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Compilers: (admin@squiddies.org) Johanna Draper Carlson & Carl Henderson, with technical assistance from Todd Verbeek

[No Award] indicates that the voter thought there was noone/nothing deserving an award in that category during the year.

Creator Categories

Best Comics Writer
18 Brian Michael Bendis *
7 Geoff Johns
Alan Moore
5 John Wagner
4 Mike Carey
Peter David
Christopher Priest
Brian K. Vaughan
3 Darby Conley
2 Carla Speed McNeil
Grant Morrison
Kevin Smith
1 Chuck Austen, Chester Brown, Ed Brubaker, John Byrne, Chris Claremont, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Jay Hosler, David Lapham, Batton Lash, A. David Lewis, Jeph Loeb, Dave McKean, Mike Mignola, Peter Milligan, Myatt Murphy, Greg Rucka, Dave Sim, Dan Slott, Mark Stanley, Mark Waid, Andi Watson, Brian Wood, Micah Wright

Best Comics Penciler
8 J.H. Williams III *
6 Bryan Hitch
5 Timothy Truman
4 John Cassaday
3 Alan Davis
Phil Foglio
2 Mark Bagley, M.D. Bright, Carlos Ezquerra, Henry Flint, Min S. Ku, Salvador Larroca, Alex Maleev, Eric Shanower, Andi Watson
1 Art Adams, Chris Bachalo, John Byrne, Chynna Clugston-Major, Darby Conley, Darwyn Cooke, Jason Copland, Jan Duursema, Dale Eaglesham, Tom Grummett, Pia Guerra, Gene Ha, Phil Hester, Bill Holbrook, Jay Hosler, Stuart Immonen, Fraser Irving, Georges Jeanty, Phil Jimenez, Staz Johnson, Leonard Kirk, Greg Land, Michael Lark, Tim Levins, Brooke McEldowney, Mike Mignola, Rags Morales, Carlos Pacheco, Frank Quitely, Budd Root, Steve Rude, P. Craig Russell, Tim Sale, Dave Sim, Walt Simonson, Mark Texiera, Sal Velluto, Leinil Yu

Best Comics Inker
7 Bob Almond * (tie)
Mark Farmer * (tie)
5 Timothy Truman
4 Henry Flint
P. Craig Russell
2 Gerhard, Mick Gray, Sam Keith, Michael Lark, Art Thibert, Tim Townsend, Scott Williams, [No Award]
1 Michael Bair, Terry Beatty, Charles Burns, John Byrne, Cory Carani, Chynna Clugston-Major, Mike DeCarlo, Will Eisner, Richard Friend, Drew Geraci, Manuel Gutierrez, Mark Heike, Karl Kesel, Scott Koblish, Steve Leialoha, Alex Maleev, Carla Speed McNeil, Darren Merinuk, Mike Mignola, Danny Miki, Paul Neary, Andy Owens, Jimmy Palmiotti, Mark Pennington, Mike Perkins, Paul Pope, Stan Sakai, Bob Smith, Dexter Vines, Andi Watson, Kent Williams

Best Comics Painter
14 Alex Ross *
5 David Mack
Leonardo Manco
J.H. Williams III
3 Brian Bolland, John Burns, Greg Horn, Phil Noto, Matt Wagner
2 Jane Irwin
James Jean
Ash Wood
1 John Byrne, Travis Charest, Simon Davis, Carlos Ezquerra, Juan Gimenez, Mark Harrison, Dave Johnson, Christopher Moeller, Scott Morse, John J. Muth, Glen Orbik, Brian Stelfreeze, Ben Templesmith, [No Award]

Best Comics Letterer
19 Todd Klein *
10 Dave Sim
7 Tom Frame
5 Tom Orzechowski
3 Chris Eliopoulos
John Workman
2 Kurt Hathaway
Richard Starkings
1 Wes Abbott, John Byrne, Dan Cooney, John Costanza, Jenna Garcia, Paul Grist, Jaime Hernandez, Dave Lanphear, Bill Oakley, Stan Sakai, Larry Young, Thom Zahler, [No Award]

