The Ignatz Awards 2018 Winners In Full
by Hannah Means Shannon
[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