Ignatz Award Winners
The Ignatz Awards were presented last night at the Small Press Expo. Named for George Herriman’s classic comic strip character from Krazy Kat, the festival prize recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. The winners:
Outstanding Artist
Laura Park, Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream (self-published)
Outstanding Anthology or Collection
Papercutter #7, edited by Greg Means (Tugboat Press)
Outstanding Graphic Novel
Skim, Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood Books)
Outstanding Story
The Thing About Madeleine, Lilli Carre (self-published)
Promising New Talent
Sarah Glidden, How To Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (self-published)
Outstanding Series
Snake Oil, Chuck Forsman (self-published)
Outstanding Comic
Snake Oil #1, Chuck Forsman (self-published)
Outstanding Mini-Comic
Bluefuzz, Jesse Reklaw
Outstanding Online Comic
Achewood, Chris Onstad
I have some photos from the Small Press Expo at http://picasaweb.google.com/neil.ottenstein/20081…I had a great time there and not only picked up some Beanworld action figures :)but found out that Larry Marder has big plans for continuing the Beanworld story.