Here’s the full list of Ignatz Nominess — massive congrats to ‘friends of the shop’ John Porcellino, Lilli Carre, and Martin Cendrada! Awards are being given out 9pm (EST) on 9/11.

Outstanding Artist
Eddie Campbell, Alec: The Years Have Pants (A Life-Sized Omnibus) (Top Shelf Productions)
Al Columbia, Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days (Fantagraphics Books)
Mike Dawson, Troop 142 (self-published & http://troop142.mikedawsoncomics.com)
John Pham, Sublife #2 (Fantagraphics Books)
Sully, The Hipless Boy (Conundrum Press)
Outstanding Anthology or Collection
The Hipless Boy, Sully (Conundrum Press)
Lemon Styles, David King (Sparkplug Comic Books)
Masterpiece Comics, R. Sikoryak (Drawn & Quarterly)
Red Snow, Susumu Katsumata (Drawn & Quarterly)
Ten Thousand Things to Do, Jesse Reklaw (self-published)
Outstanding Graphic Novel
The Complete Jack Survives, Jerry Moriarty (Buentaventura Press)
Market Day, James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly)
Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days, Al Columbia (Fantagraphics Books)
Summit of the Gods Vol. 1, Yumemakura Baku and Jiro Taniguchi (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
Years of the Elephant, Willy Linthout (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
Outstanding Story
“John Wesley Harding”, The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book, Joe Daly (Fantagraphics Books)
Market Day, James Sturm (Drawn & Quarterly)
Monsters, Ken Dahl (Secret Acres)
“Turd Place”, The Hipless Boy, Sully (Conundrum Press)
“Untitled”, Mome Vol. 16, Laura Park (Fantagraphics Books)
Promising New Talent
Rina Ayuyang, Whirlwind Wonderland, (Sparkplug Comic Books & Tugboat Press)
Rami Efal, Never Forget, Never Forgive (Studio Namu)
Blaise Larmee, Young Lions (self-published)
Sully, The Hipless Boy (Conundrum Press)
Matt Wiegle, “The Orphan Baiter”, Papercutter #13 (Tugboat Press)
Outstanding Series
Ganges, Kevin Huizenga (Fantagraphics Books)
King-Cat Comics & Stories, John Porcellino (self-published)
Sublife, John Pham (Fantagraphics Books)
Summit of the Gods, Yumemakura Baku and Jiro Taniguchi (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
Troop 142, Mike Dawson (self-published)
Outstanding Comic
Blammo #6, Noah Van Sciver (Kilgore Books)
Eschew #2, Robert Sergel (Sparkplug Comic Books)
Flesh and Bone, Julia Gfrörer (Sparkplug Comic Books)
I Want You, Lisa Hanawalt (Buenaventura Press)
Sublife #2, John Pham (Fantagraphics Books)
Outstanding Mini-Comic
Don’t Drink from the Sea, Lille Carre
Rambo 3.5, Jim Rugg
Stories by…Vol. 1, Martin Cendreda
Troop 142, Mike Dawson
Water Column #3, Josh Frankel
Outstanding Online Comic
Callahan Online, John Callahan (www.callahanonline.com/calarc.html)
I Think You’re Sauceome, Sarah Becan (www.sauceome.com)
The Lesttrygonians, Stephen Gilpin (www.sgilpin.com/2010_site/Weekly_Comic_Strip/Weekly_Comic_Strip.html)
Reliable Comics, David King (www.reliablecomics.com)
Troop 142, Mike Dawson (troop142.mikedawsoncomics.com)

We couldn’t be happier to announce that Noah Van Sciver’s Blammo #6 – published by Kilgore Books & Comics – has been nominated for a 2010 Ignatz Award. Woo-hoo!

So, if you’re going to SPX in MD on 9/11-12, please cast a vote for dear old Noah.

For those keeping track at home, this makes our record of ‘impressively nominated comics’ a whopping 100%. Beat THAT Drawn and Quarterly!

If you don’t know, the Ignatz Awards are a pretty big deal in the indie comic scene. Noah’s been nominated in the ‘Outstanding Comic’ category – past winners have included Jordan Crane (2009), Adrian Tomine (2007), Ivan Brunetti (2006), Kevin Huizenga (2005), Dan Clowes (1997, 2002, 2004), and Chris Ware (1998, 2000).

Further nominees include Seth, Gabrielle Bell, Charles Burns, Pekar, Sacco, and the list just goes on and on. As Noah says, ‘It’s an honor just to be nominated’, but here at Kigore, we don’t believe in honor. Oh wait, that’s not quite right.

We’re pulling out all the stops to help Noah get a win – so if you’re going to SPX, let us know!

Virtually, that is.

Yep, if you’re looking for the new issue of Blammo by Noah Van Sciver, you can check out our virtual store, or simply click the buy it now button below:

Coming up here in a couple weeks, Kilgore Books & Comics will be celebrating it’s two-year anniversary, and we could be happier to be throwing ‘kil GOREFEST II’, a celebration of our store’s long journey down Luke and Dan’s mental birth canal.

We’re going to be hosting the celebration on June 12, from 1 until about 7. We’re working to line up some bands, and we’ll have some food and champagne and such for folks, but mostly we’re excited to host a cartoonist extravaganza  – the centerpiece of which is Kilgore’s release of Noah Van Sciver’s Blammo #6.

