Your 2015 Hugo Awards Graphic Novel Category Nominees



Here are the nominees for this year's graphic story category at the Hugos, a long-time, well-known science fiction award. They are:

* Ms. Marvel Volume One: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson And Adrian Alphona And Jake Wyatt (Marvel Comics)
* Rat Queens Volume One: Sass and Sorcery, Kurtis J. Weibe And Roc Upchurch (Image Comics)
* Saga Vol. 3, Brian K. Vaughan And Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
* Sex Criminals, Volume One: One Weird Trick, Matt Fraction And Chip Zdarsky (Image Comics)
* Zombie Nation Book Two: Reduce Reuse Reanimate, Carter Reid (The Zombie Nation)

This year's Hugos are the scene of a politically conservative pushback against a perceived, politically left-leaning campaign of a year earlier. There are nicknames and whatnot for the voting "movements." It seems like the definition of useless stupidity to me, and I imagine a big dose of who gives a shit getting in a lot of folks' eyes. The thing is, an awards program with a bit of a legacy and bit of a name can become something important to people who want to invest in the community in which they're working, who would like to join that continuity of creators.

I don't detect that this hit the comics-related category in a way that capsized it. Put another way, it looks like a pretty normal slate of well-liked comic books, with one webcomic I've not heard of thrown in, and this is about what I've come to expect year to year. Still, I'm not completely up on the matter and tend not to look at books politically. It's hard to imagine anything less about what I've enjoyed over a lifetime of reading science fiction than an ugly nerd-fight over the imagination-light, rigid categories of modern political discourse.

In happier news, the awards program publishes the results from the previous year: here's 2014, and the graphic story category shows up in the first ten pages.
 
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