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2022 Ignatz Awards Nominees

2022 Ignatz Awards logo by Pa-Luis

For Immediate Release

Contact: Warren Bernard

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 2022 nominees for the annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.

For the first time in three years, SPX 2022 will feature a full slate of programming and workshops, along with a live presentation of the Ignatz Awards ceremony.

Beginning this year, voting for the Ignatz Awards will be opened to anybody on the SPX email lists and anyone requesting a ballot. There will be no in-person voting at the show, as we open up the voting for the prestigious Ignatz Awards to all fans of indie comics.

Ignatz Awards nominees are determined by a panel of comics professionals. We are most grateful for the efforts of this year's team of jurors:

Cuyler Hedlund
Josh O'Neill
Breena Nunez
Alex Hoffman
Hazel Newlevant

The Ignatz Awards ceremony will be held at 9:30PM on September 17 in the White Oak Room of the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.

Additional Information about the nominees and the Ignatz Awards, along with other information about SPX 2022, can be found at www.smallpressexpo.com.

BALLOT & VOTING INFORMATION

Voting for the 2022 Ignatz Awards will be by email ballot only, there will be no on-site voting.
Ballots will be emailed on Thursday August 18 to everyone on SPX's email lists.
Voting ends on Wednesday, September 14 at 11:59 PM (EDT).
Please check your spam folder if you do not see your ballot.
If you wish to vote for the Ignatz Awards and are not on our email lists, signup for a ballot and get added to our email lists at the SPX website.

2022 IGNATZ NOMINEES

OUTSTANDING ARTIST

Halcyon, illustrated by Ron Regé Jr. (Fantagraphics)
Four Years Collected: Vol 2, by K Czap (Czap Books)
The City of Belgium, illustrated by Brecht Evens (Drawn & Quarterly)
Alexander, the Servant & the Water of Life, illustrated by Reimena Yee (Hiveworks Comics)
Faster, illustrated by Jesse Lonergan (Bulgilhan Press)

OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY

LAAB Magazine #2: Eat / Shit - ed. Ronald Wimberly and Josh O'Neill (Beehive Books)
Isolated: A Pandemic Comics Anthology - ed. Tana Oshima (Self Published)
Smut Peddler Presents: Sordid Past - ed. Andrea Purcell (Iron Circus Comics)
Good Boy Magazine #1 - ed. Michael Sweater and Benji Nate (Silver Sprocket)
Baltic Comics Magazine š! #42 'Scientific Facts' - ed. David Schilter, Sanita Muižniece (kuš!)

OUTSTANDING COLLECTION

Arrive In My Hands by Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)
Cover Not Final: Crime Funnies by Max Huffman (Adhouse Books)
Think I've Still Got It! By Wang XX, Translated by R. Orion Martin (Paradise Systems)
Mr. Boop by Alec Robbins (Silver Sprocket)
The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories by Rumi Hara (Drawn & Quarterly)

OUTSTANDING COMIC

Four Years Collected: Vol 2 by K Czap (Czap Books)
I See A Knight by Xulia Vicente (Shortbox)
Pee Pee Poo Poo #69 by Caroline Cash (Self Published)
Are Comic Books Real? by Alex Nall (Self Published)
Ode to Keisha by Jamila Rowser and Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)

OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL

Discipline by Dash Shaw (New York Review Comics)
Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, by Mohammad Sabaaneh, translated by Dalia and Mouin Rabbani (Street Noise Books)
Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir, by Ariel Bordeaux (Fieldmouse Press)
No One Else by R. Kikuo Johnson (Fantagraphics)
What is Home, Mum? By Sabba Khan (Street Noise Books)

OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC

Joy by Maritsa Patrinos (Self Published)
Pee Pee Poo Poo #69 by Caroline Cash (Self Published)
Carrington's World by Summer Pierre (Self Published)
Phonestoned by King Ray (Self Published)
Sleemor Gank - Burg Land 1 by Alexander Laird (Self Published)

OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC

Blind Alley by Adam de Souza
Ride or Die by Mars Heyward
Vattu by Evan Dahm
Alexander, the Servant & the Water of Life by Reimena Yee
Technofeelia Vol. 4 'Help' by Amy Kurzweil

OUTSTANDING SERIES

Methods of Dyeing by B. Mure (Avery Hill Publishing)
Trans Classic Movies by Jett Allen (www.intomore.com)
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V and Filipe Andrade (BOOM! Studios)
Ley Lines Artists: Keren Katz, Cameron Weston Nicholson, Jordan Jeffries, ed. K Czap & L Nichols (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
The Nib Magazine - ed. by Matt Bors (The Nib)

OUTSTANDING STORY

Big Cats by Liz Yerby (Self Published)
Ley Lines: The First Few Bars by Keren Katz (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
Ley Lines: Love, or the Axe by Jordan Jeffries (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
The Lover of Everyone in the World, from The Lover of Everyone in the World by Beatrix Urkowitz (Parsifal Press)
Winter Break 2029, from Invisible Parade, by Mississippi (Glacier Bay Books)

PROMISING NEW TALENT:

Arrive In My Hands by Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)
Archeologist Landing by Yara Elfouly (Self Published)
Koreans Speak English by Juniper Kim (Self Published)
The Third Person by Emma Grove (Drawn & Quarterly)
Djeliya by Juni Ba (TKO Studios)

Congratulations to all the nominees!

Key Dates for the 2022 Ignatz Awards

August 18 - Initial ballots emailed and voting begins
September 14 • 11:59 PM (EDT) - Voting for the 2022 Ignatz Awards ends
September 17 • 9:30 PM (EDT) - Presentation of Ignatz Award winners

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 550 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 Awards are held every year by SPX, with the awards recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.