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The 2025 Ignatz Award Nominees Have Been Announced

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2025 Ignatz Awards

The Small Press Expo (SPX) has announced the 2025 nominees for the annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.

Ignatz Awards nominees are determined by a panel of comics professionals. This year’s team of jurors included:

  • Denis Kitchen
  • Carol Tilley
  • Isabella Rotman
  • Jonathan Baylis
  • Beth Hetland
  • Olivia Li

Voting for the Ignatz Awards is open to anybody on the SPX email lists and anyone requesting a ballot. There will be no in-person voting at the show, as voting for the prestigious Ignatz Awards is open to all fans of indie comics. Voting ends on Friday September 12 at 8:00Pm (EDT).

The Ignatz Awards ceremony will be held at 9:30PM on Saturday September 13 in the White Oak Room of the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.

Congrats and good luck to all of this year’s nominees:

OUTSTANDING ARTIST

  • Sarah Airriess, The Worst Journey in the World (Iron Circus Comics)
  • Deb JJ Lee, Death Fiddles and We Dance (Self-Published/Shortbox)
  • Kazimir Lee, Low Orbit (Top Shelf Productions)
  • Lomig, JOHN MUIR: To the Heart of Solitude (NBM Graphic Novels)
  • Anders Nilsen, Tongues Supplement #1 (NoMiracles)

OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY

  • Braba: A Brazilian Comics Anthology ed. Rafael Grampá and Janaína de Luna (Fantagraphics)
  • Come Find Me ed. Will Dennis and Sean Edgar (DSTLRY)
  • Datura Magazine vol. 3 ed. Sunmi and Mar Julia (Self-Published)
  • Loud: Stories to Make Your Voice Heard ed. Brett Israel (Dark Horse Comics)
  • Rust Belt Review vol. 6 by Sean Knickerbocker (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING COLLECTION

  • I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang (Drawn and Quarterly)
  • Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy (Drawn and Quarterly)
  • Preparing to Bite by Keiler Roberts (Drawn and Quarterly)
  • Them-Shaped Cloud by Max Huffman (CRAM Books)
  • World Within the World by Julia Gfrörer (Fantagraphics)

OUTSTANDING COMIC

  • Belly Full of Heart by Madeline Mouse (Silver Sprocket)
  • Big Gamble Rainbow Highway by Connie Meyers (CRAM Books)
  • Lucky Cap Scouts by O. Stevens (Silver Sprocket)
  • The Re-Up #6 by Chad Bilyeu and Juliette de Wit (Bistro Books)
  • Tongues Supplement #1 by Anders Nilsen (NoMiracles)

OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL

  • Adrift on a Painted Sea by Tim Bird (Avery Hill Publishing)
  • Land of Mirrors by María Medem (translated by Aleshia Jensen & Daniela Ortiz) (Drawn and Quarterly)
  • Precious Rubbish by Kayla E. (Fantagraphics)
  • Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It by Tara Booth (Drawn and Quarterly)
  • Skin by Mieke Versyp and Sabien Clement (Fantagraphics)

OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC

  • Allodynia by Violet Kitchen (Self-Published)
  • Big Apple Matinee by A. T. Pratt (Self-Published)
  • The Connoisseurs by Alex Swift (Frog Farm)
  • The Mole by Arantza Peña Popo (Self-Published)
  • Szarlotka by Jas Hice (Frog Farm)

OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC

OUTSTANDING SERIES

  • Disciples of Soil by B. Mure (Avery Hill Publishing)
  • PeePee PooPoo by Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)
  • The Re-Up by Chad Bilyeu & Juliette de Wit (Bistro Books)
  • Tongues by Anders Nilsen (NoMiracles)
  • Wedding Juice by Sanika Phawde (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING STORY

  • A Pillbug Story by Allison Conway (Black Panel Press)
  • Ballad for Black Cassandra by Olivia Stephens (Self-Published)
  • Boy Island by Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket)
  • How to Talk to Your Succulent by Zoe Persico (Tundra Book Group)
  • Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage by Spire Greenwood and Eve Greenwood (Self-Published)

