Eleanor Davis, Richie Pope, Molly Ostertag and Carta Monir are among the winners of the 2018 Ignatz Awards, as presented last night at a ceremony held in conjunction with the Small Press Expo (SPX) in Bethesda, Maryland.
The Ignatz, named after George Herriman’s brick-wielding mouse from his long running comic strip Krazy Kat, recognizes exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an art form and as a means of personal expression. The nominees for the ballot were determined by a panel of comic artists: Mita Mahato, Carolyn Nowak, kevin czap, Leila Abdelrazaq and Taneka Stotts. The votes for the awards were cast by the attendees at the show
The complete list of nominees can be found below, with the winner in bold.
Outstanding Artist
- Yvan Alagbé – Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures
- Ivy Atoms – Pinky & Pepper Forever
- Tommi Parrish – The Lie and How We Told It
- Richie Pope – The Box We Sit On
- Sophie Standing – Anxiety is Really Strange
Outstanding Collection
- Beirut Won’t Cry – Mazen Kerbaj
- Blackbird Days – Manuele Fior
- Language Barrier – Hannah K. Lee
- Sex Fantasy – Sophia Foster-Dimino
- Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition – Julia Kaye
Outstanding Anthology
- La Raza Anthology: Unidos y Fuertes – edited by Kat Fajardo & Pablo Castro
- Comics for Choice – edited by Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor and Ø.K. Fox
- Ink Brick #8 – edited by Alexander Rothmans, Paul K. Tunis, and Alexey Sokolin
- Bottoms Up, Tales of Hitting Rock Bottom – edited by J.T. Yost
- Lovers Only – edited by Mickey Zacchilli
Outstanding Graphic Novel
- Why Art? – Eleanor Davis
- Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for Their Freedom – Marcelo D’Salete
- Uncomfortably Happily – Yeon-sik Hong
- The Lie and How We Told It – Tommi Parrish
- Anti-Gone – Connor Willumsen
Outstanding Series
- Ley Lines – Czap Books
- Nori – Rumi Hara
- Bug Boys – Laura Knetzger
- Gumballs – Erin Nations
- Frontier – Youth in Decline
Outstanding Minicomic
- Dog Nurse – Margot Ferrick
- Greenhouse – Debbie Fong
- Common Blessings & Common Curses – Maritsa Patrinos
- Mothball 88 – Kevin Reilly
- Say It With Noodles: On Learning to Speak the Language of Food – Shing Yin Khor
Outstanding Comic
- Recollection – Alyssa Berg
- Hot to Be Alive – Tara Booth
- Hot Summer Nights – Freddy Carrasco
- Whatsa Paintoonist – Jerry Moriarty
- Baopu – Yao Xiao
Outstanding Online Comic
- Woman World – Aminder Dhaliwal
- The Wolves Outside – Jesse England
- A Fire Story – Brian Files
- Lara Croft Was My Family – Carta Monir
- A Part of Me is Still Unknown – Meg O’Shea
Promising New Talent
- Yasmin Omar Ata – Mis(h)adra
- Tara Booth – How to Be Alive
- Xia Gordon – The Fashion of 2004, Harvest
- Rumi Hara – Nori and The Rabbits of the Moon
- Tommi Parrish – The Lie and How We Told It
Outstanding Story
- Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures – Yvan Alabge
- Why Art? – Eleanor Davis
- Rhode Island Me – Michael DeForge
- How the Best Hunter in the Village Met Her Death – Molly Ostertag
- The Lie and How We Told It – Tommi Parrish