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1998 Max & Moritz Prizes

(Winners are in bold and marked with *)

Best International Comic Strip (No nominations in this category this year)

  • Dilbert, by Scott Adams (USA) *

Best German-language Comic Strip or Cartoon Series

  • Touché, by ©Tom [Thomas Körner] *
  • Flashko, by Nicholas Mahler
  • Abgründe, by Martin Perscheid

Best German-language Comic Artist

  • ©Tom [Thomas Körner]
  • Anke Feuchtenberger
  • OL
  • Bernd Pfarr *
  • Martin tom Dieck

Best German-language Comic--Local Origin

  • Damen Dramen, by Anna Sommer (Arrache Coeur)
  • Die Entdeckung der Currywurst, by Isabel Kreitz (Carlsen)
  • Hundert Ansichten der Speicherstadt, by Martin tom Dieck (Arrache Coeur/Edition Moderne)
  • Madame Lambert, by Andreas Gefe und Jerome Charyn (Arrache Coeur/Edition Moderne)
  • Stray Cats 1–3, by L.G.X. Lillian Mousli (Jochen Enterprises)
  • Wüttner, by Haimo Kinzler (Zwerchfell Verlag) *

Best German-language Comic--Import

  • Cages 1+2, by Dave McKean (Carlsen)
  • Gregory, by Marc Hempel (ComicPress Verlag)
  • Jonas Fink, by Giardino (Carlsen)
  • Strangers in Paradise, by Terry Moore (Verlag Thomas Tilsner)
  • Stray Bullets 1–7, by David Lapham (Feest/Ehapa)
  • Paul Auster's Stadt aus Glas [City of Glass], by Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, & David Mazzucchelli (rororo/Rowohlt Verlag) *

Best German-language Publication About Comics

  • Not awarded
  • Asterix: die ganze Wahrheit, by René van Royen und Sunnyva van der Vegt (C.H. Beck)
  • Comics: vom Massenblatt ins multimediale Abenteuer, by Andreas C. Knigge (rororo)
  • J.-M. Charlier, Jean Giraud: Ein Yankee namens Blueberry, by Daniel Pizzoli (Ehapa)
  • Kombiniere..., by Eckart Sackmann (comicplus+)

Best German-language Comic for Children and Young People

  • Ein Fest für den Weihnachtsmann, by Frank Le Gall (Carlsen)
  • Gewitternacht, by Michèle Lemieux (Beltz & Gelberg)
  • Illustrierte Kinderklassiker: Peter und Wolf, by Sergei Prokofiev & Miguelanxo Prado, and Illustrierte Kinderklassiker: Das tapfere Schneiderlein [The brave little tailor] by the Brothers Grimm & Mazan (Ehapa Verlag) *
  • Mit Comics Lesen lernen (Ars Edition)
  • Simpsons, by Matt Groening (Dino)

Best International Writer

  • Alain Ayroles
  • François Boucq
  • Neil Gaiman *
  • David Lapham

Special Prize of the Jury

  • Führer durch die geheimnisvollen Städte, by François Schuiten & Benoît Peeters (Ehapa Verlag) *
  • Dino Verlag
  • Zensur!?, Benefizcompilation [Benefit compilation] (Alpha Comic Verlag)
  • Moga Mobo (series)
  • Asterix Mundart (series) (Ehapa)

Special Prize for outstanding life's work

  • Robert Crumb *

Jury

  • Martin Budde
  • Karl Manfred Fischer
  • Lutz Göllner
  • Harald Havas
  • Herbert Heinzelmann
  • Hans-Joachim Ludwig (Bulls Press)
  • Bettina Wegenast