List of comics awards

This is a list of comics awards from around the world. This 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.

Contents 1 American awards 2 Belgian awards 3 British awards 4 Canadian awards 5 Dutch awards 6 French awards 7 German awards 8 Italian awards 9 Japanese awards 10 Norwegian awards 11 Polish awards 12 Singaporean awards 13 Spanish awards 14 Swedish awards 15 Webcomics

American awards

• 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
• Inkpot Awards - first awarded in 1974
• Kirby 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
• Lulu Awards - first awarded in 1997
• Ignatz Awards - first awarded in 1997
• Bill Finger Award
• Russ Manning Award

Belgian awards

• Bronzen Adhemar - first awarded in 1977
• Prix Saint-Michel - first awarded in 1971

British awards

• British Cartoonist Awards
• Eagle Awards - first awarded in 1976
• National Comics Awards - first awarded in 1997

Canadian awards

• 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
• Shuster Awards - first awarded in 2005

Dutch awards

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

French awards

• Prix de la critique
• Angoulême International Comics Festival Prizes - first awarded in 1975

German awards

• Max & Moritz Prizes

Italian awards

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

Japanese awards

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

Norwegian awards

• Sproing Award - first awarded in 1987

Polish awards

• Grand Prix Międzynarodowego Festiwalu Komiksu - first awarded in 1991

Singaporean awards

• ComiIdol - first awarded in 2006

Spanish awards

• Haxtur Awards

Swedish awards

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

Webcomics

• Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards - annually awarded from 2001 to 2008.