Doug Wright Awards Names Its 2012 Finalists; Announces Terry “Aislin” Mosher To Hall Of Fame



The Doug Wright Awards have announced their finalists for the 2012 iteration of their annual awards ceremony. Terry "Aislin" Mosher will be inducted into the Hall Of Fame. The program also named the finalists for its three more customary, yearly awards: Best Book, Doug Wright Spotlight Award (for talent deserving wider recognition) and the Pigskin Peters Award (for avant garde/experimental comics). They are:

Best Book
* Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton (Drawn and Quarterly)
* Lose #3 by Michael Deforge (Koyama Press)
* Mid-Life by Joe Ollmann (Drawn and Quarterly)
* Paying for It by Chester Brown (Drawn and Quarterly)
* Reunion by Pascal Girard (Drawn and Quarterly)
* The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists by Seth (Drawn and Quarterly)

Doug Wright Spotlight Award ("The Nipper")
* Emily Carroll for "The Seven Windows" (from The Anthology Project vol. 2), "Margot's Room" and "The Prince & the Sea" (and other comics at emcarroll.com/comic).
* Patrick Kyle for Black Mass #5-6
* Betty Liang for Wet T-Shirt #1, "It's Only a Secret if You Don't Tell Anyone" (in š! #9), "Anna Freud's Recurring Dream" (and other comics at bettyliang.tumblr.com)
* Ethan Rilly for Pope Hats #2 (AdHouse Books)
* Zach Worton for The Klondike (Drawn and Quarterly)

Pigskin Peters Award
* Hermoddities by Temple Bates (Conundrum Press)
* Pure Pajamas by Marc Bell (Drawn and Quarterly)
* Hellberta by Michael Comeau (Koyama Press)
* Various comics including those at connorwillumsen.com by Connor Willumsen

The awards are scheduled for May 5 at Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario as part of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Mosher will also be a guest of the festival, and will participate in an on-stage discussion of his life and career during the awards ceremony with writer Rick Salutin.

The nominees were chosen by a committee of Jerry Ciccoritti, Jeet Heer, Bryan Munn, Chris Randle and Sean Rogers; the winners will be selected by a jury of Shary Boyle, John Martz, George Walker and Julie Traves.
 
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