Your 2012 Doug Wright Awards Winners

The Doug Wright Awards spotlighting the best in Canadian cartooning named their annual winners on May 5 in a ceremony held in close proximity to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Kate Beaton, Ethan Rilly and Michael Comeau had works honored in Best Book, Spotlight Award and the Avant Garde categories.

This year also marked the induction of Terry Mosher -- who works under the pen name "Aislin" -- into that group's Hall Of Fame.

The winners in bold, as listed with fellow finalists.

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"/FOR TALENT DESERVING WIDER RECOGNITION)
* 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 (FOR AVANT GARDE WORK)
* 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 nominees were chosen by a committee of Jerry Ciccoritti, Jeet Heer, Bryan Munn, Chris Randle and Sean Rogers; the winners were by a jury of Shary Boyle, John Martz, George Walker and Julie Traves.
 
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