Check out the nominees for the 2023 Ringo Awards!

The 2023 Mike Wieringo Awards – aka the Ringo Awards – have announced the nominees in the running for the industry award.

Described as “an annual celebration of the creativity, skill and fun of comics”, the nominations of the 2023 Ringo Award were decided by a mix of fans and comics industry professionals. The final ballot, open exclusively to comics industry professionals, has officially opened. Winners will be declared on Saturday, September 9 2023 as part of Baltimore Comic-Con weekend.

BEST CARTOONIST (Writer/Artist)

Kate Beaton
Wes Craig
Alexis Deacon
Jenny Jinya
Snailords
Stan Sakai
Zoe Thorogood

BEST WRITER

Ed Brubaker
Anthony Del Col
Drew Edwards
Scott Snyder
Brian K. Vaughan

BEST ARTIST OR PENCILLER

Fahmida Azim
Kate Flynn
Molly Mendoza
Nicola Scott
Evan “Doc” Shaner

BEST INKER

Gigi Baldassini
Scott Hanna
Sandra Hope
Klaus Janson
Mark Morales

BEST LETTERER

Justin Birch
Jerome Gagnon
Todd Klein
Micah Myers
Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Stan Sakai

BEST COLORIST

Daniela Barisone
Jordie Bellaire
Chris O’Halloran
Jacob Phillips
Dave Stewart
Ellie Wright

BEST COVER ARTIST

Wylie Beckert
Jason Muhr
Bryan Silverbax
Greg Smallwood
JH Williams III

BEST SERIES

Fractured Shards, Comics2Movies
Parker Girls, Abstract Studios
Saga, Image Comics
Season of the Bruja, Oni Press
Something is Killing the Children, BOOM! Studios

BEST SINGLE ISSUE OR STORY

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
Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters, Oni Press
Punisher #1, Marvel Comics
Thieves, Nobrow
You Were My Joker That Night, Anatola Howard

BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL

Chivalry, Dark Horse Comics
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Drawn & Quarterly
It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, Image Comics
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

Cthulu Invades Wonderland, Orange Cone Productions
Lower Your Sights, Mad Cave Studios
The Silver Coin, Image Comics
Voices That Count, IDW Publishing
Young Men in Love, A Wave Blue World

BEST HUMOR COMIC

Breaking Cat News, GoComics
Crash and Troy, A Wave Blue World
Grumpy Monkey: Who Threw That?, Random House Children’s Books
The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic, Z2 Comics
Little Tunny’s Snail Diaries, Silver Sprocket
My Bad, AHOY Comics
Revenge of the Librarians, Drawn & Quarterly
Whatzit, Heavy Metal

BEST WEBCOMIC

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
Lore Olympus, 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

Background Noise, backgroundnoisecomic.com
Evil Inc., evil-inc.com
Finding Fiends, WEBTOON
Live with Yourself!, WEBTOON
Vampire Husband, WEBTOON

BEST NON-FICTION COMIC WORK

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
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Drawn & Quarterly
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