Ignatz Nominees

[grubcubman]

These were just announced; I figured the links might be helpful in case others want to check out the nominees.

OUTSTANDING ARTIST

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)
Alexander, the Servant & the Water of Life, illustrated by Reimena Yee (Hiveworks Comics)
Faster, illustrated by Jesse Lonergan (Bulgilhan Press)

OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY

LAAB Magazine #2: Eat / Shit - ed. Ronald Wimberly and Josh O'Neill (Beehive Books)
Isolated: A Pandemic Comics Anthology - ed. Tana Oshima (Self Published)
Smut Peddler Presents: Sordid Past - ed. Andrea Purcell (Iron Circus Comics)
Good Boy Magazine #1 - ed. Michael Sweater and Benji Nate (Silver Sprocket)
Baltic Comics Magazine š! #42 'Scientific Facts' - ed. David Schilter, Sanita Muižniece (kuš!)

OUTSTANDING COLLECTION

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)
Mr. Boop by Alec Robbins (Silver Sprocket)
The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories by Rumi Hara (Drawn & Quarterly)

OUTSTANDING COMIC

Four Years Collected: Vol 2 by K Czap (Czap Books)
I See A Knight by Xulia Vicente (Shortbox)
Pee Pee Poo Poo #69 by Caroline Cash (Self Published) [Note: Seems sold out everywhere?]
Are Comic Books Real? by Alex Nall (Self Published)
Ode to Keisha by Jamila Rowser and Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)

OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL

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)
No One Else by R. Kikuo Johnson (Fantagraphics)
What is Home, Mum? By Sabba Khan (Street Noise Books)

OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC

Joy by Maritsa Patrinos (Self Published)
Pee Pee Poo Poo #69 by Caroline Cash (Self Published) [Note: Seems sold out everywhere?]
Carrington’s World by Summer Pierre (Self Published) [Note: This one is sold out, though if you're really after it, it looks like it's available in this issue of New City.]
Phonestoned by King Ray (Self Published) [Note: I haven't found this one. Anyone else?]
Sleemor Gank - Burg Land 1 by Alexander Laird (Self Published)

OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC

Blind Alley by Adam de Souza
Ride or Die by Mars Heyward
Vattu by Evan Dahm
Alexander, the Servant & the Water of Life by Reimena Yee
Technofeelia Vol. 4 'Help' by Amy Kurzweil

OUTSTANDING SERIES

Methods of Dyeing by B. Mure (Avery Hill Publishing)
Trans Classic Movies by Jett Allen (www.intomore.com)
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V and Filipe Andrade (BOOM! Studios)
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

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)
The Lover of Everyone in the World, from The Lover of Everyone in the World by Beatrix Urkowitz (Parsifal Press)
Winter Break 2029, from Invisible Parade, by Mississippi (Glacier Bay Books)

PROMISING NEW TALENT

Arrive In My Hands by Trinidad Escobar (Black Josei Press)
Archaeologist Landings by Yara Elfouly (Self Published)
Koreans Speak English by Juniper Kim (Self Published) [Note: I couldn't find this specific comic on an initial look.]
The Third Person by Emma Grove (Drawn & Quarterly)
Djeliya by Juni Ba (TKO Studios)

AND the judges...

Cuyler Hedlund
Josh O'Neill
Breena Nunez
Alex Hoffman
Hazel Newlevant

God, I'm at work.

[grubcubman]

Immediate thoughts:

• Huge year for Kevin Czap (and Ley Lines), Black Josei Press, and Street Noise Books. I hadn't heard of the latter two but will check 'em out.
  
• Maybe odd that the Fieldmouse Press publisher is on the jury and their book got nominated for Outstanding Graphic Novel, but I also haven't read it. Maybe it's exceptional!
• And congrats to forum friend maxhuffman on the nomination!

[dominocorp]

Aug 16, 2022 18:12:43 GMT grubcubman said:

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• Maybe odd that the Fieldmouse Press publisher is on the jury and their book got nominated for Outstanding Graphic Novel, but I also haven't read it. Maybe it's exceptional!
• And congrats to forum friend maxhuffman on the nomination!

Agreed on Max, congrats! And agreed that it is odd w/ the Fieldmouse press book. Bordeaux is an outstanding cartoonist, but it's odd to see that happen and a book like Time Zone J get snubbed. I think if you are a publisher that has put out one book and you are on a jury and the one book you've done gets nominated, it's a bit of a disservice to the artist of that book. 

Also, Mr Boop getting nominated two years in a row is even less cute this time. 

