The 2020 winners for the annual Ignatz Awards have been announced during this year’s virtual Small Press Expo. The Ignatz are 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. The 2020 Ignatz Awards are sponsored by Politics & Prose, a D.C. based independent bookstore devoted to cultivating community and strengthening the common good through books, programs, and a respectful exchange of ideas.

The winner for each category is in bold below. Congrats to all of the winners and nominees!

Outstanding Artist

• Ana Galvañ – Press Enter to Continue
• Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
• Tianran Qu – Slices of Life 100 Comic Montage
• Michael DeForge – Familiar Face
• Katie Hicks – Guts

Outstanding Anthology

• Dates III – edited by Zora Gilbert & Cat Parra
• Be Gay, Do Comics – edited by The Nib
• LAAB Magazine #4 – edited by Ronald Wimberly & Joshua O’Neill
• The Anthology of Mind – Tommi Musturi
• Sweaty Palms Volume 2 – Sage Coffey

Outstanding Collection

• GLEEM – Eddy Carrasco
• Glenn Ganges in: The River at Night – Kevin Huizenga
• Inappropriate – Gabrielle Bell
• Slices of Life: 100 Comic Montage – Tianran Qu
• The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski – Noah Van Sciver

Outstanding Comic

• Cosmoknights – Hannah Templer
• My Dog Ivy – Gabrielle Bell
• Cry Wolf Girl – Ariel Ries
• Theth Tomorrow Forever – Josh Bayer
• Mooncakes – Wendy Xu & Suzanne Walker

Outstanding Graphic Novel

• Hot Comb – Ebony Flowers
• Pittsburgh – Frank Santoro
• Skip – Molly Mendoza
• How I Tried to be a Good Person – Ulli Lust
• This Was Our Pact – Ryan Andrews

Outstanding Minicomic

• The Gulf – Nguyen Nguyen
• Chapter Two – Keren Katz
• Canvas – Theo K. Stultz
• I Feel Weird #4 – Haleigh Buck
• Black Hole Heart – Cathy G Johnson

Outstanding Online Comic

• I Exist – Breena Nuñez
• Like the Tide – Isabella Rotman
• SUPERPOSE – Joe Seosamh & C. Anka
• Gabby Schulz (@gabbyschulz)
• Witchy – Ariel Ries

Outstanding Series

• The Misplaced – Chris Callahan
• Fizzle – Whit Taylor
• SUPERPOSE – Joe Seosamh & C. Anka
• kuš! – kuš! komiks
• Frontier – Youth in Decline

Outstanding Story

• The Lab – Allison Conway
• The Hard Tomorrow – Eleanor Davis
• The Weight #9 – Melissa Mendes
• “Little Red Riding Hood” – Inappropriate – Gabrielle Bell
• BTTM FDRS – Ezra Daniels & Ben Passmore

Promising New Talent

• AJ Dungo
• Sylvia Nickerson
• Theo Stultz
• Emil Wilson
• Andrew Lorenzi

You can watch the ceremony below: