
Os vencedores dos Ignatz Awards 2019.
Este fim de semana foram conhecidos os vencedores dos Prémios Ignatz, anunciados na SPX (Small Press Expo) 2019. Criados em 1997, distinguem a banda desenhada editada por autores/pequenas editoras ou a BD publicada pelas grandes editoras cujos direitos de autor permanecem com os seus criadores e não com aquelas.
Eis a lista dos vencedores (a negrito) e dos respetivos nomeados desta edição:
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
OUTSTANDING ONLINE COMIC
- Isle of Elsi– Alec Longstreth: https://www.isleofelsi.com/
- That’s Not My Name! – Hannako Lambert: https://twitter.com/thisishannako
- What Doctors Know About CPR– Nathan Gray: https://www.topic.com/what-doctors-know-about-cpr
- About Face– Nate Powell: https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/
- Full Court Crush– Hannah Blumenreich: https://www.hannahblumenreich.com/#/fullcourt-crush/
PROMISING NEW TALENT
- Haleigh Buck
- Ebony Flowers
- Emma Jayne
- Mar Julia
- Kelsey Wroten
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)
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A totalidade das obras vencedoras (e nomeadas), como é habitual em anos anteriores (com raras exceções), encontra-se inédita no nosso país.
Para eventuais comparações, eis a lista dos vencedores dos 7 anos anteriores:
MELHOR ARTISTA
2018 – Richie Pope – The Box We Sit On (edição de autor)
2017 – Emil Ferris – My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Fantagraphics)
2016 – Tillie Walden – The End of Summer (Avery Hill Publishing)
2015 – Emily Carroll – Through The Woods (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
2014 – Sam Bosma – Fantasy Basketball (edição de autor)
2013 – Michael DeForge – Lose #4 (Koyama Press)
2012 – Jaime Hernandez – Love and Rockets: New Stories (Fantagraphics Books)
MELHOR COMPILAÇÃO
2018 – Sex Fantasy – Sophia Foster-Dimino (Koyama Press)
2017 – Johnny Wander: Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us – Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota (Oni Press)
MELHOR ANTOLOGIA
2018 – Comics for Choice – editada por Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor e Ø.K. Fox (SPX)
2017 – ELEMENTS: Fire – An Anthology by Creators of Color – editada por Taneka Stotts (Beyond Press)
MELHOR ANTOLOGIA OU COMPILAÇÃO
2016 – Step Aside, Pops! – Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
2015 – How To Be Happy – Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics)
2014 – QU33R, editado por Robert Kirby (Northwest Press)
2013 – Very Casual – Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
2012 – Hark! A Vagrant – Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
MELHOR GRAPHIC NOVEL
2018 – Why Art? – Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics)
2017 – My Favorite Thing is Monsters – Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
2016 – Hot Dog Taste Test – Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn & Quarterly)
2015 – The Oven – Sophie Goldstein (AdHouse Books)
2014 – This One Summer – Jillian Tamaki e Mariko Tamaki (First Second)
2013 – Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life – Ulli Lust (Fantagraphics Books)
2012 – Big Questions – Anders Nilsen (Drawn & Quarterly)
MELHOR HISTÓRIA
2018 – How the Best Hunter in the Village Met Her Death – Molly Ostertag (edição de autor)
2017 – Diana’s Electric Tongue – Carolyn Nowak (edição de autor)
2016 – My Hot Date – Noah Van Sciver (Kilgore Books)
2015 – “Sex Coven” em Frontier #7, por Jillian Tamaki (Youth in Decline)
2014 – “Brownout Biscuit” em Octopus Pie: Dead Forever por Meredith Gran (edição de autor)
2013 – Gold Star – John Martz (Retrofit Comics)
2012 – “Return to Me,” em Love and Rockets: New Stories #4, por Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
NOVO TALENTO PROMISSOR
2018 – Iasmin Omar Ata, por Mis(h)adra (Gallery 13)
2017 – Bianca Xunise, por Say Her Name (edição de autor)
2016 – Tillie Walden, por I Love This Part (Avery Hill Publishing)
2015 – Sophia Foster-Dimino, por Sphincter; Sex Fantasy (edições de autor)
2014 – Cathy G. Johnson, por Jeremiah; Boy Genius; & Until It Runs Clear (edições de autor)
2013 – Sam Alden, por Hawaii 1997 & Haunter (edição de autor)
2012 – Lale Westvind, por Hot Dog Beach (edição de autor)
MELHOR SÉRIE
2018 – Frontier, por vários autores (Youth in Decline)
2017 – Chester 5000, por Jess Fink (edição de autor)
2016 – Powdered Milk, por Keiler Roberts (Createspace Independent Publishing Platform)
2015 – Sex Fantasy, por Sophia Foster-Dimino (edição de autor)
2014 – Demon, por Jason Shiga (edição de autor)
2013 – Lose, por Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
2012 – Love and Rockets: New Stories, pelos irmãos Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
MELHOR COMIC
2018 – How to Be Alive, por Tara Booth (Retrofit)
2017 – Your Black Friend, por Ben Passmore (Silver Sprocket)
2016 – Fantasy Sports No. 1, por Sam Bosma (Nobrow Press)
2015 – The Oven, por Sophie Goldstein (AdHouse Books)
2014 – Wicked Chicken Queen, por Sam Alden (Retrofit/Big Planet)
2013 – Pope Hats #3, por Ethan Rilly (AdHouse Books)
2012 – Pterodactyl Hunters, por Brendan Leach (Top Shelf)
MELHOR MINICOMIC
2018 – Say It With Noodles: On Learning to Speak the Language of Food, por Shing Yin Khor (Catapult)
2017 – Tender Hearted, por Hazel Newlevant (edição de autor)
2016 – Radishes, por Carolyn Nowak (edição de autor)
2015 – Sex Fantasy #4, por Sophia Foster-Dimino (edição de autor)
2014 – House of Women, por Sophie Goldstein (edição de autor)
2013 – The End of the Fucking World #16, por Charles Forsman (Fantagraphics)
2012 – The Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions, por Corinne Mucha (Retrofit Comics)
MELHOR BD ONLINE
2018 – Lara Croft Was My Family, por Carta Moni: https://medium.com/mammon-machine-zeal/lara-croft-was-my-family-ca4e2b8daf12
2017 – The Meek, por Der-Shing Helmer: http://www.meekcomic.com
2016 – Octopus Pie, por Meredith Gran: octopuspie.com
2015 – The Bloody Footprint, por Lilli Carre: nytimes.com
2014 – Vattu, por Evan Dahm: rice-boy.com/vattu
2013 – SuperMutant Magic Academy, por Jillian Tamaki: mutantmagic.com
2012 – SuperMutant Magic Academy, por Jillian Tamaki: mutantmagic.com

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