Outstanding Comic

• Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep is a webcomic written and illustrated by Adrian Ramos, generally known as Adis. It was launched in 2003 on the Keenspace hosting service and became part of Keenspot a year later. It is also part of the Quicksketch Comics collective. As of January 2006, it had a hair under 10,000...
  
  — by Adrian Ramos (Winner)
• Penny Arcade
  Penny Arcade (webcomic)
  Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames.com. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic...
  
  — by Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik is the artist for the popular webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker "Jon Gabriel" or "Gabe"...
  
   & Jerry Holkins
  Jerry Holkins
  Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins né Parkinson is the writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals...
  
   (Winner)
• It's Walky! — by David Willis
• Reman Mythology — by Amy Kim Ganter
  Amy Kim Ganter
  Amy Kim Ganter , is an American author and illustrator of original English-language manga.-Career:Ganter is a winner in the fourth Rising Stars of Manga competition, winning the third-place prize of $1,000 and a trophy for her story The Hopeless Romantic and the Hapless Girl...
  
  
• Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round was a webcomic set in the fictional West Yorkshire town of Tackleford, England, and written by John Allison. Scary Go Round was named one of the best webcomics of 2004 by The Webcomics Examiner. The Sunday Times describes it as "postmodern Brit horror" that is "subtle and stylishly...
  
  — by John Allison
  John Allison (artist)
  John Allison is the writer and artist of the webcomics Bobbins , Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery . John described Scary Go Round as "a comic that I've been making since 2002. It started off as a comic about barmaids Tessa and Rachel, then it became more about Shelley Winters and her bizarre...
  
  
• Something Positive
  Something Positive
  Something Positive or S*P is a webcomic by R. K. Milholland, which debuted on December 19, 2001. The comic is characterized by a cynical tone and off-beat humor, including its portrayals of geeks, gamers, and goths....
  
  — by R. K. Milholland
  R. K. Milholland
  Randal Keith Milholland, better known as R. K. Milholland, is the author of several webcomics: Something Positive, New Gold Dreams, Midnight Macabre, Classically Positive and Super Stupor.-History:...
  
  

Outstanding Newcomer

• Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep is a webcomic written and illustrated by Adrian Ramos, generally known as Adis. It was launched in 2003 on the Keenspace hosting service and became part of Keenspot a year later. It is also part of the Quicksketch Comics collective. As of January 2006, it had a hair under 10,000...
  
  — by Adrian Ramos (Winner)
• Questionable Content
  Questionable Content
  Questionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. It was launched on August 1, 2003. Jacques currently makes his living exclusively from QC merchandising and advertising, making him one of the few professional webcomic artists...
  
  — by J. Jacques
• Skirting Danger — by Meredith Gran
• Sore Thumbs — by Owen Gieni & Chris Crosby
  Chris Crosby
  Christopher Charles Crosby is the co-founder of Keenspot along with Darren Bleuel and Nathan Stone. He draws and writes the webcomic Superosity and writes for Sore Thumbs, which Owen Gieni illustrates. He currently resides in Cresbard, SD.-Superosity:Superosity is a daily comic strip by Crosby...
  
  

Outstanding Art

• Mac Hall
  Mac Hall
  Mac Hall is a webcomic which was created through a bet between the creator Ian McConville and a friend who claimed he "couldn't make a comic like Penny Arcade". After the fifteenth comic, McConville was joined by Matt Boyd who began to write the comic.Mac Hall follows the exploits of a group of...
  
  — by Ian McConville & Matt Boyd (Winner)
• Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round was a webcomic set in the fictional West Yorkshire town of Tackleford, England, and written by John Allison. Scary Go Round was named one of the best webcomics of 2004 by The Webcomics Examiner. The Sunday Times describes it as "postmodern Brit horror" that is "subtle and stylishly...
  
  — by John Allison
  John Allison (artist)
  John Allison is the writer and artist of the webcomics Bobbins , Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery . John described Scary Go Round as "a comic that I've been making since 2002. It started off as a comic about barmaids Tessa and Rachel, then it became more about Shelley Winters and her bizarre...
  
