SPX-festivalen i Bethesda, Maryland, har ry som USAs mest kvalitetsbevidste festival for alternative tegneserier. Den afholdtes sidste weekend for 15. gang og dannede traditionen tro rammerne for landets højest ansete prisuddeling for small press-tegneserier. Her er vinderne:
* Outstanding Artist
Eddie Campbell, Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus) (Top Shelf Productions)
* Outstanding Anthology or Collection
Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Outstanding Graphic Novel
Market Day, James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Outstanding Story
Monsters, Ken Dahl (Secret Acres)
* Promising New Talent
Matt Wiegle, “The Orphan Baiter”, Papercutter #13 (Tugboat Press)
* Outstanding Series
Ganges, Kevin Huizenga (Fantagraphics Books)
* Outstanding Comic
I Want You, Lisa Hanawalt (Buenaventura Press)
* Outstanding Mini-Comic
Rambo 3.5, Jim Rugg
* Outstanding Online Comic
Troop 142, Mike Dawson
Læs mere på SPX’ hjemmeside. Se en mere detaljeret oversigt over vinderne og alle de nominerede her.
