Best Of

For those of you who might not be following it, Sal’s kickstarter for The Hostage successfully funded, so congrats to Sal.

In one of his updates Sal recommended another project that successfully parted my money from my wallet, an Illustrated prose novel from Richard Delgado called Dracula of Transylvania. Looks right up my alley.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloverpress/ricardo-delgados-dracula-of-transylvania

… would anyone support calling the CGS Annual “Best Of ____” Awards the Jamies as a tribute to Jamie D?

For the longest time I resisted variant covers, because I didn't want that to become what the comics market was all about (amazing covers with nothing worth reading inside them), but of late my bluff has been called. I have a number of friends in the industry more than I am who I try to support by picking them up, and hell...my girl Mary Marvel is on every other cover these days, so I'm picking up a lot more of them than I used to.

My absolute breakdown was this year when I bought my first 'virgin art' cover (no logos or publishing info, just the art).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lSBLlf32bs

Carlton returns with a look at "Red Shetland" aka "My Little Pony: The Later Years"

Welcome to the final round of voting to determine the winners of the CGS "Best of 2021" Awards--hope you survive the experience! Below is the final slate of nominees, broken down by category:

BEST NEW HERO or HERO TEAM (debut in 2021)

The Blue Flame

Geiger

Justice League Incarnate

Radiant Black

BEST NEW VILLAIN or VILLAIN TEAM (debut in 2021)

Adam Strange

Dr. Donald Blake

Heartless

Hunter's Moon

BEST NEW ONGOING COMIC (first issue shipped in 2021)

The Marvels

Newburn

Radiant Black

Superman: Son of Kal-El

BEST LIMITED SERIES (last issue shipped in 2021)

Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star

The Defenders

Kang the Conqueror

Strange Adventures

BEST SINGLE ISSUE/ONE-SHOT

Crossover #7

The Flash #776

The Flash Annual 2021

Spider-Man: Life Story Annual #1

BEST CLIFFHANGER/MOMENT

Catwoman's old friend (Batman/Catwoman #1)

the new Radiant Black (Radiant Black #4)

Alanna Strange takes action (Strange Adventures #11)

the true parentage of Adam-X the X-Treme!!! (X-Men Legends #1)

BEST STORYLINE (within a series or across multiple series)

Batman: Fear State

Infinite Frontier / J.L. Incarnate

Nightwing: Leaping Into the Light

"Rebellion on the Run" (Star Wars titles)

BEST SLEEPER/SURPRISE HIT

The Flash

Frontiersman

Primordial

Stray Dogs

BEST ONGOING COMIC (need not have begun publication in 2021)

Eternals

Iron Man

Nightwing

Something Is Killing the Children

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM (OGN or COLLECTION)

Cuphead Vol. 2: Cartoon Chronicles & Calamities

Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith

Reckless: Friend of the Devil

You Look Like Death: Tales of the Umbrella Academy

BEST WRITER

Christopher Cantwell

Tom King

Tom Taylor

Chip Zdarsky

BEST ARTIST

Chris Bachalo

Bilquis Evely

Jorge Jimenez

Bruno Redondo

Andrea Sorrentino

J.H. Williams III

BEST WRITER/ARTIST

Cliff Chiang

Daniel Warren Johnson

Terry Moore

J.H. Williams III

BEST COLOR ARTIST

Frank D'Armata

Javier Rodriguez

Greg Smallwood

Dave Stewart

BEST LETTERER

Wes Abbott

Clayton Cowles

Tom Napolitano

BREAKTHROUGH TALENT OF 2020

Jeremy Adams

Raffaele Ienco

Stephanie Phillips

Pornsak Pichetsote

Greg Smallwood

The candidates are arrayed before you--now, make your choices and raise your voices! Submit your ballots via e-mail to [email protected], anytime before 11:59 pm (EST) on Sunday, April 24th. Please vote for only ONE candidate in each category; no dual votes or "ties" allowed! Also, please vote in every category, if possible. Ballots containing votes in fewer than 12 of the 16 categories will be considered incomplete and disqualified! If you'd like to share your ballot publicly, please feel free to do it here in this thread, but be aware that posting here DOES NOT COUNT as voting; you must submit your ballot via e-mail for it to be counted!

May the best comics/creators/etc. win!!