Saturday, February 27, 2016

More SPX 2015 Panels

SPX 2015 Panel - SPX Spotlight on Phoebe Gloeckner

Feb 23, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AZJ36ilvsA

Phoebe Gloeckner has produced one of the most powerful and innovative bodies of works in the comics field. Her classic book "A Child's Life and Other Stories" anthologizes short pieces which, together, powerfully express a textured portrait of adolescent desire and despair. Her mixed format book "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" blends prose, illustration, and comics. The book has been adapted as a critically acclaimed film, and was also republished in a new edition with additional supplementary material. For the past several years she has been researching a book about people living in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Ms. Gloeckner discuses her work in a spotlight conversation with Slate Magazine culture editor Dan Kois.


SPX 2015 - Ignatz Awards Ceremony

 Feb 19, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NobdAw_Hyw

The Ignatz Award, named for the character in the classic comic strip Krazy Kat by George Herriman, is the festival prize of the Small Press Expo. Since 1997 the Ignatz has recognized outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. The award recognizes exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an art form and as a means of personal expression. Only those present at the Small Press Expo may cast a vote to decide the winners. The ballot is created by a jury of five cartoonists and is voted on by the attendees of the SPX festival. 2015 Jurors are Lamar Abrams, Cara Bean, Robyn Chapman, Sophie Goldstein and Corrine Mucha.

Mistress of Ceremonies C. Spike Trotman hosts the 2015 award ceremony. The 2015 Ignatz Awards are sponsored by Comixology Submit

2015 Ignatz Award Winners:

Outstanding Anthology of Collection - How To Be Happy by Eleanor Davis

Outstanding Graphic Novel - The Oven by Sophie Goldstein

Outstanding Artist - Emily Carroll for Through the Woods

Outstanding Story - Sex Coven from Frontier #7 by Jillian Tamaki

Promising New Talent - Sophia Foster-Dimino for Sphincter, Sex Fantasy

Outstanding Series - Sex Fantasy by Sophia Foster-Dimino

Outstanding Minicomic - Sex Fantasy #4 by Sophia Foster-Dimino

Outstanding Online Comic - The Bloody Footprint by Lilli Carre

Outstanding Comic - The Oven by Sophie Goldstein

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