Platinum Dan recently announced that unlike last year's Comic Book Challenge, this year's top 50 entrants will all receive a prize in addition to the $595 that will be given to help with the traveling expenses. Prizes include comic software and Wacom tablets.
More information can be found here but below are the prizes:
"Nice Work"-the rat-pack era graphic novel about Sinatra stand-in Johnny Cat at
Brad Guigar's weekly comic about life in Philadelphia, Phables, has been awarded Best Local Column by the Greater Philadelphia Society of Prefessional Journalists.
Jeff Knooren of Super Unit 5000 won the May Innocent Webcomic Fan Art Contest. The top prize is $50 and the winning entry will be printed on the back cover of the next issue of "Family Bones" comic book distributed worldwide. The contest was held to celebrate the 100th page of the Innocent comic.