Comic Book Awards
Friday, January 11th, 2008When you think of comic books, one of the last things you think about is if any comic books receive any accolades. Is there such a thing as comic book awards?
Apparently there are. In America alone, there are several companies that the awards are given to different comic book genres.
One of the main companies that provide awards to the comic book industry is called The National Cartoonist Society Awards, which houses fifteen categories. A panel of judges does the selection. There are regional chapters and the general members do the voting.
Another comic book award company is the comic buyers guide fan awards. The first year the awards were handed out was in 1983. The awards are broken up into several different categories from favorite publisher to favorite inker to favorite comic book hero. In 2003, the most current year there are statistics, the favorite publisher of comic books was DC, which held a forty-six percent majority, with Marvel receiving about twenty-three percent.
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