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SPX Announces the 2016 Ignatz Award Nominees!

The Small Press Expo the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce the 2016 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.

This year’s Ignatz image is by 2015 Promising New Talent winner, @sophiafosterdimino.

Our 2016 Ignatz Jurors

The nominees for the ballot were determined by a panel of five of the best of today’s comic artists, Tony Breed, Summer Pierre, Keiler Roberts, C. Spike Trotman and J.T. Yost., with the votes cast for the awards by the attendees during SPX.

The Ignatz Ceremony

The Ignatz Awards will be presented at the gala Ignatz Awards ceremony held on Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 9:30 P.M. A reception (and the SPX prom will follow).

Our Thanks to comiXology

Once again we want to thank our our friends at @comixology for sponsoring the Ignatz Awards. Information on comiXology and their self-publishing portal Submit can be found at https://submit.comixology.com.

The 2016 Ignatz Award Nominees:

Outstanding Artist

Daniel Clowes for Patience
Ryan Heshka for Mean Girls Club
Kevin Huizenga for Ganges
Noah Van Sciver for Disquiet
Tillie Walden for The End of Summer

Outstanding Anthology or Collection

Beverly by Nick Drnaso
Beyond: The Queer Sci Fi and Fantasy Anthology edited by Sfé R. Monster and Taneka Stotts
The Complete Wimmen’s Comix edited by Trina Robbins
Killing And Dying by Adrian Tomine
Step Aside Pops by Kate Beaton

Outstanding Graphic Novel

Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt
Nod Away by Josh Cotter
Sick by Gabby Schulz
Soldier’s Heart by Carol Tyler
Trashed by Derf Backderf

Outstanding Story

The Hunter by Joe Sparrow
Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
“Megg & Mogg In Amsterdam” from Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam and Other Stories by Simon Hanselmann
My Hot Date by Noah Van Sciver
“Shrine of the Monkey God” by Kim Deitch from Kramers Ergot 9

Promising New Talent

Kevin Budnik for Handbook
Maia Kobabe for Tom O’Bedlam
Sara Lautman for The Ultimate Laugh, Grape Nuts
Carolyn Nowak for Radishes
Tillie Walden for I Love This Part

Outstanding Series

Cartozia Tales edited by Isaac Cates
Demon by Jason Shiga
Ganges by Kevin Huizenga
Megg & Mogg & Owl by Simon Hanselmann
Powdered Milk by Keiler Roberts

Outstanding Comic

As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman
Be Good by John Martz
Fantasy Sports No. 1 by Sam Bosma
Patience by Daniel Clowes
“Shrine of the Monkey God” by Kim Deitch from Kramers Ergot 9

Outstanding Minicomic

The Experts by Sophie Franz
Laffy Meal by Pranas T. Naujokaitis
Maps to the Suns by Sloane Leong
Radishes by Carolyn Nowak
The Unofficial Cuckoo’s Nest by Luke Healy

Outstanding Online Comic

A Cartoonist’s Diary by Rina Ayuyang
Just Doing My Job by Gynnis Fawkes
Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran
A Small Revolution by Samantha Leriche-Gionet (AKA “Boum”)
Vattu by Evan Dahm

ATTEND SPX

SPX will be held Saturday, September 17 from 11AM to 7PM and Sunday, September 18, noon-6PM at The North Bethesda Marriott Convention Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Admission is $15 for Saturday, $10 for Sunday and $20 for both days.