Notes:
1991 - The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

2013 - Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson's - Andrews McMeel

2020 - The Hero Initiative

2020 - creators4comics

2020 - Comic Book United Fund

2023 - Beth Accomando
Name Recipient Year Awarded
[no name] Forrest J Ackerman (b. 1916) 1984
[no name] Robert A. Heinlein (b. 1907) 1985
[no name] Bernie Wrightson (b. 1948) 1986
[no name] Jim Starlin (b. 1949) 1986
[no name] Ray Bradbury (b. 1920) 1987
[no name] Phil Yeh (b. 1954) 1989
[no name] Sergio Aragonés (b. 1937) 1990
[no name] Archie Goodwin (b. 1937) 1992
[no name] Jack Kirby (b. 1917) 1993
[no name] Will Eisner (b. 1917) 1994
[no name] Maggie Thompson (b. 1942) 1995
[no name] Andrew Vachss (b. 1943) 1996
[no name] Joe Kubert (b. 1926) 1997
[no name] Frank Miller (b. 1957) 1998
[no name] Jerry Robinson (b. 1922) 1999
[no name] Peter Laird (b. 1954) 2000
[no name] Mark Evanier (b. 1952) 2001
[no name] Herb Trimpe (b. 1939) 2002
[no name] Alex Ross (b. 1970) 2003
[no name] George Pérez (b. 1954) 2005
[no name] Neil Gaiman (b. 1960) 2007
[no name] Paul Levitz (b. 1956) 2008
[no name] Denis Kitchen (b. 1946) 2009
[no name] Patrick McDonnell (b. 1956) 2011
[no name] Morrie Turner (b. 1923) 2012
[no name] Chris Sparks 2013
[no name] Bill Morrison (b. 1959) 2015
[no name] Matthew Inman (b. 1982) 2016
[no name] Marc Andreyko (b. 1970) 2017
[no name] Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez 2019
[no name] Tula Lotay (b. 1975) 2019
[no name] Mike Mignola (b. 1960) 2021
[no name] Annie Koyama 2022
[no name] Scott Dunbier (b. 1962) 2023