   (Winner)
• Alpha Shade
  Alpha Shade
  Alpha Shade is a long-form webcomic written and illustrated by Chris and Joe Brudlos. It takes place in a fictional world dominated by four warring empires. As of yet, very little is actually known about the Alpha Shade world. However, what is known is that it is a planet connected to our own...
  
  — by Christopher Brudlos & Joseph Brudlos
• Penny Arcade
  Penny Arcade (webcomic)
  Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames.com. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic...
  
  — by Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik is the artist for the popular webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker "Jon Gabriel" or "Gabe"...
  
   & Jerry Holkins
  Jerry Holkins
  Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins né Parkinson is the writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals...
  
  

Outstanding Writing

• Penny Arcade
  Penny Arcade (webcomic)
  Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames.com. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic...
  
  — by Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik is the artist for the popular webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker "Jon Gabriel" or "Gabe"...
  
   & Jerry Holkins
  Jerry Holkins
  Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins né Parkinson is the writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals...
  
   (Winner)
• Achewood
  Achewood
  Achewood is a webcomic created by Chris Onstad in 2001. It portrays the lives of a group of anthropomorphic stuffed toys, robots, and pets. Many of the characters live together in the home of their owner, Chris, at the fictional address of 62 Achewood Court. Another address used in the strip is 11...
  
  — by Chris Onstad
• It's Walky! — by David Willis
• Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round was a webcomic set in the fictional West Yorkshire town of Tackleford, England, and written by John Allison. Scary Go Round was named one of the best webcomics of 2004 by The Webcomics Examiner. The Sunday Times describes it as "postmodern Brit horror" that is "subtle and stylishly...
  
  — by John Allison
  John Allison (artist)
  John Allison is the writer and artist of the webcomics Bobbins , Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery . John described Scary Go Round as "a comic that I've been making since 2002. It started off as a comic about barmaids Tessa and Rachel, then it became more about Shelley Winters and her bizarre...
  
  

Outstanding Use of Flash

• Homestar Runner
  Homestar Runner
  Homestar Runner is a Flash animated Internet cartoon. It mixes surreal humor with references to retro pop culture, notably video games, classic television, and popular music.The cartoons are nominally centered on the title character, Homestar Runner...
  
  — by The Brothers Chaps
  The Brothers Chaps
  The Brothers Chaps are Michael "Mike" Chapman and Matthew "Matt" Chapman, creators of the Homestar Runner series of animated cartoons. The brothers are originally from Indiana, but now live in Atlanta, Georgia.-Matthew Chapman:...
  
   (Winner)
• Alpha Shade
  Alpha Shade
  Alpha Shade is a long-form webcomic written and illustrated by Chris and Joe Brudlos. It takes place in a fictional world dominated by four warring empires. As of yet, very little is actually known about the Alpha Shade world. However, what is known is that it is a planet connected to our own...
  
  — by Christopher Brudlos & Joseph Brudlos
• Externality — by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
  Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
  Daniel Merlin Goodbrey is an English writer and online pioneer known for his work in webcomics and the British small press.-Biography:Goodbrey became well known as a contributor to Women in Refrigerators....
  
  
• Secret of Mana Theatre — by Sprite Monkey

Outstanding Use of Infinite Canvas

• The Morning Improv — by Scott McCloud
  Scott McCloud
  Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium...
  
   (Winner)
• Externality — by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
  Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
  Daniel Merlin Goodbrey is an English writer and online pioneer known for his work in webcomics and the British small press.-Biography:Goodbrey became well known as a contributor to Women in Refrigerators....
  
  
• Pup — by Drew Weing
  Drew Weing
  Drew Weing is an American comic book and webcomic creator who is perhaps best known for his infinite canvas webcomic Pup on Serializer. In their review of serializer.net, The Comics Journal wrote: "Pup is a real charmer, a beautifully drawn and colored , funny and honest-to-God webcomic, It's far...
  
  
• The Right Number — by Scott McCloud
  Scott McCloud
  Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium...
  
  

Outstanding Web Design

• Penny Arcade
  Penny Arcade (webcomic)
  Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames.com. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic...
  
  — by Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik is the artist for the popular webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker "Jon Gabriel" or "Gabe"...
  
   & Jerry Holkins
  Jerry Holkins
  Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins né Parkinson is the writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals...
  
