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USA:

SPX 2015 Ignatz Award
(Das SPX steht für Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland. Dieses Comicfestival widmet sich unabhängigen Kleinverlagen, Selbstverlagen und bringt jährlich über 4.000 Aussteller zusammen. Am 19. September werden die Preise verliehen, die neben den Eisners und Harveys zu denjenigen mit dem höchsten Renommée in den USA zählen.)

Outstanding Artist:

• Emily Carroll: Through the Woods (Margaret K McElderry Books / Faber and Faber)
• Ed Luce: Wuvable Oaf (Fantagraphics)
• Roman Muradov: (In a Sense) Lost and Found (Nobrow)
• Jillian Tamaki: SuperMutant Magic Academy (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Noah Van Sciver: Saint Cole (Fantagraphics)

Outstanding Anthology or Collection:

• Tom Devlin, Chris Oliveros, Peggy Burns, Tracy Hurren, and Julia Pohl-Miranda (Ed.): Drawn and Quarterly, 25 Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Box Brown: An Entity Observes All Things (Retrofit Comics / Big Planet Comics)
• Eleanor Davis: How to Be Happy (Fantagraphics)
• Ethan Rilly: Pope Hats #4 (AdHouse Books)
• Jillian Tamaki: SuperMutant Magic Academy (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Graphic Novel:

• Kerascoët and Hubert: Beauty (NBM Publishing)
• Sophie Goldstein: The Oven (AdHouse Books)
• Mickey Zacchilli: Rav 1st Collection (Youth in Decline)
• Noah Van Sciver: Saint Cole (Fantagraphics)
• Walter Scott: Wendy (Koyama Press)

Outstanding Story:

• Dash Shaw: The Doctors (Fantagraphics)
• Michael DeForge: “Me As a Baby”; in: Lose #6 (Koyama Press)
• Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger: “Nature Lessons”, in: The Late Child and Other Animals (Fantagraphics)
• Jillian Tamaki: “Sex Coven”, in: Frontier #7 (Youth in Decline)
• Kris Mukai: Weeping Flower, Grows in Darkness (Dark Matters)

Promising New Talent:

• M. Dean: K.M. & R.P. & MCMLXXI (1971) (Gumroad [pdf] und Storenvy)
• Sophia Foster-Dimino: Sphincter; Sex Fantasy (RIPExpo)
• Dakota McFadzean: Don’t Get Eaten by Anything: A Collection of The Dailies 2011 ~ 2013 (Conundrum Press)
• Jane Mai: Soft (Retrofit Comics)
• Gina Wynbrandt: Big Pussy (2D Cloud)

Outstanding Series:

• Georgia Webber: Dumb (Selbstverlag)
• Ryan Sands (Ed.): Frontier (Youth in Decline)
• John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell: March Book Two (Top Shelf Productions)
• Ethan Rilly: Pope Hats (AdHouse Books)
• Sophia Foster-Dimino: Sex Fantasy (RIPExpo)

Outstanding Comic:

• Jason Little: Borb (Uncivilized Books)
• Disa Wallander: Nature of Nature. The Earth is Square Like You (Retrofit Comics / PEOW! Press)
• Sophie Goldstein: The Oven (AdHouse Books)
• Ethan Rilly: Pope Hats #4 (AdHouse Books)
• Kris Mukai: Weeping Flower, Grows in Darkness (Dark Matters)

Outstanding Minicomic:

• Patrick Crotty: Devil’s Slice of Life (Retrofit Comics / PEOW! Press)
• John Pham: Epoxy #5 (Epoxy Press / Selbstverlag)
• John Porcellino: King-Cat #75 (King-Cat / Selbstverlag)
• Sophia Foster-Dimino: Sex Fantasy #4 (RIPExpo)
• Audry: Whalen: A Reckoning (Selbstverlag)

Outstanding Online Comic:

• Lilli Carre: The Bloody Footprint
• Lauren Weinstein: Carriers
• Rebecca Roher: Mom Body
• Blue Delliquanti: O Human Star
• Ariel Ries: Witchy