PROMISING NEW TALENT

  • Trishelle Jeffery, Best Breasts in the West (Fieldmouse Press)
  • Mili St. John, The Edge of Autumn (Self-Published)
  • Ricky Lima and Daniele Aquilani, Undergrowth (Top Shelf Productions)
  • Connie Meyers, Big Gamble Rainbow Highway (CRAM books)
  • Vicky Yang, Unmoored (Self-Published)

Small Press Expo 2025 announces its International Special Guests

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Small Press Expo has announced the International Special Guests for SPX 2025. The show takes place on Saturday, September 13, and Sunday, September 14, with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics as well as an exhibitor floor featuring over 500 creators.

Additional Special Guests will be announced over the next few weeks.

SPX 2025 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year’s show:

Carlos Sánchez

Carlos Sánchez is appearing all the way from Barcelona. His debut graphic novel, Rune: The Tale of a Thousand Faces, which he will be signing at the event, became the first graphic novel to win a Waterstones Children’s Book Prize category award in the history of the prize. It has also been shortlisted for Best Graphic Novel at The Week Jr. Awards 2025. It won Best Graphic Novel at the British Book Design & Production Awards, 2024.

His forthcoming book, Rune: The Tale of the Obisidian Maze also published by Flying Eye Books, is due for release in 2025. 

Ingrīda Pičukāne

Ingrīda’s Pičukāne’s new book Feminae Explorarum is a selection of comics, often set in vibrant forest worlds, inhabited by women engaged in quiet, personal acts of exploration. Blending myth and realism, the stories embrace states like menstruation, drunkenness, and solitude as meaningful experiences rather than trivialities. The forests are neither untouched nor idealized—they are tangled spaces of nature and human debris, magical and reflective. Ingrīda Pičukāne challenges expectations of femininity, offering a richly subjective and feminist perspective on what it means to truly observe and exist.

Lee Lai

A LAMBDA Award winner and breakout fiction sensation returns with a darkly funny slice of friendship strife.

Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heat-wave, this is where we meet our protagonist, Cannon, dripping in little beads of regret sweat. She was supposed to be closing the restaurant for the night, but instead, well, she destroyed it. The mess feels a bit like a horror-scape—not unlike the horror films Cannon and her best friend, Trish, watch together. In high school, they were each other’s lifeline—two queer second-generation Chinese nerds trapped in the suburbs. Now, on the uncool side of their twenties, the essentialness of one another feels harder to pin down.

In Cannon, Lee Lai’s much anticipated follow-up to the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Stone Fruit, the full palette of a nervous breakdown is just a slice of what Lai has on offer.

Štěpánka Jislová

Štěpánka Jislová is an award-winning comics artist based in Prague and the cofounder of the Czech branch of Laydeez do Comics, an international organization that promotes female comic artists and their work. Jislová collaborated with Czech writer Tereza Čechová on the 2021 Muriel prize–winning Bez vlasů, later published by Graphic Mundi in English as Bald. Her new graphic novel Srdcovka (the original Czech edition of Heartcore) received the Muriel Award in three categories in 2024, including the main prize.

Joonas Sildre

Joonas Sildre is the author of the graphic novel “Between Two Sounds,” which tells the story of the acclaimed Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The graphic novel follows the celebrated Estonian composer through the cultural, political, personal, and spiritual upheavals that led to the distinctive style that made him the most performed living composer in the world. It is based on years of research and close collaboration with Arvo Pärt himself. The English translation of the book was published in 2024, bringing the total number of languages in which the book has been published to nine, following its original 2018 release. In the US, the book has received three top awards from the independent publishers’ associations.

