The 2025 Ignatz Awards… and the Winners are!

Saturday night during the Small Press Expo (SPX) was the annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.

Ignatz Awards nominees are determined by a panel of comics professionals. This year’s team of jurors included:

Voting for the Ignatz Awards was open to anybody on the SPX email lists and anyone requesting a ballot.

Congrats to all of the winners and nominees. The winners are marked in bold.

OUTSTANDING ARTIST

• Sarah Airriess, The Worst Journey in the World (Iron Circus Comics)
• Deb JJ Lee, Death Fiddles and We Dance (Self-Published/Shortbox)
• Kazimir Lee, Low Orbit (Top Shelf Productions)
• Lomig, JOHN MUIR: To the Heart of Solitude (NBM Graphic Novels)
• Anders Nilsen, Tongues Supplement #1 (NoMiracles)

OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY

• Braba: A Brazilian Comics Anthology ed. Rafael Grampá and Janaína de Luna (Fantagraphics)
• Come Find Me ed. Will Dennis and Sean Edgar (DSTLRY)
• Datura Magazine vol. 3 ed. Sunmi and Mar Julia (Self-Published)
• Loud: Stories to Make Your Voice Heard ed. Brett Israel (Dark Horse Comics)
• Rust Belt Review vol. 6 by Sean Knickerbocker (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING COLLECTION

• I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Preparing to Bite by Keiler Roberts (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Them-Shaped Cloud by Max Huffman (CRAM Books)
• World Within the World by Julia Gfrörer (Fantagraphics)

OUTSTANDING COMIC

• Belly Full of Heart by Madeline Mouse (Silver Sprocket)
• Big Gamble Rainbow Highway by Connie Meyers (CRAM Books)
• Lucky Cap Scouts by O. Stevens (Silver Sprocket)
• The Re-Up #6 by Chad Bilyeu and Juliette de Wit (Bistro Books)
• Tongues Supplement #1 by Anders Nilsen (NoMiracles)

OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL

• Adrift on a Painted Sea by Tim Bird (Avery Hill Publishing)
• Land of Mirrors by María Medem (translated by Aleshia Jensen & Daniela Ortiz) (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Precious Rubbish by Kayla E. (Fantagraphics)
• Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It by Tara Booth (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Skin by Mieke Versyp and Sabien Clement (Fantagraphics)

OUTSTANDING MINICOMIC

• Allodynia by Violet Kitchen (Self-Published)
• Big Apple Matinee by A. T. Pratt (Self-Published)
• The Connoisseurs by Alex Swift (Frog Farm)
• The Mole by Arantza Peña Popo (Self-Published)
• Szarlotka by Jas Hice (Frog Farm)

OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC

OUTSTANDING SERIES

• Disciples of Soil by B. Mure (Avery Hill Publishing)
• PeePee PooPoo by Caroline Cash (Silver Sprocket)
• The Re-Up by Chad Bilyeu & Juliette de Wit (Bistro Books)
• Tongues by Anders Nilsen (NoMiracles)
• Wedding Juice by Sanika Phawde (Self-Published)

OUTSTANDING STORY

• A Pillbug Story by Allison Conway (Black Panel Press)
• Ballad for Black Cassandra by Olivia Stephens (Self-Published)
• Boy Island by Leo Fox (Silver Sprocket)
• How to Talk to Your Succulent by Zoe Persico (Tundra Book Group)
• Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage by Spire Greenwood and Eve Greenwood (Self-Published)

PROMISING NEW TALENT

• Trishelle Jeffery, Best Breasts in the West (Fieldmouse Press)
• Mili St. John, The Edge of Autumn (Self-Published)
• Ricky Lima and Daniele Aquilani, Undergrowth (Top Shelf Productions)
• Connie Meyers, Big Gamble Rainbow Highway (CRAM books)
• Vicky Yang, Unmoored (Self-Published)