2010 Graphic Stories
December 31st, 2010 by Editors
Best Graphic Story is now a permanent category in the Hugo Awards.
The Locus Awards will probably class Graphic Stories as Art Books, but may not allow them at all.
Nominating Graphic Stories can be hard because of the habit of publishers of putting out collected editions of comic issues in graphic novel form soon after a story arc has finished. Works are only eligible for the Hugos on first publication. So if a collection reprint is published in 2010 but the last issue collected in it was published in 2009, that story was eligible in 2010, not 2011. If in doubt, check the Comic Book Database.
Note that the same applies to other works. For example, if a great story is published in an obscure small press magazine in 2008, but you read it in a “Best Of” anthology published in 2009, you could not have nominated that story in the 2010 Hugos.
Also, as with TV series, beware of imprecise nominations. A nomination for “Batman”, like a nomination for “Doctor Who”, isn’t sufficiently clear.
| Title | Web Link | Local Link |
|---|---|---|
| Grandville Mon Amour, Bryan Talbot (Jonathan Cape) | ||
| SuperGod (5 issue series), Warren Ellis (Avatar Press) | ||
| Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows, Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez | ||
| Irredeemable Volumes 3, 4 and 5, Mark Waid & Peter Krause | ||
| Chew, Volume 2: International Flavor, John Layman & Rob Guillory | ||
| Chew, Volume 3: Just Desserts, John Layman & Rob Guillory | ||
| Air, G. Willow Wilson & M. K. Perker | ||
| Echo Volume 4: Collider, Terry Moore | ||
| Echo Volume 5: Black Hole, Terry Moore | ||
| The Unwritten Volume 2: Inside Man, Mike Carey & Peter Gross | ||
| The Unwritten Volume 3: Dead Man’s Knock, Mike Carey & Peter Gross | ||
| Kick-Ass, Mark Millar & John Romita Jr. | ||
| Fables: Witches, Bill Willingham & Mark Buckingham (Vertigo) | ||
| Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni Press) | ||
| iZombie Vol. 1: Dead to the World, Chris Roberson & Mike Allred (Vertigo) | ||
| “The Mud Weeds”, Mushishi volume 8, Yuki Urushibara (Del Rey) | ||
| “The Final Bit of Crimson”, Mushishi volume 9, Yuki Urushibara (Del Rey) | ||
| “Aquamarine”, Mushishi volume 9, Yuki Urushibara (Del Rey) | ||
| “The Scented Darkness”, Mushishi volume 10, Yuki Urushibara (Del Rey) | ||
| Ôoku volumes 3-5, Fumi Yoshinaga (Viz Media) |
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Supergod, by Warren Ellis
* Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows, by Joe Hill (6 issues, the last one published in 2010)
* Irredeemable Volumes 3, 4 and 5, by Mark Waid (4 issues each, all published in 2010, if I rememember correctly)
* Chew, Volume 2: International Flavor, by John Layman (5 issues, the last one published in 2010)
* Chew, Volume 3: Just Desserts (5 issues, all published in 2010)
* Air, by G. Willow Wilson (I guess this can be nominated in several different ways, by volumes or as a complete work, since the last issue was published in 2010)
* Echo Volume 4: Collider, by Terry Moore (5 issues, the last one published in 2010)
* Echo Volume 5: Black Hole, by Terry Moore (5 issues, all published in 2010)
* The Unwritten Volume 2: Inside Man, by Mike Carey (7 issues, the last one published in 2010)
* The Unwritten Volume 3: Dead Man’s Knock, by Mike Carey (5 issues, all published in 2010).
* Kick-Ass, by Mark Millar (8 issues, the last one published in 2010)
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, published by BOOM! Studios (I guess Volumes 3 and 4 are elegible, but I don’t know if in this case it is meaningful to nominate other than the whole series when it will be over)
I’m not sure if Planetary is elegible. Though the collected edition aws publised in 2010, the last issue had been published in 2009:
http://www.comicbookdb.com/title.php?ID=649
Odo: Correct, thank you!
“The Mud Weeds”, Mushishi volume 8 (Del Rey)
“The Final Bit of Crimson”, Mushishi volume 9
“Aquamarine”, Mushishi volume 9
“The Scented Darkness”, Mushishi volume 10
Ôoku continues to be excellent, though it’s hard to argue that volumes constitute individual episodes at this point. (Then again, I feel the same way about Girl Genius and it’ll probably be nominated again, so what the heck. At any rate, I do recommend people read it.)