Kit Anderson

Kit Anderson’s short stories have been published by Parsifal Press and collected by Avery Hill in the graphic novel Safer Places. Kit lives near Zürich with her partner and tiny dog where she enjoys walking in the woods and making comics about memory, nature, and wizards sometimes, too. Her latest graphic novel is the science fiction adventure Second Shift

Vivianna Maria Stanislavka

Vivianna is attending on behalf of publisher kuš! – she has been featured in multiple kuš! anthologies. She’s also bringing a limited edition zine for those who regularly delete their internet search history. Warning – she will doodle in your books! 

kuš! (speak koosh!) is a comic art publisher from Latvia founded in Riga in 2007. It is most well known for its signature pocket-sized anthologies and its mini-kuš! series. Kuš! popularizes comics in a country where this medium is practically non-existent and to promotes Latvian comics abroad.

Marc Torices

Horrifying and hilarious, Cornelius the dog is a spectacular trainwreck—you just can’t look away. 

Cornelius is a fumbling loser, the butt of everyone’s jokes. When his friend Alspacka is kidnapped, the subsequent criminal investigation turns into a dramatic and emotional ordeal, upending Cornelius’s life. Torn between his desire to be a writer and his immense guilt over his cowardly role in Alspacka’s abduction, Cornelius is a classic Faustian figure: an aspiring artist so hungry for success that he will pay any price.

Exquisitely drawn, Cornelius’s kaleidoscope of styles pays homage to the comics medium, an unabashed love letter to the form itself. Translated from the Spanish by Eisner Award-winner Andrea Rosenberg, Marc Torices’s critically acclaimed and award-winning Cornelius is mesmerizing in its originality.

Rachel Coad

Rachel Coad will be at SPX showcasing both her 2023 book NEW YORK CITY GLOW and 2025 release, STRAY CATS AND BAD FISH, Silence of the Eels, as well as her illustration work.

London 1977. A fish called ‘Creasy’ lives in the cistern of the men’s room at the Holborn tube station. He’s a key player in London’s underworld. His nemesis Ratty from Spitalfields is gaining power. Ratty’s money launderer disappears, all animal appendages’ point to Creasy.

Punk is here, and punkfish rule the waterways of London. Coked-up eels, a lion finds his purpose, and a fish improves his art collection.

Small Press Expo 2025 announces Caroline Cash, Ann Telnaes, Peter Kuper, Laura Terry, Anders Nilsen, Julia Gforer and Paige Hender as Special Guests

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Small Press Expo has announced the next group of Special Guests for SPX 2025. The show takes place on Saturday, September 13, and Sunday, September 14, with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics as well as an exhibitor floor featuring over 500 creators.

SPX 2025 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year’s show:

Caroline Cash

Caroline Cash will debut a brand new self-published zine, entitled Zine: It’s Short For Magazine at SPX, as well as promote her new Adventure Time Bubbline One Shot (published by Oni Press).

She will also have copies of the new Kuš anthology that will come out later this Summer.

Caroline is currently working on her Eisner and Ignatz award winning series PeePeePooPoo, as well as a graphic novel about dyke drama. She is a Capricorn Sun, Virgo Moon, and Leo Rising.

Ann Telnaes

A two-time Pulitzer winner, Ann Telnaes worked as an editorial cartoonist at The Washington Post for over sixteen years. She resigned after a cartoon she submitted was rejected because it criticized billionaire tech and media executives, including the Post’s owner Jeff Bezos, for trying to curry favor with President Trump. Her resignation, which was posted on her Substack, went viral worldwide.

Peter Kuper

Award winning cartoonist Peter Kuper will be signing his latest graphic novel, Insectopolis: A Natural History (W.W.Norton) as well as debuting his upcoming Wish We Weren’t Here (Fantagraphic Books). He’ll have original art from Spy vs. Spy that he has written and drawn for Mad magazine since 1997 and his cartoon and illustration original art from The New Yorker, The Nation and Charlie Hebdo. Co-founder of the political anthology World War 3 illustrated, he’ll have the latest issue and many of his other books at his table.

