The Glyph Comics Awards recognize the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color from the preceding calendar year. While it is not exclusive to black creators, it does strive to honor those who have made the greatest contributions to the comics medium in terms of both critical and commercial impact. By doing so, the goal is to encourage more diverse and high quality work across the board and to inspire new creators to add their voices to the field.

The awards are named for the blog Glyphs: The Language of the Black Comics Community at Pop Culture Shock, started in 2005 by comics journalist Rich Watson as a means to provide news and commentary of comics with black themes, as well as tangential topics in the fields of black science-fiction/fantasy and animation.

Beginning in 2007, the Glyph Comics Awards are presented at ECBACC

ECBACC

- ECBACC :The East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention, Inc. is a 501 non-profit community-based organization focused on education, literacy and the arts....

, the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention, in Philadelphia.

2010 Glyph Comics Awards winners

The judges for the 2009 Glyph Comics Awards were David Brothers, comics blogger (4th Letter!); Carol Burrell, editorial director, Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group; Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin

Brian C. Cronin is an American politician, first elected to the Idaho House of Representatives in 2008. Cronin represents Idaho's District 19, which includes downtown Boise, and the North End, East End, Foothills, Warm Springs Mesa, Foothills and Highlands areas of Boise...

, writer, Comic Book Resources

Comic Book Resources

Comic Book Resources, also known as CBR is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.-History:Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1996 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland had created to discuss DC...

; and Katie & Dan Merritt, co-owners, Green Brain Comics.

• Story of the Year: Unknown Soldier #13-14, Joshua Dysart
  Joshua Dysart
  Joshua Dysart is an Eisner Award-nominated, New York Times Best Selling American comic book writer known for dark themes, humanist horror and a fascination with the roots of violence...
  
  , writer, Pat Masioni, artist
• Best Writer: Alex Simmons, Archie & Friends
• Best Artist: Jay Potts, World of Hurt
• Best Male Character: Isaiah Pastor, World of Hurt; created by Jay Potts, writer and artist
• Best Female Character: Aya
  Aya
  is a female Japanese rock artist on the BMG FUNHOUSE label.AYA's song Over Night is used as the ending theme to the Anime Le Chevalier D'Eon.-Early life:...
  
  , Aya: The Secrets Come Out, created by Marguerite Abouet
  Marguerite Abouet
  Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1971. She is best known for her graphic novel series Aya.-Biography:At the age of twelve, Abouet and her brother moved to France with their great uncle. She currently resides in Romainville, a suburb just outside of Paris, with her husband,...
  
  , writer, Clement Oubrerie, artist
• Rising Star Award: Jay Potts, World of Hurt
• Best Reprint Publication: Aya: The Secrets Come Out, Drawn & Quarterly
• Best Cover: Luke Cage Noir #1; Tim Bradstreet
  Tim Bradstreet
  Timothy "Tim" Bradstreet , is an artist and illustrator, best known for his work on comic books , book covers, movie posters, roleplaying games and trading cards.-Career:...
  
  , illustrator
• Best Comic Strip: The K Chronicles
  The K Chronicles
  The K Chronicles is the autobiographical comic strip by independent cartoonist Keith Knight. Until February 2010 one could find it updated every Wednesday at Salon.com. The strip previously appeared in the San Francisco Examiner....
  
  , Keith Knight, writer and artist
• Fan Award for Best Comic: Luke Cage Noir; Mike Benson and Adam Glass, writers, Shawn Martinbrough, artist

2009 Glyph Comics Awards winners

The judges for the 2009 Glyph Comics Awards were Valerie D'Orazio

Valerie D'Orazio

Valerie D'Orazio is an American comic book writer and editor.She formerly worked as an assistant editor at Acclaim and DC Comics. At Acclaim Comics she helped edit Shadowman and Magnus Robot Fighter and at DC Comics she assisted on such titles as Justice League of America and Identity...

, president of the Friends of Lulu

Friends of Lulu

Friends of Lulu was a non-profit, national charitable organization in the United States, founded in 1994 to promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry...

; Nathan Erhardt, writer, Comics Nexus; Ed Mathews, columnist, Pop Image; Tim O'Shea

Tim O'Shea

Tim O'Shea is an American college basketball coach. He is the current head coach of the men's basketball team at Bryant University. He has vowed to bring Bryant to multiple NCAA tournaments...

, writer/interviewer, TalkingWithTim.com; and Elayne Riggs, comics reviewer and commentator.

• Story of the Year: Bayou, Jeremy Love, writer and artist
• Best Writer: Jeremy Love, Bayou
• Best Artist: Jeremy Love, Bayou
• Best Male Character: Black Lightning
  Black Lightning
  Black Lightning was one of the first major African American superheroes to appear in DC Comics. He debuted in Black Lightning #1 , and was created by Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eeden.- Publication history :...
  
