Asterios Polyp

The ceremony, hosted by PvP creator Scott Kurtz, also featured the presentation of The Hero Initiative’s first Dick Giordano Humanitarian of the Year Award to Tim Sale and Jerry Robinson, and The Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award to Walter Simonson.

If you want to know just who it was who lost you can check out the complete list of Harvey Awards nominees here. The victors can be seen here:

Best Writer
Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead (Image Comics)

Best Artist
Robert Crumb, Book of Genesis (W.W. Norton)

Best Cartoonist
Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter (IDW Publishing)

Best Letterer
David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp (Pantheon)

Best Inker
Klaus Janson, The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel)

Best Colorist
Laura Martin, The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures (IDW Publishing)

Best Cover Artist
Mike Mignola, Hellboy: The Bride of Hell (Dark Horse)

Best New Talent
Rob Guillory, Chew (Image Comics)

Best New Series
Chew (Image Comics)

Best Continuing or Limited Series
The Walking Dead (Image Comics)

Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers
The Muppet Show Comic Book (BOOM! Studios)

Best Anthology
Wednesday Comics (DC Comics)

Best Original Graphic Album
Asterios Polyp, by David Mazucchelli (Pantheon)

Best Previously Published Graphic Album
Mice Templar, Vol. 1, by Bryan J.L. Glass and Michael Avon Oeming (Image Comics)

Best Syndicated Strip or Panel
Mutts, by Patrick McDonnell (King Features Syndicate)

Best Domestic Reprint Project
The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures, by Dave Stevens; edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW Publishing)

Best American Edition of Foreign Material
The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, by Helen McCarthy (Abrams ComicArts)

Best Online Comics Work
PvP, by Scott Kurtz

Special Award for Humor in Comics
Bryan Lee O’Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5 (Oni Press)

Special Award for Excellence in Presentation
The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures, by Dave Stevens; edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW Publishing)

Best Biographic, Historical or Journalistic Presentation
Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics, by Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle (Abrams ComicArts)

Best Single Issue or Story
Asterios Polyp, by David Mazucchelli (Pantheon)

Well today, DC’s the Source Blog announced this:

WEDNESDAY COMICS, the groundbreaking weekly series featuring the all-star talents of Neil Gaiman, Joe Kubert, Lee Bermejo, Brian Azzarello, Kurt Busiek and many more, was a critical and commercial success across the board, featuring DC’s greatest characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash and Green Lantern, in stories from the most talented creators in the industry. For 12 weeks, fans were treated to an historic and energized collection of newspaper strips compiled by editor Mark Chiarello that ranged from standard and captivating superhero drama to the surreal and innovative. But wait, there’s more?

Just announced at the Baltimore Retailer Summit, we’ve got the details on the WEDNESDAY COMICS collection, a topic that’s been hotly debated and prognosticated by fans since the inception of the series.

The hardcover collection of the series, which will retail at $49.99, will clock in at 11 x 17 inches, which will present the series in a deluxe, big-screen format befitting the series, which was originally printed on broadsheet newspaper pages.

Not too bad, while I think we can all do without the 49.99 price tag, I’m for sure going to have this in my collection when the softcover comes out. In terms of how it’ll read, the mastermind behind this project editor Mark Chiarello had this to say: “….all of the stories will be collected by story – you’ll read all of the Batman stories first, and so on.”

I’m sure that due to it’s financial and critically success we’ll no doubt see another Wednesday Comics.. are there any teams or artists, writers, etc.. that you’d like to see tackle future issues? drop us a line at pdecourcy[at]comicbookdaily[dot]com