From: Don Marks <[d--n] at [klg.com]>
Subject: Good Taste Awards 2000 -- Final Results
To: [c--m--x] at [indra.com] (Comix List )
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:12:42 -0500 (EST)

Here are the final results for this year's Good Taste Awards (with
a helpful reminder of winners past).

1. Best Writer:
(1994 - Alan Moore (From Hell))
(1995 - Alan Moore (From Hell, Spawn: Bloodfeud))
(1996 - Alan Moore (From Hell, Wildcats, Supreme))
(1997 - Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library #8-9))
(1998 - Dylan Horrocks (Hicksville))

1.   10 Moore, Alan (The Birth Caul, ABC Comics Line)
2.    7 Lutes, Jason (Berlin #5-6)
3.    6 Ware, Chris (Acme Novelty Library #11-13)
4.    5 Simmonds, Posy (Gemma Bovery)
5.    4 Brubaker, Ed (Scene of the Crime, The Fall)
6.    3 Katchor, Ben (The Jew Of New York, The Cardboard Valise)


2. Best Artist:
(1994 - Dave McKean (Mr Punch))
(1995 - Charles Vess (Book of Ballads and Sagas))
(1996 - Baru (Drawn and Quarterly, (A Suivre)))
(1997 - Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library #8-9))
(1998 - Max (The Extended Dream of Mr. D. # 1))

1.   12 Ware, Chris (Acme Novelty Library #11-13)
2.    8 Campbell, Eddie (Bacchus, "Alec", The Birth Caul, From Hell)
3.    7 B., David (L'Ascension du Haut-Mal v. 4, L'Association)
4.    5 Hernandez, Jaime (Penny Century #4-5)
5.    3 Burns, Charles (Black Hole #6)


3. Best cartoonist:
(1995 - Evan Dorkin (Dork!, Instant Piano))
(1996 - Seth (Palookaville))
(1997 - Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library #8-9))
(1998 - Lewis Trondheim (Harum Scarum, The Hoodoodad, The Nimrod #1-2))

1.    8 Ware, Chris (Acme Novelty Library #11-13)
2.    5 B., David (L'Ascension du Haut-Mal v. 4, L'Association)
3.    5 Cooper, Dave (Weasel #1)
4.    4 Millionaire, Tony (Sock Monkey Volume 2 #1-2, Maakies)
5.    3 Crane, Jordan (Non, The Last Lonely Saturday Night)
-.    3 Kochalka, James (Magic Boy)
-.    3 Seth (Palookaville #13)
-.    3 Thompson, Craig (Goodbye Chunky Rice)
9.    0 Clowes, Dan (Eightball #20)


4. Talent Deserving Wider Recognition:
(1998 - Brian Ralph)

1.    8 McEown, Pat (Weasel, Hellboy Jr., etc.)
2.    7 Ott, Thomas (Zero Zero, Comix 200)
3.    6 Dupuy et Berberian (Un temps de chien)
4.    4 B., David (L'Ascension du Haut-Mal v. 4, L'Association)
5.    3 Blutch (Blotch, Fluide Glaciale)


5. Best Publisher:
(1994 - Drawn & Quarterly)
(1995 - Fantagraphics)
(1996 - Black Eye)
(1997 - Fantagraphics)
(1998 - Drawn & Quarterly)

1.   13 Top Shelf
2.    9 Fantagraphics
3.    7 L'Association
4.    3 Highwater Books
5.    1 Drawn & Quarterly


6. Best Continuing Series:
(1994 - Sandman (Gaiman/Hempel, Vertigo))
(1995 - Acme Novelty Library (Ware, Fantagraphics))
(1996 - Acme Novelty Library (Ware, Fantagraphics))
(1997 - Acme Novelty Library (Ware, Fantagraphics))
(1998 - Berlin #4 (Lutes, Black Eye))

