2007 Nominees
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
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…)
The nominees for the 3rd
annual Doug Wright Awards were selected by a committee that included cartoonists
Chester Brown and Seth, director Jerry Ciccoritti and comic historian Jeet
Heer.
The 2007 Wright Awards will
be presented at the Toronto
Comics Art Festival, August 17.
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more about Doug Wright and the Wright Awards...
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the Wright Awards:
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