Durante la Small Press Expo, manifestazione che dal 1994 promuove il fumetto alternativo, sono stati assegnati gli Ignatz Awards 2018, così intitolati in omaggio al topo della famosa striscia Krazy Kat di George Herriman. I premi sono il più importante riconoscimento dedicato al fumetto indipendente americano.
Di seguito, in grassetto, i vincitori delle rispettive categorie.
Miglior Autore
Yvan Alagbé – Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures
Ivy Atoms – Pinky & Pepper Forever
Tommi Parrish – The Lie and How We Told It
Richie Pope – The Box We Sit On
Sophie Standing – Anxiety is Really Strange
Miglior Raccolta
Beirut Won’t Cry – Mazen Kerbaj
Blackbird Days – Manuele Fior
Language Barrier – Hannah K. Lee
Sex Fantasy – Sophia Foster-Dimino
Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition – Julia Kaye
Miglior Antologia
La Raza Anthology: Unidos y Fuertes – curata da Kat Fajardo e Pablo Castro
Comics for Choice – curata da Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor e Ø.K. Fox
Ink Brick #8 – curata da Alexander Rothman, Paul K. Tunis e Alexey Sokolin
BOTTOMS UP! Tales of Hitting Rock Bottom – curata da J.T. Yost
Lovers Only – curata da Mickey Zacchilli
Miglior Graphic Novel
Why Art? – Eleanor Davis
Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for Their Freedom – Marcelo D’Salete
Uncomfortably Happily – Yeon-sik Hong
The Lie and How We Told It – Tommi Parrish
Anti-Gone – Connor Willumsen
Miglior Serie
Ley Lines – Czap Books
Nori – Rumi Hara
Bug Boys – Laura Knetzger
Gumballs – Erin Nations
Frontier – Youth in Decline
Miglior Minicomic
Dog Nurse – Margot Ferrick
Greenhouse – Debbie Fong
Common Blessings & Common Curses – Maritsa Patrinos
Say It With Noodles: On Learning to Speak the Language of Food – Shing Yin Khor
Miglior Fumetto
Recollection – Alyssa Berg
How to Be Alive – Tara Booth
Hot Summer Nights – Freddy Carrasco
Whatsa Paintoonist? – Jerry Moriarty
Baopu – Yao Xiao
Miglior Webcomic
Woman World – Aminder Dhaliwal
The Wolves Outside – Jesse England
A Fire Story – Brian Fies
Lara Croft Was My Family – Carta Monir
A Part of Me is Still Unknown – Meg O’Shea
Miglior Autore Emergente
Yasmin Omar Ata – Mis(h)adra
Tara Booth – How to Be Alive
Xia Gordon – The Fashion of 2004
Rumi Hara – Nori and the Rabbits of the Moon
Tommi Parrish – The Lie and How We Told It
Miglior Storia
Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures – Yvan Alagbé
Why Art? – Eleanor Davis
Rhode Island Me – Michael DeForge
How the Best Hunter in the Village Met Her Death – Molly Ostertag
The Lie and How We Told It – Tommi Parrish