1.   16 Acme Novelty Library #11-13 (Ware, Fantagraphics)
2.   10 Berlin #5-6 (Lutes, D&Q)
3.    5 Nowhere #5 (Dreschler, D&Q)
4.    2 Eightball #20 (Clowes, Fantagraphics)
5.    1 Black Hole #6 (Burns, Fantagraphics)
6.    0 Penny Century #4-5 (J. Hernandez, Fantagraphics)


7. Best New Series:
(1994 - Acme Novelty Library (Ware, Fantagraphics))
(1995 - Black Hole (Burns, Kitchen Sink))
(1996 - Berlin (Lutes, Black Eye))
(1997 - Artbabe (Abel, Fantagraphics))
(1998 - The Nimrod #1-2 (Trondheim, Fantagraphics))

1.   16 Weasel #1 (Cooper, Fantagraphics)
2.    5 Top 10 #1-5 (Moore/Ha, ABC)
3.    3 Death & Candy (Max Andersson, Fantagraphics)
4.    2 Tomorrow Stories #1-4 (Moore et al, ABC)
-.    2 YEAH! (Bagge/Hernandez, DC)
6.    1 Lemon Kids #1 (Weissman, Alternative)
-.    1 Tom Strong #1-5 (Moore/Sprouse, ABC)


8. Best Finite Series:
(1994 - From Hell (Moore/Campbell, Kitchen Sink))
(1995 - From Hell (Moore/Campbell, Kitchen Sink))
(1996 - From Hell (Moore/Campbell, Kitchen Sink))
(1997 - Dear Julia (Biggs, Black Eye))
(1998 - Extended Dream of Mr. D #1 (Max, D&Q))

1.   10 The Extended Dream of Mr. D. #2-3 (Max, D&Q)
2.    8 Louis Riel #1-2 (Brown, D&Q)
3.    6 Heavy Liquid (Pope, Vertigo)
-.    6 Scene of the Crime #1-4 (Brubaker/Lark, Vertigo)
5.    4 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #1-4 (Moore/O'Neill, ABC)


9. Best Mini-Comic:
(1994 - Optic Nerve (Adrian Tomine))
(1995 - Artbabe (Abel)
(1996 - Death of Antisocialman (Lockley/Feazell))
(1997 - Coober Skeber (Various))
(1998 - Fireball (Ralph))

1.    9 Fireball (Ralph)
2.    8 The Last Lonely Saturday (Crane)
3.    5 Maaikes Mafazinetje 
4.    2 Angry Youth Comics (Johnny Ryan)
-.    2 Double Cross (Consiglio)


10. Best Web-Published Comic:
(1998 - "My Obsession With Chess" (McCloud) 
        http://scottmccloud.com/comics/comics.html)

1.   15 "Exercises In Style" (Madden)
        http://www.indymagazine.com/indyworld/comics/style.shtml
2.    3 "Vodvil" (Crane) 
        http://www.thecomicstore.com/merchant/vodvilpage.htm
3.    2 "Crazy Boss" (Martin) 
        http://www.markmartin.net/comix/crazy/bigboss1.html
-.    2 "The Dark Hotel : A Blues For Drago Drugilovic" (Callahan/Spain/Sacco)
        http://www.salon.com/comics/dark/3/reg/index.html
-.    2 "Filler" (Havrilesky/Colon)  
        http://www.suck.com
6.    1 "Leisure Town" (Farnon)
        http://www.leisuretown.com


11. Best Foreign Language Comic:
(1997 - L'Ascension du Haut Mal t. 2 (B., L'Association))
(1998 - Cheval sans tete #5 (Various, Amok))

1.    9 L'Ascension du Haut-Mal v. 4 (David B., L'Association)
2.    3 Blotch (Blutch, Fluide Glaciale)
-.    3 El Santos Y El Peyote en La Atlantida (Jis and Trino)
4.    1 Les Aventures d'Hergé (Boucquet/Fromental/Stanislas)
-.    1 Un temps de chien (Dupuy and Berberian, Humanos)