Best Comics Colorist
14 Laura DePuy Martin *
4 Chris Blythe
Tom McCraw
3 Matt Hollingsworth
Richard Isanove
Patricia Mulvihill
2 Laura Allred, Moose Baumann, Jeromy Cox, John Kalisz, Terrence Marks, Paul Mounts, Peter Pantazis, Alex Sinclair, Tom Smith, Chris Sotomayor
1 Jordan Crane, Ben Digmaliw, John Higgins, Jason Keith, Lovern Kindzierski, Tom Luth, Guy Major, Kevin O'Neill, Pam Rambo, Wilson Ramos, Dave Stewart, Dave Tanguay, Tyson Wengler, David Yurkovich, [No Award]

Best Comics Creative Team
5 Los Bros Hernandez (Love & Rockets) * (tie)
Millar/Hitch/Currie (The Ultimates) * (tie)
Milligan/Allred (X-Statix) * (tie)
Moore/Williams/Gray/Cox/Klein (Promethea) * (tie)
4 David/Nauck (Young Justice)
Wagner/Ezquerra (Judge Dredd)
3 Bendis/Bagley/Thibert (Ultimate Spider-Man), David/Cross/Sotomayor (Captain Marvel), Foglio/Foglio/McNabb (Girl Genius), Moore/O'Neill (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Vaughn/Guerra (Y The Last Man)
2 Bendis/Oeming/Pantazis (Powers), Claremont/Larroca/Liquid!/Orzechowski (X-Treme X-Men), Johns/Kolins/Hazlewood (The Flash), Priest/Velluto/Almond (Black Panther), Sim/Gerhard (Cerebus), Simonson/Wiacek/Workman (Orion), Spears/G. (Teenagers from Mars), Wagner/Irving (2000 AD), Waid/Guice/DePuy (Ruse)
1 Azzarello/Risso/Johnson (100 Bullets), Bendis/Maleev (Daredevil), Brubaker/Rucka/Lark/et. al (Gotham Central), Carey/Gross/Ormston/Kelly (Lucifer), Cooke/Bone (Tangled Web #11), Diggle/Jock (Lenny Zero), Gilchrist/Gilchrist (Nancy), Johns/Goyer/Kirk (JSA), Johns/Robinson/Morales/Bair (Hawkman), Lee/Byrne/Austin/Sinclair (JIST Robin), Lewis/Copland/Quiring/et. al. (Mortal Coils), Millar/Bachalo (Ultimate War), Murphy/Dalrymple (Fade From Blue), Rucka/Fernandez (Queen & Country), Slott/Ku (Justice League Adventures), Vankin/Fisher (Vertigo Pop Tokyo), Yurkovich/Pinchley (Altercations)

Best Comics Cover Artist
14 Kaare Andrews *
12 Brian Bolland
5 Matt Wagner
4 J.G. Jones
3 Adam Hughes
Dave Johnson
Salvador Larroca
2 Tim Bradstreet, Frank Cho, Phil Moy, Phil Noto, Kevin O'Neill, Carlos Segura, J.H. Williams III
1 Chester Brown, John Byrne, Eddie Campbell, Mark Crilley, Seth Fisher, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, James Jean, Clint Langley, Jim Lee, Mike Mayhew, Mike Mignola, Phil Morrissey, Cliff Robinson, Greg Staples, Maria Sundqvist, Andi Watson, [No Award]

Best Comics Editor
12 Axel Alonso *
11 Tom Brevoort
8 Jamie S. Rich
5 Karen Berger
Matt Smith (Tharg)
3 Ralph Macchio
Bob Schreck
Steve Wacker
2 Alan Barnes, Eddie Berganza, Mike Marts, Jeff Mason, Dan Raspler
1 Scott Allie, Shelly Bond, Mike Carlin, Mark Chiarello, Bob Greenberger, Andrew Helfer, John Layman, Heidi McDonald, Peter Tomasi, Larry Young

Best Political Cartoonist
8 Aaron McGruder (The Boondocks) *
6 [No Award]
5 Tom Toles (The Washington Post)
4 Steve Bell (The Guardian)
Tom Tomorrow [a.k.a. Dan Perkins] (This Modern World)
3 Ruben Bolling (Tom The Dancing Bug)
Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury)
2 Jim Borgman (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
1 Clay Bennett (The Christian Science Monitor), Gary Brookins (The Richmond Times-Dispatch), Johnny Hart (B.C.), Al Jaffee (Mad Magazine), Peter Kuper (Topsy Turvy), Tom Lubbock (The Independent), Doug Marlette (Newsday), Pat Oliphant, Terho Ovaska, Ted Rall (Universal Press Syndicate)