   (Winner)
• 9th Elsewhere — by Caroline Curtis
• Alpha Shade
  Alpha Shade
  Alpha Shade is a long-form webcomic written and illustrated by Chris and Joe Brudlos. It takes place in a fictional world dominated by four warring empires. As of yet, very little is actually known about the Alpha Shade world. However, what is known is that it is a planet connected to our own...
  
  — by Christopher Brudlos & Joseph Brudlos
• Goats
  Goats (webcomic)
  Goats is a popular webcomic written and illustrated by Jonathan Rosenberg. The webcomic started April 1, 1997. On April 3, 2006, after nine years drawing the strip, Rosenberg became a full-time cartoonist making his living drawing Goats...
  
  — by Johnathan Rosenberg
• Mike's Stupid Comic — by Mike Laidman
• Ornery Boy — by Michael Lalonde
• Sam and Fuzzy
  Sam and Fuzzy
  Sam and Fuzzy is a webcomic written and drawn by Sam Logan. It initially appeared in 2001 in The Martlet as a four-panel gag strip with a rough yet consistent, heavily contrasting black and white style. In May 2002 Logan began posting the strips on his website, and it quickly transitioned to an...
  
  — by Sam Logan

Outstanding Black and White Art

• Zebra Girl — by Joe England (Winner)
• Fallen Angel Used Books — by John Fortman
• Megatokyo
  Megatokyo
  is an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston, debuting on August 14, 2000, and then written and illustrated solely by Gallagher since July 17, 2002. Gallagher's style of writing and illustration is heavily influenced by Japanese manga. Megatokyo is freely available on...
  
  — by Fred Gallagher
• Sam and Fuzzy
  Sam and Fuzzy
  Sam and Fuzzy is a webcomic written and drawn by Sam Logan. It initially appeared in 2001 in The Martlet as a four-panel gag strip with a rough yet consistent, heavily contrasting black and white style. In May 2002 Logan began posting the strips on his website, and it quickly transitioned to an...
  
  — by Sam Logan
• Sinfest
  Sinfest
  Sinfest is a webcomic written and drawn by Japanese-American comic strip artist Tatsuya Ishida. The first strip as a webcomic appeared on January 17, 2000, although the very first strip appeared in print on October 16, 1991 in the UCLA newspaper, Daily Bruin, while Ishida attended UCLA. A new strip...
  
  — by Tatsuya Ishida

Outstanding Character (Visual)

• Wapsi Square
  Wapsi Square
  Wapsi Square is a slice of life/fantasy webcomic set in modern Minneapolis, "a world almost exactly like the one you want to believe you live in." It also includes multiple supernatural elements, including a psychic and a god, which contrasts with its soap opera nature...
  
  — by Paul "Pablo" Taylor (Winner)
• Megatokyo
  Megatokyo
  is an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston, debuting on August 14, 2000, and then written and illustrated solely by Gallagher since July 17, 2002. Gallagher's style of writing and illustration is heavily influenced by Japanese manga. Megatokyo is freely available on...
  
  — by Fred Gallagher
• Sinfest
  Sinfest
  Sinfest is a webcomic written and drawn by Japanese-American comic strip artist Tatsuya Ishida. The first strip as a webcomic appeared on January 17, 2000, although the very first strip appeared in print on October 16, 1991 in the UCLA newspaper, Daily Bruin, while Ishida attended UCLA. A new strip...
  
  — by Tatsuya Ishida
• VG Cats
  VG Cats
  VG Cats is a webcomic written and drawn by Canadian cartoonist Scott Ramsoomair. Published on its own website, it features the adventures of a pair of anthropomorphic cats, who often play the roles of characters in popular video games that are parodied in the strip. Strips are usually presented in...
  
  — by Scott Ramsoomair

Outstanding Character (Writing)

• Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep is a webcomic written and illustrated by Adrian Ramos, generally known as Adis. It was launched in 2003 on the Keenspace hosting service and became part of Keenspot a year later. It is also part of the Quicksketch Comics collective. As of January 2006, it had a hair under 10,000...
  
  — by Adrian Ramos (Winner)
• College Roomies from Hell!!!
  College Roomies from Hell!!!
  College Roomies from Hell!!! or CRFH!!! as it is known to fans, is a webcomic strip by Maritza Campos-Rebolledo. Running since January 1, 1999 and featuring a new comic strip every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday , College Roomies from Hell!!! depicts the lives of six college students attending an...
  
