StArt Faire's 2016 Excellence in Webcomics Award Winners!

[donathinfrye]

We received over 300 submissions, and many truly excellent webcomics, to our first EIW Awards. Our awesome judges have rigorously read and scored each comic based on curated criteria, and we're very happy to announce the award winners. While you're taking a look at the fantastic comics that received recognition this year, make sure to scroll down and vote for the People's Choice Award too! You can get more frequent award news on Twitter by following along at #eiwAwards or @Donathin_Frye.

In January, we'll be hosting a live event to announce the Best in Category overall winners, talk webcomics and shop with some of our judges, and unveil the People's Choice winner too. But that's another announcement for another day.

Thanks to all from the great Tapastic community who submitted. Reading all of your comics was an honest joy! And if you're just poking around, looking for some good reading, well you can't go wrong with the list below.

http://startfaire.com/eiwawards.shtml

[Kura]

omggggggggggggggggggggg

I need to check out some of those titles, a lot I have read but there are some I never heard of before xO Must increase reading list.

[AnnaLandin]

Aaaah, awesome, the results are out! I'll be sure to yell about this on Twitter a lot!

@kurapikasuki If you've got a stomach for a bit of gore, can I please recommend Bicycle Boy? It's one of my favourite discoveries to come out of these awards. The colours are just gorgeous!

[Wishjacked]

I didn't enter this year, but I've been watching for the results for several months and I'm so excited to see that several of my very favorite comics were chosen!! I can't wait to check out the others.

(You KNOW I'm always looking to expand my already ridiculous TBR pile, so this is a godsend.)

[quietsnooze]

Congrats to all the winners!! And thanks so much to the judges for rewarding Radio Silence with an excellence in drama! I'm so flattered and honoured! : D!!!

[VermillionWorks]

Still shocked about Daniel being in there! Shucks. >////<

[agentfink]

I was surprised to see The Pale in the first category (writing)-- "Hey, that's me!"
Thank you judges for all your hard work in reading all those submissions! You hand picked some excellent comics and I'm flattered to be featured in a few categories!
Congrats to all!

[donathinfrye]

Thanks guys. And folks, don't forget to check out the link at the top and vote for the People's Choice Award! There are a lot of great comics up for it, and many of them published here on Tapas/tic!

[donathinfrye]

Final reminder: today is the deadline to vote for the 2016 People's Choice Award for webcomics!
http://startfaire.com/eiwawards.shtml

[donathinfrye]

It's time. The BEST IN and PEOPLE'S CHOICE Awards will be announced live during #ComicBookHour tomorrow on Twitter.

There's also a pre-awards podcast hosted by myself and Derik Diaz at 11:45am, where we'll be giving shout outs to a TON of webcomics. Tune in, and tell your friends to tune in too! Here's a little poster with some more info that you can copy/paste/share too!:

Thanks to all of the incredible creators who submitted to us. Running this event has been an honor. We hope you'll join us in one last celebration of 2016's amazing energy, creativity and talent in the webcomics community!

The Pre-Show Podcast is now live! You can listen to us chat about some of the best webcomics of 2016 here!

[TrustyShamrock]

dang these winners are top notch :0 good picks yall