Book and Story Categories

Best Comics Short Story
3 Fantastic Four #60 ("Inside Out") * (tie)
Transmetropolitan #60 ("One More Time") * (tie)
Y: The Last Man #1 ("Unmanned") * (tie)
2 2000 AD #1280 ("Judge Dredd: Leaving Rowdy"), 2000 AD #1319 ("Judge Dredd: After Hours"), Automatic Kafka #4 ("L'il Folks"), Captain Marvel #2 ("Shock Absorber") Dork Tower #18 ("Understanding Gamers"), Justice League Adventures #13 ("Local Hero"), September 11 ("This is Information"), Ultimate Spider-Man #28 ("Sidetracked"), [No Award]
1 2000 AD ("Judge Dredd: Bad Manners"), 9-11: Emergency Relief ("Untitled" by Jessica Abel), Avengers #56 ("Lo, There Shall Come... an Accounting"), Avengers #62 ("Broken Hearts"), Collier's v2 #1 ("Dennis Cote' was Bad & Good"), Femforce #116 ("Tara"), Fred the Clown #4 ("The Shoulders of Giants"), Global Frequency #1 ("Bombhead"), Lab Rats #1 ("Game Space"), Lost Tales of Erin ("A Father's Challenge"), Love & Rockets #5 ("Bay of Threes"), Love & Rockets #6 ("30,000 Hours to Kill"), Lucifer #28 ("Breaking and Entering"), Marvel Double Shot #2 ("The Roots of All Evil"), Midnight, Mass. #2 ("The Edge of Civilization Part One"), Mortal Coils #1 ("Disembodiment"), Oni Press Color Special 2002 ("The Operation"), September 11 ("America's Pastime"), September 11 ("The Job"), September 11 ("There Were Tears in Her Eyes"), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #11 ("Open All Night"), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #12 ("I Was a Teenage Frog-Man"), Spider-Man's Tangled Web #14 ("The Last Shoot"), Star Wars Tales #11 ("Ghost"), Superman: Man of Steel #129 ("You Can't Be Everywhere At Once"), Supernatural Law #35 ("Words Can't Do IT Justice"), The Filth #3 ("Structures and Ultrastructures"), X-Treme X-Men #19 ("Passages")

Best Comics Novella
6 Ultimate Spider-Man Special #1 *
5 Orion #25 ("The Children of the Pact")
4 Lucifer: Nirvana
The Pro
3 The Amazing Screw-On Head
Dumped
Hulk: The End
War Story: J for Jenny
2 Red Star: Run Makita Run
1 Blue Monday: Lovecats, JLA: Shogun of Steel, Just Imagine Stan Lee's Robin, Max Hamm: Fairy Tale Detective, Murder Mysteries, Nightwing #75 ("Judgment Day"), Saiko & Lavender Spooktacular Special #1, Stray Bullets #26 ("Wild Strawberries Can't be Broken"), The Stuff of Dreams, Valentine #8 ("Red Rain Part 2"), Will Eisner's Sundiata, [No Award]

Best Original Graphic Novel
15 JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice *
4 Catwoman: Selina's Big Score
King David
Sparks: An Urban Fairytale
3 Creature Tech
[No Award]
2 Bigg Time, Human Target: Final Cut, Lucifer: The Furies, Phoenix: A Tale of the Future, Tales of the Slayers
1 Baja, Blood Song, Courageous Princess 3: Kingdom of Leptia, Louis: The Clown's Last Words, Rosemary's Backpack, Stylish Vittles: I Met a Girl, Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia

Best Multi-Part Story
6 Black Panther #41-45 ("Enemy of the State II") * (tie)
Y: The Last Man #1-5 ("Unmanned") *
5 Fables #1-5 ("Legends in Exile")
3 2000 AD #1322-1325 ("Nikolai Dante: Hell and High Water")
Daredevil #32-37 ("Out")
Finder #23-29 ("Dream Sequence")
2 100 Bullets #31-36 ("The Counterfifth Detective"), 2000 AD #1300-1306 ("The V.C.'s: Peace Day"), League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 2, Lucifer #29-32 ("Inferno"), New X-Men #118-126 ("Imperial"), Noble Causes #1-4 ("Who Killed Race Noble?"), Skinwalker #1-4, Transmetropolitan #55-57 ("Headlong")
1 Black Panther #46-47 ("Saddles Ablaze"), Black Panther #48-49 ("Death of the Black Panther"), Black Panther #50-56 ("Black and White"), Cerebus #282-? ("Chasing YHWH"), Edge City March 18-30 ("Passover"), Get Fuzzy August 2002 ("Judge Judy"), Girl Genius #4-8 ("Castle Wulfenbach"), Hawkman #5-6 ("Slings and Arrows"), JLA #69-75 ("Obsidian Age"), JSA #33-37 ("Stealing Thunder"), Lab Rats #4-6 ("Tomorrow Was a Long Time Ago..."), Lone Wolf & Cub, Powers #15-20 ("Supergroup"), Sandwalk Adventures #1-5, Star Wars #42-45 ("Rite of Passage"), Supergirl #69-74, Superman ? ("Ending Battle"), Thor #50-? ("Lord of Asgard"), Titans #45-46 ("Ghost Dance"), Ultimate Spider-Man #29-32, Ultimate X-Men #16-19 ("World Tour"), Ultimates #1-4, Valentine #7-8 ("Red Rain"), X-Force #125-128 ("Death of Edie Sawyer"), X-Treme X-Men #10-17 ("Invasion from Dimension X"), X-Treme X-Men: X-Pose #1-2, Zero Girl: Full Circle #1-5

Best Comics Series
7 Lucifer *
4 Black Panther
X-Statix
3 Finder, Get Fuzzy, Green Arrow, Judge Dredd, Promethea, Queen & Country, The Ultimates, Ultimate Spider-Man
2 Alias, Amelia Rules!, Daredevil, Justice League Adventures, Love & Rockets, Powers, Stray Bullets, Young Justice
1 100 Bullets, Action Comics, Age of Bronze, Akiko, Batman, Catwoman, Cerebus, Femforce, Girl Genius, Hawkman, JSA, Lab Rats, Leave It to Chance, Lone Wolf & Cub, Luba, New X-Men, Nikolai Dante, Patty Cake & Friends, Sojourn, Supernatural Law, Thieves & Kings, Thor, Tom Strong, Transmetropolitan, Uncanny X-Men, Valentine, X-Treme X-Men

Best New Comics Series
15 Y: The Last Man *
10 Fables
Hawkman
8 The Ultimates
4 Gotham Central
3 Captain Marvel
Eddie Campbell's Egomania
2 Agent X
Halo & Sprocket
Rex Mundi
X-Statix
1 21 Down, Aquaman, Captain America, Fade From Blue, Global Frequency, Lab Rats, Mortal Coils, Paradigm, Stormwatch: Team Achilles, The Power Company, Way of the Rat, Wildcats Version 3.0

Best Limited Comics Series
6 Apache Skies *
5 100%
The Hood
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 2
4 Midnight, Mass.
3 Killraven
Mekanix
Sandwalk Adventures
Slow News Day
2 Batman: Family, Global Frequency, Hellblazer Special: Lady Constantine, Hellboy: The Third Wish, Midnight Nation, Teenagers from Mars
1 Altercations, Black Hole, Deadline, Futurama/Simpsons, Green Lantern: Evil's Might, Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset, Hopeless Savages: Ground Zero, Louis Riel, Marvel Icons: Chamber, Masters of the Universe, Origin, Sandman Presents: The Thessaliad, Skinwalker, Superman: Day of Doom, The Thing: Freakshow, Transformers: The War Within, Two Over Ten, Vertigo Pop: London, Vertigo Pop: Tokyo, Zero Girl: Full Circle

Best Reprint Book/Collection
5 Absolute Authority *
4 Green Arrow: Quiver
3 Doom Patrol Archives
Essential Ant-Man
2 Amazing Spider-Man: Revelations, Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming, Crisis on Multiple Earths, Daredevil: Parts of a Hole, Daredevil: Underboss, Krazy & Ignatz Complete 1927-28, Marshall Law: Fear and Loathing, Sugar & Spike #1 Replica Edition, White Death
1 After the Snooter, All-Star Archives Volume 8, Annotated Mantooth, Beg the Question, Black Panther: Enemy of the State, Bone: Treasure Hunters, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Daredevil Vol. 2, Dark Knight Strikes Again, Desert Peach: Seven Peaches, Edge #9, Enemy Ace Archives, Essential Daredevil, Five Star Stories #1, GI Joe Volume 4, Jack Staff: Yesterday's Heroes, Liberty Meadows Eden, Lucifer: A Dalliance With The Damned, Men of Mystery #37, One! Hundred! Demons!, Piled Higher & Deeper, Promethea Volume 3, PVP Hat Trick, Ring of the Nieblung, Shazam! Family Annual, Strontium Dog: Portrait of a Mutant, Summer of Love, The Complete Copybook Tales, The Cursed Earth, X-Men Visionaries: Jim Lee

