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Doug Wright Award

Annual award for Canadian cartoonists From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Doug Wright Award
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The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning (established in December 2004),[1] handed out annually since 2005 during the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, are literary awards given to Canadian cartoonists. Honouring excellence in comics (including webcomics) and graphic novels published in English (including translated works),[2] the awards are named in honour of Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright.[3] Winners are selected by a jury of Canadians who have made significant contributions to national culture, based on shortlisted selections provided by a nominating committee of five experts in the comics field.[4]

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The Wright Awards are handed out in four categories:

  • The Doug Wright Award for Best Book
  • The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for Emerging Talent
    (formerly known as "The Spotlight Award")
  • The Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for Best Small- or Micro-press Book
    (first awarded in 2008; it was formerly awarded for "experimental, non-traditional or avant-garde comics," though these books are still considered "especially welcome in this category"[5]);[6]
  • The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for Best Kids’ Book
    (first awarded in 2020; for young readers ages 0-12)[7]

In addition to the awards, since 2005 the organizers annually induct at least one cartoonist into the Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartoonist Hall Fame.[8]

The Wright Awards are modeled after traditional book prizes, with the intention of drawing attention to the comics medium from a broad range of demographics inside and outside of its traditional fanbase. The Wrights have garnered acclaim as well as earning the support of a diverse range of participating artists and jurors including Scott Thompson, Don McKellar, Bruce McDonald, Jerry Ciccoritti, Bob Rae, Andrew Coyne, Sara Quin, Greg Morrison, Chester Brown, Lorenz Peter, and Nora Young.[9]

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Awards

The Best Book and The Nipper (Spotlight) awards are large wood-and-glass trophies which are engraved with images from Wright's comic strip (the one difference being the images that are etched on the glass). The award were designed by the cartoonist Seth, who admitted to some embarrassment at being the inaugural winner of the trophy he designed.[10] The Pigskin Peters Award, named in honour of a character from Jimmy Frise's Birdseye Center, is a custom, tailored derby hat with its own unique plaque that doubles as a hat post. It was also designed by Seth.

Each recipient of a Doug Wright Award also receives a custom-bound copy of their winning work.

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Nominees & Winners

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2024

Source:[11][12]

The Doug Wright Award for best book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

  • WINNER - Vincy Lim for When I was a kid I was taught how to die. Now that I'm an adult I'm learning how to live. (I love you.) and When She Set Fire to My Friends’ Houses (Self-published)
  • James Collier forThe Lonesome Shepherd (Wig Shop)
  • Syd Madia for Syd Madia's Dracula (Self-published)
  • Christopher Twin for Bad Medicine (Emanata/Conundrum)
  • Kyle Vingoe-Cram for Kettle Harbour (Conundrum Press)

The Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book

  • WINNER - Old Caves by Tyler Landry (Uncivilized)
  • Endsickness No. 2 by Sofia Alarcon (Self-published)
  • The Lonesome Shepherd by James Collier (Wig Shop)
  • Power 9: Part One by John Little and David Little (Self-published)
  • Index by Sven, Rachel Evangeline Chiong, and Joyce Kim (Self-published)

The Egghead Award

  • WINNER - Otis & Peanut by Naseem Hrab and Kelly Collier (Owlkids Books)
  • ThunderBoom by Jack Briglio and Claudia Dávila (Kids Can Press)
  • Pluto Rocket: New in Town by Paul Gilligan (Tundra Books)
  • Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks (First Second)
  • Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin (Emanata/Conundrum)

2023

Source:[13]

The Doug Wright Award for best book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • WINNER - Where Have You Been? by Ivana Filipovich (trans: Ivana Filipovich/Andrea Hankinson) (Self-Published)
  • The Life I Want by Patrick Allaby (Self-Published)
  • Assorted Baggage by Matthew Daley (Black Eye Books)
  • Butterfly House by Troy Little and Brenda Hickey (Pegamoose Press)
  • Thousand Oaks: Machine Mail (Part 3) by Blaise Moritz (Urban Farm Print and Sound)

