Tuesday, September 01, 2020

PR: Small Press Expo Announces 2020 Ignatz Award Nominees

PR: Small Press Expo Announces 2020 Ignatz Award Nominees



Ignatz 2020 logo design by Ebony Flowers
For Immediate Release

Contact: Dan Stafford


Bethesda, Maryland – The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce the 2020 nominees for the annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.

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 Ignatz Awards are a festival prize, the first of such in the United States comic book industry.The 2020 Ignatz Awards are sponsored by Politics & Prose, a D.C. based independent bookstore devoted to cultivating community and strengthening the common good through books, programs, and a respectful exchange of ideas.

The nominees for the ballot were determined by a panel of the best of today's comics professionals, Scott Cederlund, November Garcia, Malala Gharib, and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell. Voting beings August 31 and continues until September 9. Register to vote via the SPX website. Everyone registering to vote after the initial ballots are mailed on August 31 will be emailed ballots soon after registration.

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

Congratulations to all our nominees!
Key Dates for the 2020 Ignatz Awards
  • August 31 - Announcement of Ignatz 2020 nominees
  • September 1 - Voting begins with ballots emailed to all registered voters
  • September 7 - Voter registration ends
  • September 8 - Voting for the 2020 Ignatz Awards ends
  • September 12 - Online presentation of Ignatz Award winners
Everyone registering to vote after the initial ballots are mailed on August 31 will be emailed ballots soon after registration.

The Ignatz Awards ceremony will be live-streamed on Saturday night, September 12 at 8PM Eastern Time on the SPX Youtube channel. Further details on presenters will be given at a later date. 

The 2020 Ignatz Awards are sponsored by Politics and Prose
Politics and Prose is a D.C. based independent bookstore devoted to cultivating community and strengthening the common good through books, programs, and a respectful exchange of ideas.

Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 650 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests.

The Ignatz Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.
Small Press Expo
P.O. Box 5704
Bethesda, Maryland
20824
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