Inkpot Award
The Inkpot Award is an honor bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International. It is given to professionals in the fields of comic books, comic strips, animation, science fiction, and related areas of popular culture, at CCI's annual convention, commonly known as "San Diego Comic-Con". Also eligible are members of Comic-Con's Board of Directors and convention committee.
The recipients, listed below, are known primarily as comics creators, including writers; artists; letterers; colorists; editors; or publishers; unless otherwise noted.
Awards by year
Source: 1974-2007, 1974-2011, 1974-20131974
- Forrest J. Ackerman
- Ray Bradbury
- Kirk Alyn
- Milton Caniff
- Frank Capra
- Bob Clampett
- June Foray
- Eric Hoffman
- Chuck Jones
- Jack Kirby
- Stan Lee
- Bill Lund / William R. Lund
- Russ Manning
- Russell Myers
- Charles Schulz
- Phil Seuling
- Roy Thomas
- Bjo Trimble
1975
- Barry Alfonso
- Brad Anderson
- Robert Bloch
- Vaughn Bodé
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Daws Butler
- Richard Butner
- Shel Dorf
- Will Eisner
- Mark Evanier
- Gil Kane
- Alan Light
- Dick Moores
- George Pal
- Rod Serling
- Joe Shuster
- Jerry Siegel
- Barry Windsor-Smith
- Jim Starlin
- Jim Steranko
- Theodore Sturgeon
- Larry Vincent
1976
- Neal Adams
- Sergio Aragonés
- Mel Blanc
- Frank Brunner
- Rick Griffin
- Johnny Hart
- George Clayton Johnson
- Vicky Kelso
- Mel Lazarus
- Sheldon Mayer
- Dale Messick
- Alex Niño
- Don Rico
- Don Thompson
- Maggie Thompson
1977
- Alfredo Alcala
- Carl Barks
- C. C. Beck
- Howard Chaykin
- Lester Dent
- Jackie Estrada
- Hal Foster
- Walter Gibson
- Jim Harmon
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Gene Henderson
- Michael Kaluta
- Joe Kubert
- Harvey Kurtzman
- George Lucas
- Stan Lynde
- Byron Preiss
- Trina Robbins
- Stanley Ralph Ross
- Bill Scott
- David Scroggy
- Jay Ward
- Len Wein
1978
- John Buscema
- Al Capp
- Gene Colan
- Gill Fox
- Tom French
- Steve Gerber
- Chester Gould
- Burne Hogarth
- Bob Kane
- Ken Krueger
- Bernie Lansky
- Gray Morrow
- Clarence Nash
- Grim Natwick
- Bill Rotsler
- Mike Royer
- Gilbert Shelton
- Dave Sheridan
- Bill Stout
- Frank Thorne
- Boris Vallejo
- Mort Weisinger
- Elmer Woggon
1979
- Craig Anderson
- Steve Englehart
- Dale Enzenbacher
- Kelly Freas
- Virginia French
- H. R. Giger
- Gene Hazelton
- Carl Macek
- Victor Moscoso
- Larry Niven
- Dan O'Neill
- Virgil Partch
- Jerry Pournelle
- Nestor Redondo
- Marshall Rogers
- John Romita, Sr.
- Bill Spicer
- Mort Walker
- Marv Wolfman
1980
- Terry Austin
- Murray Bishoff
- Pat Boyette
- John Byrne
- Canadian Film Board
- Ernie Chan
- Chris Claremont
- Shary Flenniken
- Mike Friedrich
- Rick Geary
- Don Glut
- S. Gross
- Al Hartley
- B. Kliban
- Jerry Muller
- Joe Orlando
- Fred Patten
- Don Phelps
- Richard Pini
- Wendy Pini
- David Raskin
- Scott Shaw!
