Charlotte McDuffie congratulated the winners.  “I would like to personally thank every one of them for choosing the comic book medium to share their artistic visions with the world--not only creating more diversity in the industry, but also raising the bar for excellence in the work itself, just as Dwayne always did,” she said. “The motto of this McDuffie Award is: ‘From invisible to inevitable.’ Dwayne’s words. Please continue to do his legacy proud.”