@xoanontorn.bsky.social2026 Ignatz Award winners are here! 🎉 These awards celebrate excellence in comics by small press and creator-owned projects. Since 1997, they've been part of the Small Press Expo. Check out the full list of winners! 👉 readthefreakingcomics.substack.com/p/2026-ignat... #IgnatzAwards #Comics #SPX2026
@comixace.bsky.socialAnd that’s a wrap! I did not catch the names of all the presenters or accepters and you have my humble and heartfelt apologies. Catch me later and I will call out anyone I missed.
@comixace.bsky.socialCarol Tyler gives a great moving speech I can’t even summarize. Just watch the video when it is available. “Follow Me, lead me, let’s make comics!”
@comixace.bsky.socialRachel Bivens presents Outstanding Cartoonist to Ephemerata by Carol Tyler Who is here!! She brought a plant from the lobby. She explains the cover was inspired by a Grant Wood painting. The book is about grief and it took her 10 years. Just as she finished it her husband died.
@comixace.bsky.socialTengu presents Outstandig Graphic over to Cannon by Lee Lai. Tracey Hutton from D&Q is up to present.
@comixace.bsky.socialOutstanding Comic goes to Zoo #5 by Anand Shenoy. His publisher accepts.
@comixace.bsky.socialThe next category is outstanding Online Comic also presented by Sanika Phawde! She gets herself together winner is
Blind Alleyby Adam de Souza
Caroline Cash accepts. “I wish I was there with you all drinking and staying up too late around the campfire of comics.”
@comixace.bsky.socialOutstanding Series presented by Peter Bagge goes to
Wedding Juice #2 by Sanika Phawde!
@comixace.bsky.socialOutstanding Anthology goes to LAAB #3 by Ron Wimberly. Publisher Josh o’Neill accepts. “We have been nominated for every issue but never won so this is a real honor.”
@comixace.bsky.socialOutstanding Collection presented by Jared Cullum. And the winner is All the Cametas in my Room by Michael DeForge. Tom
Devlin accepts and reads the thank you speech.
@comixace.bsky.socialOutstanding Minicomic goos to
Uncoiling: A Japanese-American Family History by Yoko O.K. (Self-Published)
@comixace.bsky.socialFrancesca Lyn is as awards admin and the token extrovert on the staff reminding people not to drop th bricks! First award is Outstanding story presented by Rob Clough. The winner is Jesse Lonnergan for DROME. Jonathan Bayliss accepts.
@comixace.bsky.socialAlso a drawing of Lisa Hanawalt’s personal demons before saying that the power of friendship as seen at SPX helps everyone get past their personal demons. And fuck AI. Wild applause.
@comixace.bsky.socialHanawalt shows of a “drawing of a crude sex act” before declaring “Fuck AI!” And the rooms goes nuts esp with a sequence showing Sam
Altman being being cast into a flaming chasm!
@comixace.bsky.socialPizza Island came to SPX. More of that mustard yellow from 2011!! #spx #Ignatzawards
@comixace.bsky.socialAnd now the keynote delivered by Lisa Hanawalt! She shows off Porky the Litter Pig a local tourist attraction. #spx #Ignatzawards
@comixace.bsky.socialSPX is grandfathered in here at the Marriott. It is their 20th year here. And that keeps the rates low - hotel rates will go up $20 in 2029. And table costs will stay the same. Bernard thanks the hotel staff who are immensely kind and helpful at all times.
@comixace.bsky.socialBernard uses this time to talk about ongoing SPX projects as well, including a library outreach program and a new initiative to do educational programming throughout the year.
@comixace.bsky.socialShowrunner Warren Bernard is out to kick things off! He points out that she show is run by 120 volunteers. He gives shouts to the whole team that puts on the show. Honestly, they do a great job!
@comixace.bsky.socialIt is coming! The 2026 Ignatz Awards are moments away and I’ll be live tweeting all the pageantry and drama!
