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Ally Sloper Award

British comics award

Summary

British comics award

Field	Value
name	Ally Sloper Award
awarded_for	Veteran British comic creators
country	United Kingdom
year	1976
year2	ca. 1982?

The Ally Sloper Awards was an annual awards ceremony recognising veteran British comic creators, initiated by comics historian Denis Gifford in 1976. From 1978, they were awarded under the auspices of the Association of Comic Enthusiasts, also founded by Gifford.

The awards were named after Ally Sloper, the nineteenth-century British comic character championed by Gifford as the world's first comic character. Gifford also launched and edited an Ally Sloper 'comic magazine' in 1976 (published by Alan Class Comics). The award itself was a figurine of Ally Sloper, based on brass doorstops that were produced as merchandising in the nineteenth century.

Prize-giving of the first Ally Sloper Awards for comics creators took place at Gifford's Comics 101 comics convention, held March 19–21, 1976, at the Mount Royal Hotel, London, with TV comedian Bob Monkhouse presenting. The 1981 "Hall of Fame" award was presented at Comicon '81.

Predecessors

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, joke awards, known as the Sloper Award of Merit, had been issued while Ally Sloper was at the peak of his popularity, to topical figures such as Scott of the Antarctic, and others who made the news for unusual achievement.

Award winners

1976

Best British Newspaper Strip Cartoon Artist: Steve Dowling – for Garth in The Daily Mirror
First British Science Fiction Artist: Hugh Stanley White – for Ian on Mu in Mickey Mouse Weekly (1936)
Best British Strip Cartoon Artist: Frank Hampson – for Dan Dare in Eagle (1950s)
IPC sponsored award for outstanding work in their own publications: Don Lawrence – for The Trigan Empire in Ranger and Look and Learn
Gold Award: Terry Wakefield and his father George (Billy) Wakefield – for strips in Tiny Tots, Bubbles, Tip Top, Butterfly and Joker, amongst other titles.

1980

Lifetime achievement: Hugh McNeill (was to receive the award, but died the day before the announcement was made)

1981

Lifetime achievement: Ernest Shaw

1982

Lifetime Achievement: Fred Robinson

References

Gifford, Denis. (1996). "International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature". Routledge.
Hooper, Terry. (7 November 2011). "Creator interviews: Steve Dowling Creator Of Garth". Comic Bits Online.
(November 1981). "Comicon '81 advertisement". Fantasy Advertiser.
(1909). "The Sloper Award of Merit". Adams Bros & Shardlow Ltd..
(16 December 1899). "Woman's World". Timaru Herald.
"Comic creator: Hugh Stanley White". Lambiek.
Holland, Steve. (2006). "A History of the Classic Children's Magazine". Look and Learn.
Holland, Steve. (15 December 2006). "Hugh McNeill". Bear Alley.
"Comic creator: Ernest Shaw". Lambiek.
Gifford, Denis. (31 May 1993). "Obituary: Fred Robinson". The Independent.

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