The Small Press Expo has announced the 2020 Ignatz Award nominees. The Ignatz Awards, which have been handed out since 1997, celebrate the outstanding achievements of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons.
The nominees were determined by a panel that included Scott Cederlund, November Garcia, Malala Gharib and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell.
Voting for the annual Ignatz Awards is usually limited to the attendees of the Small Press Expo, but with no physical event being held this year, they are opening it up to everyone. You can register to vote here.
The awards presentation will be livestreamed Sept. 12. And here are the nominees:
Outstanding Artist
- Ana Galvañ – Press Enter to Continue
- Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
- Tianran Qu – Slices of Life 100 Comic Montage
- Michael DeForge – Familiar Face
- Katie Hicks – Guts
Outstanding Anthology
- Dates III – edited by Zora Gilbert & Cat Parra
- Be Gay, Do Comics – edited by The Nib
- LAAB Magazine #4 – edited by Ronald Wimberly & Joshua O’Neill
- The Anthology of Mind – Tommi Musturi
- Sweaty Palms Volume 2 – Sage Coffey
Outstanding Collection
- GLEEM – Eddy Carrasco
- Glenn Ganges in: The River at Night – Kevin Huizenga
- Inappropriate – Gabrielle Bell
- Slices of Life: 100 Comic Montage – Tianran Qu
- The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski – Noah Van Sciver
Outstanding Comic
- Cosmoknights – Hannah Templer
- My Dog Ivy – Gabrielle Bell
- Cry Wolf Girl – Ariel Ries
- Theth Tomorrow Forever – Josh Bayer
- Mooncakes – Wendy Xu & Suzanne Walker
Outstanding Graphic Novel
- Hot Comb – Ebony Flowers
- Pittsburgh – Frank Santoro
- Skip – Molly Mendoza
- How I Tried to be a Good Person – Ulli Lust
- This Was Our Pact – Ryan Andrews
Outstanding Minicomic
- The Gulf – Nguyen Nguyen
- Chapter Two – Keren Katz
- Canvas – Theo K. Stultz
- I Feel Weird #4 – Haleigh Buck
- Black Hole Heart – Cathy G Johnson
Outstanding Online Comic
- I Exist – Breena Nuñez
- Like the Tide – Isabella Rotman
- SUPERPOSE – Joe Seosamh & C. Anka
- Gabby Schulz (@gabbyschulz)
- Witchy – Ariel Ries
Outstanding Series
- The Misplaced – Chris Callahan
- Fizzle – Whit Taylor
- SUPERPOSE – Joe Seosamh & C. Anka
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- Frontier – Youth in Decline
Outstanding Story
- The Lab – Allison Conway
- The Hard Tomorrow – Eleanor Davis
- The Weight #9 – Melissa Mendes
- “Little Red Riding Hood” – Inappropriate – Gabrielle Bell
- BTTM FDRS – Ezra Daniels & Ben Passmore
Promising New Talent
- AJ Dungo
- Sylvia Nickerson
- Theo Stultz
- Emil Wilson
- Andrew Lorenzi