Laura Terry

When Jinx and her mom move to an unfamiliar apartment, her life is turned upside down when a neighbor gives Jinx a magical crystal that brings a mischievous band of woodland creatures into her life. The Adorables are messy, distracting, adventurous and Jinx just wants to be left alone… until she meets her nerdy new neighbor Robyn and develops a crush. Getting rid of the Adorables turns out to be harder than expected, but this might just help Jinx find her way back to happiness in this middlegrade fantasy graphic novel published by Scholastic.

Anders Nilsen

Nilsen will be presenting his book Tongues, an epic retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus, set in the present day and intertwoven with an orphan’s adventure story and ruminations on humanity’s fraught present moment. With exquisite full-color artwork to match its epic scope, Tongues has been called “Momentous” (Alexander Chee), “F#&%ing Amazing.” (Charles Burns), and “Momentous.” (Leela Corman). Max Porter called the book “A landmark book not only in the history of the graphic novel, but in the history of mythic storytelling.”

Julia Gfrörer

We are thrilled to announce that Julia Gfrörer will be at SPX and signing copies of her incredible new collection, World Within the World: Collected Minicomix & Short Works 2010-2022. Deemed “the Norton Anthology of Violence” by The New York Times, this collection stretches over 20,000 years from the Stone Age to the apocalypse. The tales within speak of desire, despair, and the universal need for connection and span centuries, continents, and cultures from prehistoric teenagers in love to Christian martyrs in the making to modern-day vampires on the make.

Paige Hender

Paige Hender (she/her) is a Canadian-born, Louisiana-raised, Hell-spawned cartoonist currently living in Shreveport with her cat Chaplin. The Confessional is Hender’s compelling debut horror graphic novel about a newly turned vampire yearning for salvation in the arms of the priest who uncovers her secret. This is her first time to be invited to a convention. She will be signing at the Silver Sprocket table all weekend. Please be nice to her.

SPX 2025 has launched Advanced Tickets and Hotel Information

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Everything is now set up for attendees to get advanced tickets and hotel rooms to SPX 2025. SPX 2025 will be held this September 13 and 14 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center across from the White Flint Metro stop.

There will be an exhibitor room with over 500 creators and publishers with the finest works that indie comics has to offer, along with over 40 slots of programming and workshops over the 2-day festival.

Special Guests for the show include Tom Gauld, Gigi Murakami, Paul Karasik, Ngozi Ukazu, Kayla E, Dean Haspiel, Mimi Pond, Jordan Crane and Ben Wickey.

Tickets for SPX 2025 are $20 for Saturday, $15 Sunday and $30 for a two-day pass. To order your tickets, go to the Eventbrite page.

Hotel rooms are $137.00 per night, not including taxes. You can reserve your room here.

The convention is also looking for volunteers. If interested in volunteering, please fill out this form.

Small Press Expo 2025 announces more Special Guests

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Small Press Expo has announced the next batch of Special Guests for SPX 2025. The show takes place on Saturday, September 13, and Sunday, September 14, with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics as well as an exhibitor floor featuring over 500 creators.

Additional Special Guests will be announced over the next few weeks.

SPX 2025 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year’s show:

Ngozi Ukazu

Ngozi Ukazu’s latest graphic novel Flip makes its festival debut at Small Press Expo. Flip follows a teenaged Black girl and her rich white crush as they figure out a body-switching curse.

Jordan Crane

Jordan Crane is a Special Guest at SPX! He’s based in LA, so this is a rare and wonderful opportunity for all his east coast fans to get signed copies of his work. His newest collection, Goes Like This, is a gorgeously designed book–exposed spine, varying paper stocks, the works–that collects all of his short stories, as well as other prints and drawings from his archive.

Mimi Pond

Mimi Pond crafts a gorgeous, dazzling biography of the Mitford Sisters.

