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Jamie Coville has, as always, recorded the best of the panels from TCAF, including a shocking number in which I participated. YOU can hear the audio of the panels here and the DWAs here. The DWAs are notable for the extraordinary remembrance that Seth offered or Dawwyn Cooke and also the induction of James Simpkins into the Giants […]

  I’m working on a longer account of TCAF for PW, but here’s some photos to capture the high while it’s fresh. While the weekend was tinged with sadness over the passing of Canadian native son Darwyn Cooke, the general mood was a celebration of the kind of creative spirit that Darwyn embodied. TCAF s always a chance to catch […]

“I’m not sure what Doug Wright would make of today’s comics,” said admin Brad McKay, as the awards got underway. But Wright would have been appreciative, we all feel.

Winners in Bold!
Best Book:

• Palookaville #21 by Seth (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Paul Joins the Scouts by Michel Rabagliati (Conundrum Press)
• Science Fiction by Joe Ollmann (Conundrum Press)
• Susceptible by Geneviève Castrée (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Very Casual by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)

Spotlight Award (a.k.a. “The Nipper”) which recognizes Canadian cartoonists deserving of wider recognition are:

• Connor Willumsen for “Calgary: Death Milks a Cow,” “Treasure Island,” “Mooncalf,” and “Passionfruit”
• Dakota McFadzean for Other Stories and the Horse You Rode in On (Conundrum Press)
• Patrick Kyle for Distance Mover #7 – 12, New Comics #1 – 2
• Steven Gilbert for The Journal of the Main Street Secret Lodge
• Georgia Webber for Dumb # 1 – 3

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

• “Calgary: Death Milks a Cow” by Connor Willumsen
• Flexible Tube with Stink Lines by Seth Scriver
• Journal by Julie Delporte (Koyama Press)
• “Out of Skin” by Emily Carroll
• Very Casual by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)

The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning are hosting another annual art auction to help raise funds. This year, the line-up of Canadian comic art is (mostly) inspired by DC Comics. Check out Chester Brown’s Batman. I want an entire book that looks like that.

The auction is now live and features pieces by Chester Brown, Jillian Tamaki, Joe Ollman, Michael Cho, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Kate Beaton, Marc Bell, Jeff Lemire, Lynn Johnston, Diana Tamblyn, and Drawn’s own Matt Forsythe and myself.

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A big congratulations to our own Matt Forsythe whose book Ojingogo was nominated this week for both a Doug Wright Award and a National Cartoonist Society award!