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The British Comic Awards 2015 – Live #TBF15 (UPDATED)

We are live from the British Comic Awards 2015, as part of the Thought Bubble Festival. Thanks to Page 45, Orbital Awesome Merchandise, Gazelle and more, with judges Eddie Argos, Kate Beaton, Stephen Holland, Jonathan Entwistle and Scroobius Pip. The room is packed, and attendees spill out of the dors…

The winners are in bold. Any attendee shortlisted who attended the evening got a free British Comic Awards.

Best Comic – Sponsored by Awesome Merchandise

• Beast Wagon – Owen Michael Johnson, John Pearson and Colin Bell (Self published)
• Grey Area: From the City to the Sea – Tim Bird (Avery Hill Publishing)
• Hand Me Down – Kristyna Baczynski (Self published)
• Lost Property – Andy Poyiadgi (Nobrow)
• Strip – Sarah Gordon (Self published)

Tim was shocked to win the award and expressed his gratitude. "For me personally seeing self published comics taken more seriously has been a great inspiration."

Best Book

• Comic Book Slumber Party: Fairytales for Bad Bitches – Hannah Chapman (Editor); Stephanie Ayres, Sarah Burgess, Emma Carlisle, Lucie Ebrey, Enoki, Lize Meddings, Becca Tobin, Donya Todd, Alice Urbino and Jenn Woodall (Self published)
• Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy – Darryl Cunningham (Myriad Editions)
• The Motherless Oven – Rob Davis (SelfMadeHero)
• The Rabbit – Rachael Smith (Avery Hill Publishing)
• Tim Ginger – Julian Hanshaw (Top Shelf)

Rob dedicated the award to Ian Culbard who inspired him to this work and is currently too ill to draw.

Young People's Comic Award – In partnership with Leeds Libraries

• Cindy and Biscuit Vol 1: We Love Trouble – Dan White (Self published/Milk the Cat Comics)
• Gary's Garden Book 1 – Gary Northfield (David Fickling Books)
• Ghost Cat's Pedigree Chums – Craig Conlan (Self published)
• Maleficium – EdieOP (Avery Hill Publishing)
• Star Cat Book 01 – James Turner (David Fickling Books)

Emerging Talent

• Sarah Graley (Our Super Adventure, Pizza Witch, Rent Quest)
• Rachael Stott (Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor (SDCC Exclusive), Star Trek #46 and #47, Star Trek/Planet of the Apes #1-5)
• Matt Taylor (The Great Salt Lake, Wolf #1 and #2)
• Adam Vian (Long Lost Lempi, Snippets: Extracts from 4 comics that don't Exist)
• Christian Ward (ODY-C Volume 1, ODY-C #6)

Rachel said thanks to to Chris Ryall and Sarah Gaydos for giving her her first Planet Of The Apes work, as well as thanks to John Mcrea…

Hall of Fame

The fourth entrant to the BCA Hall of Fame will be Scottish comics legend and creator of Desperate Dan, Oor Wullie and The Broons, Dudley D. Watkins.

The show gave a presentation on Watkins and his life's work. I grew up reading some his classic work, though he died before I was born. But his Broons and Oor Wullie, his Desperate Dan and Lord Snooty lived on while I was a child in the form of reprints. And today he remains an influence on many, especially Frank Quitely.

You can view every eligible title submitted for this year's awards on the BCA Longlist 2014/15.

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