The Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology, established in 2017 as part of the Ignatz Awards, is an annual award for outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. The award for outstanding anthologies "recognizes a book or other collection of selected writings by various writers usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or on the same subject".
Recipients {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" width="100%" |+Award winners and finalists ! scope="col" |Year ! scope="col" |Editor(s) ! scope="col" |Title ! scope="col" |Result ! scope="col" | |- style="background:lightyellow" ! rowspan="5" |2017 | |Elements: Fire – An Anthology by Creators of Color |Winner
| and Tara Madison Avery |ALPHABET: The LGBTQAIU Creators from Prism Comics | rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" |
|Comic Book Slumber Party's Deep Space Canine
|POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology |- | and Santiago Garcia |Spanish Fever: Stories by the New Spanish Cartoonists |- style="background:lightyellow" ! rowspan="5" |2018 |, Whit Taylor, and Ø.K. Fox |Comics for Choice |Winner
|Bottoms Up, Tales of Hitting Rock Bottom | rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" | |- |, Paul K. Tunis, and Alexey Sokolin |Ink Brick #8 |- | and Pablo Castro
|Lovers Only |- style="background:lightyellow" ! rowspan="5" |2019 | and Jeanne Thornton |We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology |Winner
|, Mattie Lubchansky, and Eleri Harris |Death – The Nib Magazine | rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" |
|Electrum |- |, Mattie Lubchansky, and Eleri Harris |Family – The Nib Magazine
|Wayward Sisters |- style="background:lightyellow" ! rowspan="5" |2020 | |Be Gay, Do Comics |Winner
| and Cat Parra |Dates III | rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" | |- | and Joshua O'Neill |LAAB Magazine #4
|Sweaty Palms Volume 2
|- style="background:lightyellow" ! rowspan="5" |2021 | |Glaeolia 2 |Winner
| rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" | |- |Kadak Collective |Bystander |- |A.B.O. Comix |Confined Before Covid: A Pandemic Anthology by LGBTQ Prisoners
|First Wave: Comics from the Early Months of China's Outbreak |- style="background:lightyellow" ! rowspan="5" |2022 | and Benji Nate |Good Boy Magazine #1 |Winner
| and Sanita Muižniece |''Baltic Comics Magazine š! #42 'Scientific Facts| rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" |
|Isolated: A Pandemic Comics Anthology |- | and Joshua O'Neill |LAAB Magazine #2
|Smut Peddler Presents: Sordid Past |- style="background:lightyellow" ! rowspan="5" |2023 | and Ashanti Fortson |Shades of Fear |Winner
|Cram Comics Issue #1 | rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" |
|Glaeolia 3
|Home: A Comics Anthology on Belonging in Ireland Today
|NOW #12 |- style="background:lightyellow" ! rowspan="5" |2024 |, Jon Iñaki, Jonathan Rotsztain, Mitch Lohmeier, and Paterson Hodgson |Pulping |Winner
|Let Her Be Evil | rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" | |- | and William O. Tyler |We Belong: The All-Black, All-LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comics Anthology
|Wheels on the Bus
|Won't Back Down: An Anthology of Pro-Choice Comics |- style="background:lightyellow" ! rowspan="5" |2025 | |Rust Belt Review vol. 6 |Winner
| and Janaína de Luna (ed.) |Braba: A Brazilian Comics Anthology | rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" | |- | and Sean Edgar (ed.) |Come Find Me |- |Sunmi and Mar Julia (ed.) |Datura Magazine vol. 3
|Loud: Stories to Make Your Voice Heard |-style="background:lightyellow" ! rowspan="5" |2026 | (ed.) |LAAB: A Comics Anthology No. 3 |Winner
|, Oliver Mills, and Brett Thomas Gonzalez (ed.) | | rowspan="4" |Finalist | rowspan="4" | |- | (ed.) |Goof #2 |- |Samandal (ed.) |Revenge #2
|So Buttons #15
Writers with multiple nominations The following writers have received two or more nominations:Two'''
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References
External links Ignatz Awards Official Website