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2006 Max & Moritz Prizes

(Winners are in bold and marked with *)

Best Comic Strip

  • Doonesbury, by Garry Trudeau (New York Times and others) *
  • Käpt'n Blaubär von Johann Kiefersauer (diverse German newspapers)
  • Rezession & Frohsinn, by Gábor Zádor & Tillmann Prüfer (Financial Times Deutschland/Egmont vgs)

Best German-language Comic Artist

  • Flix, for Sag was (Carlsen)
  • Nicolas Mahler, for Das Unbehagen (Edition Moderne)
  • Volker Reiche, for Strizz (C. H. Beck) *

Best German-language Comic

  • Das Malträtieren unvollkommener Automaten, by Stephan Katz & Max Goldt (Rowohlt)
  • Schiller!, by Horus (Egmont vgs)
  • Das Unbehagen, by Nicolas Mahler (Edition Moderne) *

Best International Comic

  • Baobab, by Igort (Avant-Verlag)
  • Isaak der Pirat, by Christophe Blain (Reprodukt)
  • Die Unschuldigen, by Gipi (Avant-Verlag) *

Best Manga

  • Adolf, by Osamu Tezuka (Carlsen)
  • Barfuß durch Hiroshima [Barefoot Gen], by Keiji Nakazawa (Carlsen) *
  • 20th Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa (Panini)

Best German-language Comic for Children

  • Monster Allergy, by Francesco Artibani, Alessandro Barbucci, Katja Centomo, and Barbara Canepa (Egmont vgs)
  • Novotopia [Neotopia], by Rod Espinosa (Eidalon)
  • Jónas Blondal, by Jens F. Ehrenreich (Epsilon) *

Best Writer

  • Jean Giraud, for Leutnant Blueberry [Lieutenant Blueberry] (Egmont vgs)
  • Manu Larcenet, for Der alltägliche Kampf (Reprodukt)
  • Max Goldt, for Das Malträtieren unvollkommener Automaten (Rowohlt) *

Special Prize of the Jury

  • Ralf König, for his artistic statement in the fight about the caricatures of Mohammed (für seine künstlerische Stellungnahme im Streit um die Mohammed-Karikaturen *

Special Prize for outstanding life's work

  • Jacques Tardi, including Die Macht des Volkes (Edition Moderne) *

Jury

  • Bodo Birk (Manager of the Erlangen International Comic-Salon)
  • Hendrik Dorgathen (Comic artist and professor of illustration, Kassel)
  • Andrea Fiala de Ayerbe (Frankfurter Book Fair)
  • Lutz Göllner (Journalist, Berlin)
  • Harald Havas (Journalist and Autor, Wien [Vienna])
  • Herbert Heinzelmann (Journalist and Media-academic, Nürnberg [Nuremberg])
  • Andreas Platthaus (Journalist, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
  • Denis Scheck (Critic, Deutschlandfunk, „Druckfrisch“ ARD)
  • Jan Taussig (Bulls Press, Frankfurt)