Hervé St-Louis: DWAs Discriminate



Comic Book Bin's Hervé St-Louis launches into the Doug Wright Awards, claiming that as an English-language only awards they should not get to claim status as a Canadian award.

I don't know enough about French-language culture vs. English-language culture battles in Canada to say much here. As an outsider, some of the distinctions being made strike me as silly, and the comparison between the Wrights asking folks to submit work only when published in English and the Eisners or Harveys asking people to bleach their skin or undergo gender-altering surgery before submitting is so magnificently idiotic -- one is a change to a work, one is a change to a person; the equivalent would be Marjane Satrapi forced to draw a penis on her character in Persepolis, not add one to her body -- that I considered not linking to the piece at all. I just hope that was emotion taking over because if that's the level of reasonable discourse this issue engenders I'm heading for the door and I don't care if it's marked "Exit" or "Sortie."

Still, I think there's a point to be made here, enough that I'd love to hear the other side of it. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Here's the DWA rules page. It also looks like at least one member of the Hall of Fame made work in French, but I'm not certain.
 
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