San Diego Comic-Con 2017

Best Short Story

• “The Comics Wedding of the Century,” by Simon Hanselmann, in We Told You So: Comics as Art(Fantagraphics)
• “The Dark Nothing,” by Jordan Crane, in Uptight #5 (Fantagraphics)
• “Good Boy,” by Tom King and David Finch, in Batman Annual #1 (DC)
• “Monday,” by W. Maxwell Prince and John Amor, in One Week in the Library (Image)
• “Mostly Saturn,” by Michael DeForge, in Island Magazine #8 (Image)
• “Shrine of the Monkey God!” by Kim Deitch, in Kramers Ergot 9 (Fantagraphics)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

• Babybel Wax Bodysuit,by Eric Kostiuk Williams (Retrofit/Big Planet)
• Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In,by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, and Jill Thompson (Dark Horse)
• Blammo#9, by Noah Van Sciver (Kilgore Books)
• Criminal 10th Anniversary Special,by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
• Sir Alfred#3, by Tim Hensley (Pigeon Press)
• Your Black Friend, by Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket)

Best Continuing Series

• Astro City,by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson (Vertigo/DC)
• Kill or Be Killed, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
• The Mighty Thor,by Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman (Marvel)
• Paper Girls, by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (Image)
• Saga,by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)

Best Limited Series

• Archangel,by William Gibson, Michael St. John Smith, Butch Guice, and Tom Palmer (IDW)
• Briggs Land,by Brian Wood and Mack Chater (Dark Horse)
• Han Solo, by Marjorie Liu and Mark Brooks (Marvel)
• Kim and Kim,by Magdalene Visaggio and Eva Cabrera (Black Mask)
• The Vision,by Tom King and Gabriel Walta (Marvel)
• We Stand on Guard,by Brian K. Vaughan and Steve Skroce (Image)

Best New Series

• Black Hammer,by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston (Dark Horse)
• Clean Room, by Gail Simone and Jon Davis-Hunt (Vertigo/DC)
• Deathstroke: Rebirth, by Christopher Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, et al. (DC)
• Faith,by Jody Houser, Pere Pérez, and Marguerite Sauvage (Valiant)
• Mockingbird,by Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk (Marvel)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

• Ape and Armadillo Take Over the World,by James Sturm (Toon)
• Burt’s Way Home,by John Martz (Koyama)
• The Creeps, Book 2: The Trolls Will Feast!by Chris Schweizer (Abrams)
• I’m Grumpy (My First Comics), by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (Random House Books for Young Readers)
• Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea, by Ben Clanton (Tundra)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)

• The Drawing Lesson,by Mark Crilley (Ten Speed Press)
• Ghosts,by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic)
• Hilda and the Stone Forest,by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye Books)
• Rikki,adapted by Norm Harper and Matthew Foltz-Gray (Karate Petshop)
• Science Comics: Dinosaurs, by MK Reed and Joe Flood (First Second)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)

• Bad Machinery, vol. 5: The Case of the Fire Inside,by John Allison (Oni)
• Batgirl,by Hope Larson and Rafael Albuquerque (DC)
• Jughead, by Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm (Archie)
• Monstress, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image)
• Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars,by Jessica Abel (Papercutz/Super Genius)
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl,by Ryan North and Erica Henderson (Marvel)

Best Humor Publication

• The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp,by Lee Marrs (Marrs Books)
• Hot Dog Taste Test, by Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Jughead, by Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm (Archie)
• Man, I Hate Cursive,by Jim Benton (Andrews McMeel)
• Yuge! 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump,by G. B. Trudeau (Andrews McMeel)

Best Anthology

• Baltic Comics Anthology š! #26: dADa,edited by David Schilter and Sanita Muizniece (kuš!)
• Island Magazine, edited by Brandon Graham and Emma Rios (Image)
• Love is Love, edited by Sarah Gaydos & Jamie S. Rich (IDW/DC)
• Kramers Ergot 9, edited by Sammy Harkham (Fantagraphics)
• Spanish Fever: Stories by the New Spanish Cartoonists,edited by Santiago Garcia (Fantagraphics)

