Tag: self published comics
2022 Ignatz Awards nominations announced – with a change in voting
Along with the nominations a huge change in voting for the Ignatz Awards has been announced: voting will no longer take place at SPX but will be open to anyone who requests a ballot via email.
INDIE VIEW: ‘Silver Wire’ and ‘The American Dream’ search for meaning in history
Kriota Willberg and Shing Yin Khor examine the remnants of the past that sit silently in the present.
INDIE VIEW: Making new lives in ‘Walking Uphill’ and ‘Rose’
Rose: A Double Life
Written by Denis Lapière and Émilie Alibert
Illustrated by Valérie Vernay
Translated by Lara Vergnaud
Europe Comics
The first of a trilogy of books, Rose: A Double Life finds the titular character facing...
2017 Ignatz Nominations include a new category; three noms for Ferris
The 2017 Ignatz Award nominations have just been announced, and this years honorees are a solid mix of mainstream (March Book 3), indie (My Favorite Thing is Monsters) and micro-press/self-published (Carolyn Nowak, Sabin Cauldron). I draw no wider implications from the list except that comics 2017 artistically speaking are strong. Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters - kind of the To Kill a Mockingbird of comics at this point - lead with three noms including Outstanding Artist, GN and Story.
