Mr. Pointy Awards / 2016

For For Works Published in 2015


Short-Form Award

  • Kociemba, David, and Mary Ellen Iatropoulos. “Separate Worlds or One?: Canonicity, Medium and Authorship.” The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. 31-50.

Long-Form Award

  • Goodrum, Michael and Philip Smith, eds. Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon’s Classic Series. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Paper Award for the 7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (2016)

  • Klein, Ian. “Resurrecting Sunnydale: Chronicles of the Hellmouth.

Short-Form Finalists

  • Bosseaux, Charlotte. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Dubbing, Film and Performance: Uncanny Encounters. New York: Peter Lang, 2015. 135-154.
  • Call, Lewis. “‘That Weird, Unbearable Delight’: Representations of Alternative Sexualities in Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men Comics.” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 [40-41], Winter 2014/Spring 2015.
  • Calvert, Bronwen. “Inside Out: Motherhood as Demonic Possession in Angel.” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 [40-41], Winter 2014/Spring 2015.
  • Hautsch, Jessica. “‘What the Geisha has gotten into you?’: Colorblindness, Orientalist Stereotypes, and the Problem of Global Feminism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight.” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 12.2-13.1 [40-41], Winter 2014/Spring 2015

Long-Form Finalists

  • Frankel, Valerie Estelle, ed. The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.
  • Melton, J. Gordon and Alysa Hornick. The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.