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"The winners of the 2009 Harvey Awards have been announced. Asterios Polyp, Chew, The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures and The Walking Dead were handed accolades at the Baltimore event on Saturday. Image titles The Walking Dead and Chew were named as &amp;#039;Best Continuing Or Limited Series&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Best New Series&amp;#039; respectively. IDW&amp;#039;s Rocketeer earned &amp;#039;Best Reprint&amp;#039; and a special prize for presentation, while Asterios Polyp took &amp;#039;Best Graphic Album&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Best Single Issue Or Story&amp;#039;. Walking Dead scribe Robert Kirkman bagged a &amp;#039;Best Writer&amp;#039; award, Rocketeer landed a &amp;#039;Best Colourist&amp;#039; prize for Laura Martin. R. Crumb was named as &amp;#039;Best Artist&amp;#039; for his work on Book Of Genesis. Marvel and DC were awarded one gong each. The former for Klaus Janson&amp;#039;s work as inker on The Amazing Spider-Man, and the latter for its Wednesday Comics anthology. Other winners included Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Scott Pilgrim mastermind Bryan Lee O&amp;#039;Malley. The Hero Initiative&amp;#039;s Dick Giordano Humanitarian Of The Year Award was handed to Tim Sale and Jerry Robinson, and its Lifetime Achievement Award went to Walter Simonson. A full list of winners is available via the Harvey Awards&amp;#039; official website. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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