Friday, August 17, 2007
Tonite: The 2007 Wright Awards with Chester, Joe and Seth
:: Posted by Bryan @ 8/17/2007 06:00:00 AM 
The 2007 Wright Awards take place in Toronto today -- Friday, August 17 -- at Innis College Town Hall (2 Sussex, @ St. George), 6:30pm-8:30pm. $5.00. Tickets available at the door.
Special Guests: Chester Brown and Seth reunited with their old pal Joe Matt for the first time in years, live on stage!
Also: Underground Comics great Rand Holmes will be inducted into The Giants of the North, the Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame. Holmes' son Ron will be on hand for the ceremony.
The nominees are:
Best Book
Shenzen: 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…)
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Following the awards, please join us at Bar Mercurio for the Wright Awards Afterparty.
270 Bloor Street West
(North West corner of Bloor and St. George)Labels: awards, events, Ontario, Toronto
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