Gli Ignatz Awards sono i premi al fumetto indipendente americano assegnati durante il Small Press Expo svoltosi a Bethesda (Maryland). Durante l’evento, vengono presentati 5 lavori per ogni categoria scelta da un’equipe di esperti e sono i partecipanti alla fiera ad eleggere i loro preferiti. A presentare la premiazione per il 2011 abbiamo l’illustratore Dustin Harbin mentre i lavori sono stati selezionati da una giuria composta dai fumettisti Rina Ayuyang, Mike Dawson, Kris Dresen, Theo Ellsworth e John Porcellino.
Di seguito, vi presentiamo le categorie con i relativi partecipanti e, in evidenza, il nome del vincitore.
- Outstanding Artist
Michael DeForge, Lose #3 (Koyama Press)
Edie Fake, Gaylord Phoenix (Secret Acres)
Renee French, H-Day (Picturebox)
Joseph Lambert, I Will Bite You (Secret Acres)
Carol Tyler, You’ll Never Know, Vol 2: Collateral Damage (Fantagraphics)
- Outstanding Anthology or Collection
Black Eye, edited by Ryan Standfest (Rotland Press)
Gay Genius, edited by Annie Murphy (Sparkplug)
I Will Bite You, Joseph Lambert (Secret Acres)
Make Me a Woman, Vanessa Davis (Drawn & Quarterly)
Three #1, edited by Robert Kirby
- Outstanding Story
“Blood of the Virgin” Crickets #3, Sammy Harkham (self-published)
“Browntown,” Love and Rockets: New Stories No. 3, Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
“LINT,” Acme Novelty Library #20, Chris Ware (Drawn & Quarterly)
“The most gripping mind-exploding triumphantly electric of our time,” Papercutter #15, Jonas Madden-Conner (Tugboat Press)
“Weekends Abroad” Three #1, Eric Orner (self-published)
- Outstanding Series
Crickets, Sammy Harkham (self-published)
Dungeon Quest, Joe Daly (Fantagraphics Books)
Everything Dies, Box Brown
Lose, Michael DeForge (Koyama Books)
Reich, Elijah Brubaker (Sparkplug Comic Books)
- Outstanding Comic
Crickets #3, Sammy Harkham (self-published)
Danger Country #1, Levon Jihanian
Habitat #2, Dunja Jankovic
Lose #3, Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
The Magic Hedge, Marian Runk
- Outstanding Online Comic
Alphabet Horror, Nate Marsh: www.alphabethorror.com
A Cartoonist’s Diary, Pascal Girard: http://www.tcj.com/author/pascal-girard/
Hark! A Vagrant, Kate Beaton: http://www.harkavagrant.com/
Finn and Charlie are Hitched,Tony Breed: http://hitchedcomic.com/
Lucky, Gabrielle Bell: http://gabriellebell.com/
Gaylord Phoenix, Edie Fake (Secret Acres)
The Heavy Hand, Chris Cilla (Sparkplug)
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Barry Deutsch (Amulet Books)
Special Exits, Joyce Farmer (Fantagraphics)
You’ll Never Know, Vol 2: Collateral Damage, Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)
- Promising New Talent
Tony Breed, Finn and Charlie are Hitched (self-published/online)
Darryl Ayo Brathwaite, House of Twelve Monthly #3 (Comixology)
Jesse Jacobs, Even the Giants (AdHouse)
Jon McNaught, Birchfield Close (Nobrow)
Jesse Moynihan, Forming (Nobrow/online)
- Outstanding Mini-Comic
Ben Died of a Train, Box Brown
Gaylord Phoenix #5, Edie Fake
Danger Country #1, Levon Jihanian
Morning Song, Laura Terry
Trans-Utopia, Tom Kaczynski (Uncivilized Books)
