Up-and-Coming Talent: Plasticine Cowboy, by Jack Stamp

Best Narrative: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage, by @evegwood.com @spiremint.bsky.social

Best Art: Sacred Bodies, by VER @verface.bsky.social

Best Graphic Novel: Graphic Novel Builder: The illustrated guide to making your own comics, by Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social

Best Short Comic: One More Year, by Simon Birks, Pietro, and Rob Jones @simonbirks.com @robjoneswrites.bsky.social

Shazleen Khan is a queer Bangladeshi Muslim Illustrator and Author based in London. Their notable works include Ignatz award winning webcomic BUUZA!! and Eisner and Harvey nominated graphic novel Saving Sunshine.

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Mark Penman is a comic writer/artist and academic based in Leeds. Mark's works specialise in world building and storytelling, aspects further explored in his career as a comics academic and senior lecturer at Leeds Arts University.

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Hannah Berry is an award-winning comics creator, scriptwriter and campaigner, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, former UK Comics Laureate, and co-founder and co-director of thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org.

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