Born with pedigrees but without the pocketbooks to match, The Mitfords were certainly no strangers to lies, intrigue, or scandal. The sisters grew from cloistered turn-of-the-century country girls into debutantes who would marry into political influence—for better or worse. Is it any wonder that a young, working class Mimi in Southern California becomes enamored with The Mitfords’ downright fanciful rich-and-famous lifestyle? This charming biography captures the dramatic antics of high society’s strongest personalities as they rubbed elbows with some of history’s most infamous fascists and communists.

Ben Wickey

Ben Wickey will be at the Top Shelf booth (tables W56-W59) all weekend, signing copies of his debut graphic novel More Weight: A Salem Story. Come check out the book that Alan Moore calls “The most insightful, beautifully crafted, and impressively researched dramatization of America’s founding frenzy that exists in any medium. An appalling masterpiece.” This staggering graphic novel explores the infamous Salem witch trials and the long shadows they cast more than 300 years later.

Small Press Expo 2025: SPX Announces Tom Gauld, Gigi Murakami, Paul Karasik, Kayla E, and Dean Haspiel as Special Guests

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Small Press Expo has announced the first batch of Special Guests for SPX 2025. The show takes place on Saturday, September 13, and Sunday, September 14, with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics as well as an exhibitor floor featuring over 500 creators.

Additional Special Guests will be announced over the next few weeks.

SPX 2025 has announced the following creators as Special Guests to this year’s show:

Tom Gauld

Tom Gauld

What happens to a cat who goes through a wormhole?

Tom Gauld returns with Physics for Cats, his second collection of science-based cartoons for the New Scientist. Find out why every scientist worth their sodium chloride has a Tom Gauld cartoon taped to their electron microscope. This new batch of hilarious gags will be as important to every self-respecting scientist as a lab coat and goggles and oversize rubber gloves.

Gigi Murakami

Gigi Murakami

Gigi Murakami will be present at SPX all weekend, signing her Ignatz-nominated supernatural horror manga RESENTER, her self-published horror anthology zine, Midnight Bites, and Abrams-published Are You Afraid of the Dark? Sinister Sisters horror anthology.

Paul Karasik

Paul Karasik

In 1994, Paul Auster’s City of Glass was adapted into a graphic novel and became an immediate cult classic.

In his SPX talk, Special Guest Paul Karasik will outline the journey in adapting Auster’s complete “New York Trilogy” with the aid of master cartoonists, David Mazzucchielli (“Asterio Polyp”) and Lorenzo Mattotti (New Yorker cover artist). Hidden secrets and comics Easter eggs will be revealed.

The Guardian has called the 3-in-1 graphic novel, “…a stone cold masterpiece.”

Kayla E

Kayla E

Eisner-nominated artist Kayla E is a Special Guest at SPX! She’ll be signing her bestselling graphic memoir, Precious Rubbish. Although it’s her debut book, it’s been garnering a remarkable amount of praise, with everyone from The New York Times (“Precious Rubbish is a scream as precisely pitched as a middle C from a tuning fork”) to The New Yorker (“Her wry portrait reveals a fresh eye, at once vulnerable and undaunted.”) to Publishers Weekly (“This four-color atomic bomb of a comic signals the arrival of a formidable talent.”) designating Kayla as an artist to watch!

Dean Haspiel

Dean Haspiel

In Spring of 2023, Dean Haspiel launched a self-publishing concern focusing on a series of crowdfunded “Deep Cuts“ from his pantheon of creator-owned characters, featuring COVID COP, BILLY DOGMA + JANE LEGIT, THE RED HOOK, and CHEST FACE. Dino continues to grow his heartfelt roster of dumb luck nobodies, exploring hybrids of action comix and speculative memoir.

Small Press Expo and AFI Silver Theatre Announces Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt on May 18

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Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt

The Small Press Expo (SPX) has announced two more comics-related films with the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in their ongoing film series celebrating comics and their impact on storytelling. This special series will feature screenings of acclaimed films and documentaries, culminating in the highly anticipated SPX 2025 weekend, that will occur September 13-14.

