The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards is an annual celebration of the comics industry with winners chosen by fans and pros alike. The nominees for the 2020 awards have been announced and will be open for voting until September 23, 2020. The fourth annual awards return to the Baltimore Comic-Con with winners announced on Saturday, October 24, 2020.
Nominees were chosen by a panel of professionals including Joan Hilty (directs comics and graphic novel licensed publishing at Nickelodeon), James Kuhoric (president of American Mythology Comics), Jill Thompson (comic creator of The Scary Godmother), Carol Tilley (associate professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois), and Gene Luen Yang (writer-artist of Boxers & Saints).
The nominees for the 2020 Ringo awards are:
Best Cartoonist (Writer/Artist)
Sarah Andersen
Eleanor Davis
Jaime Hernandez
Kevin Huizenga
Junepurr
Stan Sakai
Raina Telgemeier
David Jesus Vignolli
Best Writer
Drew Edwards
Jeff Lemire
Mark Russell
Erica Schultz
Mariko Tamaki
Best Artist or Penciller
Chris Campana
Colleen Doran
Sanford Greene
Rosemarie Valero-O’Connell
Marianna Pescosta
Best Inker
Keith Champagne
Marika Cresta
Sandra Hope
Maria Llovet
Dan Mora
Hyeondo Park
Best Letterer
Deron Bennett
Jim Campbell
Clayton Cowles
Jared K. Fletcher
HdE
Nate Piekos
Cardinal Rae
Best Colorist
Jordie Bellaire
Alessandro de Fornasari
Edson Ferreira
Laura Martin
Dave Stewart
Best Cover Artist
Fabio Alves
Natasha Alterici
Stephanie Hans
Sana Takeda
Christian Ward
Best Series
Banjax (Danger Zone Action Lab Entertainment)
Bitter Root (Image Comics)
Black Hammer: Age of Doom (Dark Horse Comics)
Forgotten Home (Vices Press/comiXology Originals)
Something is Killing the Children (BOOM! Studios)
Best Single Issue or Story
Bitter Root Red Summer Special (Image Comics)
“Hot Comb” in Hot Comb (Drawn & Quarterly)
Second Coming #1 (AHOY Comics)
Spencer & Locke 2 #1 (Danger Zone, Action Lab Entertainment)
Tales of the Night Watchman: The Steam Banshee (So What? Press)
Usagi Yojimbo #6 (IDW Publishing)
Best Original Graphic Novel
The Adventures of Parker Reef – To Save a Soul (Chris Campana)
BTTM FDRS (Fantagraphics)
Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls (Graphix/Scholastic)
The Hard Tomorrow (Drawn & Quarterly)
Hot Comb (Drawn & Quarterly)
New World (BOOM! Studios)
Penny Nichols (Top Shelf Productions, IDW Publishing)
Simon Says (Image Comics)
Snow, Glass, Apples (Dark Horse Comics)
Best Anthology
Dead Beats (A Wave Blue World)
Drawing Power (Abrams ComicArts)
Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Sirens (Archaia, BOOM! Studios)
Strange Tails (Vices Press)
Thought Bubble 2019 (Image Comics)
Best Humor Comic
Fangs (Tapas)
The Handbook to Lazy Parenting (Drawn & Quarterly)
Rick & Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons (IDW Publishing)
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (DC Comics)
Twiztid: Haunted High-Ons (Source Point Press)
Wonder Twins (DC Comics)
Best Comic Strip or Panel
The Middle Age by Steve Conley (Andrews McMeel Universal)
Nancy by Olivia Jaimes (Andrews McMeel Universal)
The Nib Editorial Cartoons by Pia Guerra (thenib.com)
Rhymes With Orange by Hilary Price (King Features Syndicate)
Sarah’s Scribbles by Sarah Andersen (Andrews McMeel Universal)
Wawawiwa (Andres J. Colmenares)
Best Webcomic
The Croaking by echorise
Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe
Fried Rice by Erica Eng
Penny Arcade by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins
Rocío Diestra by Rocío Diestra
Stand Still, Stay Silent by Minna Sundberg
SubZero by Junepurr
Best Non-fiction Comic Work
Coin-Op Carnival (coinopcarnival.com)
Grass (Drawn & Quarterly)
In Waves (Nobrow/Flying Eye Books)
They Called Us Enemy (Top Shelf, IDW Publishing)
The Twilight Man (Humanoids)
Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel
Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls (Graphix/Scholastic)
Guts (Graphix/Scholastic)
New Kid (Harper Collins)
Science! The Elements of Dark Energy (Bedside Press
The Underfoot: The Mighty Deep (Lion Forge, Oni Press)
Best Presentation in Design
Going to the Chapel (Danger Zone, Action Lab Entertainment)
Making Comics (Drawn & Quarterly)
Marvel Masterwork Pin-Ups (Yoe Books, IDW Publishing)
Moomin: The Deluxe Lars Jansson Edition (Drawn & Quarterly)
New World (BOOM! Studios)
Snow White Zombie Apocalypse (Scout Comics)
Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo: The Complete Grasscutter Artist Select (IDW Publishing)
3D Sweeties (Fantagraphics)
