ComicsDC: PR: Important Information for the 2024 Ignatz Awards Submissions

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

PR: Important Information for the 2024 Ignatz Awards Submissions

Hello Creators and Publishers!!

We learned a lot last year with the new submission process and judging teams, so we are tweaking things a bit this year to make the process smoother all the way around.

Below is the information you need about the changes we made to submit your works for this year's Ignatz Awards.

We will start accepting submissions to the 2024 Ignatz Awards on Monday April 1.

You can take your time with the submissions, as the submission window does not end until Friday May 31.

Please read all of the below and any questions, do not hesitate to send them to ignatzawards@smallpressexpo.com.

Thanks,

Warren and Francesca

2024 Ignatz Awards Schedule

April 1 - Ignatz Submissions Open
May 31 - Ignatz Submissions Close
Mid-August - Ignatz nominees announced and ballots available
September 14 @ 9:30PM - Ignatz Awards Ceremony

Ignatz Logo by Deb JJ Lee.

IGNATZ SUBMISSION PAGE

You can get to the submissions page one of two ways:

On the SPX landing page, click on the Submit Works to the 2024 Ignatz Awards icon.
Go directly to the Ignatz submission landing page here.

NOTE: The submission forms will not be active until Monday April 1.

THE SUBMISSION PROCESS

1. Everyone will submit their works to one and only of the following mutually exclusive categories:

Outstanding Minicomic
Outstanding Graphic Novel
Outstanding Anthology
Outstanding Collection
Outstanding Comic
Outstanding Online Comic

You can read the definitions of these categories on the About The Ignatz Awards page on our web site.

2. For any of the above categories, you have the option of uploading up to three 1MB photos of your printed works. With the advent of digital submissions, the judges can get a better feel for your work in terms of production values by showing them a few photographs.

3. All works submitted to the above categories can also be submitted to the remaining categories of Outstanding Story, Outstanding Series, Outstanding Artist and Promising New Talent.

4. You will be asked for two new pieces of information for the above categories: the dimensions of your book/comic and the number of pages.

UPLOADING PDF FILES

We ask that everybody take a look at compressing large PDF files. Here is the information from Adobe . We request you do so if indeed the Adobe compression does not impact the reading experience of your work. If you can do this, it will decrease the amount of time you will spend during the the upload process.

We also recommend splitting large (over 100MB PDF's) into two, as shown here on the Adobe site.

Based on the experience of running virtual Ignatz Awards over the past two years, we are making this move to digital submissions permanent, as well as making a few important changes to the entire process:

Here is other important PDF information:

Please send us PDFs only of no more than two 200meg files in size per submission
PDF file naming convention for Mini-comics, Comics, Series, Story, Artist, Promising New Talent, Collections and Graphic Novels is: CreatorLastName.CreatorFirstName.Comic_Title.IssueNumber (If needed).Publisher.PubMonthPubYear.pdf If there is no Issue Number, then do not put one in the file nameIf it is self published, put Self as the Publisher
PDF file naming convention for Anthologies is: EditorLastName.EditorFirstName.Comic_Title.Publisher.PubMonthPubYear.pdf

COPIES FOR THE SPX COLLECTION AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

In addition to the digital submission, you will be required to send us one physical copy so we can display the Ignatz noms at the show, as well as preserve your works for future generations in the SPX Collection at the Library of Congress: