Ignatz, Kukoc & Day

The professionals might have their Eisners and their Harveys but those of us who skirt on the fringes of comics publishing now have three prizes to call our own:

• The Ignatz Award has an "Outstanding Minicomic" category (ceremony held at SPX in Bethesda, MD)
• The Day Prize (ceremony held at S.P.A.C.E. in Columbus, OH)
• The Kukoc Award (ceremony held at Guapo Comics and Books coinciding with the Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, OR)

Thanks to Tom Spurgeon's The Comics Reporter for his post about the Kukoc. I adore John Porcellino's work. (The prize is named after John's late cat, a prominent character in his groundbreaking King-Cat mini-comics.)