Ariel Ries, Eleanor Davis and more win 2020 Ignatz Awards

The 2020 Ignatz Awards were presented tonight during a livestream on the Small Press Expo YouTube channel

The Ignatz Awards, which have been handed out since 1997, celebrate the outstanding achievements of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons. Typically the awards are voted on by SPX attendees and then given out at the event, but given the COVID-19 crisis, this year they opened voting up to anyone and went virtual with the awards ceremony.

Congratulations to all the winners, which you can find in bold below:

Outstanding Artist

• Ana Galvañ – Press Enter to Continue
• Rosemary Valero-O’Connell – Don’t Go Without Me
• 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