Squiddy Awards

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The Squiddy Awards, also known as The Squiddies are the annual awards given by the participants in the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.comics. The awards are named after the humorous typo Suicide Squid. The awards cover a wide variety of areas, including Best Writer, Penciller, Cartoonist, Inker, Painter, and Letterer. The awards have been awarded yearly since the mid-1980s and claim to be the longest running online comic awards.

The Squiddies consist of a single round of voting (except for the 2003 awards, when a run-off round was conducted to break ties among the top vote-getters in certain categories). Normally, all eligible entries' vote totals are published in the official results; consequently, claims are sometimes made that a comic has been "nominated" for a Squiddy when it actually received a single vote.

[edit] Suicide Squid

Suicide Squid is a fictional comic book superhero. He is in fact so fictional that not only does he not exist, but neither does any comic book about him. He was accidentally created in April 1991 when Mitsuhiro Sakai, upon being asked in the Internet newsgroup rec.arts.comics (r.a.c.) for his opinion on developments in the series Suicide Squad, asked what those developments were but typed "i" instead of "a" in "Squad". Many regular posters responded with earnest and elaborate accounts of what was going on in the Suicide Squid comic... which, of course, didn't really exist (and still doesn't).

[edit] Suicide Squid

in an unrelated episode of the British sci-fi/comedy Red Dwarf a suicide squid attacks the crew, making them believe their lives have been a computer game with the intention of forcing them to suicide.