The Hugo Awards, first presented in 1953, have been called 'among the highest honors bestowed in science fiction and fantasy writing'. Of this year's 1922 final ballots, 1091 contained a vote for Best Graphic Story (with 344 nominators) and 932 for Best Fan Artist (217 nominators). Digger is a PERFECT fantasy graphic novel adventure about a female atheist wombat who meets a statue that speaks for the god Ganesha, a priest living with. is a moderately popular website, according to Alexa, which gave it an ordinary traffic rank. Victory was elusive once again for eleven-time nominee Taral Wayne, who took sixth place in the tallying for Best Fan Artist. The win was a turnaround from the Hugo's nomination phase, which saw Digger in third place with barely half the ballots of Schlock Mercenary. 8) of the next-highest nominee, Fables Vol 15: Rose Red, with Locke & Key Volume 4, Keys to the Kingdom, Schlock Mercenary: Force Multiplication and The Unwritten (Volume 4): Leviathan taking subsequent places.ĭigger also won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Award for Outstanding Black and White Art in 2005-6, and Outstanding Anthropomorphic Cartoon in 2006, and has been nominated for several other awards, including the 2005 Ursa Major Award. The series about a tunnelling wombat received more than twice the first-preference votes (p. Ursula Vernon's Digger has won Best Graphic Story at the 2012 Hugo Awards, as decided by by members of the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention ( ChiCon 7). As you can probably guess, Digger won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story.

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