Best Book:

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton (Drawn and Quarterly)

Doug Wright Spotlight Award (a.k.a. “The Nipper”) which recognizes talent deserving of wider recognition, are:

Pigskin Peters Award, which recognizes the best in avant-garde or experimental comics:

Hellberta by Michael Comeau (Koyama Press)

The 2012 winners were decided by a jury that included: visual artist Shary Boyle, cartoonist John Martz (A Doug Wright Award Best Emerging Talent nominee in 2010 and Pigskin Peters Award nominee in 2008), book artist and professor George Walker and Julie Traves, deputy arts editor for The Globe and Mail.