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== Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards ==
''CBG'' administered the annual [[Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards]] from 1983 to circa 2010, with the first awards announced in issue #500 (June 17, 1983).

Upon taking over as ''CBG'' editors, Don and Maggie Thompson aspired to bring back a series of comic book fan awards like the [[Goethe Awards]], which they had administered in the first half of the 1970s. (The Goethe Award — later known as the Comic Fan Art Award — originated with the Thompsons' [[fanzine]] ''Newfangles'' and then shared close ties with ''The Buyer's Guide to Comics Fandom''.<ref name=Miller /><ref name=fanawards6170>Thompson, Maggie. [http://www.cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/comics-fan-awards-1961-1970 "Comics Fan Awards 1961-1970"] ''Comics Buyer's Guide'' (August 19, 2005). {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914191950/http://www.cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/comics-fan-awards-1961-1970 |date=September 14, 2015 }}</ref> Perhaps not coincidentally, ''TBG'' was given the Goethe Award for Favorite Fanzine in 1972.)<ref name=Goethe>Miller, John Jackson. [http://www.cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/goethecomic-fan-art-award-winners-1971-74 "GOETHE/COMIC FAN ART AWARD WINNERS, 1971-74,"] ''Comics Buyer's Guide'' (July 19, 2005).  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920035152/http://www.cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/goethecomic-fan-art-award-winners-1971-74 |date=September 20, 2010 }}</ref>

The format and balloting of the CBG Fan Awards were in many ways derived from the Goethe Award/Comic Fan Art Award. The awards were initially voted on by ''CBG'' subscribers; the voting was later opened up to everyone. As many as 5,000 votes were cast per year during the 1990s.<ref name=Miller />

The awards were often presented at the annual [[Chicago Comicon]]<ref name=Miller>Miller, John Jackson. [https://www.comichron.com/faq/comicsbuyersguidehistory.html "Comics Buyer's Guide: A Look Back: Launched as The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom, how a publication started by a teenager ran for nearly 1,700 issues,"] ''Comichron''. Accessed Jan. 22, 2020.</ref> until 1996 (when the [[Wizard Fan Awards]] moved in); from that point forward the CBG Award results were simply published in the magazine.