The series continues with a showing of the documentary Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt on May 18 at 3:15 PM.

This in-depth documentary traces Drew Friedman’s evolution from underground comics to the cover of the New Yorker through interviews with Friedman’s friends and colleagues. It also features a rare peek into his private “Jewseum,” perhaps the world’s largest collection of artifacts devoted exclusively to Jewish comedians.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Kevin Dougherty and producer Thom Shubilla.

The first 15 attendees to arrive at the event will receive one free limited-edition T-shirt featuring a glow-in-the-dark Tor Johnson lovingly rendered by Drew Friedman.

For more info and tickets visit the AFI Silver web site.

The SPX-AFI Silver series continues on Sunday, June 1, at 3:45 PM with a showing of No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics.

Led by such notable queer creators as as Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse, Maia Kobabe, along with SPXers Denis Kitchen, Lawrence Lyndell and Breena Nunez, this documentary shows the trials and triumphs of the LGBTQIA+ comics community.

Preceded by a video intro from filmmaker Vivian Kleiman.

For more info and tickets visit the AFI Silver web site.

SPX Announces Funny Pages at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

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Funny Pages

The Small Press Expo (SPX) has announced two more comics-related films with the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in their ongoing film series celebrating comics and their impact on storytelling. This special series features screenings of acclaimed films and documentaries, culminating in the highly anticipated SPX 2025 weekend, that will occur September 13-14.

The SPX-AFI Silver series continues on Sunday, April 13, at 3:45 PM at the AFI Silver Theatre with a showing of Funny Pages.

Director Owen Kline made an auspicious debut as a filmmaker with this quirky and blackly comic coming-of-age tale. Kline’s love for comic book art shines through, as does an awareness that genuine underground and outsider art does not come from corporate workplaces or well-adjusted people.

The film will be screening in 35mm with a special appearance by director Owen Kline.

For more info and tickets visit the AFI Silver web site.

The series continues with a showing of the documentary Drew Friedman: Vermeer of the Borscht Belt that will be held on May 18 at 3:15 PM.

This in-depth documentary traces Drew Friedman‘s evolution from underground comics to the cover of the New Yorker through interviews with Friedman’s friends and colleagues. It also features a rare peek into his private “Jewseum,” perhaps the world’s largest collection of artifacts devoted exclusively to Jewish comedians.

For more info and tickets visit the AFI Silver web site.

SPX Announces Art Spiegelman Documentary at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

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Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse

The Small Press Expo (SPX) has announced an exciting collaboration with the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center to present a film series celebrating comics and their impact on storytelling. This special series will feature screenings of acclaimed films and documentaries, culminating in the highly anticipated SPX 2025 weekend, that will occur September 13-14.

The series launches with the Washington, DC premiere of Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse! on Sunday, March 9, at 7:00 PM at the AFI Silver Theatre.

This intimate documentary explores the life and creative process of legendary Maus cartoonist Art Spiegelman.

Following the screening, co-director Philip Dolan will participate in a Q&A session to discuss the making of the film and Spiegelman’s profound influence on the comics world.

Throughout the year, the SPX-AFI Silver film series will continue with a diverse lineup of films celebrating comics, cartoonists, and their unique storytelling power.

In April, the series will feature Funny Pages, a teen coming-of-age story about becoming a cartoonist, screening in 35mm with a special appearance by director Owen Kline. Tickets go on sale next week at AFI.com/Silver.

Further screenings and guest appearances will be announced in the coming months.

The Small Press Expo 2024 Ignatz Award Winners are…

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The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, has announced the 2024 winners for the annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.

Voting for the Ignatz Awards was opened to anybody on the SPX email lists and anyone who requested a ballot.

The Ignatz Awards ceremony was held on Saturday September 14 during the convention.

The 2024 Ignatz Winners are noted in bold with “- Winner” next to the listing.

