Terry A Map to the Sun – Sloane Leong Mr. H: Portrait of a High School Art Teacher – Nico Harriman Outstanding Story 1997 From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (Kitchen Sink Press) "A Death In the Family" by Joe Chiappetta, Silly Daddy (self-published) "Ghost World" Daniel Clowes, Eightball (Fantagraphics) "Hicksville" Dylan Horrocks, Pickle (Black Eye Productions) "It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken" by Seth, Palookaville (Drawn & Quarterly) 1998 "Ghost World" by Daniel Clowes, Eightball (Fantagraphics) "Jimmy Corrigan" by Chris Ware, Acme Novelty Library (Fantagraphics) "Letters from Venus" by Gilbert Hernandez, New Love (Fantagraphics) "New York City Diary" Julie Doucet, Dirty Plotte (Drawn & Quarterly) "Soba" Joe Sacco, Stories From Bosnia (Drawn & Quarterly) 1999 "David Boring" Daniel Clowes, Eightball #20 (Fantagraphics) "Sex & Violence: part 2" by David Lapham, Stray Bullets #18 (El Capitan Books) Cavewoman: Jungle Tales by Budd Root (Basement Comics) "Over the Line" by Scott Roberts, Patty-Cake and Friends #13 (Slave Labor) "Slow Jams" by David Choe, Non #3 & #4 (Red Ink) 2000 "Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Kid On Earth" by Chris Ware, The Acme Novelty Library (Fantagraphics Books) "The Bridge" by Jason, Mjau Mjau No. 6 (Jippi Forlag) Cave-In by Brian Ralph, (Highwater Books) From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, (Eddie Campbell Comics, distributed by Top Shelf Productions) Jug by Androo Robinson, (self-published) 2001 Ignatz Awards cancelled after 9-11 Attacks "Bygone" by Rutu Modan, Flipper Vol. 2 (Actus Tragicus/Top Shelf Productions) Herobear and the Kid No. 2 by Mike Kunkel (Astonish Comics) The Nimrod No. 5 by Lewis Trondheim (Fantagraphics Books) "Popeye the Savior Man" by Sean Bieri, Jumbo Jape (self-published) "Stocks Are Surging" by Tom Hart, The Collected Hutch Owen (Top Shelf Productions) 2002 Trenches by Scott Mills (Top Shelf Productions) "Retreat" by Megan Kelso, Artichoke Tales #1 (Highwater Books) "Royal Sable" by Mira Friedmann, Actus Box Series (Actus Tragicus) "Where Hats Go" by Kurt Wolfgang, Non #5 (Red Ink Press) "Wir Mussën Wissen, Wir Werden Wissen (We Must Know, We Will Know)" by Ron Regé, Jr., Drawn & Quarterly volume 4 (Drawn & Quarterly) 2003 Fleep by Jason Shiga (Sparkplug Comic Books) "30,000 Hours to Kill" by Gilbert Hernandez Love & Rockets #6 (Fantagraphics Books) Black Hole #10 by Charles Burns (Fantagraphics Books) "Hipman" by R. Crumb Mystic Funnies #3 (Fantagraphics Books) Untitled second story by Jason, Sshhhh! (Fantagraphics Books) 2004 "Glenn Ganges", Drawn & Quarterly