- Jim Shooter
- John Stanley
- B. K. Taylor
- Osamu Tezuka
- Adam West
- Wally Wood
1981
- Jerry Bails
- L. B. Cole
- Jim Fitzpatrick
- Dick Giordano
- Dave Graue
- Paul Gulacy
- Mary Henderson
- Karl Hubenthal
- Bil Keane
- Frank Miller
- Doug Moench
- Monkey Punch
- Dennis O'Neil
- Gary Owens
- Richard Rockwell
- Allen Saunders
- Julius Schwartz
- Mike Sekowsky
- Bill Sienkiewicz
- Dave Sim
- Alex Toth
- Morrie Turner
- Bill Woggon
1982
- Bob Bindig
- Brian Bolland
- Russ Cochran
- David Cockrum
- Max Allan Collins
- Chase Craig
- Archie Goodwin
- Mike Grell
- Bruce Hamilton
- Jack Katz
- Howard Kazanjian
- Hank Ketcham
- Walter Koenig
- Richard Kyle
- Lee Marrs
- Frank Marshall
- John Pound, artist/founding member of San Diego Comic-Con
- Tony Raiola
- Steven Spielberg
- Leonard Starr
- Robert Williams
1983
- Douglas Adams
- Maeheah Alzmann
- Jim Aparo
- Don Bluth
- Floyd Gottfredson
- Norman Maurer
- George Pérez
- Arn Saba
- Dan Spiegle
- Joe Staton
- James Van Hise
- Cat Yronwode
1984
- Murphy Anderson
- Román Arámbula
- Greg Bear
- Fae Desmond, Comic-Con Executive Director
- Stan Drake
- John Field
- Rick Hoberg
- Greg Jein
- Ollie Johnston
- Brant Parker
- Robert Shayne
- Curt Swan
- Frank Thomas
- Jim Valentino
- Al Williamson
1985
- Brent Anderson
- Ben Bova
- David Brin
- Jack Cummings
- Jack Davis
- Alan Moore
- Dan O'Bannon
- Tom Orzechowski
- John Rogers
- Alex Schomburg
- Walt Simonson
1986
- Poul Anderson
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Dave Gibbons
- Jean Giraud
- Gilbert Hernandez
- Jaime Hernandez
- Denis Kitchen
- Steve Leialoha
- Marty Nodell
- Harvey Pekar
- Mark Stadler
- Dave Stevens
1987
- Steve Ditko
- Harlan Ellison
- Larry Geeck
- Ward Kimball
- Deni Loubert
- Bill Messner-Loebs
- Mike Peters
- Bill Schanes
- Steve Schanes
- Robert Silverberg
- Art Spiegelman
- Bernie Wrightson
- Ray Zone
1988
- Frank Alison, Comic-Con Director-at-Large
- Robert Asprin
- Mike Baron
- Lynda Barry
- John Bolton
- Jules Feiffer
- Raymond Feist
- Matt Groening
- Gary Groth
- George R. R. Martin
- Mike Pasqua
- Steve Rude
- Marie Severin
- Matt Wagner
1989
- Richard Alf
- R. Crumb
- Howard Cruse
- Kevin Eastman
- Lee Falk
- Ron Goulart
- Walt Kelly
- Peter Laird
- Syd Mead
- Andre Norton
- Jerry Robinson
- Diana Schutz
- Janet Tait
- Ron Turner
- Gahan Wilson
1990
- Karen Berger
- Bob Burden
- Tom DeFalco
- William Gaines
- Jim Henson
- Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier
- Grant Morrison
- Bob Overstreet
- Mary Reynante
- Bob Schreck
- Ken Steacy
- Rick Sternbach
- Charles Vess
1991
- Alicia Austin
- Clive Barker
- Dan Barry
- Dan DeCarlo
- Creig Flessel
- Neil Gaiman
- Ted Geisel
- Keith Giffen
- George Gladir
- Joe Haldeman
- Lynn Johnston
- Carol Kalish
- Don Maitz
- Sheldon Moldoff
- Steve Oliff
- Julie Roloff
- Stan Sakai
1992
- Carina Burns-Chenelle, Comic-Con treasurer
- Bob Chapman
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Robin Doig
- Alan Grant
- Bill Griffith
- Ray Harryhausen
- Marc Hempel
- Jim Lee
- Milo Manara
- Scott McCloud
- Todd McFarlane
- Rowena Morrill
- Diane Noomin
- Louise Simonson
- Dick Sprang
- Vernor Vinge
- Mark Wheatley
1993
- Jim Aparo
- Gary Carter
- Phil Foglio
- Robert Goodwin
- Ferd Johnson
- Don Martin
- Dave McKean
- Clydene Nee
- Paul Norris
- Paul Power
- P. Craig Russell
- Mark Schultz
- Vincent Sullivan
- Michael Whelan
- Roger Zelazny
1994
- Mike Carlin
- Paul Chadwick
- Al Feldstein
- Stan Goldberg
- Roberta Gregory
- Chad Grothkopf
- Jerry Ordway
- Bud Plant
- Mike Richardson
- John Romita, Jr.
