2006 Corries The Comics Winners

[Brandon Hanvey]

The Comics
The Winners

1. Favorite Company/Publisher:
Marvel (23 votes)

Runners Up:
Vertigo (20 votes)
DC (17 votes)
Fantagraphics (7 votes)

2. Favorite Single Issue:
All Star Superman #5 (DC) (24 votes)

Runners Up:
Fables #50 (DC/Vertigo) (18 votes)
New Avengers #22 (Marvel) (12 votes)
Seven Soldiers #1 (DC) (5 votes)

3. Favorite Story:
Seven Soldiers (DC) (20 votes)

Runners Up:
"Parental Guidance" (Runaways 14-18) (Marvel) (19 votes)
Civil War (Marvel) (17 votes)

4. Favorite Continuing Series:
All Star Superman (DC) (25 votes)

Runners Up:
Fables (DC/Vertigo) (20 votes)
Runaways (Marvel) (18 votes)

5. Favorite Limited/Mini Series:
Mouse Guard (Archaia Studios Press) (20 votes)

Runners Up:
Dr. Strange: The Oath (Marvel) (17 votes)
Seven Soldiers (DC) (17 votes)
Secret Six (DC) (15 votes)

6. Favorite New Series:
All-Star Superman (DC) (21 votes)

Runners Up:
Nextwave (Marvel) (20 votes)
The Spirit (DC) (10 votes)
Blue Beetle (DC) (4 votes)

7. Comic Most Deserving of More Attention:
Nextwave (Marvel) (20 votes)

Runners Up:
Runaways (Marvel) (19 votes)
Jonah Hex (DC) (13 votes)
Manhunter (DC) (4 votes)

8. Favorite Original Graphic Novel/Trade Album:
Tie: Fables: 1,001 Nights of Snowfall (DC/Vertigo) & Pride of Baghdad (DC/Vertigo) (19 votes)

Runner Up:
Lost Girls (Top Shelf) (13 votes)

9. Favorite Reprinted Collection/Trade Album:
New Frontier: Absolute Edition (DC) (18 votes)

Runners Up:
Absolute Sandman (DC/Vertigo) (14 votes)
Popeye Vol. 1 (Fantagrghics) (6 votes)
SHAZAM! Showcase (DC) (5 votes)

10. Favorite U.S. Edition of Foreign Material:
Lost Girls (Top Shelf) (20 votes)

Runner Up:
Blacksad (iBooks) (8 votes)
Deathnote (Viz) (4 votes)

11. Favorite Comics Cover/Book Design:
Fables (DC/Vertigo) (20 votes)

Runners Up:
Absolute New Frontier (DC) (18 votes)
Pride of Baghdad (DC/Vertigo) (13 votes)

12. Favorite Online Comic:
PvP (12 votes)

Runners Up:
Shortpacked (8 votes)
The Order of the Stick (6 votes)

13. Favorite Newspaper Comic Strip:
Doonesbury (13 votes)

Runners Up:
Get Fuzzy (12 votes)
Foxtrot (9 votes)
For Better or For Worse (6 votes)

14. Favorite Comics Periodical and/or Book:
The Comics Journal (14 votes)

Runners Up:
Wizard (13 votes)
Comics Buyer's Guide (7 votes)


15. Comic Blogs Should be Good (Favorite Blog about comics)
Sponsored by Comics Should be Good:
The Beat (12 votes)

Runners Up:
The X-Axis (6 votes)
Collected Comics Library (4 votes)
Journalista! (3 votes)
Jog the Blog (2 votes)

16. Favorite Writer:
Brian K. Vaughan (27 votes)

Runners Up:
Grant Morrison (26 votes)
Ed Brubaker (16 votes)

17. Favorite Artist:
Frank Quitely (30 votes)

Runners Up:
JH Williams III (17 votes)
Ed Benes (14 votes)

18. Favorite Writer/Artist:
Darwyn Cooke (36 votes)

Runners Up:
Stan Sakai (8 votes)
Matt Wagner (6 votes)
Bryan Lee O'Malley (5 votes)
Kevin Huizenga (3 votes)

19. Favorite Inker:
J. Bone (11 votes)

Runners Up:
Klaus Janson (10 votes)
Keith Champagne (8 votes)

20. Favorite Colorist:
Dave Stewart (18 votes)

Runners Up:
Laura Martin (13 votes)
Jose Villarubia (8 votes)
Blond (5 votes)

21. Favorite Letterer:
Todd Klein (19 votes)

Runners Up:
Chris Eliopolous (10 votes)
Brian Crowley (9 votes)

22. Favorite Cover Artist:
Frank Quitely (24 votes)

Runners Up:
James Jean (19 votes)
JG Jones (15 votes)

23. Favorite Talent Deserving Wider Attention:
Darwyn Cooke (26 votes)

Runners Up:
Dan Slott (12 votes)
Christos Gage (8 votes)
Marc Guggenheim (6 votes)
Matt Fraction (5 votes)

[Joe Rice]

This is a list of winners to be proud of. Wow. I can't remember the last time I felt so good about the Corries.

