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Squiddy Awards

The Squiddy Awards, also known as The Squiddies were the annual awards given by the participants in the Usenet

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The Squiddy Awards, also known as The Squiddies were the annual awards given by the participants in the Usenet

Usenet

Usenet, a portmanteau of "user" and "network", is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It evolved from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name....
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rec.arts.comics through 2004. The awards are named after the humorous typo Suicide Squid. The awards cover a wide variety of areas, including Best Writer, Penciller, Cartoonist, Inker, Painter, and Letterer. The awards have been awarded yearly since the mid-1980s, when they were known as the Rec.Arts.Comics Awards, and claim to be the longest running online comic awards.

The award was renamed the Squiddies in 1992. The awards process consists of a single round of voting except for the 2003 awards, when a runoff round was conducted to break ties among the top vote-getters in certain categories. Normally, all eligible entries' vote totals are published in the official results; consequently, claims are sometimes made that a comic has been "nominated" for a Squiddy when it actually received a single vote.

Suicide Squid

Suicide Squid is an in-joke

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character accidentally created in April 1991 when Mitsuhiro Sakai, upon being asked in the Internet newsgroup rec.arts.comics for his opinion on developments in the series Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad

The Suicide Squad is a name for two fictional organizations in DC Comics DC Universe. The first version debuted in The Brave and the Bold #25 , the second, also known as Task Force X, in Legends #3 ....
, asked what those developments were but typed "i" instead of "a" in "Squad". Many regular posters comically responded with earnest and elaborate accounts of what was going on in the non-extant "Suicide Squid" comic.