The Ignatz Awards, named after George Herriman’s brick-wielding mouse from his long running comic strip Krazy Kat, recognizes exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an art form and as a means of personal expression.
Nominees are determined by a panel of comics professionals. We wish to thank the 2022 Ignatz jurors: Cuyler Hedlund, Breena Nunez, Josh O’Neil, Alex Hoffman and Hazel Newlevant.
Nominee names that are highlighted will be at the show.
Many thanks to Crowdfundr for sponsoring the 2022 Ignatz Awards.
Outstanding Artist
Halcyon
Illustrated by Ron Regé Jr.
(Fantagraphics)
The City of Belgium
Illustrated by Brecht Evens
(Drawn & Quarterly)
Alexander, the Servant, & the Water of Life
Illustrated by Reimena Yee
(Hiveworks Comics)
Outstanding Anthology
Smut Peddler Presents: Sordid Past
Edited by Andrea Purcell
(Iron Circus Comics)
Good Boy Magazine #1
Edited by Michael Sweater and Benji Nate
(Silver Sprocket)
Baltic Comics Magazine š! #42 ‘Scientific Facts‘
Edited by David Schilter and Sanita Muižniece
(kuš!)
Outstanding Collection
Cover Not Final: Crime Funnies
By Max Huffman
(Adhouse Books)
Mr. Boop
By Alec Robbins
(Silver Sprocket)
The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories
By Rumi Hara
(Drawn & Quarterly)
Outstanding Comic
Pee Pee Poo Poo #69
By Caroline Cash
(Self Published)
Are Comic Books Real?
By Alex Nall
(Kilgore Books & Comics)
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)
No One Else
By R. Kikuo Johnson
(Fantagraphics)
What is Home, Mum?
By Sabba Khan
(Street Noise Books)
Outstanding Minicomic
Pee Pee Poo Poo #69
By Caroline Cash
(Self Published)
Carrington’s World
By Summer Pierre
(Self Published)
Outstanding Online Comic
Outstanding Series
Methods of Dyeing
By B. Mure
(Avery Hill Publishing)
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
By Ram V and Filipe Andrade
(BOOM! Studios)
Ley Lines
By Keren Katz, Cameron Weston Nicholson, Jordan Jeffries, ed. K Czap & L Nichols
(Grindstone Comics & Czap Books)
Outstanding Story
Promising New Talent
The Third Person
By Emma Grove
(Drawn & Quarterly)
