Artist and writer Tim Fielder was awarded Story of the Year, Best Cover, and Best Female Character Writer, for his graphic novel “Matty’s Rocket, Book One.” The book, published by Dieselfunk Studios, is a self-described work of “retro-Afrofuturism,” following a young, black female space pilot (with prematurely gray hair) named Matty Watty, who battles aliens, Nazis, and Jim Crow-era racism.
Writer Greg Anderson-Elysee and artist Daryl Toh received the Rising Star Award, the Fan Award for Best Work, and Best Male Character Writer, for “Is’nana the Were-Spider: The Hornet’s Web” #1, the first part of their second series starring the character.
The crowdfunded Is’nana comics are a horror fantasy series revolving around the titular son of the trickster god Anansi, who seeks to protect us from monsters that he inadvertently unleashed into this world.
Jamar Nicholas’s “Leon: Protector of the Playground,” which earlier this year won the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity, earned him Best Writer, while Shauna J. Grant won Best Artist for her webcomic “Princess Love ♥ Pon.”
Best Comic Strip or Webcomic went to Juliana “Jewels” Smith and Ronald Nelson for “(H)afrocentric,” and Best Reprint Publication went to Marvel for “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Volume Three: Smartest There Is.”
Congratulations to all the winners, and check out here for the list of the other nominees.