Best Reality-Based Work

• Dark Night: A True Batman Story,by Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso (Vertigo/DC)
• Glenn Gould: A Life Off Tempo,by Sandrine Revel (NBM)
• March (Book Three),by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Top Shelf)
• Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir,by Tom Hart (St. Martin’s)
• Tetris: The Games People Play,by Box Brown (First Second)

Best Graphic Album—New

• The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye,by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
• Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash,by Dave McKean (Dark Horse)
• Exits,by Daryl Seitchik (Koyama)
• Mooncop,by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Patience,by Daniel Clowes (Fantagraphics)
• Wonder Woman: The True Amazon by Jill Thompson (DC Comics)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

• Demon,by Jason Shiga (First Second)
• Incomplete Works,by Dylan Horrocks (Alternative)
• Last Look,by Charles Burns (Pantheon)
• Meat Cake Bible,by Dame Darcy (Fantagraphics)
• Megg and Mog in Amsterdam and Other Stories,by Simon Hanselmann (Fantagraphics)
• She’s Not into Poetry,by Tom Hart (Alternative)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

• Equinoxes, by Cyril Pedrosa, translated by Joe Johnson (NBM)
• Irmina,by Barbara Yelin, translated by Michael Waaler (SelfMadeHero)
• Love: The Lion, by Frédéric Brémaud and Federico Bertolucci (Magnetic)
• Moebius Library: The World of Edena,by Jean “Moebius” Giraud et al. (Dark Horse)
• Wrinkles,by Paco Roca, translated by Erica Mena (Fantagraphics)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

• The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye,by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
• Goodnight Punpun, vols. 1–4, by Inio Asano, translated by JN PRoductions(VIZ Media)
• orange: The Complete Collection,vols. 1–2, by Ichigo Takano, translated by Amber Tamosaitis, adaptation by Shannon Fay (Seven Seas)
• The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime,by Toshio Ban and Tezuka Productions, translated by Frederik L. Schodt (Stone Bridge Press)
• Princess Jellyfish,vols. 1–3 by Akiko Higashimura, translated by Sarah Alys Lindholm (Kodansha)
• Wandering Island, vol. 1, by Kenji Tsuruta, translated by Dana Lewis (Dark Horse)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips (at least 20 years old)

• Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings,by Glen Baxter (NYR Comics)
• Barnaby, vol. 3, by Crockett Johnson, edited by Philip Nel and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
• Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Colorful Cases of the 1930s,edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press)
• The Realist Cartoons,edited by Paul Krassner and Ethan Persoff (Fantagraphics)
• Walt & Skeezix 1931–1932,by Frank King, edited by Jeet Heer and Chris Ware(Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books (at least 20 Years Old)

• The Complete Neat Stuff,by Peter Bagge, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
• The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, edited by Trina Robbins (Fantagraphics)
• Fables and Funnies,by Walt Kelly, compiled by David W. Tosh (Dark Horse)
• Trump: The Complete Collection,by Harvey Kurtzman et al., edited by Denis Kitchen and John Lind (Dark Horse)
• U.S.S. Stevens: The Collected Stories, by Sam Glanzman, edited by Drew Ford (Dover)

Best Writer

• Ed Brubaker, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed, Velvet (Image)
• Kurt Busiek, Astro City (Vertigo/DC)
• Chelsea Cain, Mockingbird (Marvel)
• Max Landis, Green Valley (Image/Skybound), Superman: American Alien (DC)
• Jeff Lemire, Black Hammer (Dark Horse); Descender, Plutona (Image); Bloodshot Reborn (Valiant)
• Brian K. Vaughan, Paper Girls, Saga, We Stand On Guard (Image)

Best Writer/Artist

• Jessica Abel, Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars (Papercutz/Super Genius)
• Box Brown, Tetris: The Games People Play (First Second)
• Tom Gauld, Mooncop (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Tom Hart, Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir (St. Martin’s)
• Sonny Liew,The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

• Mark Brooks, Han Solo (Marvel)
• Dan Mora, Klaus (BOOM!)
• Greg Ruth, Indeh (Grand Central Publishing)
• Francois Schuiten,The Theory of the Grain of Sand (IDW)
• Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)
• Brian Stelfreeze, Black Panther (Marvel)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

