Prêmio LeBlanc (''LeBlanc Awards'') is a Brazilian award created in 2018 and intended to reward national works in the areas of

comics a Media (communication), medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of Panel (comics), panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, Glo ...

animation Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animati ...

, fantastic literature and

games A game is a Structure, structured type of play (activity), play usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an Educational game, educational tool. Many games are also considered to be Work (human activity), work (such as p ...

(this one, from the second edition onwards). The name of the award pays tribute to the Haitian artist André LeBlanc, who lived and worked for many years in Brazil and the United States. The award is organized by the Graduate Program in Creative Media from School of Communication of the

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (, UFRJ) is a public university, public research university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the largest federal university in the country and is one of the Brazilian centers of excellence in teaching and r ...

and by the Veiga de Almeida University, institutions also responsible for the Semana Internacional de Quadrinhos (SIQ), an academic event on comics held at UFRJ during which traditionally takes place the trophy presentation ceremony. Voting takes place in two stages: first, a popular vote defines the three finalists of each category who are later analyzed by a technical jury that defines each winner. Any works released between January 1 and December 31 of the year preceding the award can be nominated, as long as they are relevant to the category.

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