12. Best Anthology:
(1994 - Drawn and Quarterly (D & Q))
(1995 - Drawn and Quarterly (D & Q))
(1996 - Drawn and Quarterly (D & Q))
(1997 - Drawn and Quarterly  (D&Q))
(1998 - Lapin #18-21 (L'Association))

1.    8 SPX 99 (SPX)
2.    6 Jetlag (Actus Tragicus)
-.    6 Non #4 (Red Ink)
4.    5 Wind (Bries)
5.    4 Lapin (L'Association)


13. Best Short Piece:
(1994 - "Eltingville Comic-Book..." (Dorkin, Instant Piano #1))
(1995 - "Caricature" (Clowes, Eightball #14))
(1996 - "Chelo's Burden" (G. Hernandez, Love & Rockets #50))
(1997 - "Christmas with Karadzic" (Sacco, Zero Zero #15))
(1998 - "Queen of the Black Black" (Kelso, Queen of the Black Black))

1.   12 "Cluttered, Like My Head" (Dorkin, Dork #7)
2.    7 "The Hook" (Ott, Zero Zero #25)
3.    4 "Pet Theory" (Moore/Nowlan, Tomorrow Stories #3)
-.    4 "The Trumpets They Played" (Columbia, Blab #10)
5.    3 "Shell Game" (Ralph, Non #4)
6.    0 "The Unbearableness Of Being Light" (Moore/Nowlan, Tomorrow Stories #2)


14. Best Single Issue of an Ongoing Series:
(1995 - Black Hole # 2 (Burns, Kitchen Sink))
(1996 - Acme Novelty Library #7 (Ware, Fantagraphics))
(1997 - Drawn and Quarterly #6 (Various, D&Q))
(1998 - Berlin #4 (Lutes, Black Eye))

1.   16 Acme Novelty Library #13 (Ware, Fantagraphics)
2.    9 Weasel #1 (Cooper, Fantagraphics)
3.    2 Eightball # 20 (Clowes, Fantagraphics)
4.    1 Blab #10 (Fantagraphics)
-.    1 Keyhole #6 (Haspiel/Neufeld, Top Shelf)


15. Best Ongoing Serialized Story:
(1995 - "It's A Good Life if You Don't Weaken" (Seth, Palookaville))
(1996 - "It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken" (Seth, Palookaville))
(1997 - "Berlin" (Lutes, Berlin))
(1998 - "Berlin" (Lutes, Berlin #4))

1.    9 "Jimmy Corrigan" (Ware, Acme Novelty Library # 11-13)
2.    8 "Berlin" (Lutes, Berlin #5-6)
3.    5 "L'Ascension du Haut-Mal" (David B., L'Ascension du Haut Mal)
-.    5 "Clyde Fans" (Seth, Palookaville #13)
5.    4 "Summer Of Love" (Dreschler, Nowhere #5)
6.    2 "David Boring" (Clowes, Eightball #20)


16. Best One Shot:
(1994 - American Splendor Special (Pekar/Zabel, Dark Horse))
(1995 - Kill Your Boyfriend (Morrison/Bond, Vertigo))
(1996 - The Revival (Sturm, Bear Bones))
(1997 - American Splendor: Music Comics (Pekar/Sacco, Dark Horse))
(1998 - Soba (Sacco, Drawn and Quarterly))

1.   10 The Birth Caul (Moore/Campbell, Eddie Campbell Comics)
2.    9 Tales of the Great Unspoken (Augenblick, Top Shelf)
3.    6 Fred The Clown (Langridge, Les Cartoonists Dangereux)
4.    4 American Splendour : Terminal (Pekar et al, Dark Horse)
5.    3 Humphrey Osmond, Psychedelic Pioneer (Collier, D&Q)


