2025 Ignatz Award Winners Announced
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The 2025 Ignatz Awards were presented at the end of The Small Press Expo in Rockville, MD. The winners are below along with the cover of their work.
Outstanding Anthology
- WINNER: Rust Belt Review vol. 6, Sean Knickerbocker, Self-Published
- Braba: A Brazilian Comics Anthology, Rafael Grampá and Janaína de Luna, Fantagraphics
- Come Find Me, Will Dennis and Sean Edgar, DSTLRY
- Datura vol. 3, Sunmi and Mar Julia, Self-Published
- Loud: Stories to Make Your Voice Heard, Brett Israel, Dark Horse Comics
Outstanding Artist
- WINNER: Tongues Supplement #1, Anders Nilsen, NoMiracles
- Death Fiddles and We Dance, Deb JJ Lee, Self-Published/Shortbox
- JOHN MUIR: To the Heart of Solitude, Lomig, NBM Graphic Novels
- Low Orbit, Kazimir Lee, Top Shelf Productions
- The Worst Journey in the World, Sarah Airriess, Iron Circus Comics
Outstanding Collection
- WINNER: World Within the World, Julia Gfrörer, Fantagraphics
- I Ate the Whole World to Find You, Rachel Ang, Drawn & Quarterly
- Milk White Steed, Michael D. Kennedy, Drawn & Quarterly
- Preparing to Bite, Keiler Roberts, Drawn & Quarterly
- Them-Shaped Cloud, Max Huffman, CRAM Books
Outstanding Comic
- WINNER: Tongues Supplement #1, Anders Nilsen, NoMiracles
- Belly Full of Heart, Madeline Mouse, Silver Sprocket
- Big Gamble Rainbow Highway, Connie Meyers, CRAM Books
- Lucky Cap Scouts, O. Stevens, Silver Sprocket
- The Re-Up #6, Chad Bilyeu and Juliette de Wit, Bistro Books
Outstanding Graphic Novel
- WINNER: Precious Rubbish, Kayla E., Fantagraphics
- Adrift on a Painted Sea, Tim Bird, Avery Hill Publishing
- Land of Mirrors, María Medem (trans. Aleshia Jensen & Daniela Ortiz), Drawn & Quarterly
- Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It, Tara Booth, Drawn & Quarterly
- Skin, Mieke Versyp and Sabien Clement, Fantagraphics
Outstanding Minicomic
- WINNER: Allodynia, Violet Kitchen, Self-Published
- Big Apple Matinee, A. T. Pratt, Self-Published
- Szarlotka, Jas Hice, Frog Farm
- The Connoisseurs, Alex Swift, Frog Farm
- The Mole, Arantza Peña Popo, Self-Published
Outstanding Online Comic
- WINNER: Home by the Rotting Sea, Otava Heikkilä, claystorks .itch .io
- 3rd Voice, Evan Dahm, rice-boy.com
- An Ode to People, KC Councilor, muthamagazine.com
- Jake Spooky, Michael Grover, grovertoons.com
- Kiss the Cook, Barbara Perez Marquez and Rhinosnax, Ko-fi
Outstanding Series
- WINNER: Wedding Juice, Sanika Phawde, Self-Published
- Disciples of Soil, B. Mure, Avery Hill Publishing
- PeePee PooPoo, Caroline Cash, Silver Sprocket
- The Re-Up, Chad Bilyeu & Juliette de Wit, Bistro Books
- Tongues, Anders Nilsen, NoMiracles
Outstanding Story
- WINNER: Boy Island, Leo Fox, Silver Sprocket
- A Pillbug Story, Allison Conway, Black Panel Press
- Ballad for Black Cassandra, Olivia Stephens, Self-Published
- How to Talk to Your Succulent, Zoe Persico, Tundra Book Group
- Ruin of the House of the Divine Visage, Spire Greenwood & Eve Greenwood, Self-Published
Promising New Talent
- Best Breasts in the West, Trishelle Jeffery, Fieldmouse Press
- Big Gamble Rainbow Highway, Connie Meyers, CRAM books
- The Edge of Autumn, Mili St. John, Self-Published
- Undergrowth, Ricky Lima and Daniele Aquilani, Top Shelf Productions
- WINNER: Unmoored, Vicky Yang, Self-Published
The Ignatz Award recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning and honors “exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an art form and as a means of personal expression.”
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