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

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!

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

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... ko-fi.com/s/9f7839cd1a

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!

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

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!

Oh wow! Our comic 'The Feed' has been shortlisted for a lovely award!!

A Duel of Fools has been nominated for two Selkies this year!! I'm over the moon! All the shortlists are PACKED with incredible work, huge congratulations to all the shortlisted creators, especially my lovely friends @spiremint.bsky.social, @evegwood.com, @sna1l.bsky.social and @verface.bsky.social

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Hugely delighted and honoured to be up for 3️⃣ award nominations for RUIN!! Thank you so much!! Congrats to all our fellow nominees!

Very proud to see both Sink Vol 3 and Grawlgore & Shanks nominated for Selkie Comic Awards!

Ruin got nominated for 3!! Selkie Award categories 😳😳😳 and if you don't know what it is, it's the graphic novel I drew with my spouse. and you can read it for free btw visagecomic.com

Issue 27 of Kid Eastwood made the shortlist for best narrative at the Selkie Awards!! I’m Incredibly honoured to be up there with such great looking books!!

🦭 It's time to announce the shortlist for our 2025 Selkie Awards!🦭 Check out the link below for the details, and for information on how to sign up to our online award ceremony: 🦭 selkieawards.org/2025 🦭

Hi everyone! We have been having a fantastic time reading through your submissions! Unfortunately, due to some unforeseen scheduling issues, we need to delay the announcement by one week; the new announcement date will be 10 October. So sorry to keep you waiting, and many thanks for your patience!

Less than 10 hours to go!!! Send your comics to us before midnight tonight to be considered for the 2025 awards: selkieawards.org/2025

Just a few more days until the deadline! Have you submitted your comic yet? 👀

Only one week until the deadline! Let's see those comics! 🦭

Happy #SmallPressDay! A reminder that the Selkie Awards are currently open for submissions, with a deadline of 31 July. If you've made a comic in Scotland in the past year, please consider submitting! 🦭 selkieawards.org/2025

🦭 The Selkie Awards are back for our second year! 🦭 If you're based in Scotland and finished a comic in the past year, we want to hear from you! Our applications are now open until 31 July. Check out the details here: selkieawards.org/2025 #scottishcomics #scottishcomicbookday #smallpress

🦭 The Selkie Awards are back for our second year! 🦭 If you're based in Scotland and finished a comic in the past year, we want to hear from you! Our applications are now open until 31 July. Check out the details here: selkieawards.org/2025 #scottishcomics #scottishcomicbookday #smallpress

Be amazing if £1.5m could be invested in the UK comics scene, wouldn’t it? Someone’d need to build a fully-costed, well-reasoned argument to DCMS for such a thing first, I guess… WELL, NOW. Come see what your friends at CCIC have done! www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...

Hey! I just won a Selkie award for 'best art' for Torse! This is lovely! I seemed very rude during the awards though as my laptop sound cut out, and wasn't letting me write in the chat. Congrats to everyone though! This is nice

Aaah, I'm so amazed and happy that Tide won best short! Thank you so much! 💚😭

I’m laid up on the sofa recovering from a hospital thing and feeling sorry for myself, so this is really lovely news! @chrissywilliams.bsky.social and I won a @selkieawards.org for Best Narrative!

Twistwood Tales Wins!! Thank you @selkieawards.org what a wonderful way to end the year!

Ohhh yeahhh!!! Won Up and coming talent in the Selkie awards!! ☺️

Loved being part of this. Well done to all involved. Congrats to the amazing comic creators repping Scotland! Well done to the winners! :)

Thank you to everyone who came to this evening's award ceremony! It's a great honour to announce the winners of our first ever Selkie Awards... selkieawards.org/2024

Starting in one hour!!!

We're currently putting the finishing touches on our online awards ceremony, which begins at 7pm! Will we see you there? 👀 Be sure to register at the link on our website: selkieawards.org/2024

Just over 24 hours left until our online award ceremony! You can still sign up to attend via the registration link on our website: selkieawards.org/2024

If you're in Edinburgh check this exhibition at La Belle Adventure! ☺️🤖

Out shopping in Edinburgh today? Why not take a detour to La Belle Adventure to check out our shortlist exhibition? And maybe even pick up some award-nominated comics along the way 🎁✨