The awards have been developed in consultation with McDuffie’s widow, writer Charlotte Fullerton McDuffie. These awards are sort of the kids’ comics equivalents of the Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award that was given out this year for the first time as well (see “First Dwayne McDuffie Award Goes to M.F.K. Webcomic”). Three judges, teen librarian Edith Donnell, comic shop owner Dan Merrit, and comics journalist Brigid Alverson, have chosen the ten finalists for the first annual “Dwayne McDuffie Kids’ Comics Award,” which will be announced on June 20, 2015.
The ten finalists for the first annual “Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids Comics” are:
Bird and Squirrel on Ice by James Burks
Cat Dad, King of the Goblins by Britt Wilson
Cleopatra in Space by Mike Maihack
Costume Quest: Invasion of the Candy Snatchers by Zac Gorman
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust by Loic Dauviller
Hilda and the Black Hound by Luke Pearson
Lowriders in Space by Cathy Camper
The Magical Monster of Turkey Hollow by Jim Henson & Jerry Juhl, adapted by Roger Landridge
Sisters by Raina Telgemeier