• Outstanding Artist
  Seth , Palookaville, Drawn & Quarterly Publications
• Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection
  It’s A Good Life if You Don’t Weaken, Seth, Drawn & Quarterly
• Outstanding Story
  From Hell, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, Kitchen Sink Press
• Promising New Talent
  Debbie Dreschler. Nowhere, Drawn & Quarterly
• Outstanding Series
  Acme Novelty Library, Chris Ware, Fantagraphics
• Outstanding Comic
  Eightball #17, Daniel Clowes, Fantagraphics
• Outstanding Minicomic
  The Perfect Planet, by James Kochalka

1997 Ignatz Award Nominees

The Ignatz is a festival prize awarded at The EXPO to recognize outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. A panel of five cartoonists developed the ballot listed below, which was voted on by Expo attendees. Recipients were announced at the first Ignatz Awards Banquet.

THE 1997 IGNATZ AWARDS JURY

• Jessica Abel
• Chester Brown
• Ed Brubaker
• Mark Wheatley
• Joe Zabel

Outstanding Artist

• Gilbert Hernandez, New Love, Fantagraphics Books
• Dylan Horrocks, Pickle, Black Eye Productions
• C. S. Morse, Soulwind, Image Comics
• Gary Panter, Jimbo, Zongo Comics
• Seth, Palookaville, Drawn & Quarterly Publications

Promising New Talent

• Debbie Dreschler ( Nowhere, Drawn & Quarterly)
• Tom Hart (The Sands, Black Eye Productions)
• C. S. Morse ( Soulwind, Image Comics)
• Walt Holcombe, (King of Persia, self published through Accordian Press)
• Steve Weissman (Yikes!, Alternative Press)

Outstanding Story

• “A Death In the Family” by Joe Chiappetta from Silly Daddy
• “Ghost World” by Dan Clowes, serialized in Eightball (Fantagraphics)
• “Hicksville” by Dylan Horrocks from Pickle (Black Eye Productions)
• From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (Kitchen Sink Press )
• “It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken” by Seth from Palookaville (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Series

• Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware (Fantagraphics)
• Berlin by Jason Lutes (Black Eye Productions)
• Eightballby Dan Clowes (Fantagraphics)
• Palookaville by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Strangehaven by Gary Millidge

Outstanding Comic

• Eightball #17 by Dan Clowes (Fantagraphics)
• Hey Mister #1 by Pete Sickman-Garner
• Keyhole #2 by Dean Haspiel and Josh Neufeld (Modern)
• King of Persia by Walt Holcombe, (self-published through Accordian Press)
• Palookaville #10 by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Minicomic

• Hey Mister #4 by Pete Sickman-Garner
• King-Cat Comics #52 by John Porcellino
• Magic Whistle #9 by Sam Henderson
• Out There #5 by Alan Hunt
• The Perfect Planet by James Kochalka

Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection

• At The Seams by Ed Brubaker (Alternative Press)
• It’s A Good Life if You Don’t Weaken by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories by Ben Katchor (Little, Brown)
• L’Ascension Du Haut Mal by David B. (L’Association)
• Lost in the Alps by Cosey (NBM)