Initially, the awards were held annually and announced online on or around Australia Day, 26 January.
In recent years, they have been held at the State Library of Victoria on the Friday evening before the Melbourne Supanova convention.
They were presented under the auspices of LitterArtsy, a non-profit coalition of creators, publishers and web sites promoting literacy, creativity, craft and excellence through comics and sequential art, and had no affiliations or links with organisations, businesses, or other parties.
[citation needed] In late 2013 it was announced that the Ledger Awards would return after a five-year hiatus in April 2014, with a new major sponsor, Supanova Pop Culture Expo.
[3] Nominees were suggested through a forum thread, compiled into a poll and winners were decided by popular vote.
The first iteration of the Judges Panel was Mark Selan, Denis Kitchen, Roger Langridge, Glen Lumsden and Kevin Patrick.
(Favourite comic book or graphic novel (English or foreign language) released by overseas publishers during the year)
with work released during the year) LEDGER OF HONOUR (nominees chosen from Australian creators, publishers or retailers past or present).