Tripwire magazine launches 2025 Awards

By John Freeman on 22 October 2025

Tripwire has just launched the ballot for its 2025 Awards, with several British creators, including Annie Parkhouse, Martin Simpson and Richard Starkings, and publishers Avery Hill, SelfMadeHero and Rebellion among the many nominees.

Graphic Policy and downthetubes feature in the nominees for “Best Comics-Related Website / Publication”. (Broken Frontier, also nominated, has asked to be removed from the ballot).

This is the seventh consecutive year that the publisher has run their awards, casting an eye over the brightest and best in comics over the last twelve months, as well as celebrating the legends of comics in their Roll Of Honour.

This time around, nominations have been carefully collated by Tripwire’s editor-in-chief Joel Meadows, with the judges consisting of Comic Book News UK’s Ben Williams, award-winning artist Jamal Igle and The Convention Collective’s Leonard Sultana.

“As always, the strength of the Awards is the fact that the voting is open to one and all, making them truly representative of the audience of popular comics in 2025,” said Tripwire’s editor-in-chief Joel Meadows.

Nominations for this year’s categories are open for people to vote through until midnight, Tuesday 18th November 2025.

The results of the awards will be announced at a special physical ceremony later in the year, date and details to be confirmed.

• Vote now – deadline Tuesday 18th November 2025

This item has been updated to reflect Broken Frontier’s request to be removed from the ballot

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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.