Glyph Comics Awards


The Glyph Comics Awards is an annual award ceremony for comic creators who are people of color. The ceremony was initiated with the goal of inspiring young writers from diverse backgrounds to participate in the comics industry.
The awards are named after Glyphs: The Language of the Black Comics Community, at Pop Culture Shock, a blog founded in 2005 by comic journalist Rich Watson as "a means to provide news and commentary on comics with black themes, as well as tangential topics in the fields of black science-fiction/fantasy and animation."
The Glyph Comics Awards have been presented at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention, in Philadelphia, since 2006.

Judges

2006

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  • Valerie D'Orazio, president of the Friends of Lulu
  • Nathan Erhardt, writer, Comics Nexus
  • Ed Mathews, columnist, Pop Image
  • Tim O'Shea, writer/interviewer, TalkingWithTim.com
  • Elayne Riggs, comics reviewer and commentator

    2010

  • David Brothers, comics blogger
  • Carol Burrell, editorial director, Graphic Universe/Lerner Publishing Group
  • Brian Cronin, writer, Comic Book Resources
  • Katie & Dan Merritt, co-owners, Green Brain Comics

    2011

  • Jennifer Contino, comics journalist
  • Martha Cornog, graphic novel columnist for Library Journal
  • Joseph Phillip Illidge, writer, Expo Weekly
  • J. Calendar Mozzocco, writer for Newsarama
  • Chad Nevett, writer for Comics Should Be Good

    2012

  • Omar Bilal, webmaster, BlackSuperhero.com
  • Robin Brenner, editor-in-chief, NoFlyingNoTights.com
  • David Brothers, comics blogger, 4thLetter.com
  • Tim Callahan, comics blogger, Comic Book Resources

    2013

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  • Maurice Waters, owner and operator of Blackscifi.com
  • Hannibal Tabu, review columnist at Comic Book Resources
  • Omar Bilal, Owner and Operator of Museum of Black Superheroes
  • Eric Deggans, TV and media critic, ''Tampa Bay Times''

    2014

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  • Pamela Thomas, Glyph Comics Awards Chairperson and curator of the Museum of UnCut Funk, a virtual museum that celebrates 1970s Black culture
  • Omar Bilal, founder of the Museum of Black Superheroes
  • Johanna Draper Carlson, founder of ComicsWorthReading.com
  • Hannibal Tabu, author, comics reviewer, and editor-in-chief of Komplicated at The Good Men Project
  • Maurice Waters, owner of Black-Scifi.com
  • Joseph Wheeler III, president of the New Art Order, founder of the OnyxCon convention, and creator of the UAC ANKh Project

    2016

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  • Pamela Thomas, Glyph Comics Awards chair
  • Michael A. Gonzales, author, writer, blogger
  • Regina L. Sawyer, owner of Lockett Down Publications
  • Grace D. Gipson, doctoral student, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jiba Molei Anderson, CEO of Griot Enterprises
  • Mark A. Randolph, writer, educator, and collector

    2020

  • Shenkarr Davis, Glyph Comics Award chair
  • Crystal Sparrow, freelance writer
  • Carla Wiley, co-founder of Progeny's Legacy Jamaa
  • William Mason Jones, founder of Afrofuturism Network
  • Deirdre Hollman, founder of the Black Comics Collective
  • Tatiana Bacchus, videographer/filmmaker

    List of Glyph Comics Awards winners

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