The Egghead Award

  • WINNER - You Know, Sex by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth (Triangle Square)

2022

Source:[14]

The Doug Wright Award for best book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

  • WINNER - Sami Alwani for The Pleasure of the Text. (Conundrum Press)
  • Sofia Alarcon for Endsickness No. 1 (Self-published)
  • Brigitte Archambault for The Shiatsung Project (Conundrum Press)
  • Alexander Laird for Sleemor Gank: Burg Land No. 1 (Self-published)
  • Kyle Simmers and Ryan Danny Owen for Pass Me By: Gone Fishin’ and Pass Me By: Electric Vice (Renegade Arts Entertainment)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • WINNER - Dwellings No. 2 by Jay Stephens (Black Eye Books)
  • Endsickness No. 1 by Sofia Alarcon (Self-published)
  • Fruit/Soil by Kim Edgar (Moniker Press)
  • The Northern Gaze by Akeeshoo Chislett, Chris Caldwell, Cole Pauls, Andrew Sharp, Juliann Fraser, Esther Bordet, Alison McCreesh, Keith Verbonac, Princess J; edited by Kim Edgar (Hecate Press)
  • Sleemor Gank: Burg Land No. 1 by Alexander Laird (Self-published)

The Egghead Award

  • WINNER - Shirley and Jamila's Big Fall by Gillian Goerz (Dial Books for Young Readers)
  • Simon and Chester: Super Sleepover! by Cale Atkinson (Tundra Books)
  • Otter Lagoon by Mike Deas and Nancy (Deas Orca Book Publishers)
  • Living with Viola by Rosena Fung (Annick Press)
  • Over the Shop by JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (Candlewick Press)
  • Etty Darwin and the Four Pebble Problem by Lauren Soloy (Tundra Books)

2021

The Doug Wright Award for best book

The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent

  • WINNER - Veronica Post for Langosh & Peppi: Fugitive Days (Conundrum Press)
  • Adam de Souza for A Gleaming No. 2 (Self-published)
  • Kimberly Edgar for The Space In Between (Self-published)
  • Courtney Loberg for We Don't Go Through the Angelgrass (Self-published)
  • Shannon M. Reeves for Restless Bones (Gytha Press)

The Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book

  • WINNER - The Noiseless Din by Scott Carruthers (Popnoir Editions)
  • The Desecration by Scott Carruthers and Sally McKay (Self-published)
  • A Gleaming No. 2 by Adam de Souza (Self-published)
  • The Space In Between by Kimberly Edgar (Self-published)
  • Awkward Pause by Ryan Harby (Renegade Arts Entertainment)

The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids’ book

  • WINNER - A Slug Story by Mandi Kujawa, Hana Kujawa, Claude St. Aubin, and Lovern Kindzierski Renegade Arts Entertainment
  • The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt by Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler (Tundra Books)
  • Okay, Universe: Chronicles of a Woman in Politics by Valérie Plante and Delphie Côté-Lacroix (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Grandmother School by Rina Singh and Ellen (Rooney Orca Book Publishers)
  • Swift Fox All Along by Rebecca Thomas and Maya McKibbin (Annick Press)

2020

The Doug Wright Award for best book

  • WINNER - Bezimena by Nina Bunjevac (Fantagraphics Books)
  • This Place: 150 Years Retold by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Jen Storm, Richard Van Camp, Katherena Vermette, Chelsea Vowel, Tara Audibert, Kyle Charles, GMB Chomichuk, Natasha Donovan, Scott A. Ford, Scott B. Henderson, Ryan Howe, Andrew Lodwick, Jen Storm, Donovan Yaciuk, Alicia Elliott (HighWater Press)

The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent

  • Jason Bradshaw for Things Go Wrong (Paper Rocket)
  • Ben O’Neil for Apologetica (Popnoir Editions)
  • Cole Pauls for Dakwäkãda Warriors (Conundrum Press)

The Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book

  • WINNER - Gleem by Freddy Carrasco (Peow Studios)
  • Boumeries, Vol. 9 by Boum (Self-published)
  • Baby in the Boneyard by Jesse Jacobs (Hollow Press)
  • Curb Angels by Lisa Mendis, Christopher Ducharme, Lucas C. Pauls (At Bay Press)
  • Dejects by Jay Stephens (Black Eye Books)

The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids’ book

2019

Source[15]

Doug Wright Best Book Award

  • WINNER - Young Frances by Hartley Lin (Adhouse Books)
  • A Western World by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
  • Evie and the Truth About Witches by John Martz (Koyama Press)
  • Somnambulance by Fiona Smyth (Koyama Press)

Doug Wright Spotlight Award (a.k.a. The Nipper)

  • Al Gofa for Dark Angels of Darkness (Peow Studio)
  • Victor Martins for Stay and You Don't Have To be Afraid of Me
  • Sylvia Nickerson for All We Have Left Is This
  • Eric Kostiuk Williams for Our Wretched Town Hall (Retrofit Comics)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • WINNER - Retomber by Xiaoxiao Li
  • Eggshell 2 (ddogg) by William Dereume
  • Winter's Cosmos (Koyama Press) by Michael Comeau
  • Promising Jupiter by Ron Hotz
  • 310, 310 (Peow Studio) by Mushbuh

2018

Best Book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

  • WINNER - Jenn Woodall for Magical Beatdown Vol. 2 and Marie and Worrywart
  • Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes for The Case of the Missing Men (Conundrum Press)
  • Gillian Blekkenhorst for All-Inclusive Fully Automated Vacation and House of Strays
  • Eric Kostiuk Williams for Condo Heartbreak Disco (Koyama Press)
  • Jason Loo for The Pitiful Human-Lizard Nos. 12, 13 and 14 (Chapterhouse Comics)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • WINNER - The Dead Father by Sami Alwani
  • The Death of the Master by Patrick Kyle
  • Crohl's House Nos. 1 & 2 by Alexander Laird, Jamiel Rahi and Robert Laird
  • Creation: The First Three Chapters by Sylvia Nickerson
  • Potluck by Wavering Line Collective

2017

Best Book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

  • WINNER - Steve Wolfhard for Cat Rackham (Koyama Press)
  • Jessica Campbell for Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists (Koyama Press)
  • GG for These Days, Lapse (both from š! No. 25 [kuš!]), and an untitled story from Altcomics Magazine 3 (2dcloud)
  • Nathan Jurevicius for Birthmark (Koyama Press)
  • Laura Ķeniņš for Alien Beings (kuš!)
  • Brie Moreno for Dearest, Gift Shop 3D (Oireau), Missy, untitled story from š! No. 6 (kuš!), various web comics

Pigskin Peters Award

2016

Best Book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

  • WINNER - Dakota McFadzean for Don't Get Eaten By Anything (Conundrum Press)
  • Ted Gudlat for Funny Ha-Has (Roads Publishing)
  • Rebecca Roher for Mom Body (The Nib)
  • Sabrina Scott for Witchbody
  • Kat Verhoeven for Towerkind (Conundrum Press)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • WINNER - New Comics # 6 & 7 by Patrick Kyle
  • Leather Vest by Michael Comeau
  • Intelligent Sentient? by Luke Ramsey (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • We Are Going To Bremen To Be Musicians by Tin Can Forest and Geoff Berner
  • Agalma by Stanley Wany (Éditions Trip)

2015

Best Book

  • WINNER - Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac (Jonathan Cape/Random House)
  • Ant Colony by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Safari Honeymoon by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press)
  • The People Inside by Ray Fawkes (Oni Press)
  • This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki (Groundwood)

