How many of this year's best comics have you read? I starred the ones I have.
Random notes:
Looks like "Asterios Polyp" was pretty well received. Justly so. But, how does David Mazzuchelli win the best letterer award? I always think Todd Klein deserves it every year.
How could a book about Harvey Kurtzman himself not win the award? It is a great book, and oddly enought I am in the process of reading it now.
I read one issue of "Chew," and while it's clever, I think "iZombie" is better.
Best Writer
Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead (Image Comics)
Best Artist
Robert Crumb, Book of Genesis (W.W. Norton)
Best Cartoonist
Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter (IDW Publishing)*
Best Letterer
David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp (Pantheon)*
Best Inker
Klaus Janson, The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel)
Best Colorist
Laura Martin, The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures (IDW Publishing)
Best Cover Artist
Mike Mignola, Hellboy: The Bride of Hell (Dark Horse)*
Best New Talent
Rob Guillory, Chew (Image Comics)*
Best New Series
Chew (Image Comics)*
Best Continuing or Limited Series
The Walking Dead (Image Comics)
Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers
The Muppet Show Comic Book (BOOM! Studios)
Best Anthology
Wednesday Comics (DC Comics)
Best Original Graphic Album
Asterios Polyp, by David Mazucchelli (Pantheon)*
Best Previously Published Graphic Album
Mice Templar, Vol. 1, byzBryan J.L. Glass and Michael Avon Oeming (Image Comics)
Best Syndicated Strip or Panel
Mutts, by Patrick McDonnell (King Features Syndicate)*
Best Domestic Reprint Project
The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures, by Dave Stevens; edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW Publishing)
Best American Edition of Foreign Material
The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, by Helen McCarthy (Abrams ComicArts)
Best Online Comics Work
PvP, by Scott Kurtz
Special Award for Humor in Comics
Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5 (Oni Press)
Special Award for Excellence in Presentation
The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures, by Dave Stevens; edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW Publishing)
Best Biographic, Historical or Journalistic Presentation
Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics, by Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle (Abrams ComicArts)*
Best Single Issue or Story
Asterios Polyp, by David Mazucchelli (Pantheon)*
For what it's worth, here's how I might have voted, had I a vote. I left off some categories because either I hadn't read any of the entries, I didn't like any of the entries (true in the "best writer" and "Best inker" categories" or I didn't have a strong preference:
BEST ARTIST
____ Robert Crumb, "BOOK OF GENESIS", W.W. Norton
____ Guy Davis, "BPRD: BLACK GODDESS", Dark Horse Comics
____ Brian Fies, "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW?", Abrams ComicArts
____ David Petersen, "MOUSE GUARD : WINTER 1152", Archaia Entertainment
____ Frank Quitely, "BATMAN AND ROBIN", DC Comics
__X_ JH Williams III, "DETECTIVE COMICS", DC Comics
BEST CARTOONIST
____ Darwyn Cooke, "RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: THE HUNTER", IDW
____ Jeff Kinney, "DIARY OF A WIMPY KID #3: THE LAST STRAW", Amulet Books
____ Roger Langridge, "THE MUPPET SHOW COMIC BOOK", BOOM! Studios
____ David Mazzucchelli, "ASTERIOS POLYP", Pantheon
__X_ Seth, "GEORGE SPROTT (1894-1975)", Drawn and Quarterly
BEST COLORIST
____ Brian Fies, "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW?", Abrams ComicArts
____ Steve Hamaker, "BONE: CROWN OF HORNS”, Graphix
____ Laura Martin, "THE ROCKETEER: THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES", IDW
____ David Mazzucchelli, "ASTERIOS POLYP", Pantheon
__X_ Dave Stewart, "BPRD: BLACK GODDESS", Dark Horse Comics
BEST COVER ARTIST
____ Jenny Frison, "THE DREAMER", IDW
____ Mike Mignola, "HELLBOY: THE BRIDE OF HELL", Dark Horse Comics
____ Michael Avon Oeming, "MICE TEMPLAR: DESTINY, PART I", Image Comics
____ Frank Quitely, "BATMAN AND ROBIN", DC Comics
__X_ JH Williams III, "DETECTIVE COMICS", DC Comics
BEST CONTINUING OR LIMITED SERIES
__X_ "BEASTS OF BURDEN", Dark Horse Comics
____ "DIARY OF A WIMPY KID", Amulet Books
____ "GANGES", Fantagraphics Books
____ "INVINCIBLE", Image Comics
____ "SCALPED", Vertigo/DC Comics
____ "THE WALKING DEAD", Image Comics
BEST ANTHOLOGY
____ "ACT-I-VATE PRIMER", IDW
____ "FLIGHT # 6", Villard
____ "POPGUN # 3", Image Comics
____ "STRANGE TALES", Marvel Comics
__X_ "WEDNESDAY COMICS", DC Comics
BEST SYNDICATED STRIP OR PANEL
____ "CUL-DE-SAC", by Richard Thompson, Universal Press Syndicate
____ "FOXTROT", by Bill Amend, Universal Press Syndicate
____ "GET FUZZY", by Darby Conley, United Feature Syndicate
__X_ "MUTTS", by Patrick McDonnell, King Features Syndicate
____ "PEARLS BEFORE SWINE", by Stephan Pastis, United Feature Syndicate
BEST DOMESTIC REPRINT PROJECT
____ "THE BEST OF SIMON AND KIRBY", by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; edited by Steve Saffel, Titan Books
__X_ "HUMBUG", conceived and edited by Harvey Kurtzman and created by Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth; edited by Gary Groth, Fantagraphics Books
____ "RIP KIRBY", by Alex Raymond; edited by Dean Mullaney, IDW
____ "THE ROCKETEER: THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES”, by Dave Stevens; edited by Scott Dunbier, IDW
____ "THE TOON TREASURY OF CLASSIC CHILDREN'S COMICS", edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, Abrams ComicsArt
SPECIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRESENTATION
____ "ART OF HARVEY KURTZMAN: THE MAD GENIUS OF COMICS", by Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle, Abrams ComicArts
____ "THE BRINKLEY GIRLS: THE BEST OF NELL BRINKLEY’S CARTOONS FROM 1913-1940", edited by Trina Robbins, Fantagraphics Books
____ "GEORGE SPROTT (1894-1975)", by Seth, Drawn and Quarterly
____ "THE ROCKETEER: THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES", by Dave Stevens, edited by Scott Dunbier, IDW
____ "SECRET IDENTITY: THE FETISH ART OF SUPERMAN’S CO-CREATOR JOE SHUSTER", edited by Craig Yoe, Abrams ComicArts
__X_ "WEDNESDAY COMICS", edited by Mark Chiarello, DC Comics
BEST BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL OR JOURNALISTIC PRESENTATION
____ "ALTER-EGO", edited by Roy Thomas, TwoMorrows
__X_ "ART OF HARVEY KURTZMAN: THE MAD GENIUS OF COMICS", by Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle, Abrams ComicArts
____ "THE BEST OF SIMON AND KIRBY", by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby edited by Steve Saffel, Titan Books
____ "THE COMICS JOURNAL", edited by Gary Groth, Michael Dean and Kristy Valenti, Fantagraphics Books
____ "UNDERGROUND CLASSICS", by James Danky and Denis Kitchen, Abrams ComicArts
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