the world, Olsen writes about a girl on a journey to find herself and her mother. The comic, meant for all ages, includes talking animals and addresses some tough questions.
Norman Shurtliff. Skull Cat and the Curious Castle. Top Shelf
Productions.
Scully, starting work as a garden-keeper at a castle, goes on a quest to find his missing co-workers in a cute and creepy adventure appropriate for the whole family.
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