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One of your sworn duties is turning in you Ignatz Ballot, helping to determine the outcome of the most prestigious BRICK in comics! Here’s a run down on the categories and nominees, because an INFORMED voter is a HAPPY voter!
OUTSTANDING ARTIST
• Pablo Auldadell – Paradise Lost (Pegasus Books)
• Emil Ferris – My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Fantagraphics)
• Manuele Fior – The Interview (Fantagraphics)
• Karen Katz – The Academic Hour (Secret Acres)
• Barbara Yelin – Irmina (Self Made Hero)
OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY
• ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics – edited by Jon Macy and Tara Madison Avery (Stacked Deck Press)
• Comic Book Slumber Party’s Deep Space Canine – edited by Hannah K. Chapman (Avery Hill)
• ELEMENTS: Fire – An Anthology by Creators of Color – edited by Taneka Stotts (Beyond Press)
• POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology – edited by Joamette Gil (P&M Press)
• Spanish Fever: Stories by the New Spanish Cartoonists – edited by Javier Olivares & Santiago Garcia (Fantagraphics)
OUTSTANDING COLLECTION
• Boundless – Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
• The Complete Neat Stuff – Peter Bagge (Fantagraphics)
• Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2 – Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics)
• Johnny Wander: Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us – Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota (Oni Press)
• Time Clock – Leslie Stein (Fantagraphics)
OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL
• Band for Life – Anya Davidson (Fantagraphics)
• Eartha – Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics)
• March: Book 3 – John Lewis, Nate Powell, Andrew Aydin (Top Shelf)
• My Favorite Thing is Monsters – Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
• Tetris – Box Brown (First Second)
OUTSTANDING STORY
• Diana’s Electric Tongue – Carolyn Nowak (self-published)
• March: Book 3 – John Lewis, Nate Powell, Andrew Aydin (Top Shelf)
• My Favorite Thing is Monsters – Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
• “Small Enough” from Diary Comics – Dustin Harbin (Koyama Press)
• “Too Hot to Be Cool” from Elements– Maddie Gonzales – (Beyond Press)
PROMISING NEW TALENT
• Kelly Bastow – Year Long Summer (self-published)
• Margot Ferrick – Yours (2D Cloud)
• Aud Koch – “Run” from the Oath Anthology (Mary’s Monster)
• Isabella Rotman – Long Black Veil (self-published)
• Bianca Xunise – Say Her Name (self-published)
OUTSTANDING SERIES
• Chester 5000 – Jess Fink (self-published)
• Crickets – Sammy Harkham (self-published)
• Frontier – edited by Ryan Sands (Youth in Decline)
• Maleficium – Sabin Cauldron (self-published)
• The Old Woman – Rebecca Mock (self-published)
OUTSTANDING COMIC
• Canopy – Karine Bernadou (Retrofit/Big Planet)
• Libby’s Dad – Eleanor Davis (Retrofit/Big Planet)
• Public Relations #10 – Matthew Sturges, Dave Justus, Steve Rolston, Annie Wu (1First Comics)
• Sunburning – Keiler Roberts (Koyama Press)
• Your Black Friend – Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket)
OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC
• The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs – Celine Loup
• Our Tale of Woe – Keren Katz & Geffen Refaeli
• Reverse Flaneur – M. Sabine Rear
• Same Place Same Time – Ann Xu
• Tender Hearted – Hazel Newlevant
OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC
• Disability in the Age of Trump – Amanda Scurti
• The Meek – Der-Shing Helmer
• Normal Person/Maine Vacation – Lauren Weinstein
• That’s Not Who We Are – Mike Dawson
• Woman World – Aminder Dhaliwal
