No Canadians won any Ignatz Awards at the ceremony this past weekend in Baltimore, however Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly did publish two of the award-winning books:

2010 Ignatz Award Recipients

• Outstanding Artist
  Eddie Campbell, Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus) (Top Shelf Productions)
• Outstanding Anthology or Collection
  Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Outstanding Graphic Novel
  Market Day, James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Outstanding Story
  Monsters, Ken Dahl (Secret Acres)
• Promising New Talent
  Matt Wiegle, “The Orphan Baiter”, Papercutter #13 (Tugboat Press)
• Outstanding Series
  Ganges, Kevin Huizenga (Fantagraphics Books)
• Outstanding Comic
  I Want You, Lisa Hanawalt (Buenaventura Press)
• Outstanding Mini-Comic
  Rambo 3.5, Jim Rugg
• Outstanding Online Comic
  Troop 142, Mike Dawson

The Ignatz Awards, named for the character in the classic comic strip Krazy Kat by George Herriman, is the festival prize of the annual SMALL PRESS EXPO (SPX) that recognizes outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. The ballot is created by a panel of five cartoonists and is then voted on by the attendees at the event. This offers a unique reflection of the views the professionals and their fans. The award winners are announced at an awards gala.

The only Canadian creator nominated was Montreal’s Sully whose book, the Hipless Boy (published by Montreal based publisher Conundrum Press) got him nominations in the Artist, Anthology or Collection, Outstanding Story and Promising New Talent categories.