Trionfano le donne agli Ignatz Awards 2015, consegnati ieri sera all’annuale Small Press Expo. Le cartoonist nominate non hanno lasciato nemmeno un premio ai colleghi uomini e in alcuni casi hanno davvero fatto incetta del prezioso mattoncino, praticamente l’oscar del fumetto indie nord-americano. Sophia Foster-Dimino si è aggiudicata ben tre premi, mentre Sophie Goldstein, che già l’anno scorso aveva vinto un Ignatz per House of Women (come potete vedere da questa foto che avevo scattato in loco), ha portato a casa ben due riconoscimenti per il suo The Oven. Sophia e Sophie insomma, nemmeno a farlo apposta. Peccato che sia rimasto fuori ancora una volta Noah Van Sciver, che un premio l’avrebbe meritato. E il titolo di “oustanding anthology” sarebbe stato il giusto riconoscimento per il librone celebrativo della Drawn and Quarterly. Ma con i premi funziona così, si sa. Di seguito la lista completa, che può essere anche un’ottima occasione per recuperare materiale che avevamo tutti sottovalutato al momento dell’uscita.
Outstanding Artist
Emily Carroll, Through The Woods
Ed Luce, Wuvable Oaf
Roman Muradov, (In a Sense) Lost and Found
Jillian Tamaki, SuperMutant Magic Academy
Noah Van Sciver, Saint Cole
Outstanding Anthology or Collection
Drawn and Quarterly, 25 Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels, edited by Tom Devlin, Chris Oliveros, Peggy Burns, Tracy Hurren and Julia Pohl-Miranda
An Entity Observes All Things by Box Brown
How To Be Happy by Eleanor Davis
Pope Hats #4 by Ethan Rilly
SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki
Outstanding Graphic Novel
Beauty by Kerascoët and Hubert
The Oven by Sophie Goldstein
Rav by Mickey Zacchilli
Saint Cole by Noah Van Sciver
Wendy by Walter Scott
Outstanding Story
Doctors by Dash Shaw
Me As a Baby by Michael DeForge (from Lose #6)
Nature Lessons by Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger (from The Late Child and Other Animals)
Sex Coven by Jillian Tamaki (from Frontier #7)
Weeping Flower, Grows in Darkness by Kris Mukai
Promising New Talent
M. Dean, K.M. & R.P. & MCMLXXI (1971)
Sophia Foster-Dimino, Sphincter, Sex Fantasy
Dakota McFadzean, Don’t Get Eaten by Anything
Jane Mai, Soft
Gina Wynbrandt, Big Pussy
Outstanding Series
Dumb by Georgia Webber
Frontier edited by Ryan Sands
March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
Pope Hats by Ethan Rilly
Sex Fantasy by Sophia Foster-Dimino
Outstanding Comic
Borb by Jason Little
The Nature of Nature by Disa Wallander
The Oven by Sophie Goldstein
Pope Hats #4 by Ethan Rilly
Weeping Flower, Grows in Darkness by Kris Mukai
Outstanding Minicomic
Devil’s Slice of Life by Patrick Crotty
Epoxy #5 by John Pham
King Cat #75 by John Porcellino
Sex Fantasy #4 by Sophia Foster-Dimino
Whalen: A Reckoning by Audry
Outstanding Online Comic
The Bloody Footprint by Lilli Carré
Carriers by Lauren Weinstein
Mom Body by Rebecca Roher
O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti
Witchy by Ariel Ries
