Dark Horse Takes Home Multiple Diamond Gem Awards

By Staff Reports

This week, Diamond Comic Distributors announced the recipients of the prestigious Diamond Gem Awards, the pinnacle of sales achievement for publishers, vendors, industry executives, creators, and more, with Dark Horse Comics receiving several accolades for its 2014 projects.

Dark Horse dominated among independent publishers for the second year running, with the new launch of Dark Horse Presents earning Anthology of the Year for the third consecutive time.

This year’s Dark Horse wins are as follows:

• Licensed Comic Book of the Year: Serenity: Leaves On The Wind #1 (NOV130031)
• Licensed TP/HC of the Year: Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Search Library Ed. HC (OCT130056)
• Anthology of the Year: Dark Horse Presents 2014 #1 (JUN140010)

“The Gem Awards are very important to us, since they originate within the retail community. We are honored that our work has been chosen for recognition in such a major way,” said Dark Horse president and founder Mike Richardson. “Thank you to all our retail partners for their support this year, and we look forward to continuing our success in 2015.”

Dark Horse congratulates the editors, creators, and licensors who worked on each of the above titles and thanks our retail partners for all their support in 2014!