The 2023 Minicomic Award Winners Have Been Announced!

The 2023 Minicomic Award winners have been announced; the second year of an initiative to spotlight “the unique and challenging work in this underrecognized short form medium.” The event was streamed last night and hosted by Leslie Hung and Sloane Leong. You can watch the YouTube video of it below.

Events like this, of course, play a vital role in promoting the work of self-publishers and indie artists and the list of runners-up and winners is a treasure chest of exciting practice to explore. Don’t just scan for the winners. Follow through on the links and find some new favourite creators to investigate further!

The 2023 Minicomic Award Winners and Runners-up

• AUTOBIO WINNER: <now I can never know you more than those white walls>. by Edgar

Runners-up:

• Primavera by Ezra David Mattes

• Just Going for a Walk by Keezy Young

• SeaSpittle 1 -Light that guides – Garresh

• Meditations on First Philosophy  – Goda Trakumaite

• HORROR WINNER: Sediment – Bhanu Pratap

Runners-up:

• SORTIE 2: I AM A MAN OF PEACE – Meanboss and BARBATUS

• Better the Devil You Know – Nozmo

• The Salt Lick Wife by Niki Smith

• SCIFI WINNER: SPEIROCHORY – Karenza Sparks

Runners-up:

• PUDICA33 – Chelsea Akpan

• Humarks by Victor Alpi

• Phone Home by Jenny O’Grady

• FANTASY WINNER: Why don’t you like me? –  Gaia Papoila

Runners-up:

• FaustFall Bleeding Spirits – Steven Bardon

• After the ashes – Barbara Mazzi

• Boxed into a Corner by Serena Cirillo

• If I Could Follow by Ari Johnson

• ROMANCE Winner: when it started – Leecie

Runners-up:

• Long Neglect – Theo Stultz

• Master’s Garden – Pa-Luis

• Worship by Aatmaja Pandya

• 39 Steps underground – Nero Villagallos O’Reilly