Best Short Story
“Killing and Dying,” by Adrian Tomine, in Optic Nerve #14 (Drawn Quarterly)
Best Single Issue/One-Shot
Silver Surfer #11: “Never After,” by Dan Slott and Michael Allred (Marvel)
Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)
Little Robot, by Ben Hatke (First Second)
Best Publication for Kids (ages 9-12)Over the Garden Wall, by Pat McHale, Amalia Levari, and Jim Campbell (BOOM! Studios/KaBOOM!)
Best Publication for Teens (ages 13-17)
SuperMutant Magic Academy, by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Best Adaptation from Another Medium
Two Brothers, by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (Dark Horse)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips
The Eternaut, by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano Lòpez, edited by Gary Groth and Kristy Valenti (Fantagraphics)
Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books
Walt Kelly’s Fairy Tales, edited by Craig Yoe (IDW)
Best Writer/Artist
Bill Griffith, Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist (Fantagraphics)
Best Lettering
Derf Backderf, Trashed (Abrams)
Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism
Hogan’s Alley, edited by Tom Heintjes (Hogan’s Alley)
Best Academic/Scholarly Work
The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings (Rutgers)
Best Publication Design
Sandman Gallery Edition, designed by Josh Beatman/Brainchild Studios (Graphitti Designs/DC)
Hall of Fame:
Rube Goldberg
The Fade Out, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
Paper Girls, by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang (Image)
Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
Drawn & Quarterly, Twenty-Five Years of Contemporary, Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, edited by Tom Devlin (Drawn & Quarterly)
Best Digital/Webcomic: Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
March: Book Two, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (Top Shelf/IDW)
Ruins, by Peter Kuper (SelfMadeHero)
Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson (Harper Teen)
The Realist, by Asaf Hanuka (BOOM! Studios/Archaia)
Showa, 1953–1989: A History of Japan, by Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America, by Bill Schelly (Fantagraphics)
Southern Bastards, by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour (Image)