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| Ignatz Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers |
| Location | Bethesda, Maryland |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Ignatz Award Committee |
| Hosted by | Small Press Expo |
| First awarded | 1997 |
| Website | www.smallpressexpo.com/ignatz-awards |
The Ignatz Awards recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. They have been awarded each year at the Small Press Expo since 1997,[1] only skipping a year in 2001 due to the show's cancellation after the September 11 attacks.[2] As of 2014[update] SPX has been held in either Bethesda, North Bethesda, or Silver Spring, Maryland.
The Ignatz Awards are named in honour of George Herriman and his strip Krazy Kat, which featured a brick-throwing mouse named Ignatz.[3]
- ^ "Small Press Expo Initiates First Festival Prize for Comic Books: Ignatz Award". Comics Buyer's Guide. September 12, 1997. p. 8.
- ^ "2001 Ignatz Award Nominees". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Hahn Library.
The Small Press Expo was scheduled for Sept. 14-15, 2001 in Bethesda, Maryland, but was cancelled due to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The Ignatz is a festival prize determined by a ballot of attendees and exhibitors of the Expo, and, as such, the results of the voting are unique to the environment found at the Expo. The Expo steering committee decided that to hold the Ignatzes without a way to ensure similar results would not be fair to the recipients nor in keeping with the spirit of the award. Therefore, the awards were cancelled for the year.
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