  — by Maritza Campos
• Megatokyo
  Megatokyo
  is an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston, debuting on August 14, 2000, and then written and illustrated solely by Gallagher since July 17, 2002. Gallagher's style of writing and illustration is heavily influenced by Japanese manga. Megatokyo is freely available on...
  
  — by Fred Gallagher
• Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round was a webcomic set in the fictional West Yorkshire town of Tackleford, England, and written by John Allison. Scary Go Round was named one of the best webcomics of 2004 by The Webcomics Examiner. The Sunday Times describes it as "postmodern Brit horror" that is "subtle and stylishly...
  
  — by John Allison
  John Allison (artist)
  John Allison is the writer and artist of the webcomics Bobbins , Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery . John described Scary Go Round as "a comic that I've been making since 2002. It started off as a comic about barmaids Tessa and Rachel, then it became more about Shelley Winters and her bizarre...
  
  

Outstanding Environment Design

• Reman Mythology — by Amy Kim Ganter
  Amy Kim Ganter
  Amy Kim Ganter , is an American author and illustrator of original English-language manga.-Career:Ganter is a winner in the fourth Rising Stars of Manga competition, winning the third-place prize of $1,000 and a trophy for her story The Hopeless Romantic and the Hapless Girl...
  
   (Winner)
• 9th Elsewhere — by Caroline Curtis
• Alpha Shade
  Alpha Shade
  Alpha Shade is a long-form webcomic written and illustrated by Chris and Joe Brudlos. It takes place in a fictional world dominated by four warring empires. As of yet, very little is actually known about the Alpha Shade world. However, what is known is that it is a planet connected to our own...
  
  — by Christopher Brudlos & Joseph Brudlos
• Megatokyo
  Megatokyo
  is an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston, debuting on August 14, 2000, and then written and illustrated solely by Gallagher since July 17, 2002. Gallagher's style of writing and illustration is heavily influenced by Japanese manga. Megatokyo is freely available on...
  
  — by Fred Gallagher
• Penny Arcade
  Penny Arcade (webcomic)
  Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames.com. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic...
  
  — by Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik is the artist for the popular webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker "Jon Gabriel" or "Gabe"...
  
   & Jerry Holkins
  Jerry Holkins
  Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins né Parkinson is the writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals...
  
  
• Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round was a webcomic set in the fictional West Yorkshire town of Tackleford, England, and written by John Allison. Scary Go Round was named one of the best webcomics of 2004 by The Webcomics Examiner. The Sunday Times describes it as "postmodern Brit horror" that is "subtle and stylishly...
  
  — by John Allison
  John Allison (artist)
  John Allison is the writer and artist of the webcomics Bobbins , Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery . John described Scary Go Round as "a comic that I've been making since 2002. It started off as a comic about barmaids Tessa and Rachel, then it became more about Shelley Winters and her bizarre...
  
  

Outstanding Layout

• Mac Hall
  Mac Hall
  Mac Hall is a webcomic which was created through a bet between the creator Ian McConville and a friend who claimed he "couldn't make a comic like Penny Arcade". After the fifteenth comic, McConville was joined by Matt Boyd who began to write the comic.Mac Hall follows the exploits of a group of...
  
  — by Ian McConville & Matt Boyd (Winner)
• 9th Elsewhere — by Caroline Curtis
• Megatokyo
  Megatokyo
  is an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston, debuting on August 14, 2000, and then written and illustrated solely by Gallagher since July 17, 2002. Gallagher's style of writing and illustration is heavily influenced by Japanese manga. Megatokyo is freely available on...
  
  — by Fred Gallagher

Outstanding Use of Color

• Mac Hall
  Mac Hall
  Mac Hall is a webcomic which was created through a bet between the creator Ian McConville and a friend who claimed he "couldn't make a comic like Penny Arcade". After the fifteenth comic, McConville was joined by Matt Boyd who began to write the comic.Mac Hall follows the exploits of a group of...
  
