2024 Lin Ge nominations are out! The annual McWillingo Comic Book Industry Awards have announced the contenders for its eighth annual Comic Book Awards. Voting by comics industry professionals is open until August 21, and the awards ceremony will be held on the evening of September 21 at Baltimore Comic-Con.
The Ringo Awards said in a press release announcing the full roster:
“The Ringo Awards are pleased to announce their 2024 nominees. The nomination process was completed with the participation of our esteemed 2024 jury and the voting public. Fans and comics professionals alike have expressed strong support for promoting the voting process on their websites and social media support.
“Voting for the 2024 Final Ballot is limited to the comics industry creative community—anyone involved and considered professionally creating comics. We now announce the final ballot for the 2024 Mike Veringo Comic Book Industry Awards.
Baltimore Comic Con Promoter Mark Nathan On this year’s awards:
“Each year, Ringo Awards judges are faced with the difficult task of ‘picking their favorite kid.’ Determining what makes the cut and what doesn’t is always a challenge, but as you’ll see from the final votes Well, the hard work of our judges has paid off, and with public voting thrown in, we have some outstanding representatives representing the best of comics in 2023.
This year’s jury includes Alan Gill (The 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).
[Note: The original list did not credit the authors behind nominated works. We have endeavoured to match creative teams to their respective books. In the case of anthologies or books with more than four members, we have placed “various”. There are some exceptions, however. Identifiable US releases of foreign works we have endeavoured to track down and credit translators. ‘Best Design’ category we have endeavoured to find designers]
Best Cartoonist (Writer and Artist)
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- K. O’Neill
- Ed Whips
- Jeff Smith
- Gillian Tamaki
best writer
- Dan Abnett
- Ed Brubaker
- Tom King
- virtual tokyo
- Kit tracking
Best Artist or Pencil/Ink Team
- Elsa Carter
- Duncan Figueiredo
- Abdullah Hadiya
- Vincent Marley
- Sean Phillips
- Peter Rostovsky
Best Trustee
- Clayton Cowles
- Tyler Esposito
- Lucas Gatoni
- Stephen Kirk
- Micah Myers
- Stan Sakai
Best colorist
- Brad Anderson
- Jody Bellaire
- Tamra Bonvillain
- Stephen Frank
- Jacob Phillips
- Rico Renzi
Best Cover Artist
- Colin Griffin
- Turalote
- and parents
- Chris Samney
- Bill Sienkiewicz
- Fiona Staples
best series
- Geiger: Ground Zero, go through 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, Loiso McKeizer, and Andrew Dalhousie (A wave of blue world)
Best Issue or Story
- Animal Circle #1go through Tom King, Peter Grossand Tamra Bonvillain (Boom! Studio)
- Rising to the Challenge: Dark Earth #7go through Marquis of Nassau & Jason Moore (Scout Comics)
- ethergo through Anas Abdulhak & Dennis Mencier (Yuandian Publishing House)
- Rare Flavor #1go through Ram V & Philip Andrade (Boom! Studio)
- sleep, go through Becky Cloonan & Turalote (DSTLRY)
- StarCraft: Days of Blood – Shaxx’s Best Daygo through Ryan North & Derek Chaim (IDW Publishing)
Best Original Graphic Novel
- Monicago through Daniel Cross (Fantasy picture)
- 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”]
- 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)
- rocket man strikethrough various (IDW)
- swan songgo through W. Maxwell Prince et al (Image Comics)
Best Humor Comics
- Asterix and the White Iris (Volume 40)go through Fabricaro, Didier Conrad, Thierry Mebarchi; Translated by someone Joe Johnson (Papakaz)
- Betty and Veronica Friends Forever: The Game #1by various (Archie Comics)
- Bones: More tall tales, go through Jeff Smith, Thomas Sniegoski, and Steve Hammaker (academic)
- 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
- Fun Facts: A Comic Book Biography of Charles Schutzgo through Luca Debs & Francesco Matucci (top shelf)
- memento morigo through Titu Takalo; Translated by someone Maria Schroederus (They press)
- Miles Davis and the Exploration of Soundgo through Dave Chisholm (Z2 Comics)
- My picture diarygo through Maki Fujiwara; Translated by someone 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 or Graphic Novel
- Archie Horror Presents…Chilling Adventures: An Anthologyby various (Archie Comic Publications, Inc.)
- Batman and Scooby-Doo Mysteriesby various (DC Comics)
- 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
- 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)
- Richard Stark’s Puck: The Complete CollectionAdapted from Darwin Cook; designer Sean Phillips (IDW Publishing)
- 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)
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