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Red Snow, Summit of the Gods Are Winless at Ignatz Awards
posted on by Heather Skinner
The 2010 Ignatz Award were presented at the Small Press Expo in Maryland this past weekend. Masterpiece Comics by R. Sikoryak (published by Drawn & Quarterly) won the Outstanding Anthology or Collection category over four other nominees, including Red Snow by the late author Susumu Katsumata. The Summit of the Gods Volume 1 by Baku Yumemakura and Jiro Taniguchi was nominated for Outstanding Graphic Novel but lost to Market Day by James Sturm (published by Drawn & Quarterly). It also lost to Ganges by Kevin Huizenga (published by Fantagraphics Books) for Outstanding Series.
Drawn & Quarterly publishes Red Snow in North America, and Fanfare / Ponent Mon publishes The Summit of the Gods.
Source: Publishers Weekly's The Beat blog