Ignatz Awards Announced!

The 2006 nominations for the Ignatz Awards have been announced, and it is quite a stellar list of noms. Congrats to everyone who was nominated, including the following D+Q cartoonists:

Outstanding Artist
* Anders Nilsen, Big Questions #7 and #8 (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Anthology or Collection
* Drawn and Quarterly Showcase #3 by Matt Broersma, Genevieve Elverum, and Sammy Harkham (Drawn & Quarterly)
* The Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Graphic Novel
* Wimbledon Green by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Story
* "Somersaulting" by Sammy Harkham, Drawn and Quarterly Showcase #3 (Drawn & Quarterly)
* We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Series
* Big Questions by Anders Nilsen (Drawn and Quarterly)
* Optic Nerve by Adrian Tomine (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Comic
* Big Questions #7 by Anders Nilsen (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Optic Nerve #10 by Adrian Tomine (Drawn and Quarterly)

Outstanding Debut Comic
* Curses by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Lucky by Gabrielle Bell (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Book One by Tove Jansson (Drawn & Quarterly)


The Ignatz Award ceremony takes place on Saturday, October 14th at SPX in Bethesda MD along with D+Q debuting new books by Kevin Huizenga, Anders Nilsen, Gabrielle Bell and our new Moomin series!