Your 2009 Ignatz Award Nominees



They were announced earlier today. Winners will be awarded at next month's Small Press Expo.



Outstanding Artist
* Tim Hensley, Mome (Fantagraphics), Kramer's Ergot #7 (Buenaventura)
* Nate Powell, Swallow Me Whole (Top Shelf)
* Richard Sala, Delphine (Fantagraphics/Coconino)
* Josh Simmons, Mome (Fantagraphics)
* Carol Tyler, You'll Never Know, Book One: A Good and Decent Man (Fantagraphics)

*****



Outstanding Anthology or Collection
* Abandoned Cars, Tim Lane (Fantagraphics)
* Against Pain, Ron Rege Jr. (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Drawn & Quarterly Showcase Book 5, T. Edward Bak, Anneli Furmark, Amanda Vahamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Fuzz and Pluck: Splitsville by Ted Stearn (Fantagraphics)
* Kramer's Ergot 7, ed. Sammy Harkham (Buenaventura)

*****



Outstanding Graphic Novel
* Acme Novelty Library #19, Chris Ware (Self-Published)
* Disappearance Diary, Hideo Azuma (Fanfare/Potent Mon)
* Drop-In, Dave Lapp (Conundrum)
* Nicolas, Pascal Girard (Drawn & Quarterly)
* You'll Never Know, Book One: A Good and Decent Man, Carol Tyler (Fantagraphics)

*****



Outstanding Story
* The Carnival, Mome #14, Lilli Carre (Fantagraphics)
* Disappearance Diary, Hideo Azuma (Fanfare/Potent Mon)
* Seeing Eye Dogs of Mars, Acme Novelty Library #19, Chris Ware (Self-Published)
* Untitled, Drawn & Quarterly Showcase Book 5, Amanda Vahamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Willy, Papercutter #10, Damien Jay (Tugboat)

*****



Promising New Talent
* T. Edward Bak, Drawn & Quarterly Showcase Book 5 (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Colleen Frakes, Woman King (self-published)
* Hellen Jo, Jin & Jam #1 (Sparkplug), Diamond Heights, Papercutter #9 (Tugboat)
* Ed Luce, Wuvable Oaf (self-published)
* Amanda Vahamaki, Drawn & Quarterly Showcase Book 5 (Drawn & Quarterly)

*****



Outstanding Series
* Danny Dutch, David King (Sparkplug)
* Delphine, Richard Sala (Fantagraphics/Coconino)
* Interiorae, Gabriella Giandelli (Fantagraphics/Coconino)
* Reich, Elijah Brubaker (Sparkplug)
* Uptight, Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics)

*****



Outstanding Comic
* Danny Dutch #1, David King (Sparkplug)
* Dead Ringer, Jason T. Miles (La Mano)
* Interiorae #3, Gabriella Giandelli (Fantagraphics/Coconino)
* Reich #6, Elijah Brubaker (Sparkplug)
* Uptight #3, Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics)

*****



Outstanding Mini-Comic
* Claptrap #2, Onsmith
* Just So You Know #1, Joey Alison Sayers
* Stay Away From Other People, Lisa Hanawalt
* Stewbrew, Kelly Froh & Max Clotfelter
* Xoc, Matt Dembicki

*****



Outstanding Online Comic
* Bodyworld, Dash Shaw
* Danny Dutch, David King
* Thingpart, Joey Alison Sayers
* Vanessa Davis's comics for Tablet
* Year of the Rat, Cayetano Garza

*****

The 2009 Ignatz Jury was Lilli Carre, Vanessa Davis, Robert Kirby, Scott Mills and Laura Park. As it's a subject that's come up in the past with the Ignatzes, it may be worth noting that two of the judges were nominated for awards: Carre, Davis. It's my understanding the judging is currently done in isolation and judges aren't allowed to vote for themselves, and as such I'm assured that nothing odd or unsavory took place as far as the mechanics go. Judges simply felt the work of those cartoonists were nomination-worthy. In the incident that makes this noteworthy, involving Frank Cho, this was not the case and a judge did advocate on his own behalf. Having judges nominated at all is still deeply weird-looking, leads to bad publicity in that the subject seem to come up every time it happens and I think the awards would be better off just making that simple exclusion of not being eligible the year you're judging. It's not like this idea hasn't been presented to them in the past, though.

*****
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