Small Press Expo Announces the 2022 Ignatz Award Nominees

The Small Press Expo (SPX) has announced the 2022 nominees for the annual presentation of the Ignatz Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning.

For the first time in three years, SPX 2022 will feature a full slate of programming and workshops, along with a live presentation of the Ignatz Awards ceremony.

Beginning this year, voting for the Ignatz Awards will be opened to anybody on the SPX email lists and anyone requesting a ballot. There will be no in-person voting at the show, as we open up the voting for the prestigious Ignatz Awards to all fans of indie comics. 

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

• Cuyler Hedlund
• Josh O’Neill
• Breena Nunez
• Alex Hoffman
• Hazel Newlevant

The Ignatz Awards ceremony will be held at 9:30PM on September 17 in the White Oak Room of the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.

BALLOT & VOTING INFORMATION

• Voting for the 2022 Ignatz Awards will be by email ballot only, there will be no on-site voting.
• Ballots will be emailed on Thursday August 18 to everyone on SPX’s email lists.
• Voting ends on Wednesday, September 14 at 11:59 PM (EDT).
• Please check your spam folder if you do not see your ballot.
• If you wish to vote for the Ignatz Awards and are not on the SPX email lists, signup for a ballot and get added to the email lists at the SPX website.

2022 IGNATZ 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)
• 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)
• Carrington’s World by Summer Pierre (Self Published)
• Phonestoned by King Ray (Self Published)
• 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)
• Archeologist Landing by Yara Elfouly (Self Published)
• Koreans Speak English by Juniper Kim (Self Published)
• The Third Person by Emma Grove (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Djeliya by Juni Ba (TKO Studios)