  , Final Crisis
  Final Crisis
  Final Crisis is a crossover storyline that appeared in comic books published by DC Comics in 2008, primarily the seven-issue miniseries of the same name written by Grant Morrison. Originally DC announced the project as being illustrated solely by J. G. Jones; artists Carlos Pacheco, Marco Rudy and...
  
  : Submit; Grant Morrison
  Grant Morrison
  Grant Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer, playwright and occultist. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings, as well as his successful runs on titles like Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, The Invisibles, New X-Men, Fantastic Four, All-Star Superman, and...
  
  , writer, Matthew Clark
  Matthew Clark
  Matthew Clark is a United Kingdom based drinks distributor, jointly owned by Constellation Brands Inc. and Punch Taverns Ltd.The company was formed in 1810 by Matthew Clark, the son of Charles Clark, Inspector General of Imported Liquors and Distillery at the Port of London and later Merchant...
  
  , Norm Rapmund
  Norm Rapmund
  -Image Comics and Marvel:Rapmund's career began with Image Comics' Brigade #1 in 1992. He worked on the series concurrently with Image titles Bloodstrike and Team Youngblood until 1994, when he moved from Brigade to Supreme...
  
  , Rob Hunter, and Don Ho, artists
• Best Female Character: Lee Wagstaff, Bayou, , Jeremy Love, writer and artist
• Rising Star Award: Damian Duffy and John Jennings, The Hole: Consumer Culture,
• Best Reprint Publication: Me and the Devil Blues
  Me and the Devil Blues
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Hiramoto about the blues legend Robert Johnson. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's Afternoon. The manga is licensed in North America by Del Rey Manga and in France by Kana. School Library Journal named Me and the Devil Blues as one...
  
   V1, , Del Rey Manga
  Del Rey Manga
  was the manga-publishing imprint of Del Rey Books, a branch of Ballantine Books, which in turn is part of Random House, the publishing division of Bertelsmann. It was formed as part of a cross-publishing relationship with Japanese publisher Kodansha. Some of the Del Rey titles, such as Tsubasa...
  
  ; David Ury
  David Ury
  David Brian Ury is an American film and television actor, stand-up comedian and Japanese film, anime and manga translation specialist. He is a descendant of German impressionist painter Lesser Ury.- Career :...
  
  , , translator/adapter
• Best Cover: Unknown Soldier #1; Igor Kordey
  Igor Kordey
  -Career:While his best-known work is featured in New X-Men, he has a very diverse repertoire, moving between traditional pencils and inks to fully painted panels. Because of his speed as an artist, at his peak, he was producing artwork for three or four monthly books at the same time...
  
  , illustrator
• Best Comic Strip: Bayou, Jeremy Love, writer and artist
• Fan Award for Best Comic: Vixen: Return of the Lion; G. Willow Wilson
  G. Willow Wilson
  G. Willow Wilson is an American comics writer, prose author, essayist, and journalist.-Biography:After converting to Islam while attending Boston University, Wilson moved to Cairo, where she contributed articles to the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and the Canada National Post...
  
  , writer, Cafu, artist

2008 Glyph Comics Awards winners

The judges for the 2008 Glyph Comics Awards were Cheryl Lynn Eaton, comics journalist and founder of the Ormes Society; Prof. William Foster, comics historian and lecturer; Tony Isabella

Tony Isabella

Tony Isabella is an American comic book writer, editor, artist and critic, known as the creator and writer of Marvel Comics' Black Goliath, DC Comics' first major African American superhero, Black Lightning, and as a columnist and critic for the Comics Buyer's Guide.-Marvel Comics:Before he joined...

, comics writer and columnist; Katherine Keller, editor-in-chief, Sequential Tart; and awards founder Rich Watson.

• Story of the Year: Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm, Percy Carey, writer, Ronald Wimberly, artist
• Best Writer: James Sturm
  James Sturm
  James Sturm is an American cartoonist, Xeric Award-winner, and co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont...
  
  , Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
• Best Artist: Kyle Baker
  Kyle Baker
  Kyle John Baker is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man....
  
  , Nat Turner: Revolution
• Best Male Character: Emmet Wilson, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow; co-created by James Sturm, writer, and Rich Tommaso, artist
• Best Female Character: Amanda Waller, Checkmate
  Checkmate (comics)
  Checkmate, a division of Task Force X, is a fictional covert operations agency within the DC Comics universe. It first appeared in Action Comics #598 and proceeded to have its own ongoing title in Checkmate!...
  