[arecomicsevengood]

I personally would consider Doucet "too big" for the Ignatz, which I mostly consider an award for minicomics. It's like how if Love And Rockets was up for best series every year, it would likely sweep due to name recognitiion from people who hadn't even read the newest issue. I know there's plenty of stuff from book publishers that gets nominated, (at least no First Second books were nominated this year) but Doucet's last book was a two-volume slipcased hardcover box set career retrospective. I don't think this is the Ignatz awards "snubbing" Julie Doucet, but rather that Doucet could absolutely "snub" SPX and no one would think anything of it. She deserves the highest honor comics can give: having some new Eisner category that previously didn't exist created to honor her achievement.

[dominocorp]

Sure...but they nominated Rege and R. Kikuo, Brecht Evens, all very big as well. At the end of the day, it's no big deal except for:

-the guy who appointed the judges published the Bordeaux book
-one of the judges he appointed published the Bordeaux book
-out of all the amazing comics published in the year, including a book that won the Grand Prix @ Angouleme (the only real award in world comics), somehow the Bordeaux book made the cut.

And, ultimately, who cares? The Ignatz are not something people who are interested in comics as an art form pay much attention to...but, jeez, there's so few rewards in comics, it'd be nice if people DID pay attention to it. If it's JUST for mini comics, self published stuff, then that should be a rule. There's stuff from BOOM! studios this year, (and as you said, a couple years ago there was tons of :01 stuff). It'd be nice for comics to have one actually serious awards show, and the way they do the nominations at SPX has consistently made that impossible, but they insist on keeping things this way. Apparently they over hauled the judge slate this year, but somehow doubled down on the fucked up parts in the process.

I always appreciate all the hard work the people doing the nominating did, it's not easy, fuck ups happen and there are no rewards for all the hours spent on it. But there's something so consistently screwy about the Ignatz process and it seems to limp along with problems like this every year, and can't correct itself. If it's not *just* for minis, and there's a book (which isn't a slipcase but an affordable-is pocket size book) that won the Grand Prix by someone who happens to be an icon in the world of self publishing, and you instead have Mr. Boop nominated for stuff...frustrating!

Sure, Doucet could give a fuck if she gets nominated at this thing or not, it's meaningless to her. But some kinda somewhat decent awards show that is moderately representative of where comics are at, that'd be helpful for readers, rather than what The Ignatz tends to be now, recognizing cartoonists who are heavily active on social media. 

[arecomicsevengood]

FWIW, another judge, Josh O'Neill, is a publisher at Beehive Books, who published the LAAB anthology. (I'm not saying that's not a deserving project.)

As ever, the sole worthwhile award for a job well done in comics is being named on the "best of the year" lists submitted by Comics Journal contibutors and Bubbles readers to those publications.

On another note, I hadn't realized Keren Katz had done a Ley Lines book until it got nominated.

[BubblesZine]

Thanks for all the links, great resource.

Fan voting for awards is just strange, it kinda de-values it to me. But still not a bad list of comics to check out, I'll be clicking some links later. I agree Doucet should be there for best graphic novel.

Here's my ballot:
Artist: Ron Rege
Anthology: LAAB
Collection: Huffman
Comic: Pee Pee Poo Poo
Graphic Novel: Dash Shaw
Mini Comic: Pee Pee Poo Poo (only one I've read lol, so they get a second vote)
Online: Blind Alley (only read the book, but I liked it)
Series: (haven't read any of these sooo) Nib Magazine
Story: (haven't read any of these sooo) idk
New Talent: (haven't read any of these sooo) idk

I'm not qualified lol

[kevinfong]

Cheers to grubcubman for compiling the links!!

RE: any North American awards nominations, IMO the Bubbles "Comics You Should Read!" is where it's at, sincerely highlighting the excellent comics most people are actually reading or should seek out.

When an obscure comic is nominated for an award, it feels like I probably didn't miss anything.

When an obscure comic is mentioned by Bubbles / folks on the board -- where can I get this asap.

Nevertheless, still happy to see noms for Huffman, Cash, and Nall!!

[whitecomics]

I tend to agree that the Ignatz is at its best when it honors cartoonists who have the same commitment to self-published and small press that is at the core of the SPX ethos. It's probably the most prominent award where a self-published or small press mini stands a reasonable chance of appearing in any category. L&R, for example, did get a ton of nominations one year--I think when the Love Bunglers story first appeared--which I remember felt a little off to me at the time with that point in mind. Maybe I do wish there *was* a rule limiting the field to small press work, I'm not sure...

Among many weird idiosyncrasies of the Ignatz process, the fact that (I believe) each judge submits their long list separately, with no discussion, makes unique work less likely to be selected and in several years has led a particular Consensus Good Book to appear in many categories, presumably due to the submissions of different judges. Or judges submitting it in many categories to ensure a nomination!