Your 2008 Doug Wright Nominees



The nominees for the fourth annual Doug Wright Awards have been announced. They are:

Best Book
365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet (Drawn and Quarterly)
Spent by Joe Matt (Drawn and Quarterly)
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam by Ann Marie Fleming (Riverhead Books)
Southern Cross by Laurence Hyde (Drawn and Quarterly)

Best Emerging Talent
Essex County Vol. 1 Tales From The Farm & Vol. 2 Ghost Stories by Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf)
Pope Hats by Ethan Rilly (self-published)
Kieffer #1 by Jason Kieffer (self-published)
The Experiment by Nick Maandag (self-published)

"Pigskin Peters" Award
Milk Teeth by Julie Morstad (Drawn and Quarterly)
Little Lessons in Safety by Emily Holton (Conundrum Press)
Excelsior 1968 by John Martz (self-published)
Fire Away by Chris von Szombathy (Drawn and Quarterly)

The Pigskin Peters award is "dedicated to works that fall outside the bounds of traditional storytelling" and is named for a character in the strip Birdseye Center. This trumps my initial guess that it was named to make me hate it. That's Mr. Peters, above, as drawn by Seth.

The nominating committee was Chester Brown, Seth, Jerry Ciccoritti, Jeet Heer and Bryan Munn. The selection committee is Katrina Onstad, Helena Reckitt, Mariko Tamaki and Ho Che Anderson. The awards will be given out in August.
 
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