Tripwire Awards 2022 Results Announced

By John Freeman on September 30, 2022

In front of a live audience at London’s Cartoon Museum, comics writer and author Jasper Bark and Tripwire editor-in-chief Joel Meadows revealed the winners of this year’s Tripwire Awards 2022.

Congratulations to the winners, and the nominees too. It’s great to see the late Alan Grant and George Pérez inducted into the Tripwire Hall of Fame, too – much deserved. Check out Tripwire magazine online here, and don’t miss out on their special 30th anniversary book, seeking crowdfunding here on Zoop.

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Writer sponsored by Image Comics

TOM KING (Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow / The Human Target)
KELLY SUE DECONNICK (Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons)
RAM V (Detective Comics / The Swamp Thing)
DAVID DASTMALCHIAN (Count Crowley)
WINNER: JAMES TYNION IV (The Department Of Truth / The Nice House On The Lake)

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Artist sponsored by Image Comics

LIAM SHARP (StarHenge)
VITO COPPOLA (Vietnam Horror)
DAN MORA (World’s Finest)
MIKE PERKINS (The Swamp Thing)
WINNER: BILQUIS EVELY (Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow)

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Cover Artist sponsored by Ace Comics

TYLER CROOK
DAVID MACK
STEVE BEACH
ADAM HUGHES
WINNER: PEACH MOMOKO

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Colourist

DAVE STEWART
TAMRA BONVILLAIN
JOSE VILLARUBIA
TOMEU MOREY
WINNER: LAURA ALLRED

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Letterer

NATE PIEKOS
ADITYA BIDKAR
CLAYTON COWLES
ARIANA MAHER
WINNER: TAYLOR ESPOSITO

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best New Series

NOT ALL ROBOTS (Mark Russell & Mike Deodato Jr., AWA Upshot)
ORPHAN AND THE FIVE BEASTS (Dark Horse)
HOCUS POCUS
AVENGERS FOREVER (Marvel Comics)
WINNER: SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW (Tom King & Bilquis Evely, DC Comics)

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Publisher

HEAVY METAL
DC COMICS
BOOM! STUDIOS
DARK HORSE COMICS
WINNER: IMAGE COMICS

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best New Talent sponsored by The Convention Collective

DAVID BOOHER
RIK WORTH
NIKOLAS DRAPER-IVEY
BELEN ORTEGA
WINNER: ANNA MOROZOVA

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Original Graphic Novel

THREE LITTLE WISHES (Paul Cornell & Steve Yeowell, Legendary)
CANARY (Scott Snyder & Dan Panosian, comiXology/Dark Horse Comics)
THE DARK ROOM (Gerry Duggan & Scott Buoncristiano, Image Comics)
PUTIN’S RUSSIA: THE RISE OF A DICTATOR (Darryl Cunningham, Drawn & Quarterly)
WINNER: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS: A RECKLESS BOOK (Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, Image Comics)

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Collection sponsored by Image Comics

BPRD: HELL ON EARTH (Dark Horse Comics)
JUDGE DREDD: APEX EDITION (2000AD/Rebellion)
HAWKEYE: THE SAGA OF BARTON & BISHOP (Matt Fraction & David Aja, Marvel Comics)
GRENDEL: DEVIL’S ODYSSEY (Matt Wagner, Dark Horse Comics)
WINNER: SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW (Tom King & Bilquis Evely, DC Comics)

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Comics-Related Website / Publications

DOWNTHETUBES.NET
NEWSARAMA
COMICS SCENE
BROKEN FRONTIER
WINNER: COMICS WORTH READING

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Small Press / Independent (U.K.) sponsored by Knockabout Comics

ACCENT UK COMICS
THE 77 PUBLICATIONS
AVERY HILL
CAST IRON BOOKS
WINNER: TIME BOMB COMICS

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Small Press / Independent (U.S.)

MAD CAVE COMICS
ABLAZE COMICS
SOURCE POINT COMICS
SCOUT COMICS
WINNER: AFTERSHOCK COMICS

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Editor

BRADY WEBB
BEN ABERNATHY
MIKE MARTS
JOSEPH P. ILLIDGE
WINNER: LYSA HAWKINS

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Designer

TOM MULLER
DARRAN ROBINSON
TIM DANIELS
DYLAN TODD
WINNER: RIAN HUGHES

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Crowdfunding Campaign

FLINTLOCK 6 (Kickstarter)
THE WITCHER RONIN (Kickstarter)
WINTERMEN ARTISTS EDITION (Zoop)
HAUNTHOLOGY: A HORROR COMIC COLLECTION (Indiegogo)
WINNER: COMICS FOR UKRAINE (Zoop)

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Convention

NEW YORK COMIC CON
THOUGHT BUBBLE FESTIVAL
LAWLESS COMIC CON (8% / 7.4%)
LUCCA
WINNER: SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Best Audio Adaptation

BLACK PANTHER: THE YOUNG PRINCE (Ronald L. Smith)
SPIDER-MAN: REQUIEM (Jeff Mariotte)
AMERICAN BORN CHINESE (Gene Luen Yang)
WHITE BIRD (R.J. Palacio)
WINNER: THE SANDMAN (Audible)

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS 2022: Person Of The Year

SCOTT DUNBIER
TILLIE WALDEN
ANDY OLIVER
MARK LONDON
WINNER: NEIL GAIMAN

The TRIPWIRE AWARDS: The Roll Of Honour

ALAN GRANT
GEORGE PEREZ

• Check out Tripwire magazine online here, and don’t miss out on their special 30th anniversary book, seeking crowdfunding here on Zoop

Tripwire celebrates its 30th anniversary with a lavish 224 page limited hardcover book featuring the best art and features from the magazine’s history.

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.