17. Best Graphic Novel:
(1994 - Mr Punch (Gaiman/McKean, Vertigo))
(1995 - Stuck Rubber Baby (Cruse, Paradox))
(1996 - Suckle: The Status of Basil (Cooper, Fantagraphics))
(1997 - Why Did Pete Duel Kill Himself? (Kalesniko, Fantagraphics))
(1998 - Hicksville (Horrocks, Black Eye))

1.   12 From Hell (Moore/Campbell, Eddie Campbell Comics)
2.    9 Cave-In (Ralph, Highwater Books)
3.    6 Goodbye Chunky Rice (Thompson, Top Shelf)
4.    3 L'Ascension du Haut-Mal v. 4 (David B., L'Association)
-.    3 The Jew of New York (Katchor, Pantheon)


18. Best Reprint Collection:
(1994 - Frank (Woodring, Fantagraphics))
(1995 - Bacchus (Campbell, Eddie Campbell Comics))
(1996 - Daddy's Girl (Drechsler, Fantagraphics))
(1997 - Ghost World (Clowes, Fantagraphics))
(1998 - Vellevision (Vellekoop, D&Q))

1.    6 Hey Mister: Celebrity Roast (Sickman-Garner, Top Shelf)
-.    6 Krazy Kat : The Comic Art Of George Herriman
-.    6 Plastic Man Archives (Cole, DC)
4.    5 The Best Of Bittercomix, Vol.1 (Dog & Botes, Westhampton House)
5.    4 Daydream Lullabies: A Billy Dogma Experience (Haspiel, Top Shelf)
-.    4 Yesh -- Mutts IV (McDonnel, Andrews McMeel)
7.    2 El Borbah (Burns, Fantagraphics)


19. Best Strip:
(1994 - Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson))
(1995 - Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson))
(1996 - Dilbert (Adams))
(1997 - Mutts (McDonnell))
(1998 - Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer (Katchor))

1.   10 Story Minute (Lay)
2.    7 Mutts (McDonnell)
3.    6 Peanuts (Schulz)
4.    5 Acme Novelty Library (Ware)
5.    1 Cardboard Valise (Katchor)


20. Best Guilty Pleasure:
(1994 - Batman Adventures (Puckett/Parobeck, DC))
(1995 - Astro City (Busiek/Anderson, Image))
(1996 - Batman: Black and White (Various, DC))
(1997 - Bone (Smith, Cartoon Books))
(1998 - Bone (Smith, Cartoon Books))

1.    7 Top 10 #1-5 (Moore/Ha, ABC)
2.    6 Forever People (Kirby, DC)
3.    5 Stray Bullets #17-20 (Lapham, El Captian)
4.    4 Bone # 35-37 (Smith, Cartoon)
-.    4 Tomorrow Stories #1-4 (Moore et al, ABC)
6.    2 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #1-4 (Moore/O'Neill, ABC)
-.    2 Tom Strong #1-5 (Moore/Sprouse, ABC)
8.    0 Essential Fantastic Four Vol 2 (Lee/Kirby, Marvel)


21. Best Production Design:
(1998 - Acme Novelty Library #10 (Ware, Fanatgraphics))

1.   11 Acme Novelty Library # 11-13 (Fantagraphics)
2.    8 Cave-In (Highwater)
3.    6 The Jew Of New York (Pantheon)
4.    5 Non #4 (Red Ink)
5.    4 Goodbye Chunky Rice (Top Shelf)


22. The Comics Journal Prize For Best Publication About Comics:
(1994 - Comics Journal)
(1995 - Comics Journal)
(1996 - Comics Journal)
(1997 - Comics Journal)
(1998 - Comics Journal)

1.   11 The Imp #3 (Raeburn)
2.    6 9e Art
3.    4 International Journal of Cartoon Art (John Lent, ed.)
4.    2 Comic Book Artist
-.    2 From Maus To Now : Comix, Essays, Graphics and Scraps 
        (Art Spiegelman, Raw Books)
6.    1 Du9 -- http://www.pipo.com/du9/


