The Ally Sloper Awards was an annual[1] awards ceremony recognising veteran British comic creators, initiated by the comics historian Denis Gifford in 1976.
From 1978, they were awarded under the auspices of the Association of Comic Enthusiasts, also founded by Gifford.
Gifford also launched and edited an Ally Sloper 'comic magazine' in 1976 (published by Alan Class Comics).
The award itself was a figurine of Ally Sloper, based on brass doorstops that were produced as merchandising in the nineteenth century.
[3] In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, joke awards, known as the Sloper Award of Merit, had been issued while Ally Sloper was at the peak of his popularity, to topical figures such as Scott of the Antarctic,[4] and others who made the news for unusual achievement.