Here are the 2023 Ignatz Award Winners

The Ignatz Awards for 2023 had been handed out over the weekend at the Small Press Expo. As reported elsewhere at The Beat, it was an emotional night time, with tearful winners. Robyn Smith, representing Black Josei Press took to the podium to simply accept two awards, one for Outstanding Story “Ride of Die” in Wash Day Diaries, their a lot lauded collaboration with Jamilla Rowser, initially revealed by Black Josei however later picked up and expanded by Chronicle; and for Outstanding Comics, Gordita: Built Like This by Daisy Ruiz.

Winners had been effectively scattered throughout all ranges of the indie comics scenes; Ducks from D&Q was the inevitable winner in the Outstanding Graphic Novel class, and First Second’s In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee gained for Outstanding New Talent. Who Will Make The Pancakes? by Megan Kelso, revealed bu Fantagraphics, gained Outstanding Collection.

Other winners had been self revealed or put out by micro presses, exhibiting that the high quality is operating by each degree of the small press scene.

Winners are proven beneath in daring and crimson. Nominees had been chosen by a judging committee: Ellen Lindner, Juniper Kim, L. Nichols, Ally Shwed, Jason Little, and Kotaline Jones. Winners had been chosen by on-line voting.

As is custom, winners took dwelling an award in the form of a brick, celebrating Ignatz the Mouse, the brick throwing love curiosity/nemesis in the all time nice cartoon Krazy Kat.

OUTSTANDING ARTIST

Caroline Cash, PeePeePooPoo problem no. 420 (Silver Sprocket)
Curt Merlo, That Distant Fire, with J.R. Hughto writing (Black Eye Books)
Benjamin Schipper, Joe Death and the Graven (Image, Dark Horse Comics)
Olivia Stephens, Darlin’ and Her Other Names (self-published)
Noah Van Sciver, Joseph Smith and the Mormons (Abrams Comic Arts)

OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY

Cram Comics Issue no. 1, edited by Andrew Alexander (Cram Books)
Glaeolia, edited by Emuh Ruh (Glacier Bay Books)
Home: a comics anthology on belonging in Ireland in the present day, edited by Katherine Foyle (Dublin Comic Arts Festival)
NOW no. 12, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
Shades of Fear, edited by Allison O’Toole & Ashanti Fortson (Balustrade Press)

OUTSTANDING COLLECTION

Boodle Fight, Ashley Topacio (self-published)
Cankor, Matthew Allison (self-published)
Griz Grobus and the Tale of Azkon’s Heart, Simon Roy, Jess Pollard & Sergey Nazarov (self-published)
Upside Dawn, Jason, (Fantagraphics)
Who Will Make the Pancakes?, Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics)

OUTSTANDING COMIC

Gordita: Built Like This, Daisy Ruiz (Black Josei Press)
Lemon Yellow, Ciari Quilty-Harper (Kus!)
Platonic Love, A ee mi (Paradise Systems)
Forget Me Not, Gabriel Howell (Secret Acres)
Live Rock Part 1: Aquarium Life (Issue #1), Ross Jackson (Secret Room Press)

OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL

Ducks, Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
Mimosa, Archie Bongiovanni (Abrams ComicArts)
Last Chance to Find Duke, Shang Zhang (PEOW)
Nervosa, Hayley Gold (Street Noise Books)
The Man in the McIntosh Suit, Rina Ayuyang (Drawn & Quarterly)

OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC

Farewell, Joao Fazenda (self-published)
Death Bloom, Yasmeen Abedifard (self-published)
Sacred Grove, Celine Loup (self-published)
Hares on the Mountain, Lee Dean & Salvador Aguilera (self-published)
You’re the Center of Attention, Gina Wynbrandt (Kus!)

OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC

OUTSTANDING SERIES

Fizzle no. 4, Whit Taylor (Radiator Comics)
Maple Terrace no. 1, Noah Van Sciver (Uncivilized Books)
Venomyths, Joshua Ray Stephens (self-published)
Tales of Old Snake Creek, Drew Lerman (self-published)
Viewotron Comics and Stories, Sam Sharpe & Peach S. Goodrich (Radiator Comics)

OUTSTANDING STORY

Weeds, Kit Anderson (Parsifal Press)
The Impatient Ms. S, Koyubi (self-published)
I Owe It to My Parents to NOT Come Out, Richard Mercadi (self-published)
Wash Day Diaries (chapter: “Ride or Die“), Jamila Rowser & Robyn Smith (Chronicle Books)
Inversion, Lily Thu Fierro & Generoso Fierro (self-published)