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Miscellaneous Non-Industry Awards
Which Have Been Given to Comic Books and/or Comic Book Creators For Their Comic Book Work
British Fantasy Society Awards
Awards
Caldecott
Awards
2000 Honor Book: Sector 7, by David Wiesner (Clarion Books)
2002 Medal Winner: The Three Pigs, by David Wiesner (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
Firecracker
Alternative Book Awards
Founded in 1996; awarded at the BookExpo America convention in Chicago
(Winners in bold and marked with "*")
1996 Graphic Novel
The Narrative Corpse, edited by Art
Spiegelman & R. Sikoryak (Gates of Heck) *
[Information on other nominees not available]
1997 Graphic Novel
Real Americans Admit: "The Worst Thing I've Ever Done!" by Ted Rall *
Fax From Sarajevo by Joe Kubert (Dark Horse)
Illuminated Poems by Allen Ginsberg and Eric Drooker
1998 Graphic Novel
Minimum Wage: Book 2-- The Tales of Hoffman by Bob Fingerman *
Dear Julia by Brian Briggs
Ghost World by Dan Clowes
1999 Graphic Novel
Street Posters & Ballads by Eric Drooker *
2000 Graphic Novel
My New York Diary by Julie Doucet *
Horror Writers' Association
Bram Stoker Awards
Awarded for work done during the specified year. Only one of the Stoker Award categories deals with comic books and graphic novels
(Winners in bold and marked with "*")
1998 Comic Book/Graphic Novel/Illustrated Narrative
(No award given)
Sergio Aragones' Dia de las Muertos (Day of the Dead), by Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier (Dark Horse Comics)
Preacher, by Garth Ennis (DC/Vertigo)
"The Son of Man" (Hellblazer #129-133), by Garth Ennis (DC/Vertigo)
The Dreaming: Trial and Error, by Len Wein (DC/Vertigo)
1999 Illustrated Narrative
Sandman: The Dream Hunters, by Neil Gaiman *
Jonah Hex: Shadows West #1, by Joe R. Lansdale
Hellboy: Box Full of Evil, by Mike Mignola
Faust: Book of M, by David Quinn
2000
"Red Romance" (Flinch #11) by Joe R. Lansdale
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (miniseries), by Alan Moore *
Cable #79-84, by Robert Weinberg
"Spuds" (Night Terrors #1), by Bernie Wrightson
2001 (No award given?)
"Freezes Over" (Hellblazer #158-161), by Brian Azzarello
"The First Adventures of Miss Catterina Poe" (The Dreaming #56), by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Desperadoes: Quiet of the Grave, by Jeff Mariotte
"Quiver" (Green Arrow #1-10), by Kevin Smith
Weird Western Tales, by various authors
2002
Howard the Duck (Issues #1-6), by Steve Gerber
Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (Issues #1-4), by Peter Lenkov
Nightside (Issues #1-4), by Robert Weinberg *
2003
The Sandman: Endless Nights, by Neil Gaiman *
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two, by Alan Moore
Kolchak: "Devil in the Details," by Stefan Petrucha
Graphic Classics: Ambrose Bierce, edited by Tom Pomplun
Vampire, the Masqerade: Giovanni--The Machiavelli Conundrum, by Robert Weinberg
2004 (awarded in 2005)
Lost Loves, by James Lowder
Aleister Arcane, by Steve Niles
Heaven's Devils, by Jai Nitz *
Graphic Classics: Robert Louis Stevenson, by Tom Pomplun
Hugo Award
1976 (nominated) [category?]: The Capture, by
Robert Asprin & Phil Foglio
1977 Best Fan Artist: Phil Foglio
1978 Best Fan Artist: Phil Foglio
1988 Other Forms: Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (DC)
198? [Other Forms: (nominated?) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, by
Frank Miller (DC)?]
