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1999 Ignatz Award Nominees and Winners

Outstanding Artist

  • Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows #1, Insight Studios Group) *
  • Eric Shanower (Age of Bronze, Image Comics)
  • Dylan Horrocks (Hicksville, Blackeye)
  • Dave Choe (Slow Jams, Non #3 & 4, Red Ink)
  • Pat McEown (Kissin' Cousin, Heart Throb #4)

Promising New Talent

  • Leland Myrick (Sweet, Adept Books)
  • Madison Clell (Cuckoo, Green Door Studios)
  • Jason Little (Jack's Luck Runs Out, Top Shelf Productions)
  • Dave Kiersh (Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Kissing an Ashtray, Non #4, Red Ink)
  • Brian Ralph (Fireball #7, Fort Thunder) *

Outstanding Story

  • Sex & Violence: part 2 (David Lapham, Stray Bullets #18, El Capitan Books)
  • Cavewoman: Jungle Tales (Budd Root, Basement Comics)
  • David Boring (Dan Clowes, Eightball #20,Fantagraphics) *
  • Over the Line (Scott Roberts, Patty-Cake and Friends #13,Slave Labor)
  • Slow Jams (David Choe, Non #3 & #4, Red Ink)

Outstanding Series

  • Age of Bronze (Eric Shanower, Image Comics)
  • Clan Apis (Jay Hosler, Active Synapse Comics)
  • Strangehaven (Gary Spencer Millidge, Abiogenesis)
  • Gen 13: Magical Drama Queen Roxy (Adam Warren, Wildstorm)
  • The Extended Dream of Mr. D (Max, Drawn & Quarterly) *

Outstanding Comic

  • Liberty Meadows #1 (Frank Cho, Insight Studio Group) *
  • American Splendor: Transatlantic Comics (Pekar, Sacco, Stack & Warneford)
  • Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight (James Sturm, Drawn & Quarterly)
  • The Jew of New York (Ben Katchor, Pantheon Books)
  • Oracle (Joe Zabel & Gary Dumm, Amazing Montage)

Outstanding Minicomic

  • Tales of the Great Unspoken (Aaron Augenblick)
  • Ped Xing (Androo Robinson)
  • Bolol Belittle (Mat Brinkman)
  • Fireball #7 (Brian Ralph) *
  • Noe-Fie #8 (Kurt Wolfgang)

Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection

  • Cages (Dave McKean, Kitchen Sink) *
  • Hey Mister: Celebrity Roast (Pete Sickman-Garner, Top Shelf Productions)
  • Hicksville (Dylan Horrocks, Black Eye)
  • Time Warp (Ed Hillyer, Slab-O-Concrete)
  • Tiny Bubbles (James Kochalka, Highwater Books)

1999 Jury Members:
Frank Cho
Jordan Crane
Jon Lewis
Carla Speed McNeil
Jim Ottaviani