The January/February 2022 issue of DOLLS is 48 full-color pages and includes this year’s Dolls Awards of Excellence Public’s Choice winners, a feature on award-winning doll artist Esther Manso, our annual Doll Directory, and more!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Features

8 And the Winner Is …

We reveal the Public’s Choice winners,

selected by DOLLS readers, in our 2021

Dolls Awards of Excellence competition

11 2022 Dolls Awards of Excellence

Artists: Get Ready to Enter

Starting January 10

12 Cast of Characters

Esther Manso Sculpts Heroes, Villains

of Time-Honored Tales

By Stephanie Finnegan

16 Collector Corner

Dolls celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas

19 Doll Directory

Your A-to-Z Guide to Dollmakers,

Retailers, Show Promoters, and more

35 Directory Listings by Category

Departments

6 Editor’s Notebook

38 Doll Scene

40 Antique Q&A

41 Portraits

42 Curious Collector

44 Paper Doll

46 Event Calendar

46 Classifieds

46 Advertiser Index