Yep, that’s right, we’re getting into publishing! Woo hoo! It’s his biggest (32-pages) work yet, and quite potentially his best — and at $3.95, a real bargain. Noah will be hanging out, as will our dear friends John Porcellino & John Bueno.

So come on by, say howdy, have some booze and pick up the new Blammo!

Yeah, so it turns out Luke and Noah are FANTASTIC at running the shop when Dan’s out of town, but less good at updating the website. Sooooooo, we’re still here, we’re alive, we’re going as strong as ever, we’ve got great books coming in every day, we’ve got plenty of tee-shirts to show off your beautiful winter body, and as always, loads of great comics. So come on in, and say hi.

In the ‘real news’ category, we’re gearing up for kilGOREFEST ’10, the SECOND anniversary of Kilgore Books and Comics. We are actually working to FLY IN a WELL KNOWN independent cartoonist to join the cabal of Denver great, though details are still being worked out, so we’re not sayin’ who it is.

We’re also working to provide kilGOREFESTEES with the best possible free live music Denver has to offer (again, still working out the details) and we certainly will have free champagne on hand, assuming you’re over 21.

The fest will be a one-day only event, will be free, will be super fun, and you should come down, just as soon as we figure out whether it’s happening May 29 or June 5. Keep both days open though, just in case.

In other news, Dan gets back into Denver this weekend, and will be working his first shifts back during the week, so pop in, say hello, and take advantage of his kindness before he gets all surly again.

Man, Dan goes out of town for a bit and look what happens! Luke went and built a nice new display shelf for our graphic novels:

We’ve really been working to ramp up our comics and graphic novels. There is so much great stuff out there, and we’re pleased to present the finest in new independent comics.

Meanwhile, Dan’s been doing tons of work getting new mini-comics into the shop, so come on by — we’re adding new titles every week.

We’re particularly excited about this new shelf though because we’ve also gotten posted up at the Drawn and quarterly website as being a ‘D/Q dearler’ in the great state of Colorado. Of course, we’re more than a little happy that the fine folks at D&Q put us up above Tattered Cover. Check it out yo:

And seriously, come on by!

That’s right, kiddos, our very own publication KBC #1 is out now in two formats, the extra special lettered/color edition for $4 or the normal joe-sixpack version for $3. Either way, they’re going fast, so get one while they’re hot.

First ish features sketchbook goodies from Jeffrey Brown & Noah Van Sciver, along with a Joe Matt interview, ‘rejected from McSweeney’s’ and a bunch of filler!

Well you’re just wrong. Here’s the thing. We love you, but we’ve been busy. It’s not you, it’s us. I know I know, sometimes it can seem like we’re not that….present. But we swear to Christ, it’s not that the magic’s gone.

Sure, after a year and a half we may not be as EXCITED to unlock the doors as we once were. Oh, who’re we kidding, running KBC rules!

But seriously, it’s been a wild bit here. Huge holiday shopping rush (and thank you thank you thank you to everyone who bought stuff for their loved ones here!) is over, and we’re getting back to the business of business.

I’ll just say, man do we have a load of great comics right now. We did a big order with Last Gasp, another with Top Shelf, and we’ve got a big one going with D/Q soon, so come on buy.

We’ve got everything by Jeffrey Brown, including his new ‘Sulk 3′, we’ve got loads of James Kochalka stuff, and a bunch of great up and comers. We’ve got new zines in from Denver folks, and we’re pretty proud to present KBC #1, our own attempt at a quarterly comic/zine ($4 for the cool color/lettered version, $3 for b/w).

So really, come on down, we’ve also gotten in more philosophy than we know what to do with. No joke, Luke has started taking it home to read it! We’ve still got plenty of Vonnegut, just got a nice leather-bound copy of Christopher Moore’s ‘Lamb’, and a bunch of Chuck P. stuff.

As God as our witness, we'll never be out of 'Blankets' again!

And we've re-organized the comics, so you can FIND what you're looking for!

I’m sitting here at Kilgore at 10:21. Just unlocked the door, turned on the open sign, and am waiting for Luke to get here so we can make some hot cocoa and peppermint Schnapps. Yep, it’s winter!

On the warmer side, we have just a TON of amazing books in right now. We did a massive buy of wonderful philosophy — Rorty, etc., poli-sci (Chomsky et. al.), fiction (loads of Vonnegut, Palahniuk, etc. etc.) and lest we forget, COMICS. We have Crumb’s Genesis — already into its second printing, we got one copy of Kramer’s Ergot #7, and restocked on excellent indie graphic novels. So if you want toms Seth, Tomine, Bagge, Kochalka, Sacco, Spiegelman, and Crumb, then come on down.

We’re ecstatic that after weeks on the road, John is bringing the slideshow event to Kilgore Books & Comics to celebrate the release of his new collection on Drawn & Quarterly, ‘Map of My Heart’.

He’ll be selling copies at the event, along with recent issues of King Cat and other fun fun stuff. Check out the flyer — and feel free to print some off and hang them around town!

This will really be a great event, and it’s free. It runs 5-8pm on Saturday November 14th.