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November 23, 2013
Your 2013 British Comic Awards Winners
The FPI blog
has a nice report up
on this weekend's awarding of the British Comic Awards -- now in its second year.
Below are the short-list nominees with winners in bold.
BEST COMIC
*
The Absence
#5 -- Martin Stiff (self published)
*
The Listening Agent
-- Joe Decie (Blank Slate Books)
*
Mud Man
#6 -- Paul Grist (Image Comics)
*
Soppy
#2 -- Philippa Rice (self published)
*
Winter's Knight: Day One
-- Robert M Ball (Great Beast/self published)
BEST BOOK
*
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
-- Stephen Collins (Jonathan Cape)
*
Judge Dredd: Trifecta
-- Al Ewing, Rob Williams, Simon Spurrier, Henry Flint, D'Israeli, Carl Critchlow and Simon Coleby (2000AD Graphic Novels)
*
The Man Who Laughs
-- David Hine and Mark Stafford (SelfMadeHero)
*
Mrs. Weber's Omnibus
-- Posy Simmonds (Jonathan Cape)
*
The Nao of Brown
-- Glyn Dillon (SelfMadeHero)
YOUNG PEOPLE'S COMIC AWARD
*
Cindy & Biscuit
#3 -- Dan White (self published)
*
The Complete Rainbow Orchid
-- Garen Ewing (Egmont)
*
Hilda & The Bird Parade
-- Luke Pearson (NoBrow)
*
Playing Out
-- Jim Medway (Blank Slate Books)
*
The Sleepwalkers
-- Vivianne Schwarz (Walker Books)
EMERGING TALENT
*
Isabel Greenberg (
The River of Lost Souls
)
*
Dilraj Mann (
Frank Ocean VS Chris Brown
,
Make You Notice
,
Turning Point
)
*
Will Morris (
The Silver Darlings
)
*
Jade Sarson (
Cafe Suada
)
*
Lizzy Stewart (
Solo
,
Four Days In Brussels
,
Four Days in Iceland
,
Object Stories
)
In addition, the great
Leo Baxendale
was inducted into the awards program's hall of fame.
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