Announcing the winners of the inaugural Expozine Alternative Press Awards!

The awards gala was held on March 22, 2006 at the Mainline Theatre, where Montreal's favourite air band Never Surrender wowed the full house to numerous encores, and master of ceremonies Jean Giscagne was class incarnate.

And now, the winners:

Best Zine, English:

four minutes to midnight

Best Zine, French:

C'est Selon, 14

Tuuut Fanzine, Natalie Gadoua/ Camille Dumas/ Roxanne Arsenault

Best Comic, English:

ojingogo, by Matthew Forsythe

Best Comic, French:

Hasemeister, Frédéric Mahieu

Best Book, English:

Something for Michael 003 (girl on girl) by Shannon Gerard

Best Book, French:

La petite, Anne Marbrun (L'Oie de Cravan Montréal)

 

For more information on the winners, click on their names or their publisher's names on the 2005 page.

About The Awards

After four years of promoting Montreal's small press community, Expozine decided to recognize the best it has to offer with the Expozine Alternative Press Awards. The nominees reflected the wide diversity of printed matter represented last November, when each of the more than 200 Expozine participants were asked to submit their best creation for consideration. An extensive shortlist was selected. Following are the English finalists:

BOOKS

Something for Michael 003 (girl on girl) by Shannon Gerard
The Hero Book by Scott Waters
Asthmatica by Jon Paul Fiorentino
The Official St Leonard Dictionary by John Trivisonno
Making Stuff and Doing Things by Kyle Bravo (Microcosm Publishing)
The YPF Yearbook (Young People's Foundation)
Garbage Head by Christopher Willard (Vehicule Press)

COMICS

ojingogo by Matthew Forsythe
horror perditii by Amanda Crawford
Untitled Service Industry Comic by T. Edward Bak
Revolver by Salgood Sam
Big Questions #7
Anders Nilsen (Drawn & Quarterly)

ZINES

four minutes to midnight
Carousel
Leg Moustache Advisor
Tarhonya by Stephen Guy
LASH by Shawn Kuruneru
G-Eunuch Digest (The Cowboy Issue)
Lifelike by Chris Binkowski

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