The winners of the 2023 Ringo Awards were announced last weekend at Baltimore Comic Con. Winners were picked by a ballot vote of comics industry professionals.
Some notable mentions from the 2023 Ringo Awards include:
- Kate Beaton and her graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly) holds course as THE award juggernaut of 2023, winning Beaton both the Best Non-Fiction Comic Work and Best Cartoonist categories in this year’s Ringo Awards.
- Up-and-comer Zoe Thorogood continues to add plaudits. Having already received the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award at this year’s Eisners, her original autobio It’s Lonely At The Center of the Earth (Image Comics) received the 2023 Ringo for Best Original Graphic Novel
- A surprise tie in the lettering category yielded two winners: Stan Sakai and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
- Rachel Smythe‘s Lore Olympus (WEBTOON) holds strong with a second consecutive Ringo Award win for Best Webcomic (adding to probably an entire shelf of other trophies by now); another consecutive Ringo Award Winner is James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera‘s horror series Something Is Killing the Children (BOOM! Studios) for Best Series two years running
- Chris and Laura Samnee‘s all ages title Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters (Oni Press) received Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel and Best Single Issue or Story 2023 Ringo Award categories, adding to their Mike Wieringo Spirit Award in 2022.
Check out below for the full list of winners and nominees
BEST CARTOONIST (Writer/Artist)
- WINNER: Kate Beaton
- Wes Craig
- Alexis Deacon
- Jenny Jinya
- Snailords
- Stan Sakai
- Zoe Thorogood
BEST WRITER
- WINNER: Ed Brubaker
- Anthony Del Col
- Drew Edwards
- Scott Snyder
- Brian K. Vaughan
BEST ARTIST OR PENCILLER
- WINNER: Evan “Doc” Shaner
- Fahmida Azim
- Kate Flynn
- Molly Mendoza
- Nicola Scott
BEST INKER
- WINNER: Klaus Janson
- Gigi Baldassini
- Scott Hanna
- Sandra Hope
- Mark Morales
BEST LETTERER
- JOINT-WINNER (tie): Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
- JOINT-WINNER (tie): Stan Sakai
- Justin Birch
- Jerome Gagnon
- Todd Klein
- Micah Myers
BEST COLORIST
- WINNER: Jordie Bellaire
- Daniela Barisone
- Chris O’Halloran
- Jacob Phillips
- Dave Stewart
- Ellie Wright
BEST COVER ARTIST
- WINNER: Greg Smallwood
- Wylie Beckert
- Jason Muhr
- Bryan Silverbax
- JH Williams III
BEST SERIES
- WINNER: Something is Killing the Children, BOOM! Studios
- Fractured Shards, Comics2Movies
- Parker Girls, Abstract Studios
- Saga, Image Comics
- Season of the Bruja, Oni Press
BEST SINGLE ISSUE OR STORY
- WINNER: Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters, Oni Press
- 88 Days of Hell: One Ukrainian Man’s Experience in the Russian Filtration, Insider
- A Hunter’s Tale, Elephant Eater Comics
- Finding Batman, DC Comics
- Punisher #1, Marvel Comics
- Thieves, Nobrow
- You Were My Joker That Night, Anatola Howard
BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
- WINNER: It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, Image Comics
- Chivalry, Dark Horse Comics
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Drawn & Quarterly
- Tokyo Rose—Zero Hour: A Japanese American Woman’s Persecution and Ultimate Redemption After World War II, Tuttle Publishing
- Twilight Custard, Ghostpod Publishing
BEST ANTHOLOGY
- WINNER: Young Men in Love, A Wave Blue World
- Cthulu Invades Wonderland, Orange Cone Productions
- Lower Your Sights, Mad Cave Studios
- The Silver Coin, Image Comics
- Voices That Count, IDW Publishing
BEST HUMOR COMIC
- WINNER: The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic, Z2 Comics
- Breaking Cat News, GoComics
- Crash and Troy, A Wave Blue World
- Grumpy Monkey: Who Threw That?, Random House Children’s Books
- Little Tunny’s Snail Diaries, Silver Sprocket
- My Bad, AHOY Comics
- Revenge of the Librarians, Drawn & Quarterly
- Whatzit, Heavy Metal
BEST WEBCOMIC
- WINNER: Lore Olympus, WEBTOON
- 88 Days of Hell: One Ukrainian Man’s Experience in the Russian Filtration, Insider
- The All-Nighter, Comixology Originals
- The Guy Upstairs, WEBTOON
- I Love Yoo, WEBTOON
- Offside: I Was a Pro Football Player. I Was Tricked into Going to Qatar to Work Construction, Insider
- You Were My Joker That Night, Anatola Howard
BEST HUMOR WEBCOMIC
- WINNER: Evil Inc., evil-inc.com
- Background Noise, backgroundnoisecomic.com
- Finding Fiends, WEBTOON
- Live with Yourself!, WEBTOON
- Vampire Husband, WEBTOON
BEST NON-FICTION COMIC WORK
- WINNER: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Drawn & Quarterly
- 88 Days of Hell: One Ukrainian Man’s Experience in the Russian Filtration, Insider
- A Game for Swallows Expanded Edition, Graphic Universe – Lerner Publishing Group
- I’m Still Alive, Archaia – BOOM! Studios
- Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag, Street Noise Books
- Radium Girls, Iron Circus Comics
- The Third Person, Drawn & Quarterly
BEST KIDS COMIC OR GRAPHIC NOVEL
- WINNER: Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters, Oni Press
- The Aquanaut, Scholastic Graphix
- Frizzy, First Second Books
- The Ghoul Agency, Action Lab Entertainment
- Kaya, Image Comics
- PAWS: Gabby Gets It Together, Razorbill Books, Penguin Random House
- Punk Taco 2, Adam Wallenta Entertainment
- Tin Man, Abrams ComicArts
BEST PRESENTATION IN DESIGN
- WINNER: Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition—Last Call, IDW Publishing
- Beneath an Alien Sky, Rocketship Entertainment
- Best of EC Stories Artisan Edition, IDW Publishing
- Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars, Abrams ComicArts
- Sara Deluxe Hardcover, TKO Studios
FAN-FAVOURITE WINNERS:
Favorite Hero: Sam Young from Let’s Play (WEBTOON)
Favorite Villain: Adam from The Guy Upstairs (WEBTOON)
Favorite New Series: Nevermore (WEBTOON)
Favorite New Talent: Ellie Wright
Favorite Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
