Ledger Awards
| Ledger Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in Australian comic art and publishing |
| Location | Melbourne |
| Country | Australia |
| First awarded | 2005 |
| Official website | http://ledgerawards.org |
The Ledger Awards are prizes awarded to "acknowledge excellence in Australian comic art and publishing." Named after pioneering Australian cartoonist Peter Ledger (1945–1994), the awards were first held in 2005 to help promote and focus attention on Australian creators and their projects, both in Australia and overseas. Initially, the awards were held annually and announced online on or around Australia Day, 26 January. In recent years, they have been held at the State Library of Victoria on the Friday evening before the Melbourne Supanova convention.
The Ledger Awards began in 2004 as a fully independent, non-profit initiative. They were presented under the auspices of LitterArtsy, a non-profit coalition of creators, publishers and web sites promoting literacy, creativity, craft and excellence through comics and sequential art, and had no affiliations or links with organisations, businesses, or other parties.
The Ledger Awards were presented annually until 2007, when they went on hiatus. In 2010 it was announced that a new Ledger Awards Organising Committee had been formed; the Committee held an inaugural meeting, with a view to the awards being re-established in 2011.
In late 2013, it was announced that the Ledger Awards would return after a five-year hiatus in April 2014, with a new major sponsor, Supanova Pop Culture Expo. The 2014 Ledger Awards ceremony was held 11 April 2014, at the State Library of Victoria.
On 12 April 2014, the Ledger Awards named "gap year" award recipients for the years 2008–2013 when no Ledger Awards were distributed.
Nominees were suggested through a forum thread, compiled into a poll and winners were decided by popular vote. The winners were announced on Australian Day, 2005.
The nominees and winners in the first year were
PERSON OF THE YEAR
ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR
NEW TALENT DESERVING WIDER RECOGNITION
SMALL PRESS TITLE OF THE YEAR
INDEPENDENT PRESS TITLE OF THE YEAR
INTERNATIONAL TITLE OF THE YEAR
ANTHOLOGY OF THE YEAR
WEBCOMIC OF THE YEAR
WRITER OF THE YEAR
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
INKER OF THE YEAR
COLOURIST OF THE YEAR
LETTERER OF THE YEAR
COVER ARTIST OF THE YEAR
SINGLE ISSUE OR STORY OF THE YEAR
COMIC STRIP OF THE YEAR
RETAIL OUTLET OF THE YEAR
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