• Outstanding Artist
  Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows #1, Insight Studios Group)
• Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection
  Cages (Dave McKean, Kitchen Sink)
• Outstanding Story
  David Boring (Dan Clowes, Eightball #20, Fantagraphics)
• Promising New Talent
  Brian Ralph (Fireball #7, Fort Thunder)
• Outstanding Series
  The Extended Dream of Mr. D (Max, Drawn & Quarterly)
• Outstanding Comic
  Liberty Meadows #1 (Frank Cho, Insight Studio Group)
• Outstanding Minicomic
  Fireball #7 (Brian Ralph)

1999 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 Ignatz Awards Banquet Saturday, September 18, 1999.

THE 1999 IGNATZ AWARDS JURY

• Frank Cho
• Jordan Crane
• Jon Lewis
• Carla Speed McNeil
• Jim Ottaviani

Outstanding Artist:

• Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows #1, Insight Studios Group)
• Eric Shanower (Age of Bronze, Image Comics)
• Dylan Horrocks (Hicksville, Blackeye)
• Dave Choe (Slow Jams, Non #3 & 4, Red Ink)
• Pat McEown (Kissin’ Cousin, Heart Throb #4)

Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection:

• Cages (Dave McKean, Kitchen Sink)
• Hey Mister: Celebrity Roast (Pete Sickman-Garner, Top Shelf Productions)
• Hicksville (Dylan Horrocks, Black Eye)
• Time Warp (Ed Hillyer, Slab-O-Concrete)
• Tiny Bubbles (James Kochalka, Highwater Books)

Outstanding Story:

• Sex & Violence: part 2 (David Lapham, Stray Bullets #18, El Capitan Books)
• Cavewoman: Jungle Tales (Budd Root, Basement Comics)
• David Boring (Dan Clowes, Eightball #20, Fantagraphics)
• Over the Line (Scott Roberts, Patty-Cake and Friends #13, Slave Labor)
• Slow Jams (David Choe, Non #3 & #4, Red Ink)

Promising New Talent:

• Leland Myrick (Sweet, Adept Books)
• Madison Clell (Cuckoo, Green Door Studios)
• Jason Little (Jack’s Luck Runs Out, Top Shelf Productions)
• Dave Kiersh (Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Kissing an Ashtray, Non #4, Red Ink)
• Brian Ralph (Fireball #7, Fort Thunder)

Outstanding Series:

• Age of Bronze (Eric Shanower, Image Comics)
• Clan Apis (Jay Hosler, Active Synapse Comics)
• Strangehaven (Gary Spencer Millidge, Abiogenesis)
• Gen 13: Magical Drama Queen Roxy (Adam Warren, Wildstorm)
• The Extended Dream of Mr. D (Max, Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Comic:

• Liberty Meadows #1 (Frank Cho, Insight Studio Group)
• American Splendor: Transatlantic Comics (Pekar, Sacco, Stack & Warneford)
• Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight (James Sturm, Drawn & Quarterly)
• The Jew of New York (Ben Katchor, Pantheon Books)
• Oracle (Joe Zabel & Gary Dumm, Amazing Montage)

Outstanding Minicomic:

• Tales of the Great Unspoken (Aaron Augenblick)
• Ped Xing (Androo Robinson)
• Bolol Belittle (Mat Brinkman)
• Fireball #7 (Brian Ralph)
• Noe-Fie #8 (Kurt Wolfgang)

• Outstanding Artist
  Dave Sim, Cerebus, Aardvark-Vanaheim
• Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection
  Ghost World, Dan Clowes, Fantagraphics
• Outstanding Story
  Ghost World, Dan Clowes, serialized in Eightball, Fantagraphics
• Promising New Talent
  Carla Speed McNeil, Finder, Lightspeed Press
• Outstanding Series
  Acme Novelty Library, Chris Ware, Fantagraphics
• Outstanding Comic
  Acme Novelty Library #9, Chris Ware, Fantagraphics
• Outstanding Minicomic
  Amy Unbounded, Rachel Hartman

1998 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 Ignatz Awards Banquet Saturday, September 26, 1998.

THE 1998 IGNATZ AWARDS JURY

• Michael Cohen
• Tom Devlin
• Tom Hart
• Marc Hempel
• Dylan Horrocks

Outstanding Artist

• Joe Chiappetta (Silly Daddy, self-published)
• Nick Craine (Portrait of a Thousand Punks: Hard Core Logo, House of Anansi Press Ltd.)
• Gilbert Hernandez (Luba, Fantagraphics Books)
• Jaime Hernandez (Penny Century, Fantagraphics)
• Dave Sim (Cerebus, Aardvark-Vanaheim)

Promising New Talent

• Tara Jenkins (Galaxion, Helikon Press)
• Matt Madden (Black Candy, Black Eye Books)
• Carla “Speed” McNeil (Finder, Lightspeed Press)
• Ron Rege (Skibber Bee Bye, self-published)
• Chris Oliveros (The Envelope Manufacturer, Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Story

• “Ghost World” by Dan Clowes, serialized in Eightball (Fantagraphics)
• “Jimmy Corrigan” by Chris Ware, serialized in Acme Novelty Library (Fantagraphics)
• “Letters from Venus” by Gilbert Hernandez, serialized in New Love (Fantagraphics)
• “New York City Diary” by Julie Doucet, serialized in Dirty Plotte (Drawn & Quarterly)
• “Soba” by Joe Sacco, from Stories From Bosnia (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Series

• Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware (Fantagraphics)
• Eightball by Dan Clowes (Fantagraphics)
• Nowhere by Debbie Drechsler (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Silly Daddy by Joe Chiappetta (self-published)
• Yikes! by Steve Weissman (Alternative Press)

Outstanding Comic

• Acme Novelty Library #9 by Chris Ware (Fantagraphics)
• Coventry #1 by Bill Willingham (Fantagraphics)
• Eightball #19 by Dan Clowes (Fantagraphics)
• Nowhere #3 by Debbie Drechsler (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Stories From Bosnia #1: Soba by Joe Sacco (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Minicomic

• Amy Unbounded by Rachel Hartman
• Bathroom Girls by Yvonne Mojica
• King Cat Comics by John Porcellino
• Magic Boy Does Laundry by James Kochalka
• Oaf by Matt Brinkman

Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection

• Views of the Warehouse District by Martin tom Drieck (Westhampton House)
• Frank vol. 2 by Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics)
• Ghost World by Dan Clowes (Fantagraphics)
• The Little Man by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Titanic Tales edited by Mark Wheatley (Insight Studios)

• 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)