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Comics Awards

September 8th, 2007 by

As part of our run-up to the Harvey Awards announcement, our resident comics expert, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, has written an introduction to awards in the comics industry.

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4 Responses to “Comics Awards”

  1. on 08 Sep 2007 at 8:49 pm1 JeffConn

    Nice summary.
    i would also note the Comic Buyer’s Guide Fan Awards and the Squiddy Awards. The CBG Fan Awards have been around since 1982.
    http://www.cbgxtra.com/default.aspx?tabid=42&view=topic&forumid=34&postid=147

    The Squiddies are the longest-running online awards for comics, which must account for something. ;)
    http://www.squiddies.org/

  2. on 09 Sep 2007 at 4:21 pm2 Pádraig Ó Méalóid

    I looked at the Squiddies, but they seem to have stopped in 2003, so don’t fit my self-imposed ‘currently on-going’ criterion. I couldn’t find any awards from CBG later than 2005, so thought they might also be in abeyance. I’ll double check, though.

    Thanks for your kind words!

  3. on 09 Sep 2007 at 5:43 pm3 JeffConn

    The 2006 CBG Fan Awards were awarded in July, but haven’t been added to that page in post 1 yet.
    http://www.cbgxtra.com/Default.aspx?tabid=42&view=topic&forumid=16&postid=30159

    After a search thru the newsgroups, it does appear that 2003 was the last year for the Squiddies. 2004 voting was conducted, but the administrator dropped off the face of the planet and didn’t announce the winners.

  4. on 10 Sep 2007 at 3:49 am4 Pádraig Ó Méalóid

    Thanks for that. I’ll rewrite the article accordingly, as there’s a few errors I need to correct, anyway.