AWARDS ROUND-UP: Nominees for the 2023 Glyph Awards announced

The 2023 Glyph Comic Awards have been announced. Replete with publishers big and small, near and far sharing categories that celebrate work for and about people of color. Winners will be declared at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention taking place May 20, 2023.

One of the great things about the Glyphs is that it respects work regardless of origin and so there is a mix of relative grassroots and sky high productions. Traditional publishing houses Abrams ComicArts (via John Jennings’ Megascope imprint) and Harper have nominees via Christopher Johnson, Steven Barnes and Christopher Moss‘ The Eightfold Path, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, Marco Finnegan‘s The Keeper, and James Spooner‘s The High Desert: Black Punk Nowhere – totaling six nominations.

The African continent is represented by two Nigerian publishers – VX Comics and Comic Republic (Comic Republic blitzing the charts with the second highest number of nominations (9) for several series, including Eru, Ireti Bidemi, Assegai, and Galactic Core).

The most number of nominees goes to US-based Konkret Comics with 14 spots across nine categories – four of which in the 2023 Glyph Fan Award for Best Work with Akolyte (by Derek ‘Lonzo Starr’ Allen, Bruno Lima, Matheus Huve & Mason Solimine), Kandake (by Onaji Rouse, Rodrigo Trinade & Samuel Marques), Organic Crissy (by Derek “Lonzo Starr” Allen, Cristina Elkins, Rodrigo Trindade, Matheus Huve, Bruno Lima & Matheus Huve), and Tevin Fields is the Watchman: Back in Blood (by Lyle Ringold).

Many entrants this year were crowdfunded projects – examples include Second Sight Publishing’s The Protector, Clovis Batebola‘s O Kingdom Come, Abelard Alexis‘s Alternia – The Prelude, and Nigel Lynch and Juan Carlos Francisco‘s The Diary of The Stray Dogs.

Check out the full list below. We have endeavoured to provide links to all books.

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GLYPH 2023 STORY OF THE YEAR

• Assegai #1, written by Sherard Jackson & Wale Awelenje, art by Sherard Jackson (Comic Republic)
• Black Boy’s Blues: Funny Money, written by R.D. Hunter, various artists (Self-published)
• Kisha Demon Eater Vol. 1, written by Newton Lilavois, art by Gian Carlo Bernal (Dream Fury Comics)
• The E.V.E of Insurrection #1, written and drawn by Jordan Purnell Jackson (JPJACKSON ART LLC)
• The Eightfold Path, written by Charles Johnson & Steven Barnes, art by Bryan Christopher Moss (Abrams ComicArts/Megascope)
• The Keeper, written by Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, art by Marco Finnegan (Abrams ComicArts/Megascope)
• Vegas Baby: Architect of the Improbable, written by Noble Ward, art by Davide Tinto & Sean Hill (KID Comics)

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GLYPH 2023 BEST COVER

• Akolyte #4 (Protocol), written by Derek ‘Lonzo Starr’ Allen, art by Samuel Marques & Matheus Huve (Konkret Comics)
• Eru #8, written by Akintoba Kalejaye, art by Samuel Iwunze (Comic Republic)
• Her #1 – Sea Change, written by Malachi Bailey, art by Dino Igor/Nimesh (Wingless Comics)
• Indigo Clan Chapter 5: Path of Purpose, written by Ry-El Nagasta, art by Walt M Barna (Triple Optic Publishing)
• Kisha Demon Easter Vol 1, written by Newton Lilavois, art by Gian Carlo Bernal (Dream Fury Comics)
• Tevin Fields is the Watchman: Back in Blood, written by Lyle Ringold, art by Bruno Lima (Cover B) (Konkret Comics)
• The Diary of the Stray Dogs: The Wounded, written by Nigel Lynch, art by Juan Carlos Francisco (Beyond Publishing Caribbean)
• Vegas Baby: Architect of the Improbable, written by Noble Ward, art by Sean Hill (KID Comics)

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GLYPH 2023 BEST WRITER

• Abelard Alexis, Alternia – Prelude(Self-published)
• Akintoba Kalejaye, Eru #8 (Comic Republic)
• Charles Johnson & Steven Barnes (co-writers), The Eightfold Path (Abrams ComicArts/Megascope)
• James Spooner, The High Desert: Black Punk Nowhere (Harper)
• Jiba Molei Anderson, The Horsemen: Birth of the Spark (Griot Enterprises)
• Onaji Rouse, Kandake #1 (Konkret Comics)
• Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, The Keeper (Abrams ComicArts/Megascope)
• Tony Kittrell, Southside #3 (Advent Comics)

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GLYPH 2023 BEST ARTIST 

• Charlie ‘Fab’ Goubile & Benjamin ‘Ben’ Worrell (art team), Stingblade (Pen Mammoth)
• Clovis Batebola, O Kingdom Come (O Kingdom Come)
• Gian Carlo Bernal, Kisha Demon Eater Vol 1 (Dream Fury Comics)
• Leandro Meneses (interior) & Bruno Lima (Cover B), (co-artists), Tevin Fields is the Watchman: Back in Blood (Konkret Comics)
• N Steven Harris & Walt M Barna (co-artists), Indigo Clan Chapter 5: Path of Purpose (Triple Optic Publishing)
• Nestor Ruiz, Martin Giminez, Iwan Triyono, Joel Rodriguez & Luciano Fleitas (art team), The Protector (Second Sight Publishing)
• Samuel Iwunze, Eru #8 (Comic Republic)
• Usifo Oriwoh, Ireti Bidemi #6 (Comic Republic)

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GLYPH 2023 BEST MALE CHARACTER