SPX 2019 Ignatz Nominees

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Outstanding Artist

• Rosemary Valero-O’Connell– Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me (First Second)
• Koren Shadmi– Highwayman (Top Shelf Productions)
• Lucy Knisley– Kid Gloves (First Second)
• Sloane Leong– Prism Stalker (Image Comics)
• Ezra Claytan Daniels– Upgrade Soul (Lion Forge)

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Outstanding Collection

• Love Letters to Jane’s World– Paige Braddock (Lion Forge)
• Girl Town– Casey Nowak (Top Shelf Productions)
• Dirty Plotte– Julie Doucet (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Leaving Richard’s Valley– Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
• This Woman’s Work– Julie Delporte (Drawn & Quarterly)

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Outstanding Anthology

• Electrum– Edited by Der-shing Helmer (Ascend Comics)
• Wayward Sisters– Edited by Allison O’Toole (TO Comix Press)
• Family –The Nib Magazine – Edited by Matt Bors, Matt Lubchanksy and Eleri Harris (The Nib)
• Death- The Nib Magazine – Edited by Matt Bors, Matt Lubchanksy and Eleri Harris (The Nib)
• We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology– Edited by Tara Avery and Jeanne Thornton (Stacked Deck Press)

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Outstanding Graphic Novel

• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me– Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (First Second)
• Upgrade Soul – Ezra Clayton Daniels (Lion Forge)
• Woman World– Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Highwayman– Koren Shadmi (Top Shelf Productions)
• Gender Queer– Maia Kobabe (Lion Forge)

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Outstanding Series

• The Nib Magazine– Matt Bors (The Nib)
• Daygloayhole Quarterly– Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket Press)
• Heavenly Blues– Ben Kahn/Bruno Hidalgo (Scout Comics)
• Frontier– Youth in Decline
• Endgames– Ru Xu (NewsPrints)

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Outstanding Minicomic

• Trans Girls Hit the Town– Emma Jayne (Diskette Press)
• Gonzalo– Jed McGowan (Shortbox)
• Silver Wire– Kriota Willberg (Birdcage Bottom Books)
• Cherry– InésEstrada (Kilgore Books & Comics)
• YLLW YLLW YLLW– Mar Julia (Diskette Press)

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Outstanding Comic

• Lorna – Benji Nate (Silver Sprocket)
• Infinite Wheat Paste #7– Pidge (Pidge Comics)
• The Saga of Metalbeard– Joshua Paddon & Matthew Hoddy (Self-Published)
• Egg Cream– Liz Suburbia (Silver Sprocket & Czap Books)
• Check Please! – Ngozi Ukazu (First Second)

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Outstanding Online Comic

• Isle of Elsi– Alec Longstreth 
• That’s Not My Name! – Hannako Lambert
• What Doctors Know About CPR– Nathan Gray
• About Face– Nate Powell
• Full Court Crush– Hannah Blumenreich

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Promising New Talent

• Haleigh Buck
• Ebony Flowers
• Emma Jayne
• Mar Julia
• Kelsey Wroten

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Outstanding Story

• Sacred Heart Vol 2 Part 1: Livin’ in the Future– Liz Suburbia (from Egg Cream #1) (Czap Books)
• Sincerely, Harriet– Sarah Winifred Searle (Graphic Universe)
• Woman World– Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly)
• The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea– Vannak Anan Prum (Seven Stories Press)
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me– Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (First Second)