23. Best Poster:
(1995 - Mark Nevins)
(1996 - Bart Beaty)
(1997 - Bart Beaty)
(1998 - Arthur van Kruining)

1.   8 Robert Boyd
2.   5 Sam Henderson
-.   5 Charles Hatfield
4.   3 Bart Beaty
-.   3 Eric Reynolds
-.   3 Jordan Crane
-.   3 Paul Gravett
-.   3 Dean Haspiel

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[d--n] at [klg.com]                                                  --- Griffy
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From: Don Marks <[d--n] at [klg.com]>
Subject: Good Taste Awards 2000 -- Final Comments
To: [c--m--x] at [indra.com] (Comix List )
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:14:01 -0500 (EST)

And that's all she wrote.  The Good Taste Awards have come to an end for
yet another year.  A big Thank You to all of the people who took the 
time to vote (35 in round 3 -- down almost 50% from last year!) and 
especially to the people who voted in all 3 rounds.  The decline in 
numbers may be due to the quiet nature of the list these days or perhaps
due to a dissatisfaction with the inevitable mainstreaming of choices 
that the final ballot brings, but it seems that there are still enough 
people who get something out of this bit of silliness to keep it going
for now.  

I started putting this year's Goodies together in the grip of a cold
and, sure enough, I'm sending out these results in the grip of
another one.  In between, I had the busiest couple of weeks at work that 
I've had in a long time, but the Goodies were pretty much a joy to 
administrate throughout.  I wish I could say that all that stress was 
responsible for the misspellings, mistaken ballot listings, and 
occasional accidental replies to the list, but the truth of the matter 
is that I'm just a bad proofreader.  Sorry.

First ballot in : Greg McElhatton
Last official ballot in : Rui Cartaxo
Late because of Angouleme but I took his votes anyways : Gert Meesters
Best ballot : Bart Beaty, who once again took the time to comment on 
  each nominee before finally arriving at a well thought-out choice

The nominations process turned out to be quite telling.  Our leading
nominees, Alan Moore and Chris Ware, did end up taking home many prizes
(4 for Moore, 6 for Ware), though not all.  While some categories saw 
votes split relatively evenly, even most of those saw early leaders take 
home decisive wins in the end.  The split between these winners and the 
general character of the list these days is quite pronounced.  Either 
we have a lot of lurkers voting who don't post much or we all prefer 
to talk about things other than Moore and Ware.  And who can blame us?
There's a whole world of comic books out there to talk about, so let's
talk.

But first, a category by category rundown of the voting :


1. Best Writer

After two years away, Alan Moore returns as the list's choice for Best
Writer.  The question of whether Moore's votes were for his new 
superhero line, the collection of his Graphic Novel "From Hell", or his
performance piece turned comic book "The Birth Caul" might be answered 
by the strong placing of Eddie Campbell in the Best Artist category and
the relatively weak placing of his superhero work in all other 
categories.  Moore owned this race from the very beginning, with only 
Chris Ware and a late surge by Jason Lutes offering the merest threat 
to his supremacy.  Despite the drop in participation this year, Lutes 
actually increased his number of votes.  It was a pleasure to see 
underdog Posy Simmonds make a respectable showing in 4th place.


2. Best Artist

Although Eddie Campbell had the early lead in this category, Chris Ware,
buoyed by 3 strong issues of his series "Acme Novelty Library", took the
Goodie home in the end.  David B. maintains his third place standing 
from last year and Jaime Hernandez improved by moving from fifth place 
last year to fourth place this time around.  


3. Best Cartoonist

As with the second round ballot, this category saw votes spread 
relatively evenly over a large number of contenders.  Chris Ware took 
the lead early and looked back only a couple of times to see a Dave 
Cooper/David B. surge fail to threaten his top position.  David B. 
improved on his 4th place finish from last year by tying for second
this time around.


