THE FOURTH ANNUAL EXPOZINE ALTERNATIVE PRESS AWARDS!

Each exhibitor was asked to submit one publication, and the winners were chosen by an esteemed panel of judges out of the hundreds of publications submitted at Expozine 2008. The prizes were awarded at the Expozine Alternative Press Awards Gala on March 3 at Casa del Popolo in Montreal.

The winners of the 2008 Expozine Alternative Press Awards:

English zine:

Lickety Split #7, www.licketysplitzine.com

Taking the genre to a new level. Guilt free and fun smut for everyone!

English comic:

Welcome to the Dahl House, by Ken Dahl, Microcosm Publishing, www.microcosmpublishing.com

This comic is a great throwback to a kind of lost style of cartooning--adept, scratchy, MAD magazine (Mort Drucker or Jack Davis) drawing servicing hilarious, anti-establishment satire.

Special mention in the category:

Kieffer #2 by Jason Kieffer, jasonkieffer.com

English book:

Words the Dog Knows, by J.R. Carpenter, Conundrum Press, www.conundrumpress.com

With fluid, unpretentious prose scattered with humour, Carpenter imparts wisdom about daily life—sometimes between the lines—in this picaresque and gentle novel.

Fanzine francophone :

Fanzine # 3, Toxico, par Delf Berg, delfberg.blogspot.com

Tout simple et lo-tech, mais une voix originale et un talent d'auteur évident.

Bande dessinée francophone :

La Terreur Noir Pâle, Chantal Reney, www.myspace.com/terreurnoirpale

Belle présentation, original et drôle, jeux de mots réussis, constance du style visuel d'un bout à l'autre, digne d'intérêt et d'encouragement.

Livre francophone :

28 petites fables typographiques, Édition établie par Mario Rendace, Éditions du Colporteur

Pour l'imagination triomphante que ces petites lettres font naître dans le regard de celui qui s'y attarde. Un livre sans prétentions, charmeur, où l'humour s'établit à même la correspondance entre la chose imprimée et l'image poétique.

The Gala's sponsors are:

Drawn and Quarterly, www.drawnandquarterly.com

Libraire Le Port de Tête, 262 Mont-Royal E., (514) 678-9566

The nominees :

English Zine:

Four Minutes To Midnight no. 10, www.lokidesign.net/2356
Nailbiter: An Anxiety Zine, www.steemilie.free23.net
Soulgazers 2, Camilla Wynne, Michelle Sterling, Simon Reader, Jeff Miller, Spencer Krug, Anna Leventhal
Lickety Split no. 7, www.licketysplitzine.com
Mostly True vol.19 issue 7, Bill Daniel, Microcosm Publishing, www.billdaniel.net, www.microcosmpublishing.com
Place Magazine, Winter 08 issue, www.placemag.org

English Book:

Words the Dog Knows, J.R. Carpenter, Conundrum Press, www.conundrumpress.com
The Debaucher, Jason Camlot, Insomniac Press www.insomniacpress.com
The Sunlight Chronicles, Chris Dyer, Divine Life LLC, www.sunlight-chronicles.com
Fear Of Fighting, Stacey May Fowles & Marlena Zuber, Invisible Publishing, www.invisiblepublishing.com
Blert, Jordan Scott, Coach House Books, www.chbooks.com
Jack, Mike Spry, Snare Books, snarebooks.wordpress.com

English Comic:

Mourning a lover, Sofeel, myspace.com/sofeel
Welcome to the Dahl House by Ken Dahl, Microcosm Publishing, www.microcosmpublishing.com
BFF by Nate Beaty, Microcosm Publishing, natebeaty.com, www.microcosmpublishing.com
Hypocrite, Dakota McFadzean, dakota.mcfadzean.googlepages.com
Finding Joy, Luke Ramsey, Anteism Publishing, islandsfold.com
Kieffer #2, Jason Kieffer, jasonkieffer.com

Nominés francophones fanzines :

Trio à emporter, par Kathey Tibo
Gargouillis indigeste #003, www.gargouillis.com
Ffsshmrwlbaouarf par Simon Bossé/ Mille Putois, www.myspace.com/milleputois
Ectropion, collectif de crémation littéraire, www.myspace.com/ectropion
Fanzine sans titre, Geneviève Dumas
Toxico (Fanzine # 3), par Delf Berg, delfberg.blogspot.com

Nominés francophones BD :

Hasemeister : C'était 2007, Frédéric Mahieu, www.hasemeister.com
La terreur noir pâle, C. Reney
Fatima, A. Desmarteaux, Egotrip Productions, www.arthuro.ca
Une aventure de M. Pixel, Étienne Beck, L'Employé du Moi, www.employe-du-moi.org
Chimeris 1: Sirus, Adeline Lamarre, Vaar Éditeur, www.vaar.ca
Humoro Sapiens, Yayo, Les 400 Coups, www.editions400coups.ca

Nominés francophones livres :

Stéphane Ranger, Plusieurs excuses, Ta mère, tamere.org
Isabelle Ayotte, Les solitudes de la première saison, www.isabelleayotte.blogspot.com
Karmen Mantha, Tout est interrelié, Éditions du Pigeon, www.editionsdupigeon.com
Mario Rendace, 28 petites fables typographiques, Éditions du Colporteur
Marie-Andrée Gilbert, Le vélo couleur peau, Éditions Les Raboussiers, lesraboussiers.blogspot.com
Maxime DeBleu, Une autre seconde, Éditions U-tréma, www.utrema.ca

THE JUDGES, 2008

Tom Devlin (comics) has read every comic ever printed and likes them all. He is to blame for a lot of the things that are wrong with the comics industry today. Employed for the foreseeable future, fingers crossed, at Drawn & Quarterly.

Simon Dardick (books) is, along with Nancy Marrelli, publisher and general editor of Véhicule Press, one of Montreal's most-read presses operating since 1973.

Tyson Bodnarchuk (zines) is an artist and co-proprietor of Headquarters Galerie & Boutique, 1649 Amherst, ushering in new local artistic talent of all kinds since June 1st 2006.

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