Best Writer

Gilbert Hernandez for Love & Rockets
[ Fantagraphics ]

Best Artist or Penciller

Brian Bolland for The Killing Joke
[ DC ]

Best Cartoonist

Paul Chadwick for Concrete
[ Dark Horse Comics ]

Best New Series

Kings In Disguise by Vance and Burr
[ Kitchen Sink Press ]

Best Continuing or Limited Series

Love & Rockets by Los Bros. Hernandez
[ Fantagraphics ]

Best Single Issue or Story

The Killing Joke by Moore, Bolland, and Higgins
[ DC ]

Best Graphic Album

The Killing Joke by Moore, Bolland, and Higgins
[ DC ]

Special Achievement in Humor

Bill Watterson for Calvin and Hobbes
[ UPS/Andrews & McMeel ]

Best Inker

Al Williamson for Daredevil
[ Marvel ]

Best Letterer

Ken Bruzenak for Mr. Monster
[ Dark Horse Comics ]

Best Colorist

John Higgins for The Killing Joke
[ DC ]

Special Award for Excellence in Presentation

Hardboiled Defective Stories, design by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
[ Raw/Penguin Books ]

Best American Edition of Foreign Material

The Incal, translated by Randy & Jean-Marc L’officier, various editors
[ Marvel/Epic ]

Best Reprint

The Complete Crumb Comics, edited by Gary Groth and R. Fiore, art directed by Dale Crain
[ Fantagraphics ]

Jack Kirby Hall of Fame

Wally Wood