Kevin at Robot 6 and others have been reporting on this year’s Ignatz winners which were announced over the weekend at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland. The Ignatz winners (and indeed the shortlist nominees) are usually a damned fine place to pick up some recommended reading suggestions from the independent comics presses, from respected indies like Top Shelf, D&Q and Fantagraphics to the self-published creators and, as with the UK indy press scene, we’d recommend having a look at some of the creators featured here because there’s some terrific material coming from the independent presses and artists (in fact Outstanding Artist winner nate Powell’s Swallow Me Whole was one of my favourite reads of last year and I believe Kenny guards his copy of Kramer’s Ergot like Gollum guards his Precious):
Outstanding Artist: Nate Powell, Swallow Me Whole (Top Shelf)
Outstanding Anthology or Collection: Kramer’s Ergot #7, edited by Sammy Harkham (Buenaventura)
Outstanding Graphic Novel: Acme Novelty Library #19, Chris Ware (Drawn & Quarterly)
Outstanding Story: “Willy,” Papercutter #10, Damien Jay (Tugboat)
Promising New Talent: Colleen Frakes, Woman King (self-published)
Outstanding Series: Uptight, Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics)
Outstanding Comic: Uptight #3, Jordan Crane (Fantagraphics)
Outstanding Mini-Comic: Stay Away From Other People, Lisa Hanawalt
Outstanding Online Comic: Year of the Rat, Cayetano Garza
And in more comics award news Kevin also notes the winners of this years Joe Shuster gongs, the awards named in honour of the co-creator of Superman given out to Canadian comics creators (and since these are Canadian awards they also include French language BD, which is fine with us):
Artist: David Finch – Ultimatum #1-2 (Marvel Comics)
Cartoonist: Dave Sim – Glamourpuss #1-4, Judenhaas (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
Colorist: François Lapierre – “Gédéon et la bête du lac,” Contes et légendes du Québec (Glénat Québec), Magasin général 4 (Casterman)
Writer: Mariko Tamaki –Emiko Superstar (DC/Minx), Skim (Groundwood Books)
Cover: Niko Henrichon – Hostile Tome 1 (Dupuis)
Webcomics: Cameron Stewart – Sin Titulo
Publisher: Les 400 Coups/Mécanique Générale
Comics for Kids: Kean Soo – Jellaby, Book 1 (Hyperion)
Gene Day Award for Canadian Self-Publishers: Jesse Jacobs – Blue Winter, Shapes in the Snow
The Harry Kremer Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Retailer: Legends Comics and Books (Victoria, British Columbia)
Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame: George Menendez Rae, Réal Godbout, Ken Steacy and Diana Schutz
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September 30th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
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