Here are the winners from the 2024 Ignatz Awards, which took place during SPX last weekend. The twenty-seventh edition of the awards (run annually since 1997), it draws attention to stellar indie and alternative work across ten categories.
There was a distinct international vibe to the winners with work from Canada, Japan, UK and France scoring wins across many categories. Canadians scooped up three awards with the eponymous Pulping Collective anthology Pulping receiving wins in two categories: Best Anthology with Sami Alwani‘s contribution “The Happy Art” receiving Outstanding Story. blockbuster creative cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki took away Outstanding Graphic Novel for Roaming – which has already received much praise and acclaim in the mainstream – including three Eisner Awards for the book and its authors.
British-Bangladeshi creator Shazleen Khan received Outstanding Online Comic for acclaimed ongoing queer urban fantasy webseries Boo!! (which has been running since December 2018 and is currently crowdfunding its fifth collection). Leo Fox won in the Outstanding Comic category for mind-body musing My Body Unspooling (published by Silver Sprocket).
US-based Jamaican cartoonist Robyn Smith received Outstanding Artist, French artist Lea Murawiec snapped up the Promising New Talent award, Japanese mangaka Saito Nazuna received Outstanding Collection for Offshore Lightning (translated by Alexa Frank, published by Drawn & Quarterly)
While a number of creators are US based, the only American to win this year was Hannah Templer for ongoing ragtag space gay romp CosmoKnights (published by Top Shelf) in the Outstanding Series category – with a third entry in the webcomic-turned-graphic novel series on the horizon.
Voting for the Ignatz Awards was by online ballot with this year’s presiding judges Caroline Cash, Martha Kuhlman, Dawn Bond, Lawrence Lindell, Kriota Wilberg and Emma Jensen selecting nominees.
Full list below:
BEST ANTHOLOGY
- WINNER: Pulpingedited by Jenn Woodall, Jon Iñaki, Jonathan Rotsztain, Mitch Lohmeier and Paterson Hodgson (Pulping Collective)
- Let Her Be Eviledited by Cassandra Jones (Zoop)
- We Belong: The All-Black, All-LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comics Anthologyedited by Viktor T. Kerney & William O. Tyler (Stacked Deck Press)
- Wheels on the Bus, edited by Lucio Luiz (Jupati Books)
- Won’t Back Down: An Anthology of Pro-Choice Comicsedited by Trina Robbins (Last Gasp)
OUTSTANDING ARTIST
- WINNER: Robyn Smith, “Night Fever” from Gladiolus Magazine #1 (Black Josei Press)
- Nate Garcia, Flippy (Domino Books)
- Julie Delporte, Portrait of a Body (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Aidan Koch, Spiral and Other Stories (New York Review Comics)
- Lea Murawiec, The Great Beyond (Drawn & Quarterly)
OUTSTANDING COLLECTION
- WINNER: Offshore Lightningby Saito Nazuna; translated by Alexa Frank (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Buzzelli Collected Works Vol 1: The Labyrinthby Guido Buzzelli; translated by Jamie Richards (Floating World Comics)
- Complete and Utter Malarkeyby November Garcia (Fieldmouse Press)
- Gender Studies: The Confessions of an Accidental Outlawby Juan Mance (Rosarium Press)
- Resentmentby Gigi Murakami (self-published)
OUTSTANDING COMIC
- WINNER: My Body Unspoolingby Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket)
- Fielder #2by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Follow the Doll #2by Daryl Seitchik (Parsifal Press)
- Sunflowersby Keezy Young (Silver Sprocket)
- The Audra Show #7: The Love Issueby Audra Stang (self-published)
OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL
- WINNER: Roamingby Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Optometryby Xiang Yata (Driftwood Press)
- The Talkby Darrin Bell (Macmillan Publishers)
- Time Under Tension, by MS Harkness (Fantagraphics)
- Unended, by Josh Bayer (Uncivilized Books)
OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC
- WINNER: Manga Cubeby Yuan Song (self-published)
- Find a Seatby Faye Stacey (Quindrie Press)
- Hyper Fawnusby Ana Two (self-published)
- Lullabyby Jordan Jeffries (Cosmic Dog House Press)
- Pauline Newmanby Maglie’s Greer (self-published)
OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC
OUTSTANDING SERIES
- WINNER: CosmoKnightsby Hannah Templer (Top Shelf Productions)
- CRAMedited by Andrew Alexander (CRAM Books)
- Jaywalkedited by Austin English and Floyd Tangeman (Domino Books)
- Kuš! Baltic Comics Magazineby various (Kuš)
- Tongues, by Anders Nilsen (self-published)
OUTSTANDING STORY
- WINNER: “The Happy Art” from Pulpingby Sami Alwani (Pulping Collective)
- “And When I See You, You’ll Tell Me Everything” from You Are Not A Guestby Leela Corman (Fieldmouse Press)
- Scorpio Venus Rising #1, by Corinne Halbert (self-published)
- The Giftby Jamila Rowser & Sam Wade (Black Josei Press)
- The Super Hero’s Journeyby Patrick McDonnell (Abrams)
PROMISING NEW TALENT
- WINNER: Lea Murawiec, The Great Beyond (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Cole Degenstein, 10-10 To The Wind (Fieldmouse Press)
- Pingnan Lu, Gift Box (self-published)
- Xiang Yata, Optometry (Driftwood Press)
- Hugo Canuto, Tales of the Orishas (Abrams)
