1: Award for Favourite Comics Writer
\nALAN MOORE (Lost Girls)
\nBRIAN K. VAUGHAN (Y: The Last Man, Runaways, Ex Machina, Pride of Baghdad)
\nED BRUBAKER (Criminal, Uncanny X-Men, Daredevil, Captain America)
\nGRANT MORRISON (All-Star Superman, Batman)
\nWARREN ELLIS (Fell, Desolation Jones, Nextwave, newuniversal)<\/b> : Ellis’s sheer volume of work sees it through. Morrison’s All-Star Superman<\/i> 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<\/i> sealed it for Ellis.<\/p>\n
2: Award for Favourite Comics Writer\/Artist
\nALAN DAVIS (Fantastic Four: The End)
\nBEN TEMPLESMITH (Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse; IDW)
\nDARWYN COOKE (The Spirit, Solo)<\/b> Darwyn Cooke’s work on Solo<\/i> is unparallelled, the pinups themselves were worth their weight in gold. Somebody get me The Spirit<\/i> to read. Templesmith would have come in second, in my opinion. Alan Davis’s FF: The End<\/i> is too crowded with characters, much like JLA: Another Nail<\/i>, 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
\nMICHAEL AVON OEMING (The Cross Bronx; Image)
\nMIKE MIGNOLA (Dark Horse Book of Monsters)<\/p>\n
3: Award for Favourite Comics Artist: Pencils
\nALEX MALEEV (New Avengers, New Avengers: Illuminati)
\nBRYAN HITCH (The Ultimates 2)
\nFRANK CHO (Liberty Meadows)
\nFRANK QUITELY (All-Star Superman)<\/b> No second thoughts here. Cassaday may be good, but Quitely just blows it off the water with All Star Superman<\/i>.
\nJOHN CASSADAY (Astonishing X-Men, Planetary)<\/p>\n
4: Award for Favourite Comics Artist: Inks
\nANDE PARKS (Nightwing, Civil War: Choosing Sides, The Irredeemable Ant-Man)
\nDANNY MIKI (Moon Knight, Eternals)
\nJIMMY PALMIOTTI (52; Daughters of the Dragon; Secret Six)
\nMARK FARMER (Fantastic Four: The End)
\nPAUL NEARY (The Ultimates 2)<\/b> Tough choice, because I haven’t read most of the others. Paul Neary gets it because Bryan Hitch’s details are insane.<\/p>\n
5: Award for Favourite Artist: Fully-Painted Artwork
\nALEX MALEEV (New Avengers, New Avengers: Illuminati)
\nALEX ROSS (Justice)
\nASHLEY WOOD (Doomed; IDW, Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty; IDW)
\nBEN TEMPLESMITH (Fell, 30 Days: Deadspace, Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse)
\nJAMES JEAN (Fables)<\/b> Would I choose James Jean over Alex Ross? Any day!<\/p>\n
6: Award for Favourite Colourist
\nALEX SINCLAIR (52, Batman)
\nCHRIS BLYTHE (2000AD)
\nDAVE STEWART (Daredevil, New Avengers, Superman)
\nLAURA MARTIN (Astonishing X-Men, The Ultimates 2)<\/b> Laura Martin it is, and not just because I bought art off her husband.
\nRICHARD ISANOVE (Wolverine: Origins, New Avengers)<\/p>\n
7: Award for Favourite Letterer
\nCHRIS ELIOPOULOS (Astonishing X-Men, Fell)
\nCOMICCRAFT (Supergirl, Superman\/Batman)
\nRICHARD STARKINGS (Elephantmen, Hip Flask)
\nTODD KLEIN (Eternals, Lost Girls)
\nTOM FRAME (2000AD)<\/p>\n
Absolutely no idea about this one.<\/p>\n
8: Award for Favourite Editor
\nAXEL ALONSO (Daredevil, Punisher) BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Brevoort is on for Civil War<\/i>! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I wouldn’t give him a vote if he agreed to give me all of McNiven’s art for Civil War<\/i>.
