
Nickelodeon Magazine's Comics Awards Announced
Congratulations to Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid for winning two big awards this week! The young readers of Nickelodeon Magazine have had their say (17,000 of them, in fact) and voted for their favorite comics and manga series, and Diary won both Favorite Graphic Novel and Grossest Thing in Comics (for Cheese). The awards were just announced yesterday and will be featured prominently in the April issue of the magazine. (Chris Duffy, the editor of the magazine and the guy behind the awards, discusses the process here.) Eight awards were given out in total, including Favorite Comic Book Series and Best Hair in Comics, a good sign that Nickeodeon and their readers have a healthy sense of fun about what they're reading.
Here is a complete list of winners:
- Favorite Graphic Novel: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books/Harry Abrams)
- Favorite Comic Book Series: Simpsons comics (Bongo Comics)
- Cutest Comic Character: Snoopy from Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz (United Feature Syndicate)
- Favorite Comic Strip: Garfield by Jim Davis (Universal Press Syndicate)
- Best Hair in Comics: Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (Universal Press Syndicate)
- Favorite Manga Series: Best of Pokémon Adventures by Hidenori Kusaka and Mato (Viz)
- Grossest Thing in Comics: The Cheese from Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books/Abrams)
- Favorite Fantasy Graphic Novel: Bone by Jeff Smith
-- John Hogan




