Comics in Australia - Awards

Awards

• From 1984 to present, The Stanley Awards (run by the Australian Cartoonists' Association) had a separate category for Adventure /Illustrated Strip Artist (between 1984 and 1999). This award was subsequently merged with the Comic Strip Cartoonist Award until 2010, when the category was reinstated as Comic Book Artist Award.

• The OzCon Awards were also an important recognition of Australian comic creators from their inception in 1991, until the OzCons ceased.

• The Kanga Awards were a much sought after recognition of Home-grown Australia Self-Publishing in the mid to late nineties.

• The Ledger Awards, created in 2004 by Gary Chaloner in honour of famed Australian artist Peter Ledger, to recognize excellence in Australian comic art and publishing, ran until 2007.