2023 Ringo Nominees Announced

The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards is an annual celebration of the creativity, skill and fun of comics. While the 2023 Ringo Nominees were determined by fans and pros alike, voting on the 2023 Final Ballot is restricted to comic book industry creative community — anyone involved in and credited with creating comics professionally.

The sixth annual awards will return as part of The Baltimore Comic-Con. Top honors will be announced Saturday, September 9, 2023.

This year’s nominees feature a few previous guests of the Capes and Tights Podcast including Justin Birch. Some of our previous guests have been nominated via an anthology including Travis Gibb, Rich Douek, Jonathan Hedrick, Liana Kangas, and Alex Moore.

Check out the 2023 Ringo Nominees!

Zoe Thorogood

Best Cartoonist (Writer/Artist)

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

Best Writer

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

Best Artist or Penciller

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

Best Inker

Gigi Baldassini
Scott Hanna
Sandra Hope
Klaus Janson
Mark Morales

Dead Mall TP

Best Letterer

Justin Birch
Jerome Gagnon
Todd Klein
Micah Myers
Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Stan Sakai

Best Colorist

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

Best Cover Artist

Wylie Beckert
Jason Muhr
Bryan Silverbax
Greg Smallwood
JH Williams III

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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

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
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
Tokyo Rose—Zero Hour: A Japanese American Woman’s Persecution and Ultimate Redemption After World War II, Tuttle Publishing
Twilight Custard, Ghostpod Publishing

Cthulhu Invades Wonderland

Best Anthology

Cthulhu 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

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
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, Inisder
The All-Nighter, Comixology Originals
The Guy Upstairs, WEBTOON
I Love Yoo, WEBTOON
Lore Olympus, WEBTOON
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
Finding Fiends, WEBTOON
Live with Yourself!, WEBTOON
Vampire Husband, WEBTOON

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

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
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