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During Small Press Expo (SPX) 2006, the winners of the 2026 Ignatz Awards were announced. The Ignatz are a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.

Ignatz Awards nominees are determined by a panel of comics professionals and then voted on any anybody on the SPX email list as well as anyone who requested a ballot.

The Ignatz Awards ceremony was held on Saturday night after the first day of SPX wound down.

Below is a full list of nominees. Winners are denoted in bold and with “Winner” next to their entry. Congrats to everyone.

2026 IGNATZ

OUTSTANDING ARTIST

  • Colin Lidston, Move-In Day (Paper Rocket Minicomics)
  • Ben Passmore, Black Arms To Hold You Up (Pantheon Books)
  • J. Marshall Smith, Testament (Bulgilhan Press)
  • Carol Tyler, The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief (Fantagraphics) – WINNER
  • Rob Woods, Barbecue Block Party (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY

  • A Queer Prisoner’s Anthology Vol. 9: Beautiful Regrets ed. Casper Cendre, Oliver Mills, Brett Thomas Gonzalez (A.B.O. Comix)
  • Goof #2 ed. Marc Jackson (Self-Published)
  • LAAB: A Comics Anthology No. 3 ed. Ronald Wimberly (Beehive Books) – WINNER
  • Revenge #2 ed. Samandal (Beehive Books)
  • So Buttons #15 ed. Jonathan Baylis (So Buttons Comix)

OUTSTANDING COLLECTION

  • A Strong Woman and Other Stories by Valentine Gallardo (Fieldmouse Press)
  • All the Cameras in My Room by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly) – WINNER
  • Box Garden Beetle by Akino Kondoh (Glacier Bay Books)
  • The Past is a Grotesque Animal by Tommi Parrish (Fantagraphics)
  • Wisps by Amanda Baeza (kuš!)

OUTSTANDING COMIC

  • Antimatter #1 by Dean Haspiel (Self-Published)
  • Fizzle #6 by Whit Taylor (Radiator Comics)
  • Girls Gone Wild by Katie Lane (2dcloud)
  • Utzy and Dusty by Josh Bayer (Domino Books)
  • Zoo #5 by Anand Shenoy (Self-Published) – WINNER

OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL

  • Black Arms to Hold You Up by Ben Passmore (Pantheon Books)
  • Cannon by Lee Lai (Giramondo Publishing) – WINNER
  • Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters and Me by Mimi Pond (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey (Top Shelf Productions)
  • The Weight by Melissa Mendes (Drawn & Quarterly)

OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC

  • If She Was Beholden, Could She Ever Be the Beholder? by Erika Rier (Self-Published)
  • Secret Black Woman: American Virtues by Ingrid Pierre (Self-Published)
  • To Bleed Stone Dry by R. D. “Reyookah” Yoon (Self-Published)
  • Two Snakes by Suerynn Lee (Alright Editions)
  • Uncoiling: A Japanese-American Family History by Yoko O.K. (Self-Published) – WINNER

OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC

OUTSTANDING SERIES

  • Coin-Op no 10: Wet Cement by Peter and Maria Hoey (Coin-Op Books)
  • Fizzle #6 by Whit Taylor (Radiator Comics)
  • Hacienda by Dave Ortega (Self-Published)
  • My Pockets are Juicy! by Lonnie Milsap (Self-Published)
  • Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas by Sanika Phawde (Self-Published) – WINNER

OUTSTANDING STORY

  • Before We Wake by Sophia Glock (Little, Brown Ink)
  • Drome by Jesse Lonergan (23rd Street) – WINNER
  • Mudhouse by Glynnis Fawkes (Paper Rocket Minicomics)
  • Suicidals by Michael R. Barton (Self-Published)
  • While We Wait by Sorina Vazelina (Self-Published)

PROMISING NEW TALENT:

  • A Scientific Study Of Transsexuality by Oscar Woodiwiss (Fieldmouse Press) – WINNER
  • Creamthing In His Golden Year by Sam Hensley (Self-Published)
  • Electric Cowboy by Ansel Kite (Silver Sprocket)
  • The Witch’s Egg by Donya Todd (Avery Hill Publishing)
  • Upwards Incursion by Padraig Campbell (Driftwood Press)
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