Here are the winners of the 2024 Ignatz Awards, presented during last weekend’s SPX. Now in its twenty-seventh edition (held annually since 1997), the awards draw attention to outstanding independent and alternative work across ten categories.
Winners from Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom and France had a uniquely international feel to their work, winning in many categories. Canadian wins three awards for eponymous pulp collective anthology pulping Won awards in two categories: Best Anthology Sami AlwaniHis contribution to “The Art of Joy” won the Outstanding Story Award. Heavy creative cousins Jillian With Mariko Tamaki Won the Best Graphic Novel Award roaming – The book has already received a lot of praise and accolades in the mainstream – including three Eisner Awards for the book and its author.
British-Bangladeshi creator Shazreen Khan Winner of the Outstanding Online Comic Award for his critically acclaimed queer urban fantasy web series ask! (It has been running since December 2018 and is currently crowdfunding for its fifth series). leo fox Won the Outstanding Comic Award for Mind-Body Meditation my body is unraveling (Silver Sprocket Publishing).
Jamaican cartoonist living in the United States Robin Smith Awarded Outstanding Artist, French Artist Leia Muravec Win the Japanese Comic Newcomer Award Saito Natsuna Get Outstanding Collection sea lightning (Translated by Alexa Frank, published by Drawn & Quarterly)
While many creators are from the United States, the only American to win this year is Hannah Templer Ongoing ragtag space gay romp space knight (Published by Top Shelf) Winner of the Outstanding Series Award – the third installment in the webcomic-turned-graphic novel series is about to be released.
Voting for the Ignatz Prize is conducted online by this year’s chief judges. Cash, Martha Coleman, Dwayne Bond, Lawrence Lindell, Cliotta Wilberg and Emma Jensen Choose a nominee.
The complete list is as follows:
best anthology
- winner: pulpingedited by Jenn Woodall, Jon Iñaki, Jonathan Rotsztain, Mitch Lohmeier and Paterson Hodgson (Pulping Collective)
- Let her be evileditor Cassandra Jones (zoo)
- We Belong: An all-black, all-LGBTQ+ sci-fi and fantasy comic anthologyeditor Victor T. Coney & William O. Taylor (Stacked Deck Press)
- The wheels on the bus, Editor Lucio Luis (Jupati Books)
- Won’t Back Down: An Anthology of Pro-Abortion Comicseditor Trina Robbins (last breath)
Outstanding Artist
- Winner: Robyn Smith, “Night Fever” Gladiolus Magazine #1 (Black City Press)
- Nate Garcia, Flippi (Domino Books)
- Julie Delport, body portrait (Lottery and Quarterly)
- Aidan Koch, Spirals and other stories (New York Review Comics)
- Leia Muravec, the great other side (Lottery and Quarterly)
Outstanding collection
- winner: sea lightningAoi Saito; translated by Alexa Frank (Drawings & Quarterly)
- The Complete Works of Buzzelli Volume 1: Labyrinthgo through Guido Buzzelli; translator Jamie Richards (Ukiyo Comics)
- Complete and utter gibberish.go through November Garcia (Vole Press)
- Gender Studies: Confessions of an Accidental Outlawgo through Mance’s proposal (Rose Garden Press)
- Recentgo through Murakami Kiba (self-published)
Excellent comics
- winner: my body is unravelingby Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket)
- Outfielder #2go through Kevin Huizenga (Lottery and Quarterly)
- Follow the doll #2go through Daryl Sechik (Parsifal Press)
- sunflowergo through Kizyan (silver sprocket)
- The Audra Show #7: Love Mattersgo through Audra Stein (self-published)
Outstanding Graphic Novel
- winner: roamingby Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki (Drawing and Quarterly)
- Optometrygo through Xiang Yata (Driftwood Press)
- conversationgo through Darin Bell (Macmillan Press)
- stressful time, go through ms harkness (Fantasy Picture)
- To be continued, go through Josh Beyer (uncivilized books)
Excellent mini comic
- winner: Comic magic cubeAuthor: Song Yuan (self-published)
- Find a seatgo through Faye Stacey (Kundli Publishing House)
- super yellow deergo through Anna II (self-published)
- lullabygo through Jordan Jeffries (Cosmic Doghouse Publishing House)
- Pauline Newmango through Greer de Mallier (self-published)
Excellent web comics
Outstanding Series
- winner: space knightHannah Templer (Top Shelf Productions)
- random memoryeditor Andrew Alexander (cram school book)
- Jaywalkingeditor Austin English and Floyd Tangerman (Domino Book)
- WHO! baltic comics magazinethrough various (crossbow)
- Tongue, go through Anders Nielsen (self-published)
Wonderful story
- Winner: “The Art of Joy” pulpingby Sami Alwani (Pulping Collective)
- “You will tell me everything when I see you” you are not a guestgo through Lila Koman (Vole Press)
- Venus rising in Scorpio #1, go through Colleen Halbert (self-published)
- Giftgo through Jamila Rosser & Sam Wade (Black City Press)
- superhero journeygo through Patrick MacDonald (Abrams)
Promising new talent
- Winner: Leah Muravec, the great other side (Lottery and Quarterly)
- Cole Degenstein, 10-10 in the wind (Vole Press)
- Pingnan Lu, gift box (self-published)
- Xiang Yata, Optometry (Driftwood Press)
- Ugo Canuto, The story of Orissa (Abrams)
