The Third Annual Expozine Alternative Press Awards!
Six prizes were awarded (three in English and three in French), recognizing the best book, comic and zine sold at Expozine. The winners were chosen by an esteemed panel of judges out of the hundreds of publications submitted at Expozine in November.
The prizes are sponsored by the Mainline Theatre, Librairie Drawn and Quarterly (211 Bernard O.) and libraire le Port de Tête (262 Mont-Royal O.).
THE NOMINEES
Best English Comic
Oola Dug by Malcom Sutherland
Good Neighbors (Entropy #4) by Aaron Costain
Pope Hats by Ethan Rilly
Machine Gum #1 by John Martz
Paper Wall by Dakota McFadzean
Special mention: Not comics
Sonority of Words by Katie Bond Pretti, Standard Form; Blind Date Anthology
Best English Zine
Ms Guided 2: Motion Sickness, Eliane Ellbogen & Maya Rolbin-Ghanie, co-editors
TITLE OF THE ZINE, Nadia Moss
The Bedrooms of the Nation by Michelle Sterling
The Future Generation, Issue #15: A Zine for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends & Others, Editor: China Martens
Bipedal, By Pedal! Experiences & Thoughts Around the Critical Mass Bicycle Movement! Joel Biel (Microcosm Publishing)
Best English Book
Fake Math by Ryan Fitzpatrick, Snare Press
Sitcom by David McGimpsey, Coach House Books
Occupational Sickness by Nichita Stanescu, translated by Oana Avasilichioaei, Buschek Books
Pipe Fiends, compiled by Barry Walsh and Marc Tison, MudScout
Extraction! edited by Frédéric Dubois, Marc Tessier and David Widgington, Cumulus Press
THE WINNERS
COMIC
Oola Dug by Malcom Sutherland
Nicely drawn and put together, smartly drawn and conceived.
BOOK
Extraction! edited by Frédéric Dubois, Marc Tessier and David Widgington, Cumulus Press
A superb small press work, in terms of design, in terms of concept, in terms of content (both artistic and journalistic), and in terms of a truly collective effort carried out with minimal funding and time constraints.
ZINE
The Bedrooms of the Nation by Michelle Sterling
The best erotic contribution to Canadiana non-fiction since Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers.
THE JUDGES
COMICS
Jamie Salomon is a long-time comics aficionado who previously published local comics under the Copacetic Comics and Crunchy Comics imprints. He is currently the controller for Drawn and Quarterly.
BOOKS
Vincent Tinguely is a Montreal writer and performance poet.
ZINES
Onya Hogan-Finlay is an artist and organizer based in Montreal. She is the co-founder of the projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project and a member of the Third Leg collective.
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