2023 Ringo Award Winners

The 2023 Ringo Award winners were announced the Baltimore Comic-Con on Saturday, September 9.

The Ringo Awards are named after Michael Lance “Mike” Wieringo (June 24, 1963 – August 12, 2007), who often signed his work Ringo, is an American comics artist best known for his work on DC Comics’ The Flash, Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four, and his co-creation Tellos. The Ringo Awards are given to the best in the comic book industry.

At the sixth annual banquet the 2023 Ringo Award winners were announced and we recap the winners below.

2023 Ringo Award Winners

Kate Beaton | 2023 Ringo Award Winners

Best Cartoonist (Writer and Artist)

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

Best Artist or Penciller

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

Best Colorist

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

Best Cover Artist

Wylie Beckert
Jason Muhr
Bryan Silverbax
Greg Smallwood – Winner
JH Williams III

Best Writer

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

Best Inker

Gigi Baldassini
Scott Hanna
Sandra Hope
Klaus Janson – Winner
Mark Morales

Best Letterer

Justin Birch
Jerome Gagnon
Todd Klein
Micah Myers
Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou – Winner (tie)
Stan Sakai – Winner (tie)

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 – Winner

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 – Winner
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 – Winner
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 – Winner

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 – Winner
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 – Winner
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 – Winner
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 – Winner
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

Best Kids Comic or Graphic Novel

The Aquanaut. Scholastic Graphix
Frizzy, First Second Books
The Ghoul Agency, Action Lab Entertainment
Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters, Oni Press – Winner
Kaya, Image Comics
PAWS: Gabby Gets It Together, Razorbill Books, Penguin Random House
Punk Taco 2, Adam Wallenta Entertainment
Tin Man, Abrams ComicArts

Best Presentation in Design

Beneath an Alien Sky, Rocketship Entertainment
Best of EC Stories Artisan Edition, IDW Publishing
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition—Last Call, IDW Publishing – Winner
Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars, Abrams ComicArts
Sara Deluxe Hardcover, TKO Studios