The winners of the 2024 Ringo Awards were announced last night at Baltimore Comic-Con, and many of the winners are Ringo favorites and past winners.
The biggest winner of multiple awards prior to the night was Stan Sakai Won the Ringo Award for Best Writer for the second consecutive year. overall Atu Yongxinfang Since 2017, the cartoonist has now won 7 Ringo Awards in multiple categories, including Best Cartoonist, Best Single Issue, Best Series and Best Design Presentation, and of course, Lettering.
Another award-winning winner is Sean Phillips Won the Best Design Display Award for two consecutive years Dalwin Cooks pike Adapted book (last year’s companion book Richard Stark’s Puck: Martini Edition – The Last Call). The artist is best known for his work with Ed Brubaker The author of several crime comic series and graphic novels, which earned him awards for Best Original Graphic Novel (2021, 2019) and Best Pencil Award (2019). By our count, this is Phillips’ sixth Ringo to hit the shelves this year.
Tamra Bonvillain Won her third Ringo Award for Best Colorist and Best Single Issue or Story for her collaboration Tom King and Peter Gross exist Animal Circle #1 (Prosperity!). at the same time virtual tokyo Winner of her second Ringo Award for Best Writer (first since 2020). Rachel SmithJust finished recently, very popular legend of olympus The webcomic series won its third consecutive Ringo Award in the Best Webcomic category.
bone creator Jeff Smith Won two Ringo Awards last night – his first, we believe – in the Best Cartoonist and Best Humor Cartoon categories Bones: More tall tales.
The awards, officially known as the Mike Willingo Comic Book Industry Awards, are now in their eighth year. The Ringo Awards are voted for by industry professionals, and the 2024 edition is chaired by a panel of judges including Alan Gill (Ultimate Comic Shop; NCComicon); Writer, Editor, Educator Robert Greenberg;Writer, artist, creator, adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts Jamal Eagle (molly danger, wrong earth, black); writer, comic and game writer Sam Maggs (Key Role: “Origins of the Mighty Nein”, “No Storytelling: Pirates of the South Sea”); and writers and artists Annie Wu (Two Graves, Dead Man Fan Club).
Best Cartoonist (Writer and Artist)
- Winner: Jeff Smith
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- K. O’Neill
- Ed Whips
- Gillian Tamaki
best writer
- Winner: Mariko Tamaki
- Dan Abnett
- Ed Brubaker
- Tom King
- Kit tracking
Best Artist or Pencil/Ink Team
- Winner: Elsa Charetier
- Duncan Figueiredo
- Abdullah Hadiya
- Vincent Marley
- Sean Phillips
- Peter Rostovsky
Best Trustee
- Winner: Stan Sakai
- Clayton Cowles
- Tyler Esposito
- Lucas Gatoni
- Stephen Kirk
- Micah Myers
Best Colorist
- Winner: Tamra Bonvillain
- Brad Anderson
- Jody Bellaire
- Stephen Frank
- Jacob Phillips
- Rico Renzi
Best Cover Artist
- Winner: Chris Sumney
- Colin Griffin
- Turalote
- and parents
- Bill Sienkiewicz
- Fiona Staples
best series
- winner: Geiger: Ground Zero, By Geoff Johns, Gary Frank and Brad Anderson (Image Comics)
- night eatergo through Marjorie Liu & Takeda Sana (Abrams Comic Art)
- phantom roadgo through Jeff Lemire & Gabriel Hernandez Varta (Image Comics)
- Rare tastego through Ram V & Philip Andrade (Boom! Studio)
- city alertgo through Joanne Staller & Carrie Randolph (Boom! Studio)
- tower, made of Carruth Johnson, Kelsey Barnhart, Chris Cross, Loyiso McKizzs, and Andrew Dalhousie (A wave of blue world)
Best Issue or Story
- winner: Animal Circle #1by Tom King, Peter Gross and Tamra Bonvillain (BOOM! Studios)
- Rising to the Challenge: Dark Earth #7go through Marquis of Nassau & Jason Moore (Scout Comics)
- ethergo through Anas Abdulhak & Dennis Mencier (Source Point Press)
- Rare Flavor #1go through Ram V & Philip Andrade (Boom! Studio)
- sleep, go through Becky Cloonan & Turalote (DSTLRY)
- StarCraft: Blood Day – Shaxs’s Best Daygo through Ryan North & Derek Chaim (IDW Publishing)
Best Original Graphic Novel
- winner: MonicaDaniel Kraus (Fantagraphics)
- parasocialgo through Alex Decampi & Erica Henderson (Image Comics)
- roaminggo through Gillian Tamaki & virtual tokyo (Lottery and Quarterly)
