The Doug Wright Awards were held on Saturday evening, as part of the 2011 Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

The DWAs were established in 2004 to “recognize the best in English-language comics (or translations of French) by Canadians living at home and abroad.”

The nominees in each category are listed below, with the winners highlighted in bold.

BEST BOOK

• Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Chimo by David Collier (Conundrum Press)
• Lose #2 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
• Moving Pictures by Kathryn Immonen, Stuart Immonen (Top Shelf Productions)
• Streakers by Nick Maandag

BEST EMERGING TALENT

• Aaron Costain, Entropy #5
• Alex Fellows, Spain and Morocco
• Keith Jones, Catland Empire (Drawn and Quarterly)
• James Stokoe, Orc Stain Vol. 1 (Image)
• Tin Can Forest (aka Marek Colek and Pat Shewchuk), Baba Yaga and the Wolf (Koyama Press)

THE PIGSKIN PETERS AWARD (GIVEN TO NON-TRADITIONAL AND AVANT-GARDE COMICS)

• Indoor Voice by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Stooge Pile by Seth Scriver (Drawn and Quarterly)
• So I’ve Been Told by Maryanna Hardy (Conundrum Press)
• Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
• Wowee Zonk #3 edited by Patrick Kyle, Ginette Lapalme and Chris Kuzma (Koyama Press)

The winners were selected by a committee of Sara Quin, Michael Redhill, Anita Kunz, Marc Bell and Mark Medley. They worked from the above nominee list, which were selected by a a committee of Chester Brown, Seth, Jerry Ciccoritti, Bryan Munn and Sean Rogers.

Source: The Comics Reporter

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