Cover artist Seth and web-comic creator Kate Beaton are among the finalists for the 2010 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian comics that were announced Friday.
Named in honour of the late Canadian cartoonist, Doug Wright, the annual awards recognize graphic novels, comics, mini-comics and experimental comics by Canadians that were published in English in the previous calendar year.
The awards are made in three categories: best book, best emerging talent and the Pigskin Peters Award for unconventional comics.
Finalists for the best book award:
- Marta Chudolinska for Back + Forth, the second in a series of graphic novels that examines the meaning of belonging and assimilating into a different culture. The Porcupine's Quill.
- Seth for George Sprott: (1894-1975), a story about a charming old man. Drawn and Quarterly.
- Marc Bell for comic-art monograth Hot Potatoe. Drawn and Quarterly.
- Diane Obomsawin for Kaspar, the legendary story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who mysteriously appeared on the streets of Nuremberg in 1828 and was stabbed to death five years later. Drawn and Quarterly.
- Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas for Red: A Haida Manga, an epic tale of a Haida orphan's quest for retribution. Douglas and McIntyre.
Finalists for best emerging talent:
- Adam Bourret for I'm Crazy, a graphic novel about secrets, obsessions and gay romance.
- Michael DeForge for comic art Lose #1 (Koyama Press) and comic art Cold Heat Special #7 (Picturebox).
- Pascal Girard for Nicolas, a series of short, autobiographical vignettes that take place after the childhood death of the author's brother. Drawn and Quarterly.
- John Martz for It's Snowing Outside. We Should Go For a Walk, a short, autobiographical story.
- Sully for The Hipless Boy, a collection of interlinked stories by Toronto poet, painter and illustrator Sherwin Tija. Conundrum Press.
Finalists for the Pigskin Peters Award:
- Simon Bossé for Bébête, a graphic novel. L'Oie de Cravan.
- Amy Lockhart for graphic novel Dirty Dishes; Drawn and Quarterly.
- Marc Bell for Hot Potatoe; Drawn and Quarterly.
- Kate Beaton for Never Learn Anything from History, a collection of the Canadian web-comic artist's cartoons featuring historical figures.
- Doug Wright for The Collected Doug Wright, Volume One, the first of a two-volume set that explores the life and works of one of the best-loved Canadian cartoonists of the 1960s, with an introduction by Canadian cartoonist Lynn Johnston. Drawn and Quarterly.
The 2010 Doug Wright Awards will be presented at the Toronto Reference Library on May 8, as part of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
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