- A bit exaggeratedgo through Curtis Crowe, Pius Barker, Roman Titov, Torben Racicott, and eve of the cross (Dark Horse Comics)
- Three Rocks – The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancygo through bill griffith (Abrams Comic Art)
best anthology
[Note: Books with more than three creators credited we have summarised as “various”]
- winner: rocket man strikethrough various (IDW)
- Demon Slashthrough various (DSTLRY)
- Residentialgo through Jay Stephens (They press)
- Trichologyby various (Lifeline Comics)
- ice cream mango through W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo & Chris O’Halloran (Image Comics)
- swan songgo through W. Maxwell Prince et al (Image Comics)
Best Humor Comics
- winner: Bones: More tall tales, Authors: Jeff Smith, Thomas Sniegoski, and Steve Hammaker (academic)
- Asterix and the White Iris (Volume 40)go through Fabricaro, Didier Conrad, Thierry Mebarchi; translator Joe Johnson (Papacac)
- Betty and Veronica Friends Forever: The Game #1by various (Archie Comics)
- Residentialgo through Jay Stephens (They press)
- girl juice, go through Benji Nate (Lottery and Quarterly)
- great british failurego through John Allison, Max Salinand Sammy Boras (Dark Horse Comics)
- Snow White Zombie Apocalypsego through Brenton Lengel, Yindo Park, Geo Butler, and Luana Vecchio (Scout Comics)
Best Web Comics
Best Humorous Web Comics
Best non-fiction comic
- Winner: Miles Davis and the Exploration of Soundby Dave Chisholm (Z2 Comics)
- Fun Facts: A Comic Book Biography of Charles Schutzgo through Luca Debs & Francesco Matucci (top shelf)
- memorial deathgo through Titu Takalo; translator Maria Schroederus (They press)
- My picture diarygo through Fujiwara Maki; translator Ryan Holmberg (Lottery and Quarterly)
- Adriana’s Odysseygo through Anthony Delcol & Abdullah Hadiya (Business Insider) – Also available to read via online comics
- Yummy: A History of Delicious Experimentsgo through Victoria Grace Elliott (Random House Children’s Books)
Best Children’s Comic or Graphic Novel
- winner: Batman and Scooby-Doo Mysteriesby various (DC Comics)
- Archie Horror Presents…Chilling Adventures: An Anthologyby various (Archie Comic Publications, Inc.)
- Big Ethel Energy Vol. 2go through Keryl Brown Ahmed & Siobhan (Archie Comics Publishing Company)
- Brownstone’s Mythical Collection: The Treasures of Luna and Tlalocgo through Joe Todd Stanton (Feiyan Book/Nobrow)
- Dear Rosiego through Megan Borman & Rachel Brenner (Random House Children’s Books)
- glopulgo through Matt Cole & Jose Chirinos (Legend Comics)
- lampgo through Brenna Samler (They press)
- squeeze and squeezego through Neil O’Rourke & Mike Hartigan (Kensport Entertainment)
best design performance
- winner: Richard Stark’s Puck: The Complete Collectionadapted by Dalwin Cooke; design by Sean Phillips (IDW Publishing)
- Complete Klaus Deluxe Editiongo through Grant Morrison & Dan Mora; Designer Marie Kruppina & Madison Goyette (Boom! Studio)
- Faithless Deluxe Edition (with slip cover)go through Brian Azzarello & Maria Lovett; Designer Michelle Ankley, Marie Kruppina & Madison Goyette (Boom! Studio)
- Grendel: Demon of Behavior – Master Editiongo through Matt Wagneyr and Brennan Wagner; Designer Patrick Satterfield (Dark Horse Comics)
- metaphorical shego through James Maddox, David Stoll, Ray Nadine and Chickweed (Rocketship Entertainment)
- Palukaville 24, go through Seth; Designer Seth (Lottery and Quarterly)
- Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKeango through Dave McKean; Designer Dave McKean (Dark Horse Comics)
- watership fallsAdapted from James Sturm & Qiao Sufen (Ten speed press)
Mike Wieringo Spirit Award: Hunger and Duskgo through G. Willow Wilson & Chris Wildgus (IDW Publishing)
Brogan Loyalty Award: Tom Rainey
Hero Initiative Award
- Dick Giordano Humanitarian of the Year Award: Tom Brevoort
- Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award: Klaus Janssen
Fan categories:
- Favorite villain: Montresor – Nevermore (Webtoon)
- Favorite new series: Blanc Citygo through 66 (Webtoon)
- Favorite newcomer: Danny Earls
- Favorite publisher: Image comics
- Favorite hero: Lenore—— Nevermore (Webtoon)