  — by Ian McConville & Matt Boyd (Winner)
• Athena Voltaire — by Paul Daly
  Paul Daly
  Paul Daly is an Irish sculptor and designer, currently based in London's East End.-Early life:Originally hailing from Dublin, Paul spent the 1970s in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Ghana - an eclectic upbringing that would later influence his design work. His early working life spanned the music industry, as...
  
  , Steve Bryan & Chad Fidler
• Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep is a webcomic written and illustrated by Adrian Ramos, generally known as Adis. It was launched in 2003 on the Keenspace hosting service and became part of Keenspot a year later. It is also part of the Quicksketch Comics collective. As of January 2006, it had a hair under 10,000...
  
  — by Adrian Ramos
• Penny Arcade
  Penny Arcade (webcomic)
  Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames.com. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic...
  
  — by Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik is the artist for the popular webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker "Jon Gabriel" or "Gabe"...
  
   & Jerry Holkins
  Jerry Holkins
  Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins né Parkinson is the writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals...
  
  
• VG Cats
  VG Cats
  VG Cats is a webcomic written and drawn by Canadian cartoonist Scott Ramsoomair. Published on its own website, it features the adventures of a pair of anthropomorphic cats, who often play the roles of characters in popular video games that are parodied in the strip. Strips are usually presented in...
  
  — by Scott Ramsoomair

Outstanding Comedic Comic

• Penny Arcade
  Penny Arcade (webcomic)
  Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames.com. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic...
  
  — by Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik is the artist for the popular webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker "Jon Gabriel" or "Gabe"...
  
   & Jerry Holkins
  Jerry Holkins
  Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins né Parkinson is the writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals...
  
   (Winner)
• Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep is a webcomic written and illustrated by Adrian Ramos, generally known as Adis. It was launched in 2003 on the Keenspace hosting service and became part of Keenspot a year later. It is also part of the Quicksketch Comics collective. As of January 2006, it had a hair under 10,000...
  
  — by Adrian Ramos
• PvP
  PvP
  PvP, also known as Player vs Player, is a webcomic, written and drawn by Scott Kurtz, with around 100,000 unique visitors per day . On February 1, 2007, it became the subject of its own animated series.-Themes:...
  
  — by Scott Kurtz
• Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round was a webcomic set in the fictional West Yorkshire town of Tackleford, England, and written by John Allison. Scary Go Round was named one of the best webcomics of 2004 by The Webcomics Examiner. The Sunday Times describes it as "postmodern Brit horror" that is "subtle and stylishly...
  
  — by John Allison
  John Allison (artist)
  John Allison is the writer and artist of the webcomics Bobbins , Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery . John described Scary Go Round as "a comic that I've been making since 2002. It started off as a comic about barmaids Tessa and Rachel, then it became more about Shelley Winters and her bizarre...
  
  

Outstanding Dramatic Comic

• Demonology 101
  Demonology 101
  Demonology 101 is an online graphic novel written and drawn by Faith Erin Hicks from August 1999 to June 2004.It tells the story of Raven, a 16-year-old demon being raised by a human in ordinary human society...
  
  — by Faith Erin Hicks
  Faith Erin Hicks
  Faith Erin Hicks is a Canadian webcomic and comic artist and writer and animator living in Halifax, Nova Scotia.She is best known for her webcomic Demonology 101.-Biography:...
  
   (Winner)
• Jack — by David Hopkins
  David Hopkins (comic artist)
  David Hopkins is a webcomic artist who works in the realm of furry cartoon comics and webcomics. He has created several independent storylines, some of which he has stated he plans to integrate some time in the future.- The Artist :...
  
   (Winner)
• 9th Elsewhere — by Caroline Curtis
• Fans! — by T Campbell
• It's Walky! — by David Willis
• Megatokyo
  Megatokyo
  is an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston, debuting on August 14, 2000, and then written and illustrated solely by Gallagher since July 17, 2002. Gallagher's style of writing and illustration is heavily influenced by Japanese manga. Megatokyo is freely available on...
  
  — by Fred Gallagher

Outstanding Long Form Comic

• Demonology 101
  Demonology 101
  Demonology 101 is an online graphic novel written and drawn by Faith Erin Hicks from August 1999 to June 2004.It tells the story of Raven, a 16-year-old demon being raised by a human in ordinary human society...
  
