Your 2014 Broken Frontier Awards Winners, Nominees



The site Broken Frontier has released its yearly awards winners, this time for the year 2014. The post says it's the site's 11th annual list.

The analysis from Frederik Hautain notes the dominance of female creators and the continuing appeal of Image Comics as a publisher.

Winners in bold.

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BEST WRITER -- MAINSTREAM

* Jason Aaron (Men Of Wrath, Original Sin, Thor)
* Warren Ellis (Moon Knight)
* Grant Morrison (The Multiversity)
* Scott Snyder (Batman, Superman, The Wake)
* G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel)

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BEST WRITER -- INDEPENDENT/CREATOR-OWNED

* Darryl Cunningham (Supercrash: How To Hijack The Global Economy, Uncle Bob Adventures Vol. 2)
* Ray Fawkes (Intersect, The People Inside)
* Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine, Uber)
* Liz Prince (Tomboy)
* James Tynion IV (The Woods, Memetic)

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BEST ARTIST -- MAINSTREAM

* Michael Allred (Silver Surfer)
* Russell Dauterman (Cyclops, Thor)
* Robbi Rodriguez (FBP, Edge of Spider-Verse)
* Declan Shalvey (Moon Knight)
* Andrea Sorrentino (Green Arrow)

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BEST ARTIST -- INDEPENDENT/CREATOR-OWNED

* Box Brown (Andre The Giant)
* Wes Craig (Deadly Class)
* INJ Culbard (Brass Sun, Celeste, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath)
* Farel Dalrymple (The Wrenchies)
* Rob Davis (The Motherless Oven)

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BEST COLORIST

* Jordie Bellaire (Magneto, Moon Knight, The Massive, Tooth & Claw)
* Elizabeth Breitweiser (Fatale, The Fade Out, Outcast, Velvet)
* Matt Hollingsworth (Hawkeye, The Wake, Wytches)
* Lee Loughridge (All-New X-Factor, Captain Marvel, Bodies, Deadly Class)
* Matthew Wilson (Secret Avengers, The Wicked + The Divine)

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BREAKOUT TALENT

* Michael Cho (Shoplifter)
* Jamie Coe (Art Schooled)
* Leila del Duca (Shutter)
* EdieOP (Dangerfun, Maleficium)
* Tula Lotay (Bodies, Supreme: Blue Rose)

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BEST NEW SERIES

* Deadly Class (Rick Remender & Wes Craig, Image)
* Ms. Marvel (G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona & Jake Wyatt, Marvel)
* Princess Ugg (Ted Naifeh, Oni)
* Southern Bastards (Jason Aaron & Jason Latour, Image)
* The Wicked + The Divine (Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie, Image)

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BEST ONGOING SERIES

* Lazarus (Greg Rucka & Michael Lark, Image)
* Moon Knight (Warren Ellis & Declan Shalvey/Brian Wood & Greg Smallwood, Marvel)
* Saga (Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples, Image)
* Stray Bullets (David Lapham, Image)
* The Bunker (Joshua Hale Fialkov & Joe Infurnari, Oni)

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BEST LIMITED SERIES: BODIES

* Bodies (Si Spencer, Tula Lotay, Phil Winslade, Meghan Hetrick & Dean Ormston, DC/Vertigo)
* Brass Sun (Ian Edginton & INJ Culbard, 2000 AD)
* Ordinary (Rob Williams & D’Israeli, Titan Comics)
* POP! (Curt Pires & Jason Copland, Dark Horse)
* The White Suits (Frank J. Barbiere & Toby Cypress, Dark Horse)

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BEST ONE-SHOT

* Genesis (Nathan Edmondson & Alison Sampson, Image)
* Moose Kid Comics (Jamie Smart et al, self-published)
* Over Under Sideways Down (Karrie Fransman, Red Cross)
* The Lizard Laughed (Noah Van Sciver, Oily)
* Wicked Chicken Queen (Sam Alden, Retrofit)

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BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL

* Beautiful Darkness (Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoët, Drawn & Quarterly)
* Gast (Carol Swain, Fantagraphics)
* HOAX: Psychosis Blues (Ravi Thornton, Mark Stafford, Bryan Talbot et al, Ziggy’s Wish)
* Sugar Skull (Charles Burns, Pantheon)
* This One Summer (Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki, First Second)

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BEST BOOK ON COMICS

* American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife (A. David Lewis, Palgrave Macmillan)
* Comics Unmasked (Paul Gravett & John Harris Dunning, British Library)
* Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews (edited by Sarah Lightman, McFarland)
* Hellboy: The First 20 Years (Mike Mignola, Dark Horse)
* Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World (Monte Beauchamp et al, Simon & Schuster)

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BEST PUBLISHER

* Avery Hill Publishing
* BOOM! Studios/Archaia
* First Second
* Image Comics
* SelfMadeHero

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Congratulations to all nominees and winners.

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