The winners of the 2015 Irish Comic News Awards were announced December 5.

BEST ARTIST PUBLISHED IN IRELAND

• Paul Bolger

BEST WRITER PUBLISHED IN IRELAND

• Paul Bolger & Barry Devlin

BEST IRISH ARTIST PUBLISHED OUTSIDE IRELAND

• Declan Shalvey

BEST IRISH WRITER PUBLISHED OUTSIDE IRELAND

• Maura McHugh

BEST COLOURIST PUBLISHED IN IRELAND

• Ruth Redmond

BEST COLOURIST PUBLISHED OUTSIDE IRELAND

• Jordie Bellaire

BEST LETTERER

• Darren Brown

BEST DIGITAL COMIC

• Death’s New Lease on Life

BEST WEBCOMIC

• NHOJ Comics

BEST IRISH CREATOR COMIC PUBLISHED IN IRELAND

• Hound

BEST IRISH CREATOR COMIC PUBLISHED OUTSIDE IRELAND

• 2000AD

BEST NEWCOMER

• Séan Hogan

BEST IRISH COMIC RELATED BLOG/WEBSITE

• Geek Ireland

BEST IRISH COMIC RELATED EVENT

• Dublin Comic Con

BEST IRISH COMIC SHOP

• The Big Bang

BEST IRISH ANTHOLOGY

• Lightning Strike

OVERALL BEST IRISH COMIC

• Hound

BEST IRISH COMIC COVER

• Heavy Black

BEST PUBLISHER

• Lightning Strike

BEST COMIC RELATED/FEATURED IRISH PODCAST

• The Irish Pubcast

And two additions were made to the Irish Comic News Hall of Fame, first given in 2011.

ICN Hall of Fame (Individual) 2015

• John McCrea

Belfast born artist John McCrea is best known for his collaborations with writer Garth Ennis. He broke into American comics working with him on Hitman for DC. He is currently working on a spin-off mini-series, All Star Section 8. He has worked on a variety of projects for Marvel, IDW amongst others, recently stepping into the creator owned world of Image with Mythic (with writer Phil Hester).

ICN Hall of Fame (Book) 2015

• The Earthbound God by Anthea West (editorial assistance by Ruth Redmond, published by Dustbunny Comics in 2013).

[Via SF Site News.]