Festivals Extra: Ignatz Submissions Close In Early June
The Beatreminds that Ignatz Awards submission end on June 7. The process on those awards is that a jury is named every year and kept secret (for the most part; I'm sure this has been breached multiple times); they get the submissions and make their choices. I'm not enough of a small-press historian to know if there's a book that famously cold-rushed a nominees slate. Most of the complaining I hear -- and there's not a ton, it's a popular awards program -- comes from the other direction, the notion that the awards reflect personal relationships or even comics-school ties.
