Sing it from the rooftops! The 2013 Doug Wright Awards are here!

Well, the nominees anyway. The ceremony is May 11.

2013 Doug Wright Award for Best Book are:

·         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)

2013 Doug Wright Spotlight Award (a.k.a. “The Nipper”) which recognizes Canadian cartooning talents worthy of wider recognition are

·         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

2013 Pigskin Peters Award, which recognizes the best in experimental or avant-garde comics

·         Hamilton Illustrated by David Collier (Wolsak & Wynn)

·         Hellberta #2 and "Sir Softly" from š! #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 features in Carousel Magazine #28, 29

·         Ginette Lapalme for "So, what should we do with ourselves?..." from Wowee Zonk #4 and  "Little Stump" in š! #12 

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And the late great Albert Chartier will be our inductee into the Giants of the North Hall of Fame. He's great, and really needs to experience a Doug Wright-styled renaissance. So why not now? Oh - and the jury is going to move to Montreal this year -- more on that later.


Here's the poster done by 2012 DWA Spotlight winner, Ethan Rilly.  More event info over at the DWA blog.