
Voting in the 2020 Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards, focused largely on US comic titles closes this week.
While normally presented in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con, the 2020 Ringo Awards will be presented virtually, via Facebook and YouTube video, on Saturday 24th October 2020. Voting on the 2020 Ringo Awards Final Ballot is restricted to the comic book industry creative community – anyone involved in and credited with creating comics professionally.
The Nominees are as follows. Final ballots can be submitted directly or via the Ringo Awards website, and voting will close on 23rd September 2020
Fan and Pro Nomination Categories
Best Cartoonist (Writer/Artist)
• Sarah Andersen
• Eleanor Davis
• Jaime Hernandez
• Kevin Huizenga
• Junepurr
• Stan Sakai
• Raina Telgemeier
• David Jesus Vignolli
Best Writer
• Drew Edwards
• Jeff Lemire
• Mark Russell
• Erica Schultz
• Mariko Tamaki
Best Artist or Penciller
• Chris Campana
• Colleen Doran
• Sanford Greene
• Rosemarie Valero-O’Connell
• Marianna Pescosta
Best Inker
• Keith Champagne
• Marika Cresta
• Sandra Hope
• Maria Llovet
• Dan Mora
• Hyeondo Park
Best Letterer
• Deron Bennett
• Jim Campbell
• Clayton Cowles
• Jared K. Fletcher
• HdE
• Nate Piekos
• Cardinal Rae
Best Colourist
• Jordie Bellaire
• Alessandro de Fornasari
• Edson Ferreira
• Laura Martin
• Dave Stewart
Best Cover Artist
• Fabio Alves
• Natasha Alterici
• Stephanie Hans
• Sana Takeda
• Christian Ward
Best Series
• Banjax, Danger Zone (Action Lab Entertainment)
• Bitter Root, Image Comics
• Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Dark Horse Comics
• Forgotten Home, Vices Press/comiXology Originals
• Something is Killing the Children, BOOM! Studios
Best Single Issue or Story
• Bitter Root Red Summer Special, Image Comics
• “Hot Comb” in Hot Comb, Drawn & Quarterly
• Second Coming #1, AHOY Comics
• Spencer & Locke 2 #1, Danger Zone (Action Lab Entertainment)
• Tales of the Night Watchman: The Steam Banshee, So What? Press
• Usagi Yojimbo #6, IDW Publishing
Best Original Graphic Novel
• The Adventures of Parker Reef – To Save a Soul, Chris Campana
BTTM FDRS, Fantagraphics
• Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls, Graphix/Scholastic
• The Hard Tomorrow, Drawn & Quarterly
• Hot Comb, Drawn & Quarterly
• New World, BOOM! Studios
• Penny Nichols, Top Shelf Productions (IDW Publishing)
• Simon Says, Image Comics
• Snow, Glass, Apples, Dark Horse Comics
Best Anthology
• Dead Beats, A Wave Blue World
• Drawing Power, Abrams ComicArts
• Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Sirens, Archaia (BOOM! Studios)
• Strange Tails, Vices Press
• Thought Bubble 2019, Image Comics
Best Humour Comic
• Fangs, Tapas
• The Handbook to Lazy Parenting, Drawn & Quarterly
• Rick & Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons, IDW Publishing
• Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, DC Comics
• Twizted: Haunted High-Ons, Source Point Press
• Wonder Twins, DC Comics
Best Comic Strip or Panel
• The Middle Age, Steve Conley, Andrews McMeel Universal
• Nancy, Olivia Jaimes, Andrews McMeel Universal
• The Nib Editorial Cartoons by Pia Guerra, thenib.com
• Rhymes With Orange, Hilary Price, King Features Syndicate
• Sarah’s Scribbles, Sarah Andersen, Andrews McMeel Universal
Wawawiwa, Andres J. Colmenares
Best Webcomic
• The Croaking, echorise
• Lore Olympus, Rachel Smythe
• Fried Rice, Erica Eng
• Penny Arcade, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins
• Rocío Diestra, Rocío Diestra
• Stand Still, Stay Silent, Minna Sundberg
• SubZero, Junepurr
Best Non-fiction Comic Work
• Coin-Op Carnival, coinopcarnival.com
• Grass, Drawn & Quarterly
• In Waves, Nobrow/Flying Eye Books
• They Called Us Enemy, Top Shelf (IDW Publishing)
• The Twilight Man, Humanoids
Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel
• Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls, Graphix/Scholastic
• Guts, Graphix/Scholastic
• New Kid, Harper Collins
• Science! The Elements of Dark Energy, Bedside Press
• The Underfoot: The Mighty Deep, Lion Forge (Oni Press)
Best Presentation in Design
• Going to the Chapel, Danger Zone (Action Lab Entertainment)
• Making Comics, Drawn & Quarterly
• Marvel Masterwork Pin-Ups, Yoe Books (IDW Publishing)
• Moomin: The Deluxe Lars Jansson Edition, Drawn & Quarterly
• New World, BOOM! Studios
• Snow White Zombie Apocalypse, Scout Comics
• Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo: The Complete Grasscutter Artist Select, IDW Publishing
• 3D Sweeties, Fantagraphics
The final ballot represents an aggregate of jury and fan top nominations. Congratulations to all of the nominees. Comic pros can click the button below to submit their votes.
• Final ballots can be submitted directly or via the Ringo Awards website, and voting will close on 23rd September 2020
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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “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.
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