• Federico Bertolucci, Love: The Lion (Magnetic)
• Brecht Evens, Panther (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Manuele Fior, 5,000 km per Second (Fantagraphics)
• Dave McKean, Black Dog (Dark Horse)
• Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)
• Jill Thompson, Wonder Woman: The True Amazon (DC); Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In  (Dark Horse)

Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)

• Mike Del Mundo, Avengers, Carnage, Mosaic, The Vision (Marvel)
• David Mack, Abe Sapien, BPRD Hell on Earth, Fight Club 2, Hellboy and the BPRD 1953 (Dark Horse)
• Sean Phillips, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed (Image)
• Fiona Staples, Saga (Image)
• Sana Takeda, Monstress (Image)

Best Coloring

• Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Green Valley (Image/Skybound)
• Elizabeth Breitweiser, Criminal 10th Anniversary Special, Kill or Be Killed, Velvet (Image); Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta (Image/Skybound)
• Sonny Liew,The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)
• Laura Martin, Wonder Woman (DC); Ragnorak (IDW); Black Panther (Marvel)
• Matt Wilson, Cry Havoc, Paper Girls, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); Black Widow, The Mighty Thor, Star-Lord (Marvel)

Best Lettering

• Dan Clowes, Patience (Fantagraphics)
• Brecht Evens, Panther (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Tom Gauld, Mooncop (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Nick Hayes, Woody Guthrie (Abrams)
• Todd Klein, Clean Room, Dark Night, Lucifer (Vertigo/DC); Black Hammer (Dark Horse)
• Sonny Liew,The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism

• The A.V. Club comics coverage, including Comics Panel, Back Issues, and Big Issues, by Oliver Sava et al., www.avclub.com
• Comic Riffs blog, by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com/new/comic-riffs/
• Critical Chips,edited by Zainab Akhtar (Comics & Cola)
• PanelPatter.com, edited by Rob McMonigal
• WomenWriteAboutComics.com, edited by Megan Purdy and Claire Napier

Best Comics-Related Book

• blanc et noir: takeshi obata illustrations,by Takeshi Obata (VIZ Media)
• Ditko Unleashed: An American Hero,by Florentino Flórez and Frédéric Manzano (IDW/Editions Déese)
• Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White,by Michael Tisserand (Harper)
• The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood,vol. 1, edited by Bhob Stewart and J. Michael Catron (Fantagraphics)
• More Heroes of the Comics,by Drew Friedman (Fantagraphics)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

• Brighter Than You Think: Ten Short Worksby Alan Moore, with essays by Marc Sobel (Uncivilized)
• Forging the Past: Set and the Art of Memory,by Daniel Marrone (University Press of Mississippi)
• Frank Miller’s Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism,by Paul Young (Rutgers University Press)
• Pioneering Cartoonists of Color,by Tim Jackson (University Press of Mississippi)
• Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation,by Carolyn Cocca (Bloomsbury)

Best Publication Design

• The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye,designed by Sonny Liew (Pantheon)
• The Complete Wimmin’s Comix, designed by Keeli McCarthy (Fantagraphics)
• Frank in the Third Dimension, designed by Jacob Covey, 3D conversions by Charles Barnard (Fantagraphics)
• The Realist Cartoons,designed by Jacob Covey (Fantagraphics)
• Si Lewen’s Parade: An Artist’s Odyssey,designed by Art Spiegelman (Abrams)

Best Webcomic

• Bird Boy, by Anne Szabla,?http://bird-boy.com
• Deja Brew, by Teneka Stotts and Sarah DuVall (Stela.com)
• Jaeger, by Ibrahim Moustafa (Stela.com)
• The Middle Age, by Steve Conley, steveconley.com/the-middle-age
• On Beauty, by Christina Tran,? sodelightful.com/comics/beauty/

Best Digital Comic

• Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
• Edison Rex, by Chris Roberson and Dennis Culver (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
• Helm, by Jehanzeb Hasan and Mauricio Caballero, www.crookshaw.com/helm/
• On a Sunbeam,by Tillie Walden, www.onasunbeam.com
• Universe!, by Albert Monteys (Panel Syndicate)