1: Award for Favourite Comics Writer
ALAN MOORE (Lost Girls)
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (Y: The Last Man, Runaways, Ex Machina, Pride of Baghdad)
ED BRUBAKER (Criminal, Uncanny X-Men, Daredevil, Captain America)
GRANT MORRISON (All-Star Superman, Batman)
WARREN ELLIS (Fell, Desolation Jones, Nextwave, newuniversal) : Ellis’s sheer volume of work sees it through. Morrison’s All-Star Superman would have gotten my vote, but he kind of diluted it with the Batman run, which started off well, but…..meh! What the heck, Nextwave sealed it for Ellis.

2: Award for Favourite Comics Writer/Artist
ALAN DAVIS (Fantastic Four: The End)
BEN TEMPLESMITH (Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse; IDW)
DARWYN COOKE (The Spirit, Solo) Darwyn Cooke’s work on Solo is unparallelled, the pinups themselves were worth their weight in gold. Somebody get me The Spirit to read. Templesmith would have come in second, in my opinion. Alan Davis’s FF: The End is too crowded with characters, much like JLA: Another Nail, while Mignola’s work, though mighty, is not voluminous enough to warrant an award. I am not too impressed with any of Oeming’s non-Powers work
MICHAEL AVON OEMING (The Cross Bronx; Image)
MIKE MIGNOLA (Dark Horse Book of Monsters)

3: Award for Favourite Comics Artist: Pencils
ALEX MALEEV (New Avengers, New Avengers: Illuminati)
BRYAN HITCH (The Ultimates 2)
FRANK CHO (Liberty Meadows)
FRANK QUITELY (All-Star Superman) No second thoughts here. Cassaday may be good, but Quitely just blows it off the water with All Star Superman.
JOHN CASSADAY (Astonishing X-Men, Planetary)

4: Award for Favourite Comics Artist: Inks
ANDE PARKS (Nightwing, Civil War: Choosing Sides, The Irredeemable Ant-Man)
DANNY MIKI (Moon Knight, Eternals)
JIMMY PALMIOTTI (52; Daughters of the Dragon; Secret Six)
MARK FARMER (Fantastic Four: The End)
PAUL NEARY (The Ultimates 2) Tough choice, because I haven’t read most of the others. Paul Neary gets it because Bryan Hitch’s details are insane.

5: Award for Favourite Artist: Fully-Painted Artwork
ALEX MALEEV (New Avengers, New Avengers: Illuminati)
ALEX ROSS (Justice)
ASHLEY WOOD (Doomed; IDW, Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty; IDW)
BEN TEMPLESMITH (Fell, 30 Days: Deadspace, Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse)
JAMES JEAN (Fables) Would I choose James Jean over Alex Ross? Any day!

6: Award for Favourite Colourist
ALEX SINCLAIR (52, Batman)
CHRIS BLYTHE (2000AD)
DAVE STEWART (Daredevil, New Avengers, Superman)
LAURA MARTIN (Astonishing X-Men, The Ultimates 2) Laura Martin it is, and not just because I bought art off her husband.
RICHARD ISANOVE (Wolverine: Origins, New Avengers)

7: Award for Favourite Letterer
CHRIS ELIOPOULOS (Astonishing X-Men, Fell)
COMICCRAFT (Supergirl, Superman/Batman)
RICHARD STARKINGS (Elephantmen, Hip Flask)
TODD KLEIN (Eternals, Lost Girls)
TOM FRAME (2000AD)

Absolutely no idea about this one.

8: Award for Favourite Editor
AXEL ALONSO (Daredevil, Punisher) BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Brevoort is on for Civil War! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I wouldn’t give him a vote if he agreed to give me all of McNiven’s art for Civil War.
JOE QUESADA (Marvel)
MATT SMITH (2000AD, Judge Dredd Megazine)
STEVE WACKER (52)
TOM BREVOORT (New Avengers, Civil War)

9: Award for Favourite Publisher
DARK HORSE For being consistent with their offerings. For bringing more and more good manga into the market. For giving off Steve Rude the rights to Nexus. For being the good guys.
DC
IMAGE
MARVEL
REBELLION

10: Award for Favourite Colour Comicbook – American
ALL STAR SUPERMAN (DC) Glorious, I tell you. The definitive Superman comic ever!
DESOLATION JONES (Wildstorm)
FABLES (DC)
JACK STAFF (Image)
TRANSFORMERS (IDW)

11: Award for Favourite Colour Comicbook – British
2000AD (Rebellion) I will go with 2000AD, even though I have not read any from last year.
EVENT HORIZON (MAM TOR PUBLISHING)
JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE (Rebellion)
STARSHIP TROOPERS (Markosia)
THRUD THE BARBARIAN (Carl Critchlow)

12: Award for Favourite Black and White Comicbook – American
CASANOVA (Image)
PHONOGRAM (Image) I loved the first issue of this comic. While both Walking Dead and Usagi Yojimbo are god-level, this deserves an award.
THE WALKING DEAD (Image)
USAGI YOJIMBO (Dark Horse)
WASTELAND (Oni Press)

13: Award for Favourite Black and White Comicbook – British
FUTUREQUAKE (FutureQuakePress)
HERO KILLERS (Moonface Press)
HOW TO DATE A GIRL IN TEN DAYS (Vented Spleen)
MALCOLM MAGIC (Studio Blink Twice)
TALES FROM THE FLAT (Modern Monstrosity)

Nope, no ideas.

