The following is a list winners and nominees (if available) of the Eagle Award , sorted by year that the award was presented. The Eagle Awards were first distributed in 1977 and were consistently presented in the 1980s and the 2000s (being mostly dormant in the 1990s). In 2014, in connection with Stan Lee, the Eagle Awards were renamed, and presented as, the True Believer Comic Awards. They have not returned since then.
Presented at the British Comic Art Convention on 3 September 1977, at the Bloomsbury Centre Hotel, London. [2] Nominations in 19 categories:
Presented at the British Comic Art Convention, 29 July 1978, for comics released during 1977. [4] Nominations in 21 categories.
For comics published in 1978. Presented at "Comicon '79," the British Comic Art Convention 11, Hotel Metropole, Birmingham, on September 1, 1979.
Source: [7]
For comics published in 1980. [11] [12]
The Eagle Awards were not presented or distributed in 1982 [13] (except for possibly the Roll of Honour).
For comics published in 1982; awards presented 15 October 1983 at the London Comic Mart, Central Hall, Westminster, [15] by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. [13] [16]
The 1984 awards [20] (for comics published in 1983) were announced/presented at the Birmingham Comic Art Show, on Saturday, June 2, 1984. [20] [21]
London Comic Mart, Central Hall Westminster, on Saturday, June 2, 1984
For comics released in 1984. [22]
Awards for comics released during 1985 were presented on Sunday, June 1, 1986, at The Birmingham Comic Art Show. The winners were: [24]
The 1986 results were presented on Saturday, September 5, 1987, at UKCAC87, The Institute of Education, London WC1. The winners were: [26]
The Awards for comics released during 1987 were presented on Saturday, September 24, 1988, at UKCAC88, The Institute of Education, London WC1. The winners were: [28]
The results for 1989 were presented at the 1990 United Kingdom Comic Art Convention (UKCAC) on September 23 [29] by Paul Gambaccini and Dave Gibbons. The winners were: [30]
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Best Newcomer: Alex Ronald [31]
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The following award nominations cover creators and work published in the U.S. and Canada only (irrespective of the country of origin of the work or the nationality of its creators), with nominations based purely on work published in 1999:
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Note: Voting ended in October 2001 and the winners were announced in June 2002, so news reports announced these variously as the 2001, or 2002 Eagle Awards.
The following award nominations cover creators and work published in the US and Canada only (irrespective of the country of origin of the work or the nationality of its creators), with nominations based purely on work published in 2000:
(which appeared, began or ended during 2000)
Presented at the inaugural Comic Expo, held November 6–7, at the Ramada City Inn in Bristol. [32]
The results [34] were announced on 13 May 2006 at the Comic Expo in Bristol.
Nominations were made by the general comics-reading public via the Eagle Awards website, with the five most popular becoming nominees for the awards. The awards ceremony was held on Saturday, May 12, 2007, at the 2007 Bristol Comic Expo and was hosted by Norman Lovett. [35]
The ceremony was held on Saturday May 10, 2008, at the Bristol Comic Expo, and the awards were presented by comedian Fraser Ayres. [36]
The 2009 vote was skipped but the 2010 awards (for work done in 2009) [37] were presented at the London MCM Expo in a gala held at ExCeL London on 29 October 2009. [38]
The awards for work in 2010 on 27 May 2011 and was presented by Billy West. [39] [40]
The 2012 Eagle Awards were announced on 25 May 2012. [41] [42]
The Eagle Awards returned one last time, renamed as The True Believers Comics Award but keeping essentially the same format as in the past. They were presented at the London Film and Comic Con (with Anthony Stewart Head hosting) on July 12, 2014. [43]
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