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2023 Hugo Awards Winners Announced

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The winners for the 2023 Hugo Awards have been revealed. The reveal was made on October 21 during a ceremony at the Chengdu Worldcon..

The full list of nominees can be found here and the winners below with the comic category highlighted.

Congrats to all.

The comic category is below with the winner in bold and “Winner” next to them:

  • Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams, by Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski (Dark Horse Books) – Winner
  • DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel, by Lilah Sturges, Drew Johnson, Zid (Legendary Comics)
  • Monstress vol. 7: Devourer, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image Comics)
  • Once & Future Vol 4: Monarchies in the UK, by Kieron Gillen / Dan Mora (BOOM! Studios)
  • Saga, Vol. 10, by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Fonografiks (Image Comics)
  • Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Matheus Lopes (DC Comics)

The full list of winners:

Best Novel

  • Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher (Tor Books)

Best Novella

  • Where the Drowned Girls Go, by Seanan McGuire (Tordotcom)

Best Novelette

  •  “The Space-Time Painter”, by Hai Ya (Galaxy’s Edge, April 2022)

Best Short Story

  • “Rabbit Test”, by Samantha Mills (Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2022)

Best Series

  • Children of Time Series, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Pan Macmillan/Orbit)

Best Related Work

  • Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes, by Rob Wilkins (Doubleday)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once, screenplay by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert (IAC Films / Gozie AGBO)

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

  • The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes”, written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Naren Shankar, directed by Breck Eisner (Alcon Entertainment)

Best Editor, Short Form

  • Neil Clarke

Best Editor, Long Form

  • Lindsey Hall

Best Professional Artist

  • Enzhe Zhao

Best Semiprozine

  • Uncanny Magazine, publishers and editors-in-chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas; managing/poetry editor Chimedum Ohaegbu; managing editor Monte Lin; nonfiction editor Meg Elison; podcast producers Erika Ensign and Steven Schapansky

Best Fanzine

  • Zero Gravity Newspaper, by RiverFlow and Ling Shizhen

Best Fancast

  • Hugo, Girl!, by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson

Best Fan Writer

  • Chris M. Barkley  

Best Fan Artist

  • Richard Man

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

  • Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts), by Nnedi Okorafor (Viking Books for Young Readers)

Astounding Award for Best New Writier

  • Travis Baldree  

Also presented during the ceremony.

Big Heat Award

  • Bobbi Armbruster

Saga #66 is being rushed back to print!

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Copies of the latest issue of the bestselling, multiple-award winning Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples have been wiped out completely at the distributor level. Image Comics will rush the issue back to print this week in order to keep up with rapidly escalating reorders. 

Saga #66, second printing (Lunar Code 0923IM814) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, October 18. 

Saga #66, second printing

2023 Hugo Awards Finalists Announced

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The nominees for the 2023 Hugo Awards have been revealed. The announcement was made on July 6th.

1847 valid nominating ballots were received from members of the 2022 and 2023 World Science Fiction Conventions. Voting opens on July 10th.

The full list of nominees can be found here.

The comic nominees include:

  • Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams, by Bartosz Sztybor, Filipe Andrade, Alessio Fioriniello, Roman Titov, Krzysztof Ostrowski (Dark Horse Books)
  • DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel, by Lilah Sturges, Drew Johnson, Zid (Legendary Comics)
  • Monstress vol. 7: Devourer, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Image Comics)
  • Once & Future Vol 4: Monarchies in the UK, by Kieron Gillen / Dan Mora (BOOM! Studios)
  • Saga, Vol. 10, by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Fonografiks (Image Comics)
  • Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Matheus Lopes (DC Comics)

Saga #61 kicks off a new story arc and sells out!

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Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ bestselling, multiple award winning series Saga kicks off an exciting new story arc with last week’s issue #61 release and will be rushed back to print in order to keep up with overwhelming reorder demand.

Fans won’t want to miss this epic new chapter filled to the brim with high-stakes drama, shocking surprises, and emotional adventures.

Saga #61, second printing (Diamond Code DEC228767) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, January 25. 

Saga #62 (Diamond Code DEC220295) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, February 22.

Saga #61, second printing

Mini Reviews: Saga #61

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Saga #61

Sometimes, the staff at Graphic Policy read more comics than we’re able to get reviewed. When that happens you’ll see a weekly feature compiling reviews of the comics, or graphic novels, we just didn’t get a chance to write a full one for.

These are Graphic Policy’s Mini Reviews and Recommendations.

