[Ignatz image by 2017 Promising New Talent winner Bianca Xunise.]

The Ignatz Awards are held every year at Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, and honor work that is published by small presses, or self-published.

This year’s winners, announced on Saturday, September 15th, are below in bold:

Outstanding Artist

Yvan Alagbé – Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures

Ivy Atoms – Pinky & Pepper Forever

Tommi Parrish – The Lie and How We Told It

Richie Pope – The Box We Sit On

Sophie Standing – Anxiety is Really Strange

Outstanding Collection

Beirut Won’t Cry – Mazen Kerbaj

Blackbird Days – Manuele Fior

Language Barrier – Hannah K. Lee

Sex Fantasy – Sophia Foster-Dimino

Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition – Julia Kaye

Outstanding Anthology

La Raza Anthology: Unidos y Fuertes – ed. by Kat Fajardo & Pablo Castro

Comics for Choice – ed. by Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor and Ø.K. Fox

Ink Brick #8 – ed. by Alexander Rothmans, Paul K. Tunis, and Alexey Sokolin

Bottoms Up, Tales of Hitting Rock Bottom – ed. by J.T. Yost

Lovers Only – ed. by Mickey Zacchilli

Outstanding Graphic Novel

Why Art? – Eleanor Davis

Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for Their Freedom – Marcelo D’Salete

Uncomfortably Happily – Yeon-sik Hong

The Lie and How We Told It – Tommi Parrish

Anti-Gone – Connor Willumsen

Outstanding Series

Ley Lines – Czap Books

Nori – Rumi Hara

Bug Boys – Laura Knetzger

Gumballs – Erin Nations

Frontier – Youth in Decline

Outstanding Minicomic

Dog Nurse – Margot Ferrick

Greenhouse – Debbie Fong

Common Blessings & Common Curses – Maritsa Patrinos

Mothball 88 – Kevin Reilly

Say It With Noodles: On Learning to Speak the Language of Food – Shing Yin Khor

Outstanding Comic

Recollection – Alyssa Berg

Hot to Be Alive – Tara Booth

Hot Summer Nights – Freddy Carrasco

Whatsa Paintoonist – Jerry Moriarty

Baopu – Yao Xiao

Outstanding Online Comic

Woman World – Aminder Dhaliwal

The Wolves Outside – Jesse England

A Fire Story – Brian Files

Lara Croft Was My Family – Carta Monir

A Part of Me is Still Unknown – Meg O’Shea

Promising New Talent

Yasmin Omar Ata – Mis(h)adra

Tara Booth – How to Be Alive

Xia Gordon – The Fashion of 2004, Harvest

Rumi Hara – Nori and The Rabbits of the Moon

Tommi Parrish – The Lie and How We Told It

Outstanding Story

Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures – Yvan Alabge

Why Art? – Eleanor Davis

Rhode Island Me – Michael DeForge

How the Best Hunter in the Village Met Her Death – Molly Ostertag

The Lie and How We Told It – Tommi Parrish

Share this: Email

Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

Tumblr

Pinterest