Best Anthology
11 September 11 (DC/Dark Horse/Image/Chaos) *
6 2000 AD
9-11: Emergency Relief (Alternative Comics)
4 Tom Strong's Terrific Tales
3 EXPO 2002
2 The Comics Journal Special Edition Summer 2002
[No Award]
1 Aku Ankka (Finnish Donald Duck weekly), Altercations, Digital Webbing Presents, Edge, Femforce #115, Love & Rockets, Metabarons: Alpha/Omega, Oni Press Color Special 2002, Pulp, Reveal, Smallville, Tales of the Slayers, Tomorrow Stories, Ultimate Spider-Man Special, Viz Comic, World Class Comics #1, Worlds Apart, X-Men Unlimited

Best Comic Strip
10 The Boondocks (Aaron McGruder) *
8 Dilbert (Scott Adams)
6 For Better or For Worse (Lynn Johnston)
Get Fuzzy (Darby Conley)
5 Mutts (Pat McDonnell)
4 Judge Dredd
3 Doonesbury (Garry Trudeau)
Foxtrot (Bill Amend)
2 Dork Tower (John Kovalic), If (Steve Bell), Story Minute (Carol Lay), Zits (Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman), [No Award]
1 Amazing Spider-Man (Stan Lee & Larry Lieber), Bullpen Bits (Chris Giarusso), Frazz (Jef Mallett), Garfield (Jim Davis), On the Fastrack (Bill Holbrook), One Big Happy (Rick Detorie), Pathetic Geek Stories (Maria Schneider), Piranha Club (Bud Grace), Rose Is Rose (Pat Brady)

Best Web Comic
5 Gravers (www.opi8.com) *
4 PvP (www.pvponline.com)
[No Award]
3 Kevin and Kell (www.herdthinners.com)
Knights of the Dinner Table (www.kenzerco.com)
Pibgorn (www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn)
2 Penny Arcade (www.penny-arcade.com)
1 The Adventures of Dan (taodan.keenspace.com)
Brother Matthew (www.rexmundi.net)
College Roomies From Hell (www.crfh.net)
Crater Kid (www.craterkid.com)
Death Takes a Holiday (www.nextcomics.com)
Delta Thrives (www.e-sheep.com/delta)
Dr. Fun (www.ibiblio.org/Dave/drfun.html)
Eagle DNA (eagledna.keenspace.com)
The Hand We're Dealt (www.opi8.com)
It's Walky! (www.itswalky.com)
Monkey Man (www.moviepoopshoot.com/monkeyman/)
Morning Improv (www.scottmccloud.com)
Nowhere Girl (www.nowheregirl.com)
Pulling (www.smallstoriesonline.com)
Red Meat (www.redmeat.com)
Same Difference (www.smallstoriesonline.com)
Sinfest (www.sinfest.net)
Sluggy Freelance (www.sluggy.com)
Something Positive (www.somethingpositive.net)
Soul Less (24.ninthart.com/rich)
Terranauts (www.adventurestrips.com)
WIGU (www.wigu.com)
The World is Our Icebox (www.flyingcar.com)


Other Categories

Best Company or Imprint
18 DC Comics *
15 Marvel Comics
8 Oni Press
7 DC/Vertigo
5 DC/America's Best Comics
4 CrossGen
3 Fantagraphics
Rebellion
2 AiT/PlanetLar
DC/Wildstorm
Dork Storm Press
Top Shelf
1 Aardvark-Vanaheim, AC Comics, Active Synapse, Bongo Comics, Eddie Campbell Comics, Image Comics, Plan Nine Publishing, Red Eye Press, [No Award]

