Winners Announced At RINGO AWARDS 2024 Dinner Presentation

 

     The 2024 Ringo Awards were presented Saturday evening, September 22, at the Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards as part of the Baltimore Comic-Con. The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards is "an annual celebration of the creativity, skill, and fun of comics." The nomination ballot is determined by fans and pros alike.  This was the 8th annual event, also live-streamed, recognizing achievements in 16 separate categories, with an average of 5-8 nominees per category.

The Winners in each category were:

BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL:  Monica by Daniel Clowes  from Fantagraphics

BEST LETTERER:  Stan Sakai

BEST HUMOR WEBCOMIC: Blue Chair from Webtoon

Blue Chair trailer

BEST ARTIST OR PENCILLER/INKER TEAM:  Elsa Charretier

BEST WRITER:  Mariko Tamaki

BEST KIDS COMIC OR GRAPHIC NOVEL: The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries from DC Comics

BEST COLORIST: Tamra Bonvillain

BEST PRESENTATION IN DESIGN: Richard Stark's Parker: The Complete Collection adapted by Darwyn Cooke from IDW Publishing

BEST CARTOONIST (WRITER AND ARTIST):  Jeff Smith

BEST WEBCOMIC: Lore Olympus from Webtoon

BEST SERIES: Geiger: Ground Zero from Image Comics

Geiger Ground Zero trailer

BEST ANTHOLOGY: The Rocketeer One-Shot from IDW Publishing

BEST HUMOR COMIC: Bone: More Tall Tales from Scholastic Press

BEST COVER ARTIST: Chris Samnee

BEST NON-FICTION COMIC WORK: Miles Davis And The Search For The Sound from Z2 Comics

BEST SINGLE ISSUE OR STORY: Animal Pound #1 from Boom! Studios

The winners of the special awards as well as at the Fan Awards will be featured in a separate article. Please watch this space for more news.