The winner of Indie Comic of the Year 2018 is….
After a hard fought campaign, and the most votes ever cast in a Pipedream Comics poll, we are delighted to announce that the winner of Small Press and Indie Comic of the Year 2018 is…
Red Rocket Comic by Matt Garvey, Andy W Clift, Grayham Puttock and Michael Rea.
“Wow, This is amazing news..” creator Matt Garvey told us. “I am incredibly flattered and grateful to everyone who voted for us…thank you. I was so fortunate to have the greatest team working with me on this comic and I couldn’t be prouder of Grayham, Andy and Michael…they deserve this win so much for all their hard work on Red Rocket Comet.”
Pipedream Comics editor Alex Thomas added to these comments: “This is a throughly deserved win for Garvey and his team. Red Rocket Comet stood out from the crowd from the first minute we read it, and all involved really stepped up a level with this one. This book is every bit the equal of anything coming out of a major publisher, and is a fantastic showcase for the kind of exciting small press and indie comics that are being produced here in the UK right now!”
It was a fantastic year for artist Andy W Clift, whose Adventures of Captain Cosmic took a deserving third place, with Rachael Ball’s Wolf the only thing capable of stopping him from getting the top two places. And here is the full line up of how they ended up.
#1 Red Rocket Comet (30.92%)
#2 Wolf (27.59%)
#3. The Adventures of Captain Cosmic (11.98%)
#4 The Needle Man (9.39%)
#5 Follow Me In (6.98)
#6 Kingdom (5.34%)
#7 Killtopia (3.36%)
#8 Away (2.94%)
#9 Gateway City (0.93%)
#10 Pirate Fun: The First Trial (0.33%)
And if you want to read the rest of our top 100 list then here is a quick link to the rest of the books which we loved this year!
The Top 10 Small Press and Indie Comics of 2018
The Best Small Press and Indie Comics of 2018: #11-20
The Best Indie and Small Press Comics of 2018: #21-30
The Best Small Press and Indie Comics of 2018: #31-40
The Best Small Press and Indie Comics of 2018: #41-50
The Best Small Press and Indie Comics of 2018 #51-100
See you again in 2019!
December 14, 2018 @ 6:57 am
This has become an absolute sham. A comic jumps from around the 15% mark to the 39% mark overnight? They just voted constantly overnight. We all watched it. A real shame when people can’t take things like this in the right spirit.
December 14, 2018 @ 10:13 am
Hi Kevin, thanks for letting me know about this. I have gone in to the website back end and blocked the IP addresses that voted all night and so hopefully this will adjust the votes.
December 14, 2018 @ 12:58 pm
Appreciate that you have taken the time to reply and try and rectify the situation but the people involved should be ashamed of themselves. Winning isn’t winning if you can’t do it fairly.
December 14, 2018 @ 1:03 pm
Is there no way you can discount the votes from the offending IP ?
December 14, 2018 @ 1:25 pm
That’s what I am trying to find out from the developer of the poll software. It will affect all the results thought as they were voting on multiple answers! I thought the software was blocking ISPs from casting more than 5 votes each, but it’s clearly not worked as well as I thought!
December 14, 2018 @ 1:44 pm
Appreciate your doing everything you can. I only noticed one in particular that made a massive jump in last 24 hours and I’ve highlighted it in a couple on social media to some people but sometimes people have the response to then go and do similar to the people they are complaining about.
Hope you manage to sort something so that everyone in the top ten are fairly represented.