- Richard Rowell
- Lucius Shepard
- Mickey Spillane
- J. Michael Straczynski
- Rumiko Takahashi
1995
- Roger Corman
- Greg Hildbrandt
- Tim Hildebrant
- Ryoichi Ikegami
- Irv Novick
- Joe Sinnott
1996
- Donna Barr
- Mort Drucker
- Joe Giella
- Jim Mooney
- Kurt Schaffenberger
- François Schuiten
- David Siegel
1997
- Dick Ayers
- Steve Bissette
- Terry Brooks
- Bob Haney
- Russ Heath
- Carol Lay
- Michael Moorcock
- Janice Tobias
- George Tuska
1998
- John Broome
- Eddie Campbell
- Nick Cardy
- David Glanzer, Comic-Con Director of Marketing and Publicity
- Fred Guardineer
- Lorenzo Mattotti
- Paul S. Newman
- John Severin
- Joe Simon
- Naoko Takeuchi
- Mark Yturralde
1999
- Tom Batiuk
- Chuck Cuidera
- Samuel R. Delany
- Arnold Drake
- Sam Glanzman
- Larry Gonick
- Irwin Hasen
- Sue Lord, Comic-Con HR/Guest Relations
2000
- Will Elder
- Ric Estrada, sometimes referred to as Rick Estrada
- Phoebe Gloeckner
- Beth Holley, Comic-Con VP, Exhibits
- Carmine Infantino
- Jack Kamen
- Ben Katchor
- Harry Lampert
- Bryan Talbot
- Angelo Torres
- Lewis Trondheim
2001
- Henry Boltinoff
- Irwin Donenfeld
- Brian and Wendy Froud
- Martin Jaquish, Comic-Con Director-at-Large
- Joe R. Lansdale
- Spider and Jeanne Robinson
- Alvin Schwartz
- Jeff Smith
- Kim Thompson
2002
- Eddie Ibrahim, Comic-Con Director of Programming
- Frank Jacobs
- Jason
- Paul Levitz
- Bob Lubbers
- Bob Oksner
- Lew Sayre Schwartz
- Hal Sherman
- Herb Trimpe
- William Woolfolk
2003
- Charles Berberian
- Frank Bolle
- Sal Buscema
- John Davenport, Comic-Con Events staff
- Philippe Dupuy
- Steve Jackson
- Sid Jacobson
- Larry Lieber
- Terry Moore
- Howard Post
2004
- Jack Adler
- Tom Gill
- Harry Harrison
- Bruce Jones
- Batton Lash
- Mike Mignola
- Bill Plympton
- Frank Springer
- John Totleben
2005
- Lee Ames
- Sy Barry
- Taerie Bryant, Comic-Con Fandom Services
- Bob Bolling
- Bob Fujitani
- Dexter Taylor
2006
- Peter S. Beagle
- Art Clokey
- Luis Dominguez
- Basil Gogos
- Everett Raymond Kinstler
- Kazuo Koike
- Bill Pittman, Comic-Con VP Operations
- Yoshihiro Tatsumi
2007
- Allen Bellman
- Renée French
- Gary Friedrich
- Adam Hughes
- Miriam Katin
- Mel Keefer
- Joseph Michael Linsner
- David Morrell
- Lily Renée Phillips
- Mike Ploog
- Mary Sturhann, Comic-Con Secretary
- Dan Vado
- Mark Verheiden
- F. Paul Wilson
2008
- Kyle Baker
- Ralph Bakshi
- Mike W. Barr
- Ed Brubaker
- Kim Deitch
- Victor Gorelick
- Al Jaffee
- Todd Klein
- Tite Kubo
- Noel Neill
- Floyd Norman
- Al Plastino
- Jeff Watts
- Bill Willingham
- Connie Willis
- Jim Woodring
2009
- Mike Allred
- LaFrance Bragg
- Nick Cuti
- Dwayne McDuffie
- Stan Freberg
- Terry Gilliam
- John Kricfalusi
- John Lasseter
- Dwayne McDuffie
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Patrick Oliphant
- Chris Oliveros
- Seth
- Barry Short
- Mike Towry
- Ramón Valdiosera
- Bob Wayne
- Phil Yeh
2010
- Peter Bagge
- Brian Michael Bendis
- Berkeley Breathed
- Kurt Busiek
- Dave Dorman
- Moto Hagio
- Charlaine Harris
- Stuart Immonen
- Phil Jimenez
- Jenette Kahn
- Keith Knight
- Milo Manara
- Andy Manzi
- Larry Marder
- Tom Palmer
- Drew Struzan
- James Sturm
- Carol Tyler
- Anna-Marie Villegas
