After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the in-person Ignatz Awards ceremony, sponsored by Crowdfundr, took place over the weekend as part of SPX. The Beat Editor-in-Chief Heidi MacDonald live-tweeted the ceremony as it happened, but for posterity (and for those who just want to avoid Twitter in general) here is a handy complete list of the winners and nominees for the Ignatz Awards 2022.
Congratulations to All!
OUTSTANDING ARTIST
- WINNER: Alexander, the Servant & the Water of Life, illustrated by Reimena Yee (Hiveworks Comics)
- Halcyon, illustrated by Ron Regé Jr. (Fantagraphics)
- Four Years Collected: Vol 2, by K Czap (Czap Books)
- The City of Belgium, illustrated by Brecht Evens (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Faster, illustrated by Jesse Lonergan (Bulgilhan Press)
OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY
- WINNER: Good Boy Magazine #1– ed. Michael Sweater and Benji Nate (Silver Sprocket)
- LAAB Magazine #2: Eat / Shit – Ronald Wimberly and Josh O’Neill (Beehive Books)
- Isolated: A Pandemic Comics Anthology– ed. Tana Oshima (Self Published)
- Smut Peddler Presents: Sordid Past – Andrea Purcell (Iron Circus Comics)
- Baltic Comics Magazine š! #42 ‘Scientific Facts’– ed. David Schilter, Sanita Muižniece (kuš!)
OUTSTANDING COLLECTION
- WINNER: Mr. Boop, by Alec Robbins (Silver Sprocket)
- Arrive In My Hands, by Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)
- Cover Not Final: Crime Funnies, by Max Huffman (Adhouse Books)
- Think I’ve Still Got It!, by Wang XX, Translated by R. Orion Martin (Paradise Systems)
- The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Storiesby Rumi Hara (Drawn & Quarterly)
OUTSTANDING COMIC
- WINNER: I See A Knight, by Xulia Vicente (Shortbox)
- Four Years Collected: Vol 2, by K Czap (Czap Books)
- Pee Pee Poo Poo #69, by Caroline Cash (Self Published)
- Are Comic Books Real?, by Alex Nall (Self Published)
- Ode to Keisha, by Jamila Rowser and Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)
OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL
- WINNER: No One Else by R. Kikuo Johnson (Fantagraphics)
- Discipline by Dash Shaw (New York Review Comics)
- Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, by Mohammad Sabaaneh, translated by Dalia and Mouin Rabbani (Street Noise Books)
- Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir, by Ariel Bordeaux (Fieldmouse Press)
- What is Home, Mum? by Sabba Khan (Street Noise Books)
OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC
- WINNER: Pee Pee Poo Poo #69, by Caroline Cash (Self Published)
- Joy, by Maritsa Patrinos (Self Published)
- Carrington’s World, by Summer Pierre (Self Published)
- Phonestoned, by King Ray (Self Published)
- Sleemor Gank – Burg Land 1, by Alexander Laird (Self Published)
OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC
- WINNER: Ride or Die by Mars Heyward
- Blind Alley by Adam de Souza
- Vattu by Evan Dahm
- Alexander, the Servant & the Water of Life by Reimena Yee
- Technofeelia Vol. 4 ‘Help’ by Amy Kurzweil
OUTSTANDING SERIES
- WINNER: The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V and Filipe Andrade (BOOM! Studios)
- Methods of Dyeing by B. Mure (Avery Hill Publishing)
- Trans Classic Movies by Jett Allen (intomore.com)
- Ley Lines Artists: Keren Katz, Cameron Weston Nicholson, Jordan Jeffries, ed. K Czap & L Nichols (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
- The Nib Magazine– ed. by Matt Bors (The Nib)
OUTSTANDING STORY
- WINNER: The Lover of Everyone in the World, from The Lover of Everyone in the World, by Beatrix Urkowitz (Parsifal Press)
- Big Cats, by Liz Yerby (Self Published)
- Ley Lines: The First Few Bars, by Keren Katz (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
- Ley Lines: Love, or the Axe, by Jordan Jeffries (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
- Winter Break 2029, from Invisible Parade, by Mississippi (Glacier Bay Books)
PROMISING NEW TALENT
- WINNER: Djeliya, by Juni Ba (TKO Studios)
- Arrive In My Hands, by Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)
- Archeologist Landing, by Yara Elfouly (Self Published)
- Koreans Speak English, by Juniper Kim (Self Published)
- The Third Person, by Emma Grove (Drawn & Quarterly)
