Tuesday, July 03, 2007
2007 Doug Wright Awards Nominees
:: Posted by Bryan @ 7/03/2007 01:36:00 AM 
What promises to be the Toronto comics party of the year:
NOMINEES FOR THE 2007 DOUG WRIGHT AWARDS
The organizers of The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning are pleased to announce their 2007 nominees for Best Book and Best Emerging Talent. This year, the 10 nominees for Canada's premiere cartooning award feature an eclectic mix of personal memoir and travelogue to short fiction and experimental graphic fiction --all from the pens of Canada's finest cartooning talents.
The nominees are:
Best Book
Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China, Guy Delisle (Drawn and Quarterly)
This Will All End in Tears, Joe Ollman (Insomniac Press)
Scott Pilgrim and The Infinite Sadness, Bryan Lee O'Malley (ONI Press)
Gilded Lilies, Jillian Tamaki (Conundrum Press)
Nog-a-dod, Marc Bell ed. (Conundrum Press)
Best Emerging Talent
Gray Horses, Hope Larson (ONI Press)
House of Sugar, Rebecca Kraatz (Tulip Tree Press)
Was She Pretty?, Leanne Shapton (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
Bacter-area, Keith Jones (Drawn and Quarterly)
Mendacity, Tamara Faith Berger & Sophie Cossette (Kiss Machine Presents...)
The nominees for the 3rd annual Doug Wright Awards were selected by a committee that include cartoonists Chester Brown and Seth, director Jerry Ciccoritti and comic historian Jeet Heer.
The winners will de decided by a five-member jury that includes; director Bruce McDonald, professor and writer Mark Kingwell, journalist and writer Judy MacDonald, 2006 Wright Award winning cartoonist Lorenz Peter and former National Post journalist Jessica Johnson.
The winners will be announced August 17, 2007 at the opening night of the Toronto Comic Arts FestivalLabels: awards, events, graphic novels, Ontario, Toronto
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