  — by Faith Erin Hicks
  Faith Erin Hicks
  Faith Erin Hicks is a Canadian webcomic and comic artist and writer and animator living in Halifax, Nova Scotia.She is best known for her webcomic Demonology 101.-Biography:...
  
   (Winner)
• Megatokyo
  Megatokyo
  is an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston, debuting on August 14, 2000, and then written and illustrated solely by Gallagher since July 17, 2002. Gallagher's style of writing and illustration is heavily influenced by Japanese manga. Megatokyo is freely available on...
  
  — by Fred Gallagher
• Reman Mythology — by Amy Kim Ganter
  Amy Kim Ganter
  Amy Kim Ganter , is an American author and illustrator of original English-language manga.-Career:Ganter is a winner in the fourth Rising Stars of Manga competition, winning the third-place prize of $1,000 and a trophy for her story The Hopeless Romantic and the Hapless Girl...
  
  

Outstanding Short Form Comic

• Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep is a webcomic written and illustrated by Adrian Ramos, generally known as Adis. It was launched in 2003 on the Keenspace hosting service and became part of Keenspot a year later. It is also part of the Quicksketch Comics collective. As of January 2006, it had a hair under 10,000...
  
  — by Adrian Ramos (Winner)
• PvP
  PvP
  PvP, also known as Player vs Player, is a webcomic, written and drawn by Scott Kurtz, with around 100,000 unique visitors per day . On February 1, 2007, it became the subject of its own animated series.-Themes:...
  
  — by Scott Kurtz
• Sam and Fuzzy
  Sam and Fuzzy
  Sam and Fuzzy is a webcomic written and drawn by Sam Logan. It initially appeared in 2001 in The Martlet as a four-panel gag strip with a rough yet consistent, heavily contrasting black and white style. In May 2002 Logan began posting the strips on his website, and it quickly transitioned to an...
  
  — by Sam Logan
• Sinfest
  Sinfest
  Sinfest is a webcomic written and drawn by Japanese-American comic strip artist Tatsuya Ishida. The first strip as a webcomic appeared on January 17, 2000, although the very first strip appeared in print on October 16, 1991 in the UCLA newspaper, Daily Bruin, while Ishida attended UCLA. A new strip...
  
  — by Tatsuya Ishida
• Wigu — by Jeff Rowland

Outstanding Story Concept

• Elf Only Inn — by Josh Sortelli (Winner)
• 9th Elsewhere — by Caroline Curtis
• Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep is a webcomic written and illustrated by Adrian Ramos, generally known as Adis. It was launched in 2003 on the Keenspace hosting service and became part of Keenspot a year later. It is also part of the Quicksketch Comics collective. As of January 2006, it had a hair under 10,000...
  
  — by Adrian Ramos
• Return To Sender — by Vera Brosgol
  Vera Brosgol
  Vera Brosgol is a cartoonist and a graduate in Classical Animation of Sheridan College in Canada. She lives in Portland, Oregon and works for Laika Entertainment House where she does storyboards and concept art for their animation productions...
  
  
• Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round
  Scary Go Round was a webcomic set in the fictional West Yorkshire town of Tackleford, England, and written by John Allison. Scary Go Round was named one of the best webcomics of 2004 by The Webcomics Examiner. The Sunday Times describes it as "postmodern Brit horror" that is "subtle and stylishly...
  
  — by John Allison
  John Allison (artist)
  John Allison is the writer and artist of the webcomics Bobbins , Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery . John described Scary Go Round as "a comic that I've been making since 2002. It started off as a comic about barmaids Tessa and Rachel, then it became more about Shelley Winters and her bizarre...
  
  
• Wigu — by Jeff Rowland

Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic

• VG Cats
  VG Cats
  VG Cats is a webcomic written and drawn by Canadian cartoonist Scott Ramsoomair. Published on its own website, it features the adventures of a pair of anthropomorphic cats, who often play the roles of characters in popular video games that are parodied in the strip. Strips are usually presented in...
  
  — by Scott Ramsoomair (Winner)
• Ozy and Millie
  Ozy and Millie
  Ozy and Millie is a webcomic, created by D. C. Simpson, which debuted in January 1997. The comic was part of Keenspot from 2001 to 2003, going independent for several years before returning to Keenspot in November 2006. It follows the adventures of assorted anthropomorphized animals...
  