OUTSTANDING ARTIST

  • Flippy, Nate Garcia (Domino Books)
  • Night Fever (from Gladiolus Magazine #1), Robyn Smith (Black Josei) Press – WINNER
  • Portrait of a Body, Julie Delporte (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Spiral and Other Stories, Aidan Koch (New York Review Comics)
  • The Great Beyond, Léa Murawiec (Drawn & Quarterly)

OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY

  • Let Her Be Evil, Cassandra Jones, ed. (Zoop)
  • Pulping, Jenn Woodall, Jon Iñaki, Jonathan Rotsztain, Mitch Lohmeier and Paterson Hodgson, ed. (Pulping Collective) – WINNER
  • We Belong, Viktor T. Kerney and William O. Tyler, ed. (Stacked Deck Press)
  • Wheels on the Bus, Lucio Luiz, ed. (Jupati Books)
  • Won’t Back Down: An Anthology of Pro-Choice Comics, Trina Robbins, ed. (Last Gasp)

OUTSTANDING COLLECTION

  • Buzzelli Collected Works Vol. 1: The Labyrinth, Guido Buzzelli, translated by Jamie Richards (Floating World Comics)
  • Complete and Utter Malarkey, November Garcia (Fieldmouse Press)
  • Gender Studies: The Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw, Ajuan Mance (Rosarium Press)
  • Offshore Lightning, Saito Nazuna, translated by Alexa Frank (Drawn & Quarterly) – WINNER
  • Resenter, Gigi Murakami (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING COMIC

  • Fielder #2, Kevin Huizenga (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Follow the Doll Issue 2, Daryl Seitchik (Parsifal Press)
  • My Body Unspooling, Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket) – WINNER
  • Sunflowers, Keezy Young (Silver Sprocket)
  • The Audra Show #7: The Love Issue, Audra Stang (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL

  • Optometry, Xiang Yata (Driftwood Press)
  • Roaming, Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly) – WINNER
  • The Talk, Darrin Bell (Macmillan Publishers)
  • Time Under Tension, M.S. Harkness (Fantagraphics)
  • Unended, Josh Bayer (Uncivilized Books)

OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC

  • Find a Seat, Faye Stacey (Quindrie Press)
  • Hyper Fawnus, Anna Two (Self-Published)
  • Lullaby, Jordan Jeffries (Cosmic Dog House Press)
  • Manga Cube, LEHUO (Self-Published) – WINNER
  • Pauline Newman, Greer de Maglie (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC

  • Buuza!!, Shazleen Khan – WINNER
  • In the Shadow of Giants, Aria Villafranca and Matthew Fisher
  • Marigold, Emily Zilber
  • Rigsby Wi, SE Case
  • The Legend of Mariposa, James Lawrence

OUTSTANDING SERIES

  • CosmoKnights, Hannah Templer (Top Shelf Productions) – WINNER
  • CRAM, Andrew Alexander, ed. (CRAM Books)
  • Jaywalk, Floyd Tangeman, ed. (Domino Books)
  • Kuš! Baltic Comics Magazine, Various (Kuš)
  • Tongues, Anders Nilsen (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING STORY

  • “The Happy Art”, Sami Alwani (Pulping Collective) – WINNER
  • “And When I See You, I’ll Tell You Everything” (from You Are Not a Guest), Leela Corman (Fieldmouse Press)
  • Scorpio Venus Rising #1, Corinne Halbert (Self-Published)
  • The Gift, Jamila Rowser & Sam Wade (Black Josei Press)
  • The Super Hero’s Journey, Patrick McDonnell (Abrams Books)

PROMISING NEW TALENT:

  • 10-10 To The Wind, Cole Degenstein (Fieldmouse Press)
  • Gift Box, Pingnan Lu (Self-Published)
  • Optometry, Xiang Yata (Driftwood Press)
  • Tales of the Orishas, Hugo Canuto (Abrams)
  • The Great Beyond, Léa Murawiec (Drawn & Quarterly) – WINNER
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