The 11th annual Ignatz Awards, which honor outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, were presented Saturday night during the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Md.

The winners are:

Outstanding Artist
Jaime Hernandez, Love & Rockets (Fantagraphics Books)

Outstanding Anthology or Collection
Curses, by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Graphic Novel
Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow, by Anders Nilsen (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Story
“Felix,” by Gabrielle Bell, Drawn & Quarterly Showcase Vol. 4 (Drawn & Quarterly)

Promising New Talent
Tom Neely, The Blot (I Will Destroy You)

Outstanding Series
Mourning Star, by Kazimir Strzepek (Bodega Distribution)

Outstanding Comic
Optic Nerve #11, by Adrian Tomine (Drawn & Quarterly)

Outstanding Mini-Comic
P.S. Comics #3, by Minty Lewis

Outstanding Online Comic
Achewood, by Chris Onstad

Outstanding Debut Award
Papercutter #6, edited by Alec Longstreth (Tugboat Press)

The full list of nominees can be found here.

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