14: Award for Favourite New Comicbook
52 (DC)
CIVIL WAR (Marvel)
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA (DC)
NEXTWAVE (Marvel) Nextwave owns you, punks.
TESTAMENT (DC)

15: Award for Favourite Manga
BATTLE ROYALE (Tokyopop)
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL (Dark Horse) Oh, my kingdom for volume 16!
DEATH NOTE (Viz Media)
NARUTO (Viz Media)
PRIEST (Tokyopop)

16: Award for Favourite European Comics
ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS (Orion)
BLACKSAD: RED SOUL (iBooks) When in doubt, go for Blacksad.
SANCHO (20000 Leagues)
THE KILLER (Archaia Studios Press)
XIII (Alias/Dabel)

17: Award for Favourite Comics Story published during 2006
52 #1 up (various)
ALL STAR SUPERMAN ONGOING (Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely) Toss-up between Nextwave and this, but this one wins!
CIVIL WAR #1 up (Mark Millar/Steve McNiven)
DAREDEVIL #82-87 THE DEVIL IN CELL-BLOCK D (Ed Brubaker/Michael Lark)
NEXTWAVE #1-6 (Warren Ellis/Stuart Immonen)

18: Award for Favourite Comics Cover published during 2006
5th Place was tied in the nomination round. This is why there are 6 nominations for this category.
52 #1 (various)
CIVIL WAR #1 (Steve McNiven)
FABLES: 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL (James Jean) This cover makes me pee my pants.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #1 (Ed Benes)
NEXTWAVE #11 (Stuart Immonen)
THE ULTIMATES 2 #12 (Bryan Hitch)

19: Award for Favourite Original Graphic Novel
FABLES: 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL (Bill Willingham & various; DC/Vertigo)
FIVE FISTS OF SCIENCE (Matt Fraction/Steven Sanders; Image)
LOST GIRLS (Alan Moore/Melinda Gebbie; Top Shelf)
PRIDE OF BAGHDAD (Brian K. Vaughan/Niko Henrichon; DC/Vertigo) What a story! Highly recommended.
STAGGER LEE (Derek McCulloch/Shepherd Hendrix; Image)

20: Award for Favourite Reprint Compilation
ABSOLUTE DARK KNIGHT (Frank Miller/Klaus Janson; DC)
ABSOLUTE DC THE NEW FRONTIER (Darwyn Cooke; DC)
ABSOLUTE KINGDOM COME (Mark Waid/Alex Ross; DC)
ABSOLUTE SANDMAN v1 (Neil Gaiman & various; DC/Vertigo) All Absolute editions are cool, but this one is special!
CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER v1 (Ed Brubaker/Steve Epting; Marvel)

21: Award for Favourite Comics Character
BATMAN (DC)
CAPTAIN AMERICA (Marvel)
DAREDEVIL (Marvel) Pah, it’s like choosing the best from the worst.
JUDGE DREDD (Rebellion)
SPIDER-MAN (Marvel)

22: Award for Favourite Comics Villain
BLACK ADAM (Infinite Crisis/JSA: DC)
DIRK ANGER (Nextwave: Marvel) Any given day, baby.
IRON MAN (Civil War: Marvel)
JOKER (Batman family: DC)
LEX LUTHOR (Superman family: DC)

23: Award for Favourite Magazine About Comics
ALTER EGO
BACK ISSUE
COMICS INTERNATIONAL
THE COMICS JOURNAL The only serious publication on comics.
WIZARD

24: Award for Favourite Comics-Related Book
GEORGE PEREZ: STORY TELLER (Dynamite)
GREAT BRITISH COMICS (Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury; Aurum Press)
MAKING COMICS: STORYTELLING SECRETS OF COMICS, MANGA AND GRAPHIC NOVELS (Scott McCLoud; HarperCollins) I am buying this soon. Muwhahahahahah!
THE ART OF BRIAN BOLLAND (Image/Desperado)
WRITING FOR COMICS WITH PETER DAVID (Impact Books)

25: Award for Favourite Comics-Based Movie Or TV
HELLBOY ANIMATED
HEROES
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED Because the ending has Batman saying “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes”.
SUPERMAN RETURNS
V FOR VENDETTA

26: Award for Favourite Comics Related Website
COMIC BOOK RESOURCES (www.comicbookresources.com) The fact that it has weekly studio tours, Erik Larsen’s column, Rich Johnston et al working for it.
MANGA LIFE (www.mangalife.com)
MILLARWORLD (www.millarworld.tv)
NEWSARAMA (www.newsarama.com)
SILVER BULLET COMIC BOOKS (www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com)

27: Award for Favourite Web-Based Comic
DRASTIC COMICS (www.drasticcomics.com)
DREAMLAND CHRONICLES (www.thedreamlandchronicles.com)
PENNY ARCADE (www.penny-arcade.com)
PVP (www.pvponline.com)
SONIC THE COMIC ONLINE (www.stconline.com)

No idea.

28: Award for Roll of Honour
ALEX TOTH He isn’t on the roll of honour yet?
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN
BRIAN M. BENDIS
TOM FRAME
WARREN ELLIS