4. Talent Deserving Wider Recognition

Another close one.  In the end, Pat McEown took the award, perhaps
galvanizing the North American vote in a category that split the 
European-friendly votes over 4 nominees.  Thomas Ott and a late flurry 
of votes for Dupuy et Berberian proved to be his only competition.


5. Best Publisher

Coming out of the gate early, Top Shelf took this award easily despite
having only one of its books win in any other category.  Congrats to 
the folks who brought us "Goodbye Chunky Rice", "Hey Mister", and 
"Banks Eubanks" in the last year.  Late rallies by Fantagraphics and 
L'Association were not enough to place those publishers higher than 
second and third, respectively.  Interestingly, despite releasing new 
work from most of its stable of cartoonists and taking the Best
Finite Series award, three-time winner Drawn & Quarterly came in 
last place here.


6. Best Continuing Series

After one year away, Chris Ware's "Acme Novelty Library" returns to
decisively win Best Continuing Series for the 4th time in 5 years.
His only real competition, Jason Lutes' "Berlin", did not get close
enough to become a real threat despite narrowly beating Ware out last 
time around.


7. Best New Series

No contest here.  The list decisively spoke that, in a year weak on
new continuing series, Dave Cooper's "Weasel" was undoubtedly the
highlight.  Note our Best Guilty Pleasure winner, Alan Moore's
"Top 10", in second place here with less than a third of Cooper's 
votes.


8. Best Finite Series

A very tight category.  The two Vertigo mini-series "Heavy Liquid" and
"Scene Of The Crime" took an early lead until Chester Brown's "Louis
Riel" forced a 3-way tie.  The ultimate winner?  None of them!
Max's "The Extended Dream Of Mr. D." benefitted from a flurry of
late votes to repeat his win in this category from last year.


9. Best Mini-Comic

This was a pretty even race early on, but eventually Brian Ralph's
"Fireball" and Jordan Crane's "The Last Lonely Saturday" emerged as
the two to beat.  This one went right down to the wire, with Ralph
eventually repeating his win from last year by only one vote.  


10. Best Web-Published Comic

Another no-contest race.  Although the first two votes that came in
were for Mark Martin's "Crazy Boss", it didn't receive a single vote
after that.  Matt Madden easily took this category with his "Exercises
In Style" strips from the Indy Magazine website.  Despite the drop in
participation this year, voting in this category remained about the
same, perhaps indicating that web comics are starting to be taken a 
bit more seriously by the list at large.


11. Best Foreign Language Comic

Our second weakest category in terms of participation, but few who have
read the winner -- David B.'s "L'Ascension du Haut-Mal" -- will complain
about his decisive victory.  The phrase "best comic book ever" has been
bandied about on more than one occasion to describe this book.  Maybe I
should finally read a copy.


12. Best Anthology

Although this category ended as a rather close contest in the end, the 
Small Press Expo anthology led the race from the very beginning.  
Congrats to Jetlag and Non for their solid showing tied for second 
place.  Last year's winner, "Lapin", came in last this time around.


13. Best Short Piece

Another decisive victory, with Evan Dorkin's autobio piece consistently
leading all others.  That makes Dorkin the only person to ever take this
award twice.  (He won way back in the awards' inaugural year -- 1994 --
with an Eltingville story.)  Thomas Ott's brief piece from a year-old
issue of "Zero Zero" stayed with enough people to give it a second place
finish.  Note that Alan Moore fans consistently picked one of his short 
pieces over the other, though even that was not enough to land the story 
higher than a tie for third place.


14. Best Single Issue

Ware again, but who can complain?  His mammoth 13th issue of "Acme
Novelty Library" was easily the comic to beat in this category from
the very beginning of the awards.  The only comic that even came close 
to threatening his grab for the title was the first issue of David 
Cooper's new series "Weasel".  Note that last year's winner, Jason 
Lutes' "Berlin" did not make the final ballot this year.


