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On 9 & 10 April, Animation Xpress successfully completed India’s first-ever CBAM (Comic Books & More) Summit, which was widely welcomed and hailed by the industry. And today, it held the CBAM Awards where the best talents in the world of Comic Books were honoured and recognised.
Publishers, artists, and individuals participated in large numbers, across various categories and the ANX team couldn’t have asked for a better start in the first edition of the CBAM Awards. It attracted over 300 plus entries across 33 categories which were judged by a well-qualified 12 member jury through an online mechanism.
Being the first year, the team working on CBAM Awards did face some challenges and were grateful to all the participants and jurors for their support and patience and have promised to make the next edition a much smoother process.
The event has been supported by session partner Wacom, support partner HUION and awards gifting partner XP-Pen.
Here’s the list of CBAM Awards nominations and winners:
CREATIVE Category
Best Colorist
Best Letterer
Best Writer
Best Penciller/Inker Or Penciller-inker Team Award
Best Painter/Digital Artist
Best Cover Artist Award
COMIC BOOK / GRAPHIC NOVEL Category
Best Single Issue/One-shot book
Best Continuing Series
Best Limited Series
Best New Series
Best Graphic Novel—new
Best Graphic Novel—reprint
Best Regional Language Comic Book
Best Emerging Comic Book Hero (Kids)
Best Emerging Comic Book Hero for (Mature Readers)
PUBLISHERS Category
Best Publication House (Comics & Graphic Novels) – Kids
Best Publication House (Comics & Graphic Novels) – Teens/Young Adults
Best Publication House (Comics & Graphic Novels) – Adults
Best Emerging Comic Book Publishing House
OTHERS Category
Best Web Comic
Best Digital Comic Award
Best Political Cartoonist
Best Independent Comic category
Best Emerging Comic
Best Comic Book Merchandise
Best Merchandise By Comic Artists
SPECIAL Category
Best Graphic Novel/Comic Book Of The Year
Best Children’s Illustrated Book Of The Year
Best International Comic Book
Best Comic Book Editor Award
Comic Artist Of The Year Award
Lifetime Achievement AwardGULSHAN RAI