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ADVENTURE TIME, ATTACK ON TITAN Win Big at the Harvey Awards

KaBoom’s ongoing Adventure Time comic and Kodansha’s Attack on Titan English-language adaptation were two of the big winners at this weekend’s Harvey Awards at Baltimore Comic-Con. Adventure Time picked up prizes for Special Award for Humor in Comics and Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers for writer Ryan North and publisher KaBoom! respectively, while Attack on Titan beat out the likes of Sunny and the fourth volume of hitman comic The Killer for the Best American Edition of Foreign Material prize.

I’ll run the full list of winners below, but it looks like the Harveys ballots tilted largely in favor of the major indies like Dark Horse (which took home five awards) and Image (the biggest winner with six awards for its creator-owned comics), while Marvel was able to sneak in two wins – one for best inker (congratulations, Wade Von Grawbadger for All-New X-Men), and Best Single Issue or Story for Matt Fraction’s “Pizza is My Business” in Hawkeye #11. DC was completely shut out with one nomination for best inker and zero wins.

Paul Pope was the big winner, taking home the Best Cartoonist award for Battling Boy (and if you know Pope’s work, you know that’s a well-deserved win), while Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan won Best Artist and Best Writer respectively for Saga at Image. And industry workhorse/superhuman talent Dave Stewart won Best Colorist for Hellboy: The Midnight Circus.

You can find the full list of winners below:

Best Letterer: Terry Moore, Rachel Rising, Abstract Studios
Best Colorist: Dave Stewart, Hellboy: The Midnight Circus, Dark Horse Comics
Best Syndicated Strip or Panel: Dick Tracy, Joe Staton and Mike Curtis, Tribune Media Services
Best Online Comics Work: Battlepug, Mike Norton
Best American Edition of Foreign Material: Attack on Titan, Kodansha
Best Inker: Wade Von Grawbadger, All New X-Men, Marvel Comics
Best New Series: Sex Criminals, Image Comics
Most Promising New Talent: Chip Zdarsky, Sex Criminals, Image Comics
Special Award for Humor in Comics: Ryan North, Adventure Time, KaBOOM! Studios
Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers: Adventure Time, KaBOOM! Studios
Best Graphic Album Previously Published: Mouse Guard Vol. 3: The Black Axe, BOOM! Studios/Archaia
Best Anthology: Dark Horse Presents, Dark Horse
Best Domestic Reprint Project: Best of Comix Book: When Marvel Comics Went Underground, Kitchen Sink Books/Dark Horse Comics
Best Cover Artist: Fiona Staples, Saga, Image Comics
Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation: The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story, Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson, and Kyle Baker, Dark Horse Comics
Special Award for Excellence in Presentation: Best of Comix Book: When Marvel Comics Went Underground, John Lind, Kitchen Sink Books/Dark Horse Comics
Best Original Graphic Album: The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story, Dark Horse Comics
Best Continuing or Limited Series: Saga, Image Comics
Best Writer: Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Image Comics
Best Artist: Fiona Staples, Saga, Image Comics
Best Cartoonist: Paul Pope, Battling Boy, First Second
Best Single Issue or Story: Pizza is my Business, Hawkeye #11, Marvel Comics
Harvey Kurtzman Hall of Fame Award: Charles M. Schulz
Dick Giordano Humanitarian of the Year Award: Stan Goldberg
Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award: Herb Trimpe

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