While your intrepid WWAC correspondents were too tired to make it to the 9pm award show, we can still let you know which books won the prestigious brick Saturday night. The Ignatz Awards moved to online voting when the pandemic hit and continued it for this year’s awards, meaning that the pool of voters is much wider (and potentially less chaotic) than the usual pool which consisted of whoever was at SPX that day. Without further ado, the winners are…
Outstanding Artist
Halcyon, Ron Regé Jr. (Fantagraphics)
The City of Belgium, Brecht Evens (Drawn & Quarterly)
Four Years Collected: Vol 2, K Czap (Czap Books)
Alexander, The Servant, & The Water of Life, Reimena Yee (Hiveworks Comics)
Faster, Jesse Lonergan (Bulgilhan Press)
Outstanding Anthology
LAAB Magazine #2: Eat/Shit, Ronald Wimberly and Josh O’Neill (Beehive Books)
Isolated: A Pandemic Comics Anthology, Tana Oshima, Self Published
Smut Peddler Presents: Sordid Past, Andrea Purcell (Iron Circus Comics)
Good Boy! Magazine #1, Michael Sweater and Benji Nate (Silver Sprocket)
Baltic Comics Magazine Š! #42 ‘Scientific Facts’, David Schilter and Sanita Muižniece (kuš!)
Outstanding Collection
Arrive in My Hands, Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)
Cover Not Final: Crime Funnies, Max Huffman, Adhouse Books
Think I’ve Still Got It!, Wang XX, Translated by R. Orion Martin (Paradise Systems)
Mr. Boop, Alec Robbins (Silver Sprocket)
The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories, Rumi Hara (Drawn & Quarterly)
Outstanding Comic
Four Years Collected: Vol. 2, K Czap (Czap Books)
I See a Knight, Xulia Vincente (Shortbox)
Pee Pee Poo Poo #69, Caroline Cash (Self Published)
Are Comic Books Real?, Alex Nall (Kilgore Books & Comics)
Ode to Keisha, Jamila Rowser and Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)
Outstanding Graphic Novel
Discipline, Dash Shaw (New York Review Comics)
Power Born of My Dreams: My Story is Palestine, Mohammad Sabaaneh, translated by Dalia and Mouin Rabbani (Street Noise Books)
Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir, Ariel Bordeaux (Fieldmouse Press)
No One Else, R. Kikuo Johnson (Fantagraphics)
What is Home, Mum?, Sabba Khan (Street Noise Books)
Outstanding Minicomic
Joy, Maritsa Patrinos (Self Published)
Pee Pee Poo Poo #69, Caroline Cash (Self Published)
Carrington’s World, Summer Pierre (Self Published)
Phonestoned, King Ray (Self Published)
Sleemor Gank – Burg Land 1, Alexander Laird (Self Published)
Outstanding Online Comic
Blind Alley, Adam de Souza [read here]
Ride or Die, Mars Heyward [read here]
Vattu, Evan Dahm [read here]
Alexander, The Servant, and The Water of Life, Reimena Yee [read here]
Technofeelia Vol. 4 ‘Help’, Amy Kurzweil [read here]
Outstanding Series
Methods of Dyeing, B. Mure (Avery Hill Publishing)
Trans Classic Movies, Jett Allen (Intomore.com)
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Ram V and Filipe Andrade (BOOM! Studios)
Ley Lines, Keren Katz, Cameron Weston Nicholson, Jordan Jeffries, ed. K Czap & L Nichols (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
The Nib Magazine, ed. Matt Bors (The Nib)
Outstanding Story
Big Cats, Liz Yerby (Self Published)
Ley Lines: The First Few Bars, Keren Katz (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
Ley Lines: Love, or the Axe, Jordan Jeffries (Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
The Lover of Everyone in the World, Beatrix Urkowitz (Parsifal Press)
Winter Break 2029, Mississipi (Glacier Bay Books)
Promising New Talent
Arrive in My Hands, Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)
Archeologist Landings, Yara Elfouly (Self Published)
Koreans Sing in English, Juniper Kim (Self Published)
The Third Person, Emma Grove (Drawn & Quarterly)
Djeliya, Juni Ba (TKO Studios)
