Ledger Award - Awards - 2004

2004

Nominees were suggested through a forum thread, compiled into a poll and winners were decided by popular vote. The winners were announced on Australian Day, 2005.

The nominees and winners in the first year were

PERSON OF THE YEAR

• Mark Selan (Winner)
• Aaron Burgess
• Daniel Zachariou

ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR

• Gary Chaloner's John Law in print (Winner)
• Dillon Naylor's 2004 (Batrisha wear in Target etc.)
• Phase Two Comics

NEW TALENT DESERVING WIDER RECOGNITION

• Matt Huynh (Winner)
• Jase Harper
• Chelsea Fritzlaff

SMALL PRESS TITLE OF THE YEAR

• Eat Comics, Tonia Walden, editor (Winner)
• Sporadic, Jase Harper & Jules Faber, editors
• Dirty Little Creep, Mandy Ord

INDEPENDENT PRESS TITLE OF THE YEAR

• The Crumpleton Experiments, Nautilus Illustrations (Winner)
• Killeroo, Ozone Studios
• Azerath, Creatorline/Phosphorescent Comics

INTERNATIONAL TITLE OF THE YEAR

• Will Eisner's John Law: Dead Man Walking, IDW (Winner)
• Small Gods, Image Comics
• District X, Marvel Comics

ANTHOLOGY OF THE YEAR

• Eat Comics, Tonia Walden, editor (Winner)
• Sporadic, Jase Harper & Jules Faber, editors
• The Ink, Aaron Burgess, editor

WEBCOMIC OF THE YEAR

• Platinum Grit (Winner)
• Will Eisner's John Law
• Raymondo Person

WRITER OF THE YEAR

• Trudy Cooper et al. (Winner)
• Christian Read
• Daniel Reed

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

• Trudy Cooper (Winner)
• Jason Badower
• Jase Harper

INKER OF THE YEAR

• Gary Chaloner (Winner)
• Doug Holgate
• Darren Close
• Daniel Reed

COLOURIST OF THE YEAR

• Annette Kwok (Winner)
• Doug Holgate
• Jason Badower

LETTERER OF THE YEAR

• Gary Chaloner (Winner)
• Jason Paulos
• Jason Kovacs

COVER ARTIST OF THE YEAR

• Gary Chaloner, Will Eisner's John Law: Dead Man Walking (Winner)
• Matt Huynh, Domino Joe, Bloom
• Jason Badower, Killeroo Book 2

SINGLE ISSUE OR STORY OF THE YEAR

• 'Law, Luck and a Dead Eyed Mystic' (Will Eisner's John Law: Dead Man Walking), Gary Chaloner (Winner)
• The Eldritch Kid #1, Christian Read & Christopher Burns
• 'Meat Burger Heaven' (Eat Comics), Dean Rankine
• 'Good for the Goose' (Killeroo Book 2), Jan Napiorkowski & Jason Badower

COMIC STRIP OF THE YEAR

• Batrisha (K-Zone et al.), Dillon Naylor (Winner)
• Grossgirl and Boogerboy (Mania), Dean Rankine
• Raymondo Person, Patrick Alexander

RETAIL OUTLET OF THE YEAR

• Kings Comics, Sydney (Winner)
• Phase Two Comics, online
• Minotaur Books, Melbourne

DESIGN OR PRESENTATION OF THE YEAR

• The Watch: Casus Belli, design by Karen Howard (Winner)
• Killeroo Book Two, design by Darren Close
• Keychain Comics, design by Aaron Burgess

LEDGER OF HONOUR

• Peter Ledger* (automatically inducted)
• Gary Chaloner (Winner)
• Trudy Cooper
• Tim McEwen
• Tonia Walden