[Ed Cunard]

The Comics Journal beat Wizard?

I am a happy, happy elitist.

[Deathstroke]

I'm disappointed that nothing I voted for won.

While I can live with that disappointment for most of the categories, New Avengers #22 not winning for Issue stinks!

I demand a recall! :D

[Dreadstar]

It is a good selection.

But that last category?

Darwyn Cooke really doesn't get wide attention?

Enh, unimportant in the grand scheme of things. I'm more irritated about Doonesbury, and truth be told, that ain't much.

[mattbib]

This is the first time I remember Marvel winning favorite publisher since I joined the forums.

I guess one could conceivably combine the DC and Vertigo votes and that would no longer be the case though...

[Dreadstar]

This is the first time I remember Marvel winning favorite publisher since I joined the forums.

I guess one could conceivably combine the DC and Vertigo votes and that would no longer be the case though...

Well, I think it has to do with the direction and the storyline that DC has taken this year. I mean, you can only take so much of that "dark and dramatic" stuff before you head back to Harvey Comics.







For the humor impaired, that was a joke. If the reader of this has a stick in the ass, I request kindly that they hit the "last page" arrow on their browser instead of "submit."

[Joe Rice]

Yeah, the "more attention" category was a little wonky this year . . .all those guys are writing fairly big mainstream books. But I feel proud to be a part of a community that otherwise made these picks. Quality really showed through.

[i_mmmchocolate]

I didn't agree with the separation of Vertigo from DC. Vertigo is a part of DC.

[Jack Zodiac]

While that's true, I wouldn't be very happy knowing that DC won (or almost won) "Favorite Company/Publisher" for something like Fables or Pride of Baghdad under the Vertigo imprint while DC themselves continued to do the same old books and crossovers. Not that they didn't have a pretty damn good year in 2006 (what with Seven Soldiers being collected, New Frontier being given the Absolute treatment, some new series being pretty entertaining and 52 being a huge success), but the people who nominated Vertigo did so for the books under their imprint, which is overseen by a completely different editorial department than the rest of DC and even Wildstorm.

And I'm very happy with the winners, for the most part. In fact, the only one I really even slightly disagree with is Marvel winning "Favorite Company."

[howyadoin]

This is a list of winners to be proud of. Wow.Fuckin' A. When did we get invaded by people with taste?

[Brandon Hanvey]

I didn't agree with the separation of Vertigo from DC. Vertigo is a part of DC.


People specially nominated and voted for Vertigo so that is how we counted them. Some people who read Vertigo titles do not read the "mainstream" DC titles and it seems that the voting shows that.

I'm not sure if DC was just listed by itself that it would have won or not (though the past few years has won).

[i_mmmchocolate]

People specially nominated and voted for Vertigo so that is how we counted them. Some people who read Vertigo titles do not read the "mainstream" DC titles and it seems that the voting shows that.

I'm not sure if DC was just listed by itself that it would have won or not (though the past few years has won).
I can understand that. I voted for it because I've read and enjoyed more Vertigo than DC in 2006.

I'm just nit-picking because I've heard people refer to Vertigo as an indie company--and have had to explain that it's part of DC.

[Chris Nowlin]

Fuckin' A. When did we get invaded by people with taste?

Must have gotten a cool newbie or two last year

[stealthwise]

Nice to see that my votes actually counted. Democracy rules!

[howyadoin]

Must have gotten a cool newbie or two last yearNaw, that couldn't be it.

[Winslow]

People specially nominated and voted for Vertigo so that is how we counted them. Some people who read Vertigo titles do not read the "mainstream" DC titles and it seems that the voting shows that.

I'm not sure if DC was just listed by itself that it would have won or not (though the past few years has won).

I am a Vertigo reader and not DC, so that would describe me to a tee.

. . . and yes, I nominated Vertigo, and voted for them.

It was also cool to see Mouse Guard get recognized.