1996 Best Professional Artist: (nominated) Phil Foglio
International Horror Critics' Guild Award
(Each year's awards are for books published that year, and are awarded
the following year at DragonCon)
1994 Best Collection: Angels and Visitations, by Neil Gaiman (DreamHaven)
1994 Best Graphic Novel: Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo, by Joe Lansdale & Tim Truman
1995 Best Graphic Novel: From Hell, by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
Award name changed to International Horror Guild Award
1996 Best Graphic Novel: Hellboy: Wake the Devil, by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)
National Book Awards (U.K.)
1995 Dave McKean [was one of the winners exhibited at the
Victoria & Albert Museum]
National Book Awards (U.S.)
2006 (Nominee only) American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang (First Second)
New York Library Award
1990 What's Michael?: Michael's Album, by Makoto Kobayashi
Parents' Choice Award
(There are four levels of awards: Gold Award, Silver Award, Recommendation, and Approval; plus Classic, for material that meets the Gold Award criteria and has stood the test of time and maintained its original excellence rather than becoming dated for at least five years)
1990 Approval: Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai (for "skillful weaving of facts and legends into his work (recommended for children ages 7 and up).")
1995 Level?: Legend of Mother Sarah: Tunnel Town, by Katsuhiro Otomo &
Takumi Nagayasu
1996 Level?: Concrete: Think Like a Mountain, by Paul Chadwick
1997 Level?: What's Michael?: Michael's Mambo, by Makoto Kobayashi
1998 Gold: The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, adapted by Michael Plessix (NBM)
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
(Awarded by the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association at their annual conference each June)
2007 Award winner: American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang (First Second)
Pulitzer Prize
1992 Special Awards and Citations--Letters: Art Spiegelman,
Maus vol. I-II (set)
Quill Award
(For material published between August 1 of the previous year and July 31 of the current year. There are 19 total categories, but only one related to comics. Nominations are selected by a committee; voting is open to the general public.)
(Winners in bold and marked with "*")
2005 Graphic Novel
American Splendor: Our Movie Year, by Harvey Pekar (Ballantine)
Bone: One Volume Edition, by Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books)
In the Shadow of No Towers, by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon Books)
Marvel 1602, vol. 1, by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, Richard
Isanove (Marvel Comics) *
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon
Books)
2006 Graphic Novel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)
Hellsing, vol. 7, by Kohta Hirano (Dark Horse Comics/Digital Manga Publishing)
Maximum FF: A Visual Exegesis of Fantastic Four #1, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, conceived and orchestrated by Walter Mosley (Marvel Comics)
Mom's Cancer, by Brian Fies (Harry N. Abrams)
Naruto, vol. 7, by Masashi Kishimoto (Viz Comics/Shonen Jump) *
2007 Graphic Novel (Nominees only)
Alice in Sunderland, by Bryan Talbot (Dark Horse Comics)
Aya, by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie (Drawn & Quarterly)
Exit Wounds, by Rutu Modan (Drawn & Quarterly)
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels, by Scott McCloud (Harper Paperbacks)
Ode to Kirihito, by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)
Science Fiction Grand Prix Award (Japan)
1982 Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
(Awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children division of the American Library Association at their annual conference each June)
2007 Honor Book: To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel, by Siena Cherson Siegel, illustrated by Mark Siegel (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson and Simon & Schuster/Aladdin)
Spectrum Awards
2001 Best Science Fiction--Other: A Distant Land, by Coleen Doran
Stonewall Book Awards
(Awarded by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table of the American Library Association at their annual conference each June)
2007 Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin)
World Fantasy
Award
1991
Best Short Fiction: Sandman #19, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", by Neil
Gaiman and Charles Vess (DC)
(Category altered after this to include only prose works)
1991
Best Artist: Dave McKean, cover art for Sandman (DC)
1993
Special Award--Professional: (nominated) Grant Morrison and Klaus Janson,
Batman Gothic (DC)
1994
Best Short Fiction: (nominated) "Troll Bridge", Angels and Visitations,
by Neil Gaiman (DreamHaven)
Best Collection: (nominated) Angels and Visitations, by Neil Gaiman
(DreamHaven)
1995
Best Artist: (nominated) Dave McKean
1997
Best Artist: Jean "Moebius" Giraud
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