Logan

Saga #61 (Image Comics) – The beginning of this new arc of Saga focuses on Hazel, Squire, and Alana struggling as unhoused folks on a planet that has become a warzone plus some behind the scenes machinations from The Will, Gwendolyn, and a very badass Petrichor. Fiona Staples‘ visuals do a wonderful job of showing the passing of time with Hazel and Squire’s new outfits revealing how quickly they’ve had to grow up and how angry they’ve become. And speaking of innocence, her flashback to Marko and Gwendolyn with a lot less lines on their faces and lot more jingoism in Brian K. Vaughan‘s dialogue drives home how much he’s missed by readers and characters in-universe. Vaughan and Staples have definitely set him as a common thread in Saga #61 while also focusing on the still-raging and pointless war between Wreath and Landfall. There is true horror in the scenes of carnage on the planet like when a regular grocery store parking lot becomes a sniper’s den. Saga continues to be compelling and feature creative character designs from Fiona Staples and heart-rending narration from Brian K. Vaughan, and issue 61 in particular takes a big swing that we’ll see if it works or not in subsequent comics. Overall: 9.0 Verdict: Buy

Well, there you have it, folks. The reviews we didn’t quite get a chance to write. See you next week!

Please note that with some of the above comics, Graphic Policy was provided FREE copies for review. Where we purchased the comics, you’ll see an asterisk (*). If you don’t see that, you can infer the comic was a review copy. In cases where we were provided a review copy and we also purchased the comic you’ll see two asterisks (**).

Saga kicks off a new arc in January 2023

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The bestselling, award winning Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples will kick off a highly anticipated new story arc in January 2023 from Image Comics.

In the upcoming Saga #61, readers are treated to another epic season of emotional adventures and shocking surprises for Hazel and her star-crossed family. It will pick up where the recent Saga, Vol. 10 trade paperback release (collecting Saga #55-60) left off.

Image has also revealed that the Saga series has sold seven million copies to date across single issue, trade paperback, compendium, hardcover, and digital editions and has been translated into 20 languages.

Saga #61 (Diamond Code NOV220102) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, January 24.

Saga #61

Paper Girls Gets an Official Trailer

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Paper Girls is coming to Prime Video and we have the first official trailer for the series.

Based on the comic by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson, Jared K. Fletcher, Dee Cunniffe, and published by Image Comics, it follows four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls. Set in a fictional Cleveland, Ohio suburb the town is invaded by a mysterious force from the future.

It’s the day after Halloween in 1988 when four young friends accidentally stumble into an intense time war and find themselves inexplicably transported to the year 2019. When they come face-to-face with their adult selves, each girl discovers her own strengths as together they try to find a way back to the past while saving the world of the future.

The comic began in 2015 running for 30 issues and wrapping up in 2019. The television series was announced in 2019 and green-lit in 2020. It’s set to premiere later this year.

Get ahead of what’s sure to be a hit and get the entire comic series now! Paper Girls debuts July 29th.

Paper Girls Gets its First Teaser Trailer

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Paper Girls is coming to Prime Video and we have a look at the first teaser trailer for the series.

Based on the comic by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson, Jared K. Fletcher, Dee Cunniffe, and published by Image Comics, it follows four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls. Set in a fictional Cleveland, Ohio suburb the town is invaded by a mysterious force from the future.

It’s the day after Halloween in 1988 when four young friends accidentally stumble into an intense time war and find themselves inexplicably transported to the year 2019. When they come face-to-face with their adult selves, each girl discovers her own strengths as together they try to find a way back to the past while saving the world of the future.

The comic began in 2015 running for 30 issues and wrapping up in 2019. The television series was announced in 2019 and green-lit in 2020. It’s set to premiere later this year.

Get ahead of what’s sure to be a hit and get the entire comic series now!

Paper Girls Gets its First Teaser Promo

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Paper Girls is coming to Prime Video and we have a look at the first teaser promo for the series.

Based on the comic by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson, Jared K. Fletcher, Dee Cunniffe, and published by Image Comics, it follows four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls. Set in a fictional Cleveland, Ohio suburb the town is invaded by a mysterious force from the future.

The comic began in 2015 running for 30 issues and wrapping up in 2019. The television series was announced in 2019 and green-lit in 2020. It’s set to premiere later this year.

Get ahead of what’s sure to be a hit and get the entire comic series now!

Saga Vol. 10 Comes to Shelves October 2022

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The return story arc of the bestselling, multiple Eisner Award winning series Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples—which generated momentous excitement amongst fans this year—will be collected into trade paperback in this forthcoming Saga Vol. 10. This new installment will collect the single issues #55-60.

This will be the first new trade paperback in the series since Saga, Vol. 9 released in September 2018.

At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back! But where the hell have they been? The Saga team is proud to return with a more pulse-pounding adventure, heart-wrenching character drama, and gloriously graphic sex and violence, as Saga embarks on its most epic chapter yet.

Saga, Vol. 10 (ISBN: 978-1-5343-2334-6) will be available on Wednesday, October 5. It can be pre-ordered at your local comic book shop or independent bookstore or via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and Indigo. 

Saga Vol. 10
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