\nJOE QUESADA (Marvel)
\nMATT SMITH (2000AD, Judge Dredd Megazine)
\nSTEVE WACKER (52)
\nTOM BREVOORT (New Avengers, Civil War)<\/p>\n
9: Award for Favourite Publisher
\nDARK HORSE<\/b> 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<\/i>. For being the good guys.
\nDC
\nIMAGE
\nMARVEL
\nREBELLION<\/p>\n
10: Award for Favourite Colour Comicbook – American
\nALL STAR SUPERMAN (DC)<\/b> Glorious, I tell you. The definitive Superman comic ever!
\nDESOLATION JONES (Wildstorm)
\nFABLES (DC)
\nJACK STAFF (Image)
\nTRANSFORMERS (IDW)<\/p>\n
11: Award for Favourite Colour Comicbook – British
\n2000AD (Rebellion)<\/b> I will go with 2000AD, even though I have not read any from last year.
\nEVENT HORIZON (MAM TOR PUBLISHING)
\nJUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE (Rebellion)
\nSTARSHIP TROOPERS (Markosia)
\nTHRUD THE BARBARIAN (Carl Critchlow)<\/p>\n
12: Award for Favourite Black and White Comicbook – American
\nCASANOVA (Image)
\nPHONOGRAM (Image)<\/b> I loved the first issue of this comic. While both Walking Dead<\/i> and Usagi Yojimbo<\/i> are god-level, this deserves an award.
\nTHE WALKING DEAD (Image)
\nUSAGI YOJIMBO (Dark Horse)
\nWASTELAND (Oni Press)<\/p>\n
13: Award for Favourite Black and White Comicbook – British
\nFUTUREQUAKE (FutureQuakePress)
\nHERO KILLERS (Moonface Press)
\nHOW TO DATE A GIRL IN TEN DAYS (Vented Spleen)
\nMALCOLM MAGIC (Studio Blink Twice)
\nTALES FROM THE FLAT (Modern Monstrosity)<\/p>\n
Nope, no ideas.<\/p>\n
14: Award for Favourite New Comicbook
\n52 (DC)
\nCIVIL WAR (Marvel)
\nJUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA (DC)
\nNEXTWAVE (Marvel)<\/b> Nextwave<\/i> owns you, punks.
\nTESTAMENT (DC)<\/p>\n
15: Award for Favourite Manga
\nBATTLE ROYALE (Tokyopop)
\nBLADE OF THE IMMORTAL (Dark Horse)<\/b> Oh, my kingdom for volume 16!
\nDEATH NOTE (Viz Media)
\nNARUTO (Viz Media)
\nPRIEST (Tokyopop)<\/p>\n
16: Award for Favourite European Comics
\nASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS (Orion)
\nBLACKSAD: RED SOUL (iBooks)<\/b> When in doubt, go for Blacksad.
\nSANCHO (20000 Leagues)
\nTHE KILLER (Archaia Studios Press)
\nXIII (Alias\/Dabel)<\/p>\n
17: Award for Favourite Comics Story published during 2006
\n52 #1 up (various)
\nALL STAR SUPERMAN ONGOING (Grant Morrison\/Frank Quitely)<\/b> Toss-up between Nextwave and this, but this one wins!
\nCIVIL WAR #1 up (Mark Millar\/Steve McNiven)
\nDAREDEVIL #82-87 THE DEVIL IN CELL-BLOCK D (Ed Brubaker\/Michael Lark)
\nNEXTWAVE #1-6 (Warren Ellis\/Stuart Immonen)<\/p>\n
18: Award for Favourite Comics Cover published during 2006
\n5th Place was tied in the nomination round. This is why there are 6 nominations for this category.
\n52 #1 (various)
\nCIVIL WAR #1 (Steve McNiven)
\nFABLES: 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL (James Jean)<\/b> This cover makes me pee my pants.
\nJUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #1 (Ed Benes)
\nNEXTWAVE #11 (Stuart Immonen)
\nTHE ULTIMATES 2 #12 (Bryan Hitch)<\/p>\n
19: Award for Favourite Original Graphic Novel
\nFABLES: 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL (Bill Willingham & various; DC\/Vertigo)
\nFIVE FISTS OF SCIENCE (Matt Fraction\/Steven Sanders; Image)
\nLOST GIRLS (Alan Moore\/Melinda Gebbie; Top Shelf)
\nPRIDE OF BAGHDAD (Brian K. Vaughan\/Niko Henrichon; DC\/Vertigo)<\/b> What a story! Highly recommended.
\nSTAGGER LEE (Derek McCulloch\/Shepherd Hendrix; Image)<\/p>\n
20: Award for Favourite Reprint Compilation
\nABSOLUTE DARK KNIGHT (Frank Miller\/Klaus Janson; DC)
\nABSOLUTE DC THE NEW FRONTIER (Darwyn Cooke; DC)
\nABSOLUTE KINGDOM COME (Mark Waid\/Alex Ross; DC)
\nABSOLUTE SANDMAN v1 (Neil Gaiman & various; DC\/Vertigo)<\/b> All Absolute editions are cool, but this one is special!
\nCAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER v1 (Ed Brubaker\/Steve Epting; Marvel)<\/p>\n
21: Award for Favourite Comics Character
\nBATMAN (DC)
\nCAPTAIN AMERICA (Marvel)
\nDAREDEVIL (Marvel)<\/b> Pah, it’s like choosing the best from the worst.
\nJUDGE DREDD (Rebellion)
\nSPIDER-MAN (Marvel)<\/p>\n
22: Award for Favourite Comics Villain
\nBLACK ADAM (Infinite Crisis\/JSA: DC)
\nDIRK ANGER (Nextwave: Marvel)<\/b> Any given day, baby.
\nIRON MAN (Civil War: Marvel)
\nJOKER (Batman family: DC)
\nLEX LUTHOR (Superman family: DC)<\/p>\n
23: Award for Favourite Magazine About Comics
\nALTER EGO
\nBACK ISSUE
\nCOMICS INTERNATIONAL
\nTHE COMICS JOURNAL<\/b> The only serious publication on comics.
\nWIZARD<\/p>\n
24: Award for Favourite Comics-Related Book
\nGEORGE PEREZ: STORY TELLER (Dynamite)
\nGREAT BRITISH COMICS (Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury; Aurum Press)
\nMAKING COMICS: STORYTELLING SECRETS OF COMICS, MANGA AND GRAPHIC NOVELS (Scott McCLoud; HarperCollins)<\/b> I am buying this soon. Muwhahahahahah!
\nTHE ART OF BRIAN BOLLAND (Image\/Desperado)
\nWRITING FOR COMICS WITH PETER DAVID (Impact Books)<\/p>\n
25: Award for Favourite Comics-Based Movie Or TV
\nHELLBOY ANIMATED
\nHEROES
\nJUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED<\/b> Because the ending has Batman saying “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes”.
\nSUPERMAN RETURNS
\nV FOR VENDETTA<\/p>\n
26: Award for Favourite Comics Related Website
\nCOMIC BOOK RESOURCES (www.comicbookresources.com)<\/b> The fact that it has weekly studio tours, Erik Larsen’s column, Rich Johnston et al working for it.
\nMANGA LIFE (www.mangalife.com)
\nMILLARWORLD (www.millarworld.tv)
\nNEWSARAMA (www.newsarama.com)
\nSILVER BULLET COMIC BOOKS (www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com)<\/p>\n
27: Award for Favourite Web-Based Comic
\nDRASTIC COMICS (www.drasticcomics.com)
\nDREAMLAND CHRONICLES (www.thedreamlandchronicles.com)
\nPENNY ARCADE (www.penny-arcade.com)
\nPVP (www.pvponline.com)
\nSONIC THE COMIC ONLINE (www.stconline.com)<\/p>\n
No idea.<\/p>\n
28: Award for Roll of Honour
\nALEX TOTH<\/b> He isn’t on the roll of honour yet?
\nBRIAN K. VAUGHAN
\nBRIAN M. BENDIS
\nTOM FRAME
\nWARREN ELLIS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}