Saga Wins Best Graphic Story Category At 2013 Hugo Awards

According to the awards program's site, the comic book series Saga won the Best Graphic Story category in this year's Hugo Awards. They were given out in conjunction with LoneStar Con 3 in San Antonio, Texas, over the weekend.

The trade Saga Vol. 1 won the award. It was credited with writing to Brian K. Vaughn and illustration to Fiona Staples -- the publisher Image was also listed. Others in the category were Locke & Key Volume Five: Clockworks, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW); Schlock Mercenary: Random Access Memorabilia, Howard Tayler and Travis Walton (Hypernode Media); Grandville Bete Noire, Bryan Talbot (Dark Horse/Jonathan Cape); Saucer Country, Volume One: Run, Paul Cornell and Ryan Kelly and Jimmy Broxton and Goran Sudzuka (Vertigo).

There were other comics-related elements to the awards program. The comics writer Paul Cornell was the host. Viz Media shared in an award for a Ken Liu contribution to a prose work they published. The webcartoonist Howard Tayler shared in an award given the Writing Excuse podcast. The movie adaptation of the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby/Mark Millar/Bryan Hitch/etc. Avengers comic book won an award.

The first Hugo Awards were given out in 1953. The Graphic Story category was put into place in 2009.
 
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