  — by David Craig Simpson
• Purple Pussy — by Dave Kelly
• Sabrina Online — by Eric W. Schwartz

Outstanding Fantasy Comic

• Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep
  Count Your Sheep is a webcomic written and illustrated by Adrian Ramos, generally known as Adis. It was launched in 2003 on the Keenspace hosting service and became part of Keenspot a year later. It is also part of the Quicksketch Comics collective. As of January 2006, it had a hair under 10,000...
  
  — by Adrian Ramos (Winner)
• Errant Story
  Errant Story
  Errant Story is the latest webcomic by writer and artist Michael Poe. Notable for the complexity of its characters, its complicated and often unexpected storylines and continually improving art style, Errant Story has been running for more than 6 years and 37 chapters through the end of . Errant...
  
  — by Michael Poe
  Michael Poe
  Michael Poe is a webcomic artist best known for his four webcomics Babylon Jones, Exploitation Now, Errant Story and Does Not Play Well with Others.He majored in art at the Savannah College of Art and Design.-References:...
  
   (Winner)
• A Modest Destiny
  A Modest Destiny
  A Modest Destiny is a pixel art webcomic created by Sean Howard, will start its 5th chapter in the Fall of 2011, as said on the AMD home page. The first strip appeared on January 1, 2003; it ended in July 2005, but as of Sept, 2006 new strips were once again being made. It began releasing...
  
  — by Sean Howard
  Sean Howard
  Sean Howard is an Australian entrepreneur, founder of OzEmail, at one time Australia's largest Internet company.In the 1980s Howard developed the email service, Microtex. He also founded Australian Personal Computer, Australia's top-selling computer magazine. In 1988 he became an original investor...
  
  
• Cascadia — by Clio Chiang
• Reman Mythology — by Amy Kim Ganter
  Amy Kim Ganter
  Amy Kim Ganter , is an American author and illustrator of original English-language manga.-Career:Ganter is a winner in the fourth Rising Stars of Manga competition, winning the third-place prize of $1,000 and a trophy for her story The Hopeless Romantic and the Hapless Girl...
  
  
• Spells & Whistles — by Tauhid Bondia

Outstanding Gaming Comic

• Penny Arcade
  Penny Arcade (webcomic)
  Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames.com. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic...
  
  — by Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik
  Mike Krahulik is the artist for the popular webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker "Jon Gabriel" or "Gabe"...
  
   & Jerry Holkins
  Jerry Holkins
  Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins né Parkinson is the writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade and co-founder of Child's Play, a multimillion dollar charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals...
  
   (Winner)
• Ctrl+Alt+Del — by Tim Buckley
• PvP
  PvP
  PvP, also known as Player vs Player, is a webcomic, written and drawn by Scott Kurtz, with around 100,000 unique visitors per day . On February 1, 2007, it became the subject of its own animated series.-Themes:...
  
  — by Scott Kurtz
• VG Cats
  VG Cats
  VG Cats is a webcomic written and drawn by Canadian cartoonist Scott Ramsoomair. Published on its own website, it features the adventures of a pair of anthropomorphic cats, who often play the roles of characters in popular video games that are parodied in the strip. Strips are usually presented in...
  
  — by Scott Ramsoomair

Outstanding Reality Comic

• Real Life
  Real Life (webcomic)
  Real Life is a webcomic drawn and authored by Greg Dean. Begun on November 15, 1999 and published on weekdays, the comic is loosely based around the real lives of Greg and his friends ....
  
  — by Greg Dean (Winner)
• American Elf
  American Elf
  American Elf is an online comic strip diary created by award-winning cartoonist James Kochalka.Many critics consider these strips to be Kochalka's most significant work. American Elf has won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic Series and Outstanding Online Comic.-Style:Each strip usually...
  
  — by James Kochalka
  James Kochalka
  James Kochalka is an American comic book artist and writer, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal...
  
  
• Keaner.net — by Kean Soo
  Kean Soo
  Kean Soo is the creator of the children's comic character Jellaby. Born in England, but raised in Hong Kong, Soo is currently residing in Canada and was formally trained as an engineer....
  
