From: [b--ea--y] at [po-box.mcgill.ca] (bart)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.alternative,rec.arts.comics.info
Subject: META: Good Taste Awards
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 19:07:59 GMT

During the month of January the electronic mailing list [c--m--x] at [world.std.com]
held voting for the second annual Good Taste Awards, given in recognition
of the best in comics for the previous calendar year. These awards operate
on a three pass system which includes a general call for nominations, the
formation of a ballot and balloted voting. To qualify for the final ballot
a nominee must first garner widespread support from the list as a whole in
the nominating round. We feel, therefore, that this list is indicative of
the "best of the best" of comics and comics creators for the year 1995.

We at comix@ would like to congratulate all of our finalists for their work
in the past year and would like to thank them for the pleasure they have
provided us. We would further encourage everyone reading this to actively
seek out these comics and support work of exceptional quality within the
comics medium.

Presented here are this year's winners and finalists.

Best Writer:
1.  Alan Moore (From Hell, Spawn: Bloodfeud)
2.  Eddie Campbell (Hellblazer, Bacchus, DHP)
3.  David Lapham (Stray Bullets)
-   Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets)
5.  Dave Sim (Cerebus)
6.  Evan Dorkin (Dork!, Instant Piano, DHP)
7.  Paul Pope (DHP, THB)

Best Artist:
1.  Charles Vess (Ballads and Sagas)
2.  Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library)
3.  Charles Burns (Black Hole)
-   Eddie Campbell (Bacchus, From Hell)
5.  Jaime Hernandez (Love and Rockets)
6.  Jim Woodring (Jim)

Best Cartoonist:
1.  Evan Dorkin (Dork!, Instant Piano)
2.  Jim Woodring (Jim)
3.  Charles Burns (Black Hole)
-   Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library)
5.  Jeff Smith (Bone)
6.  Eddie Campbell (Bacchus)
7.  Joe Sacco (Palestine)

Best Publisher :
1.  Fantagraphics
2.  Drawn & Quarterly
3.  Slave Labor Graphics
4.  Dark Horse Comics
-   Vertigo

Best Continuing Series :
1.  Acme Novelty Library (Ware, Fantagraphics)
2.  Stray Bullets (Lapham, El Capitain)
3.  Cerebus (Sim/Gerhard, Aardvark-Vanaheim)
4.  Love and Rockets (Hernandez, Fantagraphics)
5.  Black Hole (Burns, Kitchen Sink)

Best New Series :
1.  Black Hole (Burns, Kitchen Sink)
2.  Stray Bullets (Lapham, El Capitain)
3.  Bacchus (Campell, Eddie Campbell Comics)
4.  Optic Nerve (Tomine, D and Q)
5.  Astro City (Busiek/Anderson, Image)
6.  Exit (Kanan, Caliber)

Best Finite Series :
1.  From Hell (Moore/Campbell, Kitchen Sink)
2.  Palestine (Sacco, Fantagraphics)
3.  Jar of Fools (Lutes, Black Eye)
4.  Tale of One Bad Rat (Talbot, Dark Horse)
5.  Brooklyn Dreams (DeMatteis/Barr, Paradox)
-   Instant Piano (Various, Dark Horse)

Best Mini:
1.  Artbabe (Abel)
2.  Silly Daddy (Chiappetta)
3.  Magic Whistle (Henderson)
4.  Five Little Comics (McCloud)
5.  Copybook Tales (Torres/Levins)
6.  Three in a Bed (Dennis)
7.  Lilliane (Franson)

Best Anthology:
1.  D and Q vol 2 (D and Q)
2.  Instant Piano (Dark Horse)
3.  Action Girl (Slave Labor)
4.  Love and Rockets (Fantagraphics)
5.  Dark Horse Presents (Dark Horse)
6.  Zero Zero (Fantagraphics)

Best Short Piece:
1.  "Caricature" (Clowes, Eightball #14)
2.  "Bring Me The Head of Boba Fett" (Dorkin, Instant Piano # 3)
3.  "Yes" (Pope, Dark Horse Presents # 100B)
4.  "Rates of Exchange" (Mazzuchelli, Drawn & Quarterly # 2)
5.  "Sleepwalk" (Tomine, Optic Nerve # 1)

Best Single Issue:
1.  Black Hole # 2 (Burns, Kitchen Sink)
2.  Eightball # 15 (Clowes, Fantagraphics)
3.  Stray Bullets # 3 (Lapham, El Capitain)
4.  From Hell #7 (Moore/Campbell, Kitchen Sink)
5.  Stray Bullets # 2 (Lapham, El Capitan)
6.  Acme Novelty Library #5 (Ware, Fantagraphics)

Best Ongoing Serialized Story:
1.  "It's A Good Life if You Don't Weaken" (Seth, Palookaville # 4)
2.  "It Was The War of the Trenches" (Tardi, D&Q# 1 - 3)
3.  "Wake" (Gaiman/Zulli, Sandman #70-73)
4.  "Kindly Ones (Gaiman/Hempel, et al, Sandman)
5.  "King Bacchus" (Campbell, Bacchus # 1 ->)

Best One Shot:
1.  Kill Your Boyfriend (Morrison/Bond, Vertigo)
2.  Bacchus Color Special (Campbell/Kristiansen, Dark Horse)
3.  Self-Loathing Comics (Crumb/Kominsky-Crumb, Fantagraphics)
4.  Narrative Corpse (Various, Gates of Heck)
5.  New Hat (Hart, Black Eye)

Best Original Graphic Novel:
1.  Stuck Rubber Baby (Cruse, Paradox)
2.  Dropsie Avenue: The Neighbourhood (Eisner, Kitchen Sink)
-   Minimum Wage (Fingerman, Fantagraphics)
3.  Illegal Alien (Robinson/Elliot, Kitchen Sink)
-   Young Hoods in Love (Anderson, Fantagraphics)

Best Reprint Collection:
1.  Bacchus (Campbell, Eddie Campbell Comics)
2.  Jar of Fools Vol 2 (Lutes, Black Eye)
3.  32 Stories (Tomine, D and Q)
4.  Palestine (Sacco, Fantagraphics)
5.  Frank's Real Pa (Woodring, Fantagraphics)

Best Strip:
1.  Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson)
2.  Dilbert (Adams)
3.  Life in Hell (Groening)
4.  Doonesbury (Trudeau)
5.  Far Side (Larson)

Best Mainstream Comic:
1.  Astro City (Busiek/Anderson, Image)
2.  Maxx (Messner-Loebs/Kieth, Image)
3.  Big Guy and Rusty the Robot (Miller/Darrow, Dark Horse)
4.  Batman and Robin Adventures (Dini/Templeton, DC)
5.  Batman Adventures (Puckett/Parobeck, DC)

Best Publication About Comics:
1.  Comics Journal
2.  Notes From the President (Sim)
3.  Previews
-   Indy
4.  Hero Illustrated
5.  Jack Kirby Collector

If the comics in the above lists are of interest to you we would encourage
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bart