The 2018 Ignatz Awards shortlist was announced this week, and the full list of nominees reflects a huge range of diverse comics talent.
Congratulations to everyone nominated.
Launched in 1997, the Ignatz Awards – the name inspired by the brick-throwing mouse Ignatz from George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat” – are intended to recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers.
Past winners include Tillie Walden, Michael DeForge and Jaime Hernandez.
Now in their 21st year of existence, the Awards form a part of America’s annual weekend-long Small Press Expo. Ballots will be handed out to attendees at the Festival.
The nominees were decided by panel of judges consisting of Leila Abdelrazaq, Kevin Czap, Mita Mahato, Carolyn Nowak and Taneka Stotts.
This year’s categories and nominees are:
Outstanding Artist
- Yvan Alagbé for Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures
- Ivy Atoms for Pinky & Pepper Forever
- Tommi Parrish for The Lie and How We Told It
- Richie Pope for The Box We Sit On
- Sophie Standing for Anxiety is Really Strange
Outstanding Collection
- Beirut Won’t Cry by Mazen Kerbaj
- Blackbird Days by Manuele Fior
- Language Barrier by Hannah K. Lee
- Sex Fantasy by Sophia Foster-Dimino
- Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition by Julia Kaye
Outstanding Anthology
- La Raza Anthology: Unidos y Fuertes ed. by Kat Fajardo & Pablo Castro
- Comics for Choice ed. by Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor and Ø.K. Fox
- Ink Brick #8 ed. by Alexander Rothman, Paul K. Tunis, and Alexey Sokolin
- BOTTOMS UP! Tales of Hitting Rock Bottom ed. by J.T. Yost
- Lovers Only ed. by Mickey Zacchilli
Outstanding Graphic Novel
- Why Art? by Eleanor Davis
- Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for Their Freedom by Marcelo D’Salete
- Uncomfortably Happily by Yeon-sik Hong
- The Lie and How We Told It by Tommi Parrish
- Anti-Gone by Connor Willumsen
Outstanding Series
- Ley Lines from Grindstone Comics & Czap Books
- Nori by Rumi Hara
- Bug Boys by Laura Knetzger
- Gumballs by Erin Nations
- Frontier from Youth in Decline
Outstanding Mini-Comic
- Dog Nurse by Margot Ferrick
- Greenhouse by Debbie Fong
- Common Blessings & Common Curses by Maritsa Patrinos
- Mothball 88 by Kevin Reilly
- Say It With Noodles: On Learning to Speak the Language of Food by Shing Yin Khor
Outstanding Mini-Comic
- Recollection by Alyssa Berg
- How to Be Alive by Tara Booth
- Hot Summer Nights by Freddy Carrasco
- Whatsa Paintoonist? by Jerry Moriarty
- Baopu by Yao Xiao
Outstanding Online Comic
- Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
- The Wolves Outside by Jesse England
- A Fire Story by Brian Fies
- Lara Croft Was My Family by Carta Monir
- A Part of Me is Still Unknown by Meg O’Shea
Promising New Talent
- Iasmin Omar Ata for Mis(h)adra
- Tara Booth for How to Be Alive
- Xia Gordon for The Fashion of 2004
- Rumi Hara for Nori and the Rabbits of the Moon
- Tommi Parrish for The Lie and How We Told It
Outstanding Story
- Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures by Yvan Alagbé
- Why Art? by Eleanor Davis
- Rhode Island Me by Michael DeForge
- How the Best Hunter in the Village Met Her Death by Molly Ostertag
- The Lie and How We Told It by Tommi Parrish
SPX takes place in Bethesda, Maryland from the 15th – 16th September 2018. More details can be found here
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
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