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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.

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

SMALL PRESS TITLE OF THE YEAR
 * Happy Birthday Anyway, Matt Huynh (Winner)
 * Pirates, Tonia Walden ed.
 * Dreams of Tomorrow, Liz Argall ed.

INDEPENDENT PRESS TITLE OF THE YEAR
 * Eldritch Kid by Christian Read (story) & Christopher Burns (Art), *Phosphorescent Comics/Creatorline (Winner)
 * Platinum Grit by Trudy Cooper, Doug Bayne and Danny Murphy
 * The Crumpleton Experiments by Daniel Reed, Nautilus Illustrations

INTERNATIONAL TITLE OF THE YEAR
 * Small Gods, Jason Rand (story). Image Comics (Winner)
 * Fell, Ben Templesmith (art) Image Comics
 * DeeVee: Flange, Eddie Campbell, Daren White & various. DeeVee Press

WEBCOMIC OR COMIC STRIP OF THE YEAR
 * Big Fun Mega Happy Pet Land by Jase Harper (Mania Magazine) (Winner)
 * Magellan by Stephen Crowley
 * Raymondo Person by Patrick Alexander

WRITER OF THE YEAR
 * Trudy Cooper (Platinum Grit) (Winner)
 * Christian Read (Eldritch Kid, various)
 * Matt Huynh (Happy Birthday Anyway, various)

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
 * Doug Holgate ('Laika', various) (Winner)
 * Trudy Cooper (Platinum Grit)
 * Matt Huynh (Happy Birthday Anyway, various)

SINGLE ISSUE OR STORY OF THE YEAR
 * "Laika" by Doug Holgate, (Flight #2) (Winner)
 * "The Record" by Christian Read (story) & Tonia Walden (art), (Something Wicked)
 * Star Wars Tales #27, illustrated by Nicola Scott (Dark Horse Comics)

PRODUCTION DESIGN OF THE YEAR
 * Glen Shearer and Darren Close, Operation Funnybone (Winner)
 * Troy Kealley (cover by Simon Sherry), Something Wicked
 * Tonia Walden, Pirates, various

Official Web Site
http://ledgerawards.org