Friday, August 08, 2008  
Wright Awards Winners

:: Posted by Bryan @ 8/08/2008 09:10:00 PM
CO: Brad Mackay via facebook.

The envelopes are opened, the drinks are drank, and the 2008 Doug Wright Awards are over for another year. For those of you who couldn't make in person (I'm talking to you CoCo!) here are the winners:

The 2008 DWA winner for Best Book is:
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam by Ann Marie Fleming
(Riverhead Books)

The 2008 DWA winner for Best Emerging Talent is:
Essex County Vol. 1 Tales From The Farm & Vol. 2 Ghost Stories by Jeff Lemire
(Top Shelf)

The winner of the inaugural Pigskin Peters Award* is:
Milk Teeth by Julie Morstad
(Drawn and Quarterly)

The trophies were handed out at the Toronto Reference Library, the historic main branch of the Toronto Public Library, in a 90-minute ceremony that featured Lynn Johnston.

Johnston, the ceremony's guest of honour, was on hand to discuss her 32-year career and to be inducted in The Giants of the North, the Canadian Cartoonists' Hall of Fame. The medal was presented to her by Seth.

(* The Pigskin Peters Annual Award for Nominally Narrative Cartooning – or PPAANNC - is intended to recognize progressive works by Canadian cartoonists that are more experimental in nature and/or lack a traditional narrative structure. It is named after a character in the classic Canadian comic strip Birdseye Center, by Jimmy Frise.)

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