Awards

Many webcomics artists accept accustomed ceremoniousness for their work. In 2006, Gene Luen Yang's clear atypical American Born Chinese, originally appear as a webcomic on Modern Tales, was the aboriginal clear atypical to be nominated for a National Book Award.32 Don Hertzfeldt's activated blur based on his webcomics, Everything Will Be OK, won the 2007 Sundance Blur Anniversary Jury Accolade in Short Filmmaking, a cost rarely bestowed on an activated film.33

Many commonly print-comics focused organizations accept added accolade categories for comics appear on the web. The Eagle Awards accustomed a Favorite Web-based Banana class in 2000, and the Ignatz Awards followed the next year by introducing an Outstanding Online Banana class in 2001. After accepting nominated webcomics in several of their acceptable print-comics categories, the Eisner Awards began application comics in the Best Digital Banana class in 2005. In 2006 the Harvey Awards accustomed a Best Online Comics Plan category, and in 2007 the Shuster Awards began an Outstanding Canadian Web Banana Creator Award.

Other awards focus alone on webcomics. The Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards3435 abide of a amount of awards that accept been handed out annually from 2001 to 2008. The Clickburg Webcomic Awards (also accepted as "the Clickies") has been handed out annually back 2005 at the Stripdagen Haarlem banana festival. The awards crave the almsman to be alive in the Benelux countries, with the barring of one all-embracing award.36