  
• Questionable Content
  Questionable Content
  Questionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. It was launched on August 1, 2003. Jacques currently makes his living exclusively from QC merchandising and advertising, making him one of the few professional webcomic artists...
  
  — by J. Jacques
• Something Positive
  Something Positive
  Something Positive or S*P is a webcomic by R. K. Milholland, which debuted on December 19, 2001. The comic is characterized by a cynical tone and off-beat humor, including its portrayals of geeks, gamers, and goths....
  
  — by R. K. Milholland
  R. K. Milholland
  Randal Keith Milholland, better known as R. K. Milholland, is the author of several webcomics: Something Positive, New Gold Dreams, Midnight Macabre, Classically Positive and Super Stupor.-History:...
  
  
• You Damn Kid!
  You Damn Kid!
  You Damn Kid! is a comic strip by cartoonist Owen Dunne. While originally appearing in non-mainstream newspapers, it has run as a webcomic since 1997. The strip is a fictionalized version of Dunne's life as a child in the late 1960s...
  
  — by Owen Dunne

Outstanding Romantic Comic

• Queen of Wands
  Queen of Wands
  Queen of Wands is a webcomic that began on July 22, 2002, and ended on February 23, 2005. The comic is a loose adaptation of events in the life of the artist, Aeire. The story's tone shifts back and forth from comedic installments to more serious and dramatic chapters...
  
  — by Aeire (Winner)
• Megatokyo
  Megatokyo
  is an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston, debuting on August 14, 2000, and then written and illustrated solely by Gallagher since July 17, 2002. Gallagher's style of writing and illustration is heavily influenced by Japanese manga. Megatokyo is freely available on...
  
  — by Fred Gallagher
• Questionable Content
  Questionable Content
  Questionable Content is a slice-of-life webcomic written and drawn by Jeph Jacques. It was launched on August 1, 2003. Jacques currently makes his living exclusively from QC merchandising and advertising, making him one of the few professional webcomic artists...
  
  — by J. Jacques
• Red String
  Red String (webcomic)
  Red String is a webcomic series created by Gina Biggs. Starting in 2002, this story chronicles the daily life of a Japanese high school student, Miharu Ogawa who discovers one day that she is the victim of an arranged marriage. The series premise is based on the red string of fate of Japanese and...
  
  — by Gina Biggs

Outstanding Science Fiction Comic

• Saturnalia — by space coyote (Winner)
• Schlock Mercenary
  Schlock Mercenary
  Schlock Mercenary is a comedic webcomic written and drawn by Howard Tayler. It follows the tribulations of a star-travelling mercenary company in a satiric, mildly dystopian 31st-century space opera setting...
  
  — by Howard Tayler
  Howard Tayler
  Howard V. Tayler is the award-winning creator of the hugely successful webcomic Schlock Mercenary. He worked as a volunteer missionary for the LDS Church, then graduated from Brigham Young University...
  
   (Winner)
• Alpha Shade
  Alpha Shade
  Alpha Shade is a long-form webcomic written and illustrated by Chris and Joe Brudlos. It takes place in a fictional world dominated by four warring empires. As of yet, very little is actually known about the Alpha Shade world. However, what is known is that it is a planet connected to our own...
  
  — by Christopher Brudlos & Joseph Brudlos
• It's Walky! — by David Willis
• Melonpool
  Melonpool
  Melonpool is a collection of characters created by Steve Troop whose adventures have been portrayed through both puppetry and in a long-running webcomic. The webcomic is the larger of these two areas and has recently been restarted after a long hiatus....
  
  — by Steve Troop

Outstanding Superhero/Action Comic

• Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki
  Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki
  Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki is a webcomic by Kittyhawk. It won a Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for "Best Superhero Comic" in 2004 and was nominated in again in 2005 and 2006. This category was eliminated in 2008...
  
  — by Kittyhawk (Winner)
• The Front — by Jerzy Drozd
• It's Walky! — by David Willis
• Killroy and Tina — by Justin Pierce
  Justin Pierce
  Justin Charles Pierce was an English-born American actor and professional skateboarder.-Early life:Born in London, England to a Welsh mother and an American father of English descent, Pierce was raised in the Marble Hill section of New York City. He attended P.S. 7 in the Bronx for Elementary...
  
  
• Skirting Danger — by Meredith Gran