About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 96. Chapters: Eagle Award, Ignatz Awards, Haxtur Award, Prix Saint-Michel, Tezuka Award, Alley Award, Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, Inkpot Award, Ledger Award, Joe Shuster Award, List of Xeric grant winners, Shogakukan Manga Award, No-Prize, List of Lulu Award winners, Academy of Comic Book Arts, Don Thompson Award, Max & Moritz Prize, Glyph Comics Awards, Doug Wright Award, National Comics Awards, Inkwell Awards, Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, Kodansha Manga Award, List of award-winning graphic novels, Adamson Awards, Grand Prix de la ville d'Angouleme, Eisner Award, Sproing Award, Manga Taish, Scream Awards, Sondermann, Xeric Foundation, Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, Friends of Lulu, Prix de la critique, Kirby Award, Bill Finger Award, Urhunden Prizes, Bronzen Adhemar, Stripschapprijs, List of comics awards, Trofeu HQ Mix, International Manga Award, Harvey Award, Squiddy Awards, Stanley Award, Japan Cartoonists Association Award, Russ Manning Award, Technopolis, Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame, Akatsuka Award. Excerpt: The Eagle Award is a series of awards for comic book titles and creators. They are awarded by UK fan voting for work produced during the previous year. Named after the UK's Eagle comic, the awards were set up by Mike Conroy, Nick Landau, Colin Campbell, Phil Clarke and Richard Burton, and launched in 1977 for comics released in 1976. Named after the "fifties and sixties" UK comic Eagle because the Eagle symbol was perceived (as described by Burton) to stand "for a standard of quality ... seldom reached" in early 1977, the Eagle Awards were so-called "with official blessing from IPC." Described as "the first independent, nationally organised comic art awards poll," from the launch, the hope was that they would "become a regular annual fandom event." Ultimately, the awards only became fully annual in 19...