- Al Wiesner
2011
- Anina Bennett
- Jordi Bernet
- Joyce Brabner
- Chester Brown
- Seymour Chwast
- Alan Davis
- Dick DeBartolo
- Dawn Devine
- Tony DeZuniga
- Eric Drooker
- Joyce Farmer
- Tsuneo Gōda
- Paul Guinan
- John Higgins
- Jamal Igle
- Peter Kuper
- Richard A. Lupoff
- Pat Lupoff
- Steve Sansweet
- Bill Schelly
- Steven Spielberg
- Frank Stack
- Jeff Walker
2012
- Charlie Adlard
- Bill Amend
- Alison Bechdel
- Tim Bradstreet
- Mike Carey
- Peter Coogan
- Geof Darrow
- Randy Duncan
- Ben Edlund
- Gary Gianni
- Larry Hama
- Peter F. Hamilton
- Mario Hernandez
- Klaus Janson
- Joe Jusko
- Robert Kirkman
- Erik Larsen
- Rob Liefeld
- Andy Mangels
- Rudy Nebres
- Whilce Portacio
- James Robinson
- Lou Scheimer
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Jim Silke
- Marc Silvestri
- Michael E. Uslan
- Trevor Von Eeden
- Mark Waid
- Thomas Yeates
2013
- Jon Bogdanove
- Alan Campbell
- Gerry Conway
- Denys Cowan
- Michael Davis
- Gene Deitch
- José Delbo
- Derek T. Dingle
- Paul Dini
- Ellen Forney
- Gary Frank
- Tony Isabella
- Dan Jurgens
- Sam Kieth
- Jack Larson
- Elliot S! Maggin
- Leonard Maltin
- Jeff Mariotte
- Val Mayerik
- Dean Mullaney
- Martin Pasko
- Fred Perry
- Ruth Sanderson
- Romeo Tanghal
- Bruce Timm
2014
- Ray Billingsley
- June Brigman
- Mark Brooks
- Amanda Conner
- Brian Crane
- Chuck Dixon
- Jane Espenson
- Bill Finger
- Drew Friedman
- Michael T. Gilbert
- Brian Haberlin
- Willie Ito
- Kelley Jones
- Katherine Morrison
- Julie Newmar
- Graham Nolan
- Michelle Nolan
- Jimmy Palmiotti
- Benoît Peeters
- John Picacio
- Mimi Pond
- Joe Quesada
- Sam Raimi
- Don Rosa
- Brian Stelfreeze
- Burt Ward
2015
- Jerry Beck
- Greg Capullo
- Mike Catron
- Carlos Ezquerra
- Andrew Farago
- Dave Garcia
- Tom Grummett
- Jackson Guice
- Chip Kidd
- Steve Lieber
- Laura Martin
- Dave McCaig
- Bill Mumy
- Kevin Nowlan
- Joe Philips
- Hilary B. Price
- Humberto Ramos
- Jimmie Robinson
- Luis Royo
- Jen Sorensen
- Richard Starkings
- Kazuki Takahashi
- Jill Thompson
- Jhonen Vasquez
- Craig Yoe
2016
- Jason Aaron
- Derf Backderf
- Michael Barrier
- Luc Besson
- Peggy Burns
- Peter David
- Jim Davis
- Tom Devlin
- Ben Dunn
- Matt Fraction
- William Gibson
- Kieron Gillen
- Mike Judge
- Hidenori Kusaka
- Ed McGuinness
- Jamie McKelvie
- Tsutomu Nihei
- Christopher Priest
- Phil Roman
- Alex Sinclair
- John Trimble
- Satoshi Yamamoto
2017
- Andrew Aydin
- Jon Bogdanove
- Alan Burnett
- Joyce Chin
- Kevin Feige
- Robin Hobb
- John Lewis
- Jeph Loeb
- Jonathan Maberry
- Glenn McCoy
- Keith Pollard
- Nate Powell
- Brian Selznick
- R. Sikoryak
- Alex Simmons
- Gail Simone
- R. L. Stine
- Ron Wilson
2018
- Yoshitaka Amano
- Marc Bernardin
- Cory Doctorow
- Brian Fies
- Richard Friend
- Alex Grecian
- Deborah Harkness
- Elizabeth Hand
- Larry Houston
- David Mack
- Nichelle Nichols
- Liniers
- Brian Pulido
- Randy Reynaldo
- Eric Reynolds
- Kevin Smith
- Peter Tomasi
- Shannon Wheeler
- Rafael Albuquerque
2019
- Wendy All
- Leigh Bardugo
- Jon B. Cooke
- Mary Fleener
- Gene Ha
- Jonathan Hickman
- Arvell Jones
- Charlie Kochman
- Craig Miller
- Paco Roca
- Scott Snyder
- Billy Tucci
- Chris Ware
- Maryelizabeth Yturralde