Ignatz Awards

His work includes Fall Through, Come Again, Save It For Later, Swallow Me Whole, civil rights icon John Lewis' March trilogy and its follow-up, Run, a comics adaptation of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, and more.

His work has received multiple Eisner and Ignatz Awards, ALA and YALSA distinctions, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and he's also a two-time finalist for the LA Times Book Prize.

He fell into the hardcore punk community in 1991, playing hundreds of shows in underground legends Sufi Nun Squad and other bands, and managed DIY label Harlan Records from 1994 to 2010.

And now, the Virtual Memories conversation with Nate Powell.

And so you very, in a, in a very real sense, you can literally see what the new generation of 20-somethings are making and are focused on, interested in.

Uh, it's also the most, I think, little D democratic, uh, of the indie comics celebrations and festivals.

Like, the Ignatz Awards no longer does its voting on the floor-

Yeah

For listeners that don't know, SPX is Small Press Expo, and it is...

It's where the Ignatz Awards is.

It's where-

Mm

So, um, if you come here, I definitely have to get you some Nando's.

Um, but yeah, Saturday was a very busy day for me because I did my normal walk at the con and walk through just to see where everyone was, saying hi to people and, and other people who just friends or people I'd interviewed in the past and you know chat with some other cartoonists um I did six interviews that day all the way to the end uh when the show ended at 7 p.m um but yeah it was a long day but really fun um got some dinner with some good friends Monica Gallagher who's like my con pal for life I love her and um a really good friend of hers who I know as well as friend Tim Fish the three of us had this lovely dinner and um came back to the A hotel, and a lot of people were just going to hang at the bar, out on the patio, and the Ignatz Awards, which are the indie awards they give out here, every year were happening, so a lot of people were attending the award show, and of course when that cleared out, they all came out to the patio and the bar, and everyone was just hanging out.

you know, having a drink or two, and so it was just sort of fun to, again, again, these shows were hanging out with friends, got to see, you know, of course, Monica, and then Daniel Corsetto, and Jamie Noguchi, and others, we all know each other, and the three of them were really great friends, so it was a great catch-up, um, yeah, Sunday started with the, the, uh, nice little breakfast with Monica and Danielle at the hotel, and Rachel and Jamie joined us later, and here's a cute little, little story, um, So again, Rachel is just adorable and lovely and so talented and awesome and such a good pal.

um so when we're talking and she's chatting away with danielle and this and that and then um daniel had to run and rachel was finishing up or like her coffees before heading into the show because she was a guest so she didn't have to be there to have a table she's had signing times and like a panel later um and they seem to get along very swimmingly which is which was great and so after daniel left rachel confessed to me that she was such a big fan of daniel's already if you don't know daniel corsetta's work he should she's famous for girls with slingshots and I'm going to do an elephant town, all sorts of stuff.