IGNATZ SUBMISSIONS WILL BE OPEN FROM APRIL 1 TO MAY 31
PLEASE READ THE CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS BEFORE FILLING OUT THE SUBMISSION FORM BELOW
Your work can only be submitted for 1 of these Required Categories:
Outstanding Minicomic– This category includes both one-shots and series. Minicomics are defined as comics that are not “professionally” published. Minicomics are usually printed at the local copy store or via a risograph, hand stapled, and predominantly self-distributed and are not solicited through major distributors.
Outstanding Comic – A comic nominated in this category should represent the best marriage of both art and story in a single issue of a comic that are professionally published in the floppy comic format familiar to superhero comics and such larger publications as Love and Rockets..
Outstanding Online Comic – This category is for web based comics. A nominee in this category can be an individual comic, continuing storyline comic or strips. For a work to be eligible in this category it must be published on the web prior to appearing in print format. Nominated sites must also adhere to the same publishing timeline as the categories for print material.
- Works posted on web pages outside the timeline are not eligible. Nominated sites can utilize animation but should still be recognizable as a comic (“If you read it, it’s a comic. If you watch it, it’s animation.” is the best guide for how much animation is too much).
Outstanding Graphic Novel – This is for one continuous story by a single artist or artist-write combination of at least 64 pages that has not been previously published as a series.
Outstanding Anthology – This award recognizes a book or other collection of selected writings by multiple artists or multiple artist/writer combinations.
Outstanding Collection – This award recognizes a book of either:
A) Selected shorter comics from various prior publications or online by the same artist or artist/writer combination or
B) A serialized story or part of a story that was previously released in separate parts, either as individual comics or parts of prior anthologies by the same artist or artist/writer combination.
Your work can be submitted for any, or none of these Optional Categories:
Outstanding Artist – Nominations for this category reflects the best execution of graphic skill by an individual within the comic medium.
Outstanding Series – A nomination in this category should be for a continuing titled series that the Juror feels exhibits a consistent level of quality as a whole. A good individual story does not necessarily translate into a nomination for the entire series. A series can consist of anthologies (Dirty Diamonds) or series one-shots (Frontier).
Outstanding Story – This category is for outstanding storytelling in a comic. This may be an individual issue within a series, a one shot or a single story within an anthology.
Promising New Talent – A person nominated in this category should be someone new to the industry. New to the industry includes: .
- Creators with up to 4 years of school training plus 1 year after leaving college.
- Creators who have created/sold comics for only the past two years AND never previously submitted their works to the Ignatz Awards .
Past nominees for the Ignatz Award cannot be nominated for Promising New Talent.