The winners of the Harvey Awards, the comic awards named for famed creator Harvey Kurtzman, were announced at the Pittsburgh Comicon last weekend.  Harveys are nominated and voted on by comics industry professionals.  The awards were dominated by Fantagraphics and DC this year, a not unusual circumstance.  Superheros made a better than usual showing, albeit in unusual forms in DC's Bizarro and Jack Cole and Plastic Man. 

In the biggest upset of the awards, for only the third time since the award was begun in 1990 (the Harveys began in 1988), Comics Journal did not win Best Biographical, Historical, or Journalistic Presentation, losing out to Jack Cole.... (the previous losses were to Crumb and Understanding Comics). 

BEST WRITER

Azzarello, Brian- 100 Bullets, DC Comics

BEST ARTIST

Risso, Ed- 100 Bullets, DC Comics

BEST CARTOONIST

Clowes, Dan

SPECIAL AWARD FOR HUMOR

Evan Dorkin for Dork

SPECIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRESENTATION

Spirit Archives, DC Comics

BEST NEW SERIES

La Perdida, Fantagraphics

BEST CONTINUING OR LIMITED SERIES

100 Bullets, DC Comics

BEST SINGLE ISSUE OR STORY

Eightball No. 22, Fantagraphics

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM OF ORIGINAL WORK

Golem's Mighty Swing, Drawn and Quarterly

BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM OF PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK

Lone Wolf and Cub, Dark Horse Comics

BEST ANTHOLOGY

Bizarro, DC Comics

BEST INKER

Burns, Charles-Black Hole

BEST LETTERER

Ware, Chris -Acme Novelty Library

BEST COLORIST

Ware, Chris -Acme Novelty Library

BEST SYNDICATED STRIP

Mutts

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL PRESENTATION

Jack Cole and Plastic Man

BEST PRESENTATION OF FOREIGN MATERIAL

Lone Wolf and Cub, Dark Horse Comics

BEST DOMESTIC REPRINT PROJECT

Spirit Archives, DC Comics

BEST NEW TALENT

Jason -Hey Wait

BEST COVER ARTIST