  ; Greg Rucka
  Greg Rucka
  Gregory "Greg" Rucka is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his work on such comics as Action Comics, Batwoman: Detective Comics, and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics, and for novels such as his Queen & Country series.-Career:Rucka's writing career...
  
  , writer, Joe Bennett
  Joe Bennett
  Joe Bennett may refer to:* Joe Bennett , British musician* Joe Bennett , Brazilian comic book penciller* Joe Bennett , New Zealand writer* Joe Bennett , American Major League player...
  
   & Jack Jadson, artists
• Rising Star Award for Best Self-Publisher: Marguerite Abouet
  Marguerite Abouet
  Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1971. She is best known for her graphic novel series Aya.-Biography:At the age of twelve, Abouet and her brother moved to France with their great uncle. She currently resides in Romainville, a suburb just outside of Paris, with her husband,...
  
  , Aya
• Best Reprint Publication: Aya, Drawn & Quarterly; Chris Oliveros, publisher, Helge Dascher, translator
• Best Cover: Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm; Ronald Wimberly, illustrator
• Best Comic Strip: The K Chronicles
  The K Chronicles
  The K Chronicles is the autobiographical comic strip by independent cartoonist Keith Knight. Until February 2010 one could find it updated every Wednesday at Salon.com. The strip previously appeared in the San Francisco Examiner....
  
  , Keith Knight, writer and artist
• Fan Award for Best Comic: Fantastic Four: The New Fantastic Four; Dwayne McDuffie
  Dwayne McDuffie
  Dwayne Glenn McDuffie was an American writer of comic books and television, known for creating the animated television series Static Shock, writing and producing the animated series Justice League Unlimited, and co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic-book company Milestone...
  
  , writer, Paul Pelletier
  Paul Pelletier
  Paul Pelletier is an American comic book penciller.-Career:Pelletier began working as a professional comic artist in the late 1980s. His first work appeared in Zen: Intergalactic Ninja. He has worked for renowned comics publishers DC Comics and Marvel Comics as well as for the now out of business...
  
   & Rick Magyar, artists

2007 Glyph Comics Awards winners

The judges for the 2007 Glyph Comics Awards were Johanna Draper Carlson, founder of the review website ComicsWorthReading.com; Pam Noles, professional writer and former Eisner Award

Eisner Award

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...

s judge; Calvin Reid

Calvin Reid

Calvin Reid is an American artist, journalist, writer and editor. He is a Lower East Side pioneer whose art has had very little exposure, and whose writing career has overshadowed his graphic arts career....

, senior editor for Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly, aka PW, is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents...

 and former Eisner Awards judge; Hannibal Tabu, online comics reviewer and professional fiction writer; and awards founder Rich Watson.

• Story of the Year: Stagger Lee, Derek McCulloch
  Derek McCulloch (comics)
  Derek McCulloch is an author of graphic novels, comics, and books for children who was born in Ottawa in 1964, raised in Grande Prairie, Alberta, and lives in Oakland, California.-Biography:...
  
  , writer, Shepherd Hendrix, artist
• Best Writer: Derek McCulloch, Stagger Lee
• Best Artist: Kyle Baker, The Bakers
• Best Male Character: Stagger Lee, Stagger Lee; Derek McCulloch, writer, Shepherd Hendrix, artist; inspired by the life of Lee Shelton
• Best Female Character: Thomasina Lindo, Welcome to Tranquility
  Welcome to Tranquility
  Welcome to Tranquility is an American comic book series created by Gail Simone and Neil Googe and published by Wildstorm.The series is set in Tranquility, a fictional town in Oregon, which is home to retired superheroes and supervillains as well as their families...
  
  ; co-created by Gail Simone
  Gail Simone
  Gail Simone is an American writer of comic books. Best known for penning DC's Birds of Prey, her other notable works include Secret Six, Welcome to Tranquility, The All-New Atom, and Deadpool. In 2007, she took over Wonder Woman...
  
  , writer, Neil Googe
  Neil Googe
  -Biography:Googe's early comics work include a Shotgun Mary mini-series and work on 2000 AD, including a number of Judge Dredd stories....
  
  , artist
• Rising Star Award: Spike, Templar, Arizona
  Templar, Arizona
  Templar, Arizona is a webcomic written and drawn by Charlie "Spike" Trotman. It was named as by The Webcomics Examiner. Nominated for the 2006 Web Cartoonist's Choice Award in the categories Outstanding New Character Design, Outstanding Environment Design, Outstanding Character Writing,...
  
