Woohoo! Mendacity (by Tamara Faith Berger and Sophie Cossette) is a finalist for a 2007 Doug Wright Award in the category of Best Emerging Talent.

So sayeth the judges: "This year, the 10 nominees for Canada’s premiere cartooning award feature an eclectic mix of personal memoir and travelogue to short fiction and experimental graphic fiction—all from the pens of Canada’s finest cartooning talents."

The full list of nominees include:

Best Book
Shenzen: A Travelogue From China, Guy Delisle (Drawn and Quarterly)
This Will All End in Tears, Joe Ollman (Insomniac Press)
Scott Pilgrim and The Infinite Sadness, Bryan Lee O’Malley (ONI Press)
Gilded Lilies, Jillian Tamaki (Conundrum Press)
Nog-a-dod, Marc Bell ed. (Conundrum Press)

Best Emerging Talent
Gray Horses, Hope Larson (ONI Press)
House of Sugar, Rebecca Kraatz (Tulip Tree Press)
Was She Pretty?, Leanne Shapton (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)
Bacter-area, Keith Jones (Drawn and Quarterly)
**Mendacity, Tamara Faith Berger & Sophie Cossette (Kiss Machine Presents…)**

The winners will be announced August 17, 2007 at the opening night of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

The Doug Wright Awards were founded in May 2005 as a means of casting light on the wide range of cartoonists and comic artists working across Canada. The country's premiere comic awards, The Wrights are named after Doug Wright (1917 1983) a cartoonist whose strip Doug Wright's Family (or Nipper) ran for more than 30 years across Canada.