Your 2013 Doug Wright Award Winners

Veteran comics makers and the publishing house Conundrum Press dominated the 2013 Doug Wright Awards, held Saturday night in conjunction with the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Conundrum books won two of three awards works-driven awards. The show was hosted by the comedian and actor Scott Thompson, and featured the biggest crowd for that particular ceremony to date: a bit over 300, according to program estimates. An extended speech by David Collier and Thompson's faux exasperation at its length and weirdness was the program's entertainment highlight. Albert Chartier was inducted into The Giants Of The North hall of fame. Both the awards program and the hall of fame program focus on Canadian comics.

This year's winners, in bold:

BEST BOOK

* Lose #4 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
* By This Shall You Know Him by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press)
* The Song of Roland by Michel Rabagliati (Conundrum Press)
* Pope Hats #3 by Ethan Rilly (AdHouse Books)
* Wax Cross by Tin Can Forest (Koyama Press)

*****

DOUG WRIGHT SPOTLIGHT AWARD (AKA "THE NIPPER")

* Nina Bunjevac for Heartless (Conundrum Press)
* Brandon Graham for King City (Image Comics)
* Patrick Kyle for Black Mass, Distance Mover, Wowee Zonk #4
* George Walker for The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson -- The Porcupine's Quill
* Eric Kostiuk Williams for Hungry Bottom Comics

*****

PIGSKIN PETERS AWARD (EXPERIMENTAL/AVANT-GARDE COMICS)

* Hamilton Illustrated by David Collier (Wolsak & Wynn)
* Hellberta #2 and "Sir Softly" from s! #12, by Michael Comeau
* Michael DeForge, Larry Eisenstein, Jesse Jacobs, Mark Laliberte (editor), Marc Ngui, Ethan Rilly, Tin Can Forest and Magda Trzaski from 4PANEL, a special comics feature in Carousel Magazine #28, 29
* Ginette Lapalme for "So, what should we do with ourselves?..." from Wowee Zonk #4 and "Little Stump" in s! #12

This year's jury was Joe Ollmann, Pascal Girard, Jonathan Goldstein, Natalia Yanchak and Julie Delporte. It is the program's ninth year.

I was happy to see all four recipients win. It struck me as a group of under-appreciated yet well-liked and respected cartoonists.
 
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