About

The Comic Book Community Awards is a yearly event to celebrate comic book channels, creators and comic book community members on YouTube. 

Nominations and Finalist voting are all community driven.

The goal of the awards is to allow the community to recognize the entertaining, informational, and creative nature of our comic book community members.

• The CBC Awards was founded in 2021 with the first award show was live streamed on December 4, 2021, where 11 community members were awarded the first ever CBC Awarded trophies.

• The 2022 Comic Book Community Awards featured 22 Community Award winners revealed during a live stream on December 3rd, 2022. 

• The 2023 Comic Book Community Awards featured 26 Community Award winners revealed during a live stream on December 2nd, 2023.

• The 2024 Comic Book Community Awards will feature 30 categories, and winners will be announced November 2nd, 2024.

General Guidelines for nominations, finalist voting, Hall of Fame Award, and the CBC Awards Committee:

• Nominations

  • All channels/creators actively producing content are eligible for nomination. (created video within the nomination period)

    1. Category exceptions - these categories don't necessarily need to have YouTube channels, but do need to be active in the comic book community on YouTube.

       1. Biggest Channel Supporter (Blue Wrench, Fan, or overall supporter)

       2. Favorite Community Artist 

  • Channels/creators must meet the minimum requirements for the award category. (Example: a channel that consistently reviews comic books)

  • Once Nominations close, the committee will review them. The five finalists can be a mix of top nominations getters (4) and committee votes (1). The committee will only select channels/creators from the pool of channels/creators that received nominations.

  • This will help ensure all areas of the community will be represented in the finalist's list for each category.

  • The committee's selection of 1 finalist per category will be done when / where the opportunity presents itself.

  • If a tie occurs, channel views for the last five videos will be used to break the tie. The channel with the most views over those five videos will be declared the winner, and become a finalist. Shorts (videos less than 1 minute in length) will not be used to determine views.

  • The committee has the right to remove nomination ballots that vote for a single channel across all categories.

  • The committee has the right to remove nominated channels or creators if they don't meet the minimum requirements for the category. (Example: a channel that consistent reviews comic books)

• Finalist Voting

  • The five channels/creators with the highest nomination totals that meet the minimum requirements will become the finalist for each award category.

  • The channel/creator with the highest vote total within the given award category will be declared the winner.

  • If a tie occurs, channel views for the last ten videos will be used to break the tie. The channel with the most views over those ten videos will be declared the winner. Shorts (videos less than 1 minute in length) will not be used to determine views.

• Hall of Fame Awards Criteria

  • You must have been producing content on YouTube for Five plus years.

  • You must have a minimum of 1500 subscribers.

  • A channel needs at least “3” nominations to make the final cut for consideration by the committee. 

  • The committee will review the channel that meets the above criteria and produce a list of five finalists for the Hall of Fame Award.

  • Community votes will be collected, but the committee has the right to declare a winner.

  • You may only win this award once for a specific channel (I.e., if you have a second channel or start a new one with a “materially” different focus you may win again for that second channel. 

• Comic Book Community Awards Committee

  • The goal of the committee is to help shape the Comic Book Community Awards, validate results, and settle any ties or disputes.

  • The committee is a volunteer position and is open to anyone.

  • The committee will be in place for the given award year.

  • After each award ceremony in December committee applications will open for the next award year.

2024 Comic Book Committee Members:

• Brian - LCS

• Bleeker St. Comics

• Cliff on Comics

• Dale of Suspense

• Doug Bratton

• John's Comics with Kids

• kpop_junki

• Philtastic Comics and Art

• SVaughn82

• Shattered Glass Collectibles

• SimpleSimon

• Surcam Stances

• Collecting with Derrz

• Neil Collects