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2004 Max & Moritz Prizes

(Winners are in bold and marked with *)

Best Comic Strip Published in German

  • Baby Blues, by Rick Kirkman & Jerry Scott
  • Der kleine König der großen Tiere, by Tom Breitenfeld
  • Sherman's Lagoon, by J.P. Toomey
  • Strizz, by Volker Reiche *

Best German-language Comic Artist

  • Jens Harder
  • Horus
  • Ulf K. *
  • Volker Reiche
  • Markus "Mawil" Witzel

Best German-language Comic--Local Origin

  • Held, by Flix (Carlsen) (tie) *
  • Kunsttheorie versus Frau Goldgruber, by Nicolas Mahler (Edition Selene)
  • Leviathan, by Jens Harder (Éditions de l'An 2) (tie) *
  • PLAQUE 01 (Avant-Verlag)
  • Wir können ja Freunde bleiben, by Markus "Mawil" Witzel(Reprodukt)

Best German-language Comic--Import

  • 5 ist die perfekte Zahl, by Igort (Avant-Verlag)
  • Berlin: Steinerne Stadt [Berlin: City of Stones], by Jason Lutes (Carlsen)
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill (Speed)
  • Naru Taru, by Mohiro Kitoh (Egmont Manga & Anime)
  • Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (Edition Moderne) *

Best German-language Comic for Children and Young People

  • Benni, by Bernd Natke (Demosthenes Verlag)
  • Detektiv Conan [Case Closed], by Gosho Aoyama (Egmont Manga & Anime)
  • Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai (Schwarzer Turm)
  • W.I.T.C.H., by Elisabetta Gnone and various (Egmont vgs/Ehapa Comic Collection) *

Best International Writer

  • Brian Michael Bendis
  • Mike Mignola
  • Joann Sfar *
  • Rumiko Takahashi

Special Prize of the Jury

  • Comic-Website of the ORF comics.orf.at
  • Jimmy, das Gummipferd, by Roland Kohlsaat (Lappan)
  • Sechsunddreißig Ansichten des Eifelturms, by André Juillard (Salleck Publications) *
  • The Spirit Archive, by Will Eisner (Salleck Publications)
  • Wilhelm-Busch-Museum Hannover

Special Prize for outstanding life's work

  • Albert Uderzo *

Jury

  • Bodo Birk
  • Andrea Fiala de Ayerbe
  • Lutz Göllner
  • Harald Havas
  • Herbert Heinzelmann
  • Andreas Platthaus
  • Suzanne Beck (Bulls) (observer)