List of comics awards
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This list of comics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for comics from around the world. The list includes awards given out for achievements in cartooning, comic books, comic strips and graphic novels. Some works in comics are also eligible for, and in some instances have won literary awards.
American awards
In chronological order from date of first award presentation:
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning — first awarded 1922
Reuben Award — first awarded in 1946
Various National Cartoonists Society awards — first awarded in 1948
Alley Award — first awarded in 1961; ceased in 1969
Shazam Award — first awarded in 1970; ceased in 1974
Goethe Award (later renamed "Comic Fan Art Awards") — first awarded in 1970; ceased in 1974.
Ignatz Awards (OrlandoCon) — first awarded in 1974; ceased in 1994
Inkpot Awards — first awarded in 1974
Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards — first awarded in 1982; ceased in 2008
Russ Manning Award — first awarded in 1982
Jack Kirby Comics Industry Award — first awarded in 1985, ceased in 1987 (split into Harvey Award and Eisner Award)
Harvey Awards — first awarded in 1988
Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards — first awarded in 1988
Compuserve Comics and Animation Forum's Don Thompson Awards (colloquially known as the "Don Thompson Awards") — first awarded in 1992; ceased in 1998
Wizard Fan Awards — first awarded in 1993; ceased in 2006
Lulu Awards — first awarded in 1997; ceased in 2011
Ignatz Awards (Small Press Expo) — first awarded 1997
Howard E. Day Prize — first awarded in 2001; ceased in 2007 (renamed the "Gene Day Award for Self-Publishing," now part of the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards)
Day Prize/SPACE Prize (Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo)— first awarded in 2001
Bill Finger Award — first awarded in 2005
Glyph Comics Awards — first awarded in 2005
Inkwell Awards — first awarded in 2008
Ghastly Awards for Excellence in Horror Comics — first awarded 2011; ceased in 2017
Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics – first awarded in 2015
Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids' Comics — first awarded in 2015
Emerging Artist Prize (Cartoon Crossroads Columbus) — first awarded in 2015
Ringo Awards (Baltimore Comic-Con) — first awarded in 2017
Best Digital Comic (New Media Film Festival) — first awarded in 2020
Timeline of notable U.S. comics awards
The following is a timeline of notable U.S. comics awards that feature multiple categories. Awards voted on by professionals are in shades of blue; fan awards are in shades of red. (The Ignatz Award is a mixture, as the nominees are selected by professionals, but the winners are determined by the attendees of that year's Small Press Expo.)
Australian awards
Ledger Awards – first awarded in 2004
Aurealis Award for best illustrated book or graphic novel
Belgian awards
Bronzen Adhemar – first awarded in 1977
Prix Saint-Michel – first awarded in 1971
Atomium comic strip prizes – first awarded in 2017
Brazilian awards
Prêmio Abril de Jornalismo, category "Comics" — first awarded in 1976; ceased in 1998.
Prêmio Angelo Agostini – first awarded in 1985.
Troféu HQ Mix – first awarded in 1989.
Prêmio DB Artes — first awarded in 2003; ceased in 2010.
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