{"id":1872,"date":"2008-08-11T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T20:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/08\/11\/doug-wright-awards-winners\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:23:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:23:26","slug":"doug-wright-awards-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1872","title":{"rendered":"Doug Wright Awards Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dwa-doug_wright_logo_colour.jpg\" id=\"image1868\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dwa-doug_wright_logo_colour.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This past Friday evening the 2008 Doug Wright Awards (for books published in 2007) were handed out in a lovely evening event in Toronto. Unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t make it out myself, but by all accounts it was a well-attended and well-liked evening with a fun after party. Congratulations to the winners:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dwa-lts-slide01-cover.jpg\" id=\"image1869\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dwa-lts-slide01-cover.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2008 Doug Wright Award for Best Book: The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, by Ann Marie Flemming.<br \/>\nPublished by Riverhead Books. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/static\/html\/riverhead\/index.html\">http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/static\/html\/riverhead\/index.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dwa-lemire.jpg\" id=\"image1870\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dwa-lemire.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2008 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent: Jeff Lemire, for <em>Tales From the Farm <\/em>and <em>Ghost Stories<\/em>.<br \/>\nPublished by Top Shelf. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.topshelfcomix.com\/\">http:\/\/www.topshelfcomix.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dwa-milkteeth.jpg\" id=\"image1871\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dwa-milkteeth.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2008 Pigskin Peters Award for Nominally Narrative Cartooning: <em>Milk Teeth<\/em>, by Julie Morstad<br \/>\nPublished by Drawn and Quarterly. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/drawnandquarterly.com\/\">http:\/\/drawnandquarterly.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition, Canadian cartoonist Lynn Johnston, best known for newspaper strip series <em>For Better or For Worse<\/em> was inducted into <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wrightawards.ca\/pages\/giantsofthenorth.html\">The Giants of The North<\/a><\/strong>, The Canadian Cartoonists&#8217; Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Doug Wright and the awards, visit <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wrightawards.ca\/\">http:\/\/www.wrightawards.ca\/<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Friday evening the 2008 Doug Wright Awards (for books published in 2007) were handed out in a lovely evening event in Toronto. Unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t make it out myself, but by all accounts it was a well-attended and well-liked evening with a fun after party. Congratulations to the winners: 2008 Doug Wright Award &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doug Wright Awards Winners&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}