2023 Glyph Awards nominees announced

The 2023 Glyph Comedian Awards have been introduced. Stuffed with publishers massive and small, sharing classes close to and much that commemorate work for and about individuals of colour. Winners shall be declared on the East Coast Black Age of Comics conference going down on Could 20, 2023.

One of many nice issues concerning the Glyphs is that they respect the work irrespective of the place it comes from, so there’s a mixture of comparatively widespread productions and giddy productions. Conventional publishing homes Abrams ComicArts (by way of John Jennings’ Megascope imprint) and Harper have nominees by way of Christopher Johnson, Steven Barnes And Christopher Moss‘ The Eightfold Path, Antananarivo Due, Steven Barnes, Marco FinneganIt’s The GuardianAnd James SpoonerIt’s The Excessive Desert: Black Punk Nowhere – totaling six nominations.

The African continent is represented by two Nigerian publishers – VX Comics and Comedian Republic (Comedian Republic topped the charts with the second highest variety of nominations (9) for a number of collection, together with Eru, Ireti Bidemi, Assegai and the Galactic Core).

Probably the most nominees go to US-based Konkret Comics with 14 spots in 9 classes – together with 4 within the 2023 Glyph Fan Award for Finest Work With Akolyte (by Derek ‘Lonzo Starr’ Allen, Bruno Lima, Matheus Huve and Mason Solimine), Kandake (by Onaji Rouse, Rodrigo Trinade and Samuel Marques), ONatural crissy (by Derek “Lonzo Starr” Allen, Cristina Elkins, Rodrigo Trindade, Matheus Huve, Bruno Lima & Matheus Huve), And Tevin Fields is the Watchman: Again in Blood (by Lyle Ringold).

Many entrants this 12 months have been crowd-funded tasks – examples embody Second Sight Publishing’s The protector, Clovis BatebolaIt’s O kingdom come, Abelard AlexisIt’s Alternia – The PreludeAnd Nigel Lynch And Juan Carlos FranciscoIt’s The Stray Canine Diary.

Try the total checklist beneath. We now have made each effort to offer hyperlinks to all books.

GLYPH 2023 STORY OF THE YEAR

• Assegai #1written by Sherard Jackson & Wale Awelenje, artwork by Sherard Jackson (Comedian Republic)
• Black Boy’s Blues: Funny Moneywritten by RD Hunter, varied artists (self-published)
• Kisha Demon Eater Vol. 1written by Newton Lilavois, artwork by Gian Carlo Bernal (Dream Fury Comics)
• Insurgency EVE #1written and drawn by Jordan Purnell Jackson (JPJACKSON ART LLC)
• The Eightfold Pathwritten by Charles Johnson & Steven Barnes, artwork by Bryan Christopher Moss (Abrams ComicArts/Megascope)
• The Guardianwritten by Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, artwork by Marco Finnegan (Abrams ComicArts/Megascope)
• Vegas Baby: the architect of the improbablewritten by Noble Ward, artwork by Davide Tinto & Sean Hill (KID Comics)

BEST GLYPH COVER 2023

• Akolyte #4 (Protocol)written by Derek ‘Lonzo Starr’ Allen, artwork by Samuel Marques & Matheus Huve (Konkret Comics)
• Eru #8written by Akintoba Kalejaye, artwork by Samuel Iwunze (Comedian Republic)
• Sound #1 – Sea Changewritten by Malachi Bailey, artwork by Dino Igor/Nimesh (Wingless Comics)
• Indigo Clan Chapter 5: The Path to the Goalwritten by Ry-El Nagasta, artwork by Walt M Barna (Triple Optic Publishing)
• Kisha Demon Easter Vol 1written by Newton Lilavois, artwork by Gian Carlo Bernal (Dream Fury Comics)
• Tevin Fields is the Watchman: Back in Bloodwritten by Lyle Ringold, artwork by Bruno Lima (Cowl B) (Konkret Comics)
• The Stray Dogs Diary: The Woundedwritten by Nigel Lynch, artwork by Juan Carlos Francisco (Past Publishing Caribbean)
• Vegas Child: the architect of the inconceivablewritten by Noble Ward, artwork by Sean Hill (KID Comics)

GLYPH 2023 BEST WRITER

GLYPH 2023 BEST ARTIST

• Charlie ‘Fab’ Goubile & Benjamin ‘Ben’ Worrell (inventive workforce), Stingerblade (Mammoth Pen)
• Clovis Batebola, O kingdom come (O Kingdom Come)
• Gian-Carlo Bernal, Kisha demon eater vol 1 (Dream Fury Comedian)
• Leandro Meneses (inside) & Bruno Lima (Cowl B), (co-artists), Tevin Fields is the Watchman: Again in Blood (Konkret Comics)
• N Steven Harris & Walt M Barna (co-artists), Indigo Clan Chapter 5: The Path to the Objective (Triple Optics Version)
• Nestor Ruiz, Martin Giminez, Iwan Triyono, Joel Rodriguez & Luciano Fleitas (inventive workforce), The protector (Second Sight Publishing)
• Samuel Iwunze, Eru #8 (Comedian Republic)
• Usifo Oriwoh, Ireti Bidemi #6 (Comedian Republic)

GLYPH 2023 BEST MALE CHARACTER