Your 2011 Doug Wright Awards Nominees



The Doug Wright Awards, established in 2004 to "recognize the best in English-language comics (or translations of French) by Canadians living at home and abroad," has announced its 2011 nominees slate. They are:



Best Book

* Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (Drawn and Quarterly)
* Chimo by David Collier (Conundrum Press)
* Lose #2 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
* Moving Pictures by Kathryn Immonen, Stuart Immonen (Top Shelf Productions)
* Streakers by Nick Maandag

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Best Emerging Talent

* Aaron Costain, Entropy #5
* Alex Fellows, Spain and Morocco
* Keith Jones, Catland Empire (Drawn and Quarterly)
* James Stokoe, Orc Stain Vol. 1 (Image)
* Tin Can Forest (aka Marek Colek and Pat Shewchuk), Baba Yaga and the Wolf (Koyama Press)

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Pigskin Peters Award
(Non-Traditional And Avant-Garde Comics)

* Indoor Voice by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn and Quarterly)
* Stooge Pile by Seth Scriver (Drawn and Quarterly)
* So I've Been Told by Maryanna Hardy (Conundrum Press)
* Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
* Wowee Zonk #3 edited by Patrick Kyle, Ginette Lapalme and Chris Kuzma (Koyama Press)

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The DWAs have also announced that they'll be naming the legendary alt-comics creator David Boswell to their "The Giants of the North" hall of fame. I couldn't be happier to hear that. Boswell also created the related one-off Heartbreak Comics, one of the greatest single-issue comics of all time.

The nominees were selected by a committee of Chester Brown, Seth, Jerry Ciccoritti, Bryan Munn and Sean Rogers.

The winners will be decided by a committee of Sara Quin, Michael Redhill, Anita Kunz, Marc Bell and Mark Medley.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony held Saturday night of TCAF 2011.

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