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Over Half Of This Year's Ignatz Nominees Are Women

Published Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:00:48 -0500

As Michael Cavna writes for the Washington Post, the 2015 Ignatz Awards nominations, to be presented at this year's Small Press Expo, for the first time see women outnumber men.

With Jillian Tamaki, Ethan Rilly and Sophia Foster-Dimino getting three nominations each, and Sophie Goldstein, Kris Mukai and Noah Van Sciver getting two each.

Here's who is up for the big nod. Congratulations to all!

Outstanding Artist
Emily Carroll, "Through The Woods"
Ed Luce, "Wuvable Oaf"
Roman Muradov, "(In a Sense) Lost and Found"
Jillian Tamaki, "SuperMutant Magic Academy"
Noah Van Sciver, "Saint Cole"

Outstanding Anthology or Collection
"Drawn and Quarterly, 25 Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels," edited by Tom Devlin, Chris Oliveros, Peggy Burns, Tracy Hurren, and Julia Pohl-Miranda
"An Entity Observes All Things," by Box Brown
"How To Be Happy," by Eleanor Davis
"Pope Hats #4," by Ethan Rilly
"SuperMutant Magic Academy," by Jillian Tamaki

Outstanding Graphic Novel
"Beauty," by Kerascoët and Hubert
"The Oven," by Sophie Goldstein
"Rav," by Mickey Zacchilli
"Saint Cole," by Noah Van Sciver
"Wendy," by Walter Scott

Outstanding Story
"Doctors," by Dash Shaw
"Me As a Baby," by Michael DeForge (from Lose #6)
"Nature Lessons," by Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger (from The Late Child and Other Animals)
"Sex Coven," by Jillian Tamaki (from Frontier #7)
"Weeping Flower, Grows in Darkness," by Kris Mukai

Promising New Talent
M. Dean, "K.M. & R.P. & MCMLXXI (1971)"
Sophia Foster-Dimino, "Sphincter, Sex Fantasy"
Dakota McFadzean, "Don't Get Eaten by Anything"
Jane Mai, "Soft"
Gina Wynbrandt, "Big Pussy"

Outstanding Series
"Dumb," by Georgia Webber
"Frontier," edited by Ryan Sands
"March," by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
"Pope Hats," by Ethan Rilly
"Sex Fantasy," by Sophia Foster-Dimino

Outstanding Comic
"Borb," by Jason Little
"The Nature of Nature," by Disa Wallander
"The Oven," by Sophie Goldstein
"Pope Hats 4," by Ethan Rilly
"Weeping Flower, Grows in Darkness," by Kris Mukai

Outstanding Minicomic
"Devil's Slice of Life," by Patrick Crotty
"Epoxy 5," by John Pham
"King Cat #75," by John Porcellino
"Sex Fantasy #4," by Sophia Foster-Dimino
"Whalen: A Reckoning," by Audry

Outstanding Online Comic
The Bloody Footprint, by Lilli Carre [nytimes.com]
Carriers, by Lauren Weinstein [nautil.us]
Mom Body, by Rebecca Roher [thenib.com]
O Human Star, by Blue Delliquanti [ohumanstar.com]
Witchy, by Ariel Ries [witchycomic.com]