Guest Judges: Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh

Entries: 485

Prize Pool: $5000

AUTOBIO: <now I can never know you more than those white walls> by Edgar/Siyuan Wen

HORROR: Sediment – Bhanu Pratap

SCIFI: SPEIROCHORY – Karenza Sparks

FANTASY: Why don’t you like me? – Gaia Papoila

ROMANCE: when it started – Leecie

Watch the 2023 award livestream here or read a recap of the winners, runners-up and our comments at Comicsbeat.

The 2023 awards were sponsored by Shing Yin Khor, Erica Schultz, Steve Lieber, an anonymous donor, Bulgilhan Press, Tommy Rodricks & Leslie Hung, Emily Carroll, Kris Mukai, Jam, Andrea from White Squirrel, Yuko Ota & Anath Hirsh, Silver Sprocket, Sloane Leong, and David Brothers. Winners with print editions of their minicomic will also be featured at Wakeup Comics in Nashville, TN. Thanks to those sponsors, each winner was awarded $1000 USD!