15. Best Ongoing Serialized Story

A very tight race right down to the very end saw Ware's "Jimmy Corrigan"
continuity pull one vote ahead of Jason Lutes' "Berlin", thwarting
Lutes' chances for a three-peat.  Despite this list's ongoing love 
affair with Ware, this is the first time that he has won this category.  
Last year's fourth and fifth place finishers -- Seth's "Clyde Fans" and 
Debbie Dreschler's "Summer Of Love" -- occupy pretty much the same two
places again this year.


16. Best One Shot

Although Eddie Campbell's adaptation of Alan Moore's performance piece,
"The Birth Caul", took an early lead in this category, some last minute
votes for Augenblick's "Tales Of The Great Unspoken" made this a
very tight race.  The Goodie eventually went to Moore and Campbell, but 
only by a single vote.


17. Best Graphic Novel

Another strong showing from Moore and Campbell, this time for the
collection of their long-running serialized Graphic Novel "From Hell".
A 3-way tie between it, "Goodbye Chunky Rice", and "Cave-In" was
finally broken by a vote for Brian Ralph's book only to see Moore 
and Campbell surge past it in the end.


18. Best Reprint Collection

Our first (I think) 3-way tie.  There was very little consensus in this
category, with "The Best of Bittercomix" and Dean Haspiel's "Daydream
Lullabies" beat out by only a vote or two by the shared victory of
Pete Sickman-Garner's "Hey Mister" collection, a collection of George
Herriman's "Krazy Kat" strip, and DC's unearthing of Jack Cole's
"Plastic Man".


19. Best Strip

The sentimentalists on the list just didn't have enough sway to place
"Peanuts" atop this category.  Neither did the whimsicalists who 
champion Patrick McDonnell's "Mutts", although they did have enough 
power to take an early lead and finally end up in second place.  No, 
it was the ironists who took a decisive victory in naming Carol Lay's 
"Story Minute" as the strip of the year.  I'm curious as to whether 
the people who voted for Chris Ware's "Acme Novelty Library" strip 
actually read it in strip form.  History buffs take note : ever since 
the demise of Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes", this category has 
been taken by a different strip every year.  Viva diversity!


20. Best Guilty Pleasure

Late rallies by DC's collection of Jack Kirby's "Forever People" and
David Lapham's "Stray Bullets" were not enough to put them past Alan
Moore and Gene Ha's "Top Ten".  Curiously, back when the list was 
discussing Moore's new line of superhero comics, this one received 
little praise.  Either its fans decided to stay quiet then and speak 
now or there have been a few converts since.  (For my money, it's 
easily the best book in the line.)


21. Best Production Design

Initially it looked like a close race between "Non", "Cave-In", and 
"Acme", but somewhere along the line Chris Ware's series surged ahead 
while several late votes for Ben Katchor's "The Jew Of New York" proved 
only enough to cement the man third place.


22. The Comics Journal Prize For Best Publication About Comics

Since it had previously won this category 5 times in a row, we took the 
Comics Journal out of the running this year and named the category after 
it.  The result?  A decisive victory for Dan Raeburn's "The Imp".  No 
one else even came close.  Let's see if he manages to repeat next year 
or whether we will continue to honour previously unrewarded work in this 
category.


23. Best Poster

Our weakest category overall.  Perhaps the comics list is a bit reticent
about patting each other on the back these days or perhaps no one 
thought there was much worthwhile to reward.  Not to take anything away 
from Robert Boyd -- as an intelligent, provocative, and industry savvy 
poster, he certainly deserves his win -- but this category used to 
require 10 votes to even place 5th!  Robert takes it this year with 8 
votes while Sam Henderson and Charles Hatfield tie for second with 5
a piece.


Once again, thanks to everyone who voted.  I wish you all a year full 
of good comics and, of course, interesting discussion about them on 
this list.

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