Best Comics Chararacter
6 Judge Dredd *
4 Daredeveil
Spider Jerusalem (Transmetropolitan)
3 Agatha Clay (Girl Genius)
"Happy Pants" Panther (Black Panther)
Usagi Yojimbo
2 Bucky (Get Fuzzy), Catwoman, Manitou Raven (JLA), Oliver Queen (Green Arrow), Peter Parker (Spider-Man), Tom Strong, Ultimate Spider-Man
1 Arsenal, Arwyn (Sojourn), Baron Klaus Wulfenbach (Girl Genius), Bigby Wolf (Fables), Black Panther, Cerebus, Cub, Dana Valentine (Valentine), Dr. Juliette Burber (9 Chickweed Lane), Drusilla (Pibgorn), Edie Sawyer (X-Force), Everett Ross (Black Panther), Gaudium (Lucifer), Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Hawkman, Hellblazer, Jade, Jennifer (My Monkey's Name Is Jennifer), Jessica Jones (Alias), Juggernaut, Kara Zor-El (Supergirl), Kasper Cole (Black Panther), Kevin Dewclaw (Kevin & Kell), Kitty Pryde, Loo (Little White Mouse), Luba (Love & Rockets), Lucky Ducky (Tom the Dancing Bug), Mara (Sandwalk Adventures), Mavis (Supernatural Law), Millie Mudd (Ozy & Millie), Mr. Terrific, Nikolai Dante, Orion, Penny Century (Love & Rockets), Popo the Monkey (Way of the Rat), Roy (Love & Rockets), Satchel (Get Fuzzy), Sgt. Fury, Starfire (The Titans), Storm, Superman, Superman (Lab Rats), Wally West (The Flash), Wonder Woman, Xorn (New X-Men)

Best Comics Character Team
6 JSA (Justice Society of America) * (tie)
The Ultimates * (tie)
5 X-Statix
Young Justice
4 Amelia Rules! (cast of)
Get Fuzzy (cast of)
3 Birds of Prey
New X-Men
Queen & Country (cast of)
The V.C.s
2 Love & Rockets (cast of), Planetary, The Legion of Super-Heroes, Thunderbolts, X-Treme X-Men
1 Black Panther (cast of), College Roomies from Hell (cast of), Daredevil (cast of), Diggers sisters (Gold Digger), Doom Patrol, Exiles, Fade From Blue (cast of), Fantastic Four, Femforce, Girl Genius (cast of), Howling Commandos, JLA, Kevin & Kell Dewclaw (Kevin & Kell), Lab Rats, Lone Wolf & Cub (cast of), Patty Cake (cast of), Powerpuff Girls (cast of), Strangers in Paradise (cast of), The Establishment, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Resistance, The Titans, Wolff & Byrd (Supernatural Law), X-Force/X-Factor, X-Men

Best Comics-Related Story (TV/Film/Performance)
29 Spider-Man (Live Action Motion Picture, Columbia Pictures) *
11 Smallville (Live Action TV Series, WB)
8 Road to Perdition (Live Action Motion Picture, DreamWorks)
6 Birds of Prey (Live Action TV Series, WB)
4 [No Award]
3 Justice League (Animated TV Series, Cartoon Network)
2 X-Men: Evolution (Animated TV Series, Kids WB)
1 Dan Dare (Animated TV Series, BBC)

Best Comics-Related Story (Print)
10 [No Award] *
4 "Alien Conqueror Captured in Suburbs" (Astro City ad)
2 Akiko and the Intergalactic Zoo
Judge Dredd D20 Role-Playing Game
1 Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer
Smallville: Strange Visitors
Spider-Man (film novelization)

Best Comics-Related Merchandise
6 Streaky the Supercat soft toy *
5 Freedom Force PC game
Spider-Man movie DVD set
[No Award]
3 Jimmy Corrigan lunch box
2 Foundry Hammerstein miniature
Sugar & Spike soft toys
1 Aquaman statue, Blue Monday button set, Captain America shield, Cyclops statue, Futurama Horrible Gelatinous Blob Squishy Toy, John Stewart action figure, Judge Dredd action figure, Marvel HeroClix, Mordru action figure, Owlman action figure, Phantom Lady action figure, Public Domain: A Channel Zero Designbook, Spider-Man bobblehead, Spider-Man bust, Spider-Man Lego, Streaky/Krypto/Superboy/Supergirl action figure set, Wonder Woman maquette

Best Comics Publication
12 Comic Book Artist *
7 The Comics Journal
5 Eddie Campbell's Egomania
Wizard
4 Alter Ego
Comics Buyer's Guide
Jack Kirby Collector
Tripwire
3 Curt Swan: A Life in Comics
2 Comic Wars
[No Award]
1 Comic Book Marketplace
Comics & Games Retailer

