* Chris Ware, ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY #16 (ACME Novelty)

Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition
* Dawn Brown (RAVENOUS, LITTLE RED HOT)
* Aaron Renier (SPIRAL-BOUND)
* Zak Sally (RECIDIVIST)
* Ursula Vernon (DIGGER)

Best Comics-Related Periodical
* COMIC ART, edited by M. Todd Hignite (Comic Art)
* COMIC BOOK ARTIST, edited by Jon Cooke (Top Shelf)
* THE COMICS JOURNAL, edited by Gary Groth and Dirk Deppey (Fantagraphics)
* DRAW!, edited by Michael Manley (TwoMorrows)
* FOLLOWING CEREBUS, edited by Craig Miller and John Thorne (Aardvark-Vanaheim/Win-Mill Productions)

Best Comics-Related Book
* THE COMICS JOURNAL LIBRARY: CLASSIC COMIC ILLUSTRATORS, edited by Tom Spurgeon (Fantagraphics)
* EISNER/MILLER, interviews conducted by Charles Brownstein (Dark Horse Books)
* FOUL PLAY: THE ART AND ARTISTS OF THE NOTORIOUS 1950S EC COMICS, by Grant Geissman (Harper Design)
* MASTERS OF AMERICAN COMICS, edited by John Carlin, Paul Karasik, and Brian Walker (Hammer Museum/MOCA Los Angeles/Yale University Press)
* RGK: ART OF ROY G. KRENKEL, edited by J. David Spurlock and Barry Klugerman (Vanguard)

Best Publication Design
* Acme Novelty Library Annual Report to Shareholders, designed by Chris Ware (Pantheon)
* LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND, designed by Philippe Ghuilemetti (Sunday Press Books)
* PROMETHEA #32, designed by J. H. Williams III and Todd Klein (ABC)
* WALT AND SKEEZIX, designed by Chris Ware (Drawn & Quarterly)
* WIMBLEDON GREEN, designed by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)

Hall of Fame
Judges' Choices: Floyd Gottfredson, William Moulton Marston

Voters will choose four from among:
Matt Baker
Vaughn Bode
Wayne Boring
Reed Crandall
Creig Flessel
Ramona Fradon
Harold Gray
Graham Ingels
Robert Kanigher
Russ Manning
Mort Meskin
Marty Nodell
Gilbert Shelton
Jim Steranko