  
• Best Reprint Publication: Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda, First Second; Mark Siegel, editor, Alexis Siegel, translator
• Best Cover: Stagger Lee, Shepherd Hendrix, artist
• Best Comic Strip: The K Chronicles
  The K Chronicles
  The K Chronicles is the autobiographical comic strip by independent cartoonist Keith Knight. Until February 2010 one could find it updated every Wednesday at Salon.com. The strip previously appeared in the San Francisco Examiner....
  
  , Keith Knight, writer and artist
• Fan Award for Best Comic: Storm, Eric Jerome Dickey
  Eric Jerome Dickey
  Eric Jerome Dickey is a New York Times best-selling American author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life...
  
  , David Yardin & Lan Medina
  Lan Medina
  Rolando Medina or commonly known as Lan Medina is a Filipino comic book artist best known for his work on Fables, Aria, District X, and the The Punisher: MAX imprint.- Awards :...
  
   and Jay Leisten & Sean Parsons
• Pioneer Award: Larry Fuller
  Larry Fuller (comics)
  Larry Fuller is an African American underground comix writer, publisher, and promoter. Along with other such notables as Richard "Grass" Green, Guy Colwell, and Fuller's long-time partner and friend, Raye Horne, Fuller made sure that the voices of black comic book creators were heard in a time when...
  
  , underground comics artist and publisher

2006 Glyph Comics Awards winners

The judges for the 2006 Glyph Comics Awards were: Omar Bilal, creator of the Museum of Black Superheroes website; Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, senior comics editor at Pop Culture Shock; Stephanie Brandford, moderator of the Dwayne McDuffie

Dwayne McDuffie

Dwayne Glenn McDuffie was an American writer of comic books and television, known for creating the animated television series Static Shock, writing and producing the animated series Justice League Unlimited, and co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic-book company Milestone...

 forum at VHive; Eliot Johnson, co-founder of the fan club STEEL (Stop Trying to Eliminate Ethnic Legends) and former columnist with Broken Frontier

Broken Frontier

Broken Frontier is a web-magazine which publishes news, interviews, and essays about the American comic book industry. It was founded by Editor-in-Chief Frederik Hautain in 2002.- Overview :...

; and awards founder Rich Watson.

• Story of the Year: Nat Turner, Kyle Baker
  Kyle Baker
  Kyle John Baker is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man....
  
  , writer and artist
• Best Writer: Lance Tooks, Lucifer's Garden of Verses: Darlin' Niki
• Best Artist: Kyle Baker
  Kyle Baker
  Kyle John Baker is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man....
  
  , Nat Turner
• Best Male Character: Huey Freeman
  Huey Freeman
  Huey Freeman is a fictional character of The Boondocks syndicated comic strip written by Aaron McGruder, as well as the main character and recurrent principal narrator of the animated TV series of the same name...
  
  , The Boondocks
• Best Female Character: Darlin' Niki, Lucifer's Garden of Verses: Darlin' Niki
• Fan Award for Best Comic: Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther?, Reginald Hudlin
  Reginald Hudlin
  Reginald Alan Hudlin is an American writer and film director.-Biography:Hudlin is the son of Helen , a teacher, and Warrington W. Hudlin, Sr., an insurance executive and teacher...
  
  , John Romita, Jr.
  John Romita, Jr.
  John Salvatore Romita, Jr. is an American comic book artist best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2000s...
  
  , Klaus Janson
  Klaus Janson
  Klaus Janson is a German-born American comic book artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies...
  
  , Axel Alonso
  Axel Alonso
  Axel Alonso is American comic book creator, known primarily as an editor at DC Comics from 1994–2000, and at Marvel Comics from 2000 to the present. At DC, he edited a number of books published under their Vertigo line, such as Doom Patrol, Animal Man, Hellblazer, Preacher and 100 Bullets...
  
  
• Rising Star Award for Best Self-Publisher: Robert Roach, The Roach
• Best Reprint Publication: Birth of a Nation: a Comic Novel softcover, Crown
• Best Cover: Nat Turner #1, Kyle Baker
  Kyle Baker
  Kyle John Baker is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man....
  
  , illustrator
• Best Comic Strip: The K Chronicles
  The K Chronicles
  The K Chronicles is the autobiographical comic strip by independent cartoonist Keith Knight. Until February 2010 one could find it updated every Wednesday at Salon.com. The strip previously appeared in the San Francisco Examiner....
  
  , Keith Knight, writer and artist
• Pioneer Award: Turtel Onli, creative artist and educator

2005 Glyph Comics Awards winners

• Pioneer Award: Bertram Fitzgerald, editor and publisher, Golden Legacy Comics

External links

• Pop Culture Shock
• 2007 Glyph Comics Awards Winners Announcement
• Publishers Weekly coverage of 2007 Glyph Comics Awards