Premio Nacional del Cómic
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Premio Nacional del Cómic (National Comic Award) is a Spanish award for comics, established in 2007, as part of the National Awards. The award is given annually (in October or November) by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. It carries a prize of 30,000 euros and recognizes the best comic strip by a Spanish author published in the country during the year prior to the award ceremony, in any of the co-official languages.[1][2] It is the most prestigious comic strip award given in Spain.[3]
The initiative to create this award came from the Congress of Deputies, through the presentation of a non-binding resolution on March 13, 2006, [4] urging the Government, through the Ministry of Culture, to establish an award dedicated to comics, which was unanimously approved on April 4, 2006.[5][6] On March 20, 2007, the Ministry of Culture approved an order creating the Spanish National Comics Award.
In its early years, the award-winning work coincided with the most highly regarded work at the corresponding Barcelona International Comics Fair.[7]