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  Rec.Arts.Comics Squiddy Awards

Named for Suicide Squid, a fictitious character created when someone mistyped that for Suicide Squad and the newsgroup readers decided to pretend there really was a comic book character named "Suicide Squid." Originally titled "The Great Usenet Comics Poll", then "The Rec.arts.comics Award Poll" after the newsgroup was renamed from net.comics to rec.arts.comics. The awards are for work done during the indicated year.

Award known as: Squiddies
First year of award: 1985?
Award status: Inactive
Number of categories: 34 (Current); 10-35 (Historical)
Hall of Fame: No
Award for children's material: No
Type of Award: Poll
Voting open to: Everyone able to access the rec.arts.comics.* Usenet newsgroups.
Official website: www.squiddies.org

Note: The poll for 2005 material was conducted in early 2006, but the results were never posted. Apparently, no poll was conducted for 2006 material.