Best Focused Comics Web Site
8 Mark Evanier's POV Online (povonline.com) *
7 The X-Axis (www.thexaxis.com)
6 2000 AD Online (www.2000 ADonline.com)
Digital Priest.com (www.digital-priest.com)
Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics (www.dcindexes.com)
4 DC Comics (www.dccomics.com)
X-Fan (www.x-mencomics.com/xfan)
3 Peter David (www.peterdavid.net)
2 CrossGen's Comics on the Web (www.comicsontheweb.com)
Jess Nevins's Annotations (www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/annos.html)
Notes on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen V2 (www.geocities.com/jessnevins/league4.html)
Rex Mundi (www.rexmundi.net)
Warren Ellis (www.warrenellis.com)
1 Art of Jim Lee (groups.msn.com/artofjimlee)
Brian Wood forum (forums.delphiforums.com/ChannelZero)
Comic Book Awards Almanac (users.rcn.com/aardy/comics/awards/)
Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonist Index (cagle.slate.msn.com)
Dilbert (www.dilbert.com)
Eddie Campbell Comics (www.eddiecampbellcomics.com)
Femforce-Femfans (www.femforce-femfans.com)
Grant Morrison (www.grant-morrison.com)
Hellboy (www.hellboy.com)
Oni Press (www.onipress.com)
Superman Homepage (www.supermanhomepage.com)
Superman Through the Ages (www.stta.nu)
Unofficial John Byrne fan site (www.acc.umu.se/~alpha/byrne/start.html)

Best General Comics Web Site
16 Newsarama (www.newsarama.com) *
8 Pulse (www.comicon.com/pulse)
7 Comic Book Resources (www.comicbookresources.com)
Grand Comics Database (www.comics.org)
6 Comicon.com (www.comicon.com)
4 Comics Worth Reading (www.comicsworthreading.com)
The Fourth Rail (www.thefourthrail.com)
Ninth Art (www.ninthart.com)
3 Comics I Don't Understand (www.comicsidontunderstand.com)
2 Journalista (www.tcj.com/journalista)
Sequential Tart (www.sequentialtart.com)
1 Borderline (www.borderlinemagazine.co.uk)
Comics Continuum (www.comicscontinuum.com)
Digital Webbing (www.digitalwebbing.com)
Slush Factory (www.slushfactory.com)

Best Comics Journalist
20 Rich Johnston *
9 Paul O'Brien
6 Johanna Draper Carlson
5 Heidi MacDonald
3 David Bishop
Matt Brady
Jen Contino
2 Mark Evanier
Rob Schmidt
[No Award]
1 Michael Dean, Dirk Deppey, R.C. Harvey, Tony Isabella, Joel Meadows, Eric J. Moreels, Calvin Reid

Favorite R.A.C-er (Non-Creators)
(voters are invited to choose three)
24 Johanna Draper Carlson *
19 Paul O'Brien
12 Carl Henderson
8 Tom Galloway (tyg)
5 Mike Chary, Sachem Orenda Clark, Todd Tamanend Clark, X Tecumseh Clark, Dave Van Domelen, [No Award]
4 Ronniecat
3 George Grattan
Mike Peterson
Doug Tonks
2 Jerry Boyajian (jayembee), Ralf Haring, Charles LePage, Jeff Meyer (Moriarty), Tue Sorensen
1 Joe Ankenbauer, Adrian Brown, Jim Caldwell, Jim Connick, Loren Di Iorio, Jym Dyer, Carl Fink, Marc-Oliver Frisch, Graeme, Franklin Harris, Jeremy Henderson, Eoghann Irving, ATKokmen, Samy Merchi, Eric J. Moreels, Jess Nevins, Eric Northcutt, Michael Schiffer, Hal Shipman, Col. G. L. Sicherman, Andrew Stephenson, Hannibal Tabu (The Operative)

Favorite R.A.C-er (Creators)
(voters are invited to choose three)
38 Kurt Busiek *
21 Christopher Priest
12 Gail Simone
9 Erik Larsen
7 Peter David
6 Ian Boothby
Walter Simonson
5 Mark Evanier
Rob Schmidt
[No Award]
4 Brooke McEldowney
Ty Templeton
3 Tom Breevort
Fabian Nicieza
2 Bob Almond
Lea Hernandez
Dwayne McDuffie
1 Terry Beatty
Brian Michael Bendis
Jason Yungbluth