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.
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
Goethe Award (later renamed "Comic Fan Art Awards") — first awarded in 1970; ceased in 1974.
Ignatz Awards (OrlandoCon) - first awarded in 1974; ceased in 1994
Inkpot Awards — first awarded in 1974
Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards — first awarded in 1982; ceased in 2008
Russ Manning Award — first awarded in 1982
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
Compuserve Comics and Animation Forum's Don Thompson Awards (colloquially known as the "Don Thompson Awards") — first awarded in 1992; ceased in 1998
Wizard Fan Awards — first awarded in 1993; ceased in 2006
Lulu Awards — first awarded in 1997; ceased in 2011
Ignatz Awards (Small Press Expo) — first awarded 1997;
Howard E. Day Prize — first awarded in 2001; ceased in 2007 (renamed the "Gene Day Award for Self-Publishing," now part of the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards)
Bill Finger Award — first awarded in 2005
Glyph Comics Awards — first awarded in 2005
Inkwell Awards — first awarded in 2008
Ghastly Awards for Excellence in Horror Comics — first awarded 2011
The following is a timeline of notable U.S. comics awards that feature multiple categories. Awards voted on by professionals are in shades of blue; fan awards are in shades of red. (The Ignatz Award is a mixture, as the nominees are selected by professionals, but the winners are determined by the attendees of that year's Small Press Expo.)
Ledger Awards - first awarded in 2004
Bronzen Adhemar - first awarded in 1977
Prix Saint-Michel - first awarded in 1971
Prêmio Angelo Agostini - first awarded in 1984
Troféu HQ Mix - first awarded in 1988
Ally Sloper Award - first awarded 1976; ceased c. 1982
Eagle Awards - first awarded in 1977; ceased 2012
National Comics Awards - first awarded in 1997; ceased 2003
Stan Lee Excelsior Award — first awarded in 2011; organized by Paul Register
British Comic Awards - first awarded in 2012
The 9th Art Award - inaugural award announced 2013; sponsored by Graphic Scotland
Comics Laureate - first awarded in 2014; sponsored by Comics Literacy Awareness
Prix Bédéis Causa - awarded to French language comics by the Festival de la BD francophone de Québec since 1988
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
Joe Shuster Awards - first awarded in 2005
Stripschapprijs - first awarded in 1974
Willy Vandersteenprijs - first awarded in 2010
VPRO Debuutprijs - first awarded in 1994
Marten Toonderprijs - first awarded in 2009
Angoulême International Comics Festival Prizes - first awarded in 1974
Prix de la critique — first awarded in 1984
Max & Moritz Prizes — first awarded in 1984
The Drunken Druid Awards
Indian Comics Fandom Awards
Narayan Debntah Comics Puroskar
Yellow Kid Award - awarded between 1970 and 2005
Gran Guinigi Award / Pantera di Lucca Comics - first awarded in 1967
Attilio Micheluzzi Award (Napoli Comicon prizes) - first awarded in 1998
Akatsuka Award - first awarded in 1974
Dengeki Comic Grand Prix - first awarded in 2001
International Manga Award - first awarded in 2007
Japan Cartoonists Association Award - first awarded in 1972
Kodansha Manga Award - first awarded in 1960
Manga Taishō - first awarded in 2008
Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize - first awarded in 1997
Shogakukan Manga Award - first awarded in 1955
Tezuka Award - first awarded in 1971
Sproing Award - first awarded in 1987
Grand Prix Międzynarodowego Festiwalu Komiksu - first awarded in 1991
Arab Cartoon Award - 1st in 2012.
ComiIdol - first awarded in 2006
Barcelona International Comics Convention Prizes - first awarded in 1988
Haxtur Awards — first awarded in 1985
Adamson Awards - awarded annually between 1965 and 2002
Urhunden Prizes - first awarded in 1987
Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards - annually awarded from 2001 to 2008.
