Day: August 13, 2024

Nominees announced for the 2024 Ignatz Awards

The Ignatz Awards, given out annually at SPX, honor outstanding achievement in independent comics and cartooning.

The Small Press Expo, or SPX, has announced the nominees for the 2024 Ignatz Awards.

The Ignatz Awards recognize the outstanding achievements of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons and are typically given out during the Small Press Expo every Fall. Named for the mouse that appears in the Krazy Kat comics by George Herriman, the logo changes each year as a new artist draws the mouse and his weapon of choice, the brick. The logo for this year was drawn by 2023 Ignatz Promising New Talent Winner Deb JJ Lee.

This year’s nominees were chosen by a panel of comics professionals that included Caroline Cash, Martha Kuhlman, Dawn Bond, Lawrence Lindell, Kriota Wilberg and Emma Jensen. And here are their choices:

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Can’t Wait for Wednesday | Enter the ‘Houses of the Unholy’ with Ed Brubaker + Sean Phillips

Check out what comics and graphic novels will arrive in stores this week by James Kochalka, Jen Wang, Mark Russell, Bob Quinn, Joe Casey, Sebastián Piriz, Matt Kindt, Margie Kindt, Garth Ennis, Jacen Burrows, Fell Hound, Caroline Cash and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what comics are arriving in comic book stores, bookstores and on digital. I flipped the script on you this week, starting with this week’s graphic novels before getting into comics. When Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jen Wang and James Kochalka have new books out, it just feels like the right thing to do.

I’ve pulled out some of the other highlights for this week below, but for the complete list of everything you might find at your local comic shop and on digital this week, you’ll want to check out one or more of the following:

As a reminder, things can change and what you find on the above lists may differ from what’s actually arriving in your local shop. So always check with your comics retailer for the final word on availability.

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