Selkie Comic Awards

View of the exhibition space at La Belle Adventure, with pages and covers from the shortlisted comics on display on the walls.

View of the exhibition space at La Belle Adventure, with pages and covers from the shortlisted comics on display on the walls.

View of the exhibition space at La Belle Adventure, with pages and covers from the shortlisted comics on display on the walls.

View of the exhibition space at La Belle Adventure, with pages and covers from the shortlisted comics on display on the walls.

In Edinburgh this weekend? Pop down to La Belle Adventure at 225 Leith Walk to check out the work of all of our fantastic winners and nominees for 2025! 🦭

RUIN won Best Narrative in the @selkieawards.org!

In a monastery where revealing one's face is an affront to the god housed inside its very chambers, what happens when one young man accidentally sees the face of another?

Read for free: visagecomic.com
Buy the complete comic: evegwood.com/shop

Still glowing from this!

If you want to buy my ✨ award winning ✨ Graphic Novel Builder, signed, sketched and dedicated to the comic making kid in your life, you can do so at the link below!

www.edwardross.co.uk/shop

We won Best Narrative!! THANK YOU!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Had such a genuine thrill when SCRB popped up as the winner!! Thank you so much to the judges and to the Selkie Awards for the consideration and recognition!!

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Absolutely stunned and delighted that Graphic Novel Builder just won ‘Best Graphic Novel’ at the Selkie Comic Awards tonight. The work on show from the other nominees and winners is all stunning, an absolute testament to the strength of creativity in our community.

Humbled for my book 'One More Year' to win 'Best Short Comic' at the @selkieawards.org 2025 - so many fantastic Scottish creators - it was a privilege just to be nominated!
Story by @simonbirks.com (me!)
Art by Pietro
Letters by @robjoneswrites.bsky.social
Published by @bluefoxcomics.com

Logos: Selkie Awards, sponsored by La Belle Adventure Text: Selkie Awards 2025, Up-and-Coming Talent: Plasticine Cowboy, by Jack Stamp

Up-and-Coming Talent: Plasticine Cowboy, by Jack Stamp

Logos: Selkie Awards, sponsored by La Belle Adventure Text: Selkie Awards 2025, Best Narrative: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage, by Eve Greenwood and Spire Greenwood

Best Narrative: Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage, by @evegwood.com @spiremint.bsky.social

Logos: Selkie Awards, sponsored by La Belle Adventure Text: Selkie Awards 2025, Best Art: Sacred Bodies, by Ver

Best Art: Sacred Bodies, by VER @verface.bsky.social

Logos: Selkie Awards, sponsored by La Belle Adventure Text: Selkie Awards 2025, Best Graphic Novel: Graphic Novel Builder, by Edward Ross

Best Graphic Novel: Graphic Novel Builder: The illustrated guide to making your own comics, by Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social

Logos: Selkie Awards, sponsored by La Belle Adventure Text: Selkie Awards 2025, Best Short Comic: One More Year, by Simon Birks, Pietro, Rob Jones

Best Short Comic: One More Year, by Simon Birks, Pietro, and Rob Jones @simonbirks.com @robjoneswrites.bsky.social

Logos: Selkie Awards, sponsored by La Belle Adventure Text: The Selkie Awards, 2025 Awards Announcement

Thank you to everyone who came to our second award ceremony! Our 2025 award winners have now been announced...

selkieawards.org/2025

Half an hour to go!!! Have you registered to attend our awards ceremony yet? selkieawards.org/2025

The gigantic 200 page climax of Kid Eastwood series 2 is on the shortlist for best narrative at the Selkies this year and I’m honoured to have made the running!

Looking forward to tuning in tonight to see who takes it!

I'm proud to be nominated in two categories in this year's Selkie Awards: Best Short Comic, for Grawlgore & Shanks, and Best Graphic Novel, for Sink Vol 3. I'm part of two stacked shortlists with some awesome comics and creators. Tune in tonight and join this celebration of Scottish comics!

The Selkie Awards | 2025

Our online awards ceremony is TONIGHT at 7pm GMT! We are so excited to share our winners with you.

Be sure to register through our website: selkieawards.org/2025

Heading: Selkie logo, "Judging Panel 2025" Content: A photo of Shazleen Khan. Text: Shazleen Khan: Illustrator, author and lecturer/speaker

Shazleen Khan is a queer Bangladeshi Muslim Illustrator and Author based in London. Their notable works include Ignatz award winning webcomic BUUZA!! and Eisner and Harvey nominated graphic novel Saving Sunshine.

Read more: selkieawards.org/2025#judges

Heading: Selkie logo, "Judging Panel 2025" Content: A photo of M D Penman. Text: M D Penman: Comic creator and senior lecturer

Mark Penman is a comic writer/artist and academic based in Leeds. Mark's works specialise in world building and storytelling, aspects further explored in his career as a comics academic and senior lecturer at Leeds Arts University.

Read more: selkieawards.org/2025#judges

Heading: Selkie logo, "Judging Panel 2025" Content: A photo of Hannah Berry. Text: Hannah Berry: comic creator, scriptwriter, and campaigner. Photo by Clair McNamee.

Hannah Berry is an award-winning comics creator, scriptwriter and campaigner, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, former UK Comics Laureate, and co-founder and co-director of thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org.

Read more: selkieawards.org/2025#judges

Our awards ceremony is fast approaching! We're very excited to announce our judging panel, who have been hard at work reading through our shortlists...

Check out their full bios at the following link:
selkieawards.org/2025#judges

ICYMI - Fragile Release is up for an award! you can pick up a copy here, or at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social next month...

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The Comics Laureate UK Graphic Novel list for 2025-2026 will be looking for graphic novels to be promoted to libraries. If you wish to be considered for the list, then inbox me a link to your work via Dropbox. Must have a valid UK publisher/ISBN number. Cut off DATE: 3rd Nov 2025. PLEASE SHARE! Ta!

Logo: "Selkie Awards - Shortlisted 2025" bordered by teal seaweed and an indigo seal

Illustrated cover for Graphic Novel Builder: The Illustrated Guide to Making Your Own Comics by Edward Ross, with and Intro by Alice Oseman. Five teenagers at work around a huge dark blue sketchbook, which has the title on it. Finn draws on the cover, Jay types on a laptop, Sam pours colour into the book, and Rayah and Ash build a mix-and-match bird astronaut character out of pieces. Around them we see a variety of characters, including a dinosaur, robot, and adventuring fox.

Totally excited to be shortlisted for a @selkieawards.org for Best Graphic Novel.

Selkie Awards 'Shortlisted' logo designed by Jen Robbie

The cover of my horror comic, 'The Feed'.

My comic 'The Feed' (with glorious colours by @catsinook.bsky.social ) has been shortlisted at the 2025 @selkieawards.org in the category of 'Up and Coming Talent'!

All the entries are fantastic and will be in an exhibition at La Belle Adventure bookshop in Edinburgh from the 26th Nov.

I drew a little something to celebrate Ruin's Selkie nominations! Ruin sits alongside a lot of other fantastic work, so please make sure to check out the shortlist 👇

Super excited to see @simonbirks.com & Pietro's One More Year nominated for THREE(!) @selkieawards.org.

An absolutely wonderful book to letter, Simon's story is so poignant and touching, whilst also heartbreaking. Pietro's art is STELLAR! Such emotion and character. Made lettering it very easy.

Eclipse of Moths has been shortlisted for Best Art! Thank you for the nomination. There's a really strong selection of comics this year, congrats to all the nominees!

Extremely happy to be shortlisted for Best Graphic Novel at this year’s Selkie Awards! Surrounded by wild talent!