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The Ledger Awards have been organised 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. The awards are held annually and announced online on or around Australia Day, January 26th.

2004 Awards

In the first year the categories were

Person of the Year
Achievement of the Year
New talent Deserving Wider Recognition
Small Press Title of the Year
Indepenedent 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
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
Design or Presentation of the Year
Ledger of Honour of the Year

Nominees were suggested through a forum thread, compiled into a poll and winners were decided by popular vote.

Nominess and Winners

The nominees and winners in the first year were

PERSON OF THE YEAR

Mark Selan (Winner)
Aaron Burgess
Daniel Zachariou

ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR

Gary Chaloner's John Law in print (Winner)
Dillon Naylor's 2004 (Batrisha wear in Target etc.)
Phase Two Comics

NEW TALENT DESERVING WIDER RECOGNITION

Matt Huynh (Winner)
Jase Harper
Chelsea Fritzlaff

SMALL PRESS TITLE OF THE YEAR

Eat Comics, Tonia Walden, editor (Winner)
Sporadic, Jase Harper & Jules Faber, editors
Dirty Little Creep, Mandy Ord

INDEPENDENT PRESS TITLE OF THE YEAR

The Crumpleton Experiments, Nautilus Illustrations (Winner)
Killeroo, Ozone Studios
Azerath, Creatorline/Phosphorescent Comics

INTERNATIONAL TITLE OF THE YEAR

Will Eisner's John Law: Dead Man Walking, IDW (Winner)
Small Gods, Image Comics
District X, Marvel Comics

ANTHOLOGY OF THE YEAR

Eat Comics, Tonia Walden, editor (Winner)
Sporadic, Jase Harper & Jules Faber, editors
The Ink, Aaron Burgess, editor

WEBCOMIC OF THE YEAR

Platinum Grit (Winner)
Will Eisner's John Law
Raymondo Person

WRITER OF THE YEAR

Trudy Cooper et al. (Winner)
Christian Read
Daniel Reed

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Trudy Cooper (Winner)
Jason Badower
Jase Harper

INKER OF THE YEAR

Gary Chaloner (Winner)
Doug Holgate
Darren Close
Daniel Reed

COLOURIST OF THE YEAR

Annette Kwok (Winner)
Doug Holgate
Jason Badower

LETTERER OF THE YEAR

Gary Chaloner (Winner)
Jason Paulos
Jason Kovacs

COVER ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Gary Chaloner, Will Eisner's John Law: Dead Man Walking (Winner)
Matt Huynh, Domino Joe, Bloom
Jason Badower, Killeroo Book 2

SINGLE ISSUE OR STORY OF THE YEAR

'Law, Luck and a Dead Eyed Mystic' (Will Eisner's John Law: Dead Man Walking), Gary Chaloner (Winner)
The Eldritch Kid #1, Christian Read & Christopher Burns
'Meat Burger Heaven' (Eat Comics), Dean Rankine
'Good for the Goose' (Killeroo Book 2), Jan Napiorkowski & Jason Badower

COMIC STRIP OF THE YEAR

Batrisha (K-Zone et al.), Dillon Naylor (Winner)
Grossgirl and Boogerboy (Mania), Dean Rankine
Raymondo Person, Patrick Alexander

RETAIL OUTLET OF THE YEAR

Kings Comics, Sydney (Winner)
Phase Two Comics, online
Minotaur Books, Melbourne

DESIGN OR PRESENTATION OF THE YEAR

The Watch: Casus Belli, design by Karen Howard (Winner)
Killeroo Book Two, design by Darren Close
Keychain Comics, design by Aaron Burgess

LEDGER OF HONOUR

Peter Ledger* (automatically inducted)
Gary Chaloner (Winner)
Trudy Cooper
Tim McEwen
Tonia Walden

The winners were announced on Australian Day, 2005.

2005 Awards

Feedback from the first Awards resulted in a reduction in categories and the installation of a Judges Panel. Again, nominations were made by the public through postings on a message board forum. Some categories were decided by public vote, others were judged by the panel.

The first iteration of the Judges Panel was Mark Selan, Dennis Kitchen, Roger Langridge, Glen Lumsden and Kevin Patrick. Dennis Kitchen pulled out and was replaced with Mark Waid, Waid was then replaced by RC Harvey. Both Langridge and Harvey were replaced by Tad Pietrzykowski and Gary Chaloner. The popular voted winners were announced on Australia Day 2006.

Nominees and Winners

Publicly Voted Categories

ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR

Operation Funnybone (Glen Shearer, co-ordinator) (Winner)
OzComics 24 Hour Comics Challenge (Mark Selan, co-ordinator)
Pulp Faction Forums (Maggie McFee, co-ordinator)

TALENT DESERVING WIDER RECOGNITION

Stephen Crowley (Winner)
Dean Rankine
Steve Martinez

RETAIL OUTLET OF THE YEAR

Phase Two Comics, online (Winner)
Kings Comics, Sydney
Minotaur Books, Melbourne

FAVOURITE FOREIGN COMIC BOOK OR GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR

Flight 2 (Winner)
Daisy Kutter - The Last Train
Garfield

FAVOURITE FOREIGN CREATOR OF THE YEAR

Mike Mignola (Winner)
Kazu Kibuishi
Paul Grist

LEDGER OF HONOUR

Peter Ledger (automatically inducted)
Gary Chaloner (2005)
Trudy Cooper (2006) (Winner)

Peer Voted categories

The Judges Awards were announced at Doujicon on 28 July 2006