List of comics 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.[1]
• 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[2]
• 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

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.)

• Ledger Awards - first awarded in 2004

• Bronzen Adhemar - first awarded in 1977
• Prix Saint-Michel - first awarded in 1971
• Atomium comic strip prizes - first awarded in 2017

• Prêmio Angelo Agostini - first awarded in 1985
• Troféu HQ Mix - first awarded in 1989
• Prêmio DB Artes — first awarded 2003; ceased in 2010
• Troféu Bigorna — first awarded 2008; ceased in 2010
• Prêmio Claudio Seto — first awarded 2014
• Prêmio Al Rio — first awarded 2015
• Prêmio Grampo — first awarded 2016
• Prêmio Dente de Ouro — first awarded 2016
• Prêmio Jabuti, category "Comics" — first awarded 2016
• Prêmio Le Blanc — first awarded 2018

• Ally Sloper Award — 1976–c. 1982
• Eagle Awards — 1977–1990; 2000–2014 (2014 as "True Believer Comic Awards")[3]
• UK Comic Art Awards — 1990–1997
• National Comics Awards — 1997–1999, 2001–2003
• SICBA (Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance Awards) — held in conjunction with the Glasgow Comic Con and first awarded 2011; still ongoing[4]
• Excelsior Award — a single award for middle-grade comics/manga; first awarded in 2011 (as the "Stan Lee Excelsior Award"); organized by Paul Register[5]
• British Comic Awards — 2012[6]–c. 2016 (in conjunction with the Thought Bubble convention)
• The 9th Art Award — inaugural award announced 2013; sponsored by Graphic Scotland[7]
• Comics Laureate — first awarded in 2014; sponsored by Comics Literacy Awareness

Timeline of British comics awards

• Prix Bédéis Causa - awarded to French language comics by the Festival de la BD francophone de Québec since 1988
• Bédélys Prize - awarded to French language comics since 2000
• The Doug Wright Awards - first awarded in 2005
• National Newspaper Awards of Canada include a category for Editorial Cartoonist
• Joe Shuster Awards - first awarded in 2005

• Stripschapprijs - first awarded in 1974
• Willy Vandersteenprijs - first awarded in 2010
• VPRO Debuutprijs - first awarded in 1994
• Marten Toonderprijs - first awarded in 2009

• Angoulême International Comics Festival Prizes - first awarded in 1974
• Prix de la critique - first awarded in 1984

• Max & Moritz Prizes - first awarded in 1984
• Rudolph-Dirks-Award - first awarded in 2016, the aim is to foster the appreciation of graphical literature as an art form; awarded in 18 categories for works and 12 categories for artists.

• Greek Comics Awards - first awarded in 2005 and known as Comicdom Awards until 2015[8]

• The Drunken Druid Awards[9]

• Kalpana Lok Awards
• Indian Comics Fandom Awards
• Comic Con India Awards
• Narayan Debntah Comics Puroskar

• Yellow Kid Award - awarded between 1970 and 2005
• Gran Guinigi Award / Pantera di Lucca Comics - first awarded in 1967
• Attilio Micheluzzi Award (Napoli Comicon prizes) - first awarded in 1998

• Akatsuka Award - first awarded in 1974
• Dengeki Comic Grand Prix - first awarded in 2001
• International Manga Award - first awarded in 2007
• Japan Cartoonists Association Award - first awarded in 1972
• Kodansha Manga Award - first awarded in 1960
• Manga Taishō - first awarded in 2008
• Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize - first awarded in 1997
• Shogakukan Manga Award - first awarded in 1955
• Tezuka Award - first awarded in 1971

• Sproing Award - first awarded in 1987

• Grand Prix Międzynarodowego Festiwalu Komiksu - first awarded in 1991

• Arab Cartoon Award - 1st in 2012.

• ComiIdol - Awarded in three categories via popular vote in 2007[10][11]

• Barcelona International Comics Convention Prizes - first awarded in 1988
• Haxtur Awards - first awarded in 1985

• Adamson Awards - awarded annually between 1965 and 2002
• Urhunden Prizes - first awarded in 1987

• Lists of awards
• List of webcomic awards
• List of media awards
• List of toys and children's media awards

• "Comic Book Awards Almanac," at HahnLibrary.net