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • WINNER - Swinespritzen by Connor Willumsen
  • Comics Collection 2010–2013 and Less than Dust by Julien Ceccaldi
  • Great Success! 1983–2013 by Henriette Valium (Crna Hronika)
  • New Comics #3–5 by Patrick Kyle (Mother Books)
  • Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention by Tings Chak (The Architecture Observer)

2014

Best Book

Spotlight Award

  • WINNER - Steven Gilbert for The Journal of the Main Street Secret Lodge
  • Connor Willumsen for "Calgary: Death Milks a Cow", "Treasure Island", "Mooncalf", and "Passionfruit"
  • Dakota McFadzean for Other Stories and the Horse You Rode in On (Conundrum Press)
  • Patrick Kyle for Distance Mover #7–12, New Comics #1–2
  • Georgia Webber for Dumb #1–3

Pigskin Peters Award

  • WINNER - Out of Skin by Emily Carroll ***
  • "Calgary: Death Milks a Cow" by Connor Willumsen
  • Flexible Tube with Stink Lines by Seth Scriver
  • Journal by Julie Delporte (Koyama Press)
  • Very Casual by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)

2013

Best Book

  • WINNER - The Song of Roland by Michel Rabagliati (Conundrum Press)
  • Lose #4 by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
  • By This Shall You Know Him by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press)
  • Pope Hats #3 by Ethan Rilly (AdHouse Books)
  • Wax Cross by Tin Can Forest (Koyama Press)

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • WINNER - Hamilton Illustrated by David Collier (Wolsak & Wynn)
  • Hellberta #2 and "Sir Softly" from š! #12 by Michael Comeau
  • 4PANEL comics in Carousel Magazine #28 & #29, by Michael DeForge, Larry Eisenstein, Jesse Jacobs, Mark Laliberte (editor), Marc Ngui, Ethan Rilly, Tin Can Forest and Magda Trzaski
  • So, what should we do with ourselves?... from Wowee Zonk #4 and Little Stump in š! #12, by Ginette Lapalme

2012

Best Book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

  • WINNER- Ethan Rilly for Pope Hats #2 (Adhouse Books)
  • Emily Carroll for "The Seven Windows" (from The Anthology Project vol. 2), "Margot's Room" and "The Prince & the Sea" (and other comics at emcarroll.com/comic)
  • Patrick Kyle for Black Mass # 5 – 6
  • Betty Liang for Wet T-shirt #1, "It's Only a Secret if You Don't Tell Anyone" (in š! #9), "Anna Freud's Recurring Dream" (and other comics at bettyliang.tumblr.com)
  • Zach Worton for The Klondike

Pigskin Peters Award

  • WINNER - Hellberta by Michael Comeau
  • Hermoddities by Temple Bates
  • Pure Pajamas by Marc Bell
  • Untitled by Mum Pittsburg, Jupiter Leucetius! Send Us a King. We Are So Bored (and other comics at connorwillumsen.com) by Connor Willumsen

2011

(Jurists: Sara Quin, Michael Redhill, Anita Kunz, Marc Bell and Mark Medley)

Best Book

Best Emerging Talent

  • WINNER - Alex Fellows for Spain and Morocco
  • Aaron Costain for Entropy # 5
  • Keith Jones for Catland Empire (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • James Stokoe for Orc Stain Volume One (Image)
  • Tin Can Forest (aka Marek Colek and Pat Shewchuk) for Baba Yaga and the Wolf (Koyama Press)

Pigskin Peters Award

2010

(Jurists: Matthew Forsythe, Geoff Pevere, Fiona Smyth, and Carl Wilson)

Best Book

Best Emerging Talent

  • WINNER - Michael DeForge for Lose #1, Cold Heat Special #7 (Koyama Press; Picturebox)
  • Adam Bourret for I'm Crazy
  • Pascal Girard for Nicolas (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • John Martz for It's Snowing Outside, We Should Go for a Walk by
  • Sully for The Hipless Boy (Conundrum Press)

Pigskin Peters Award

Winners of the 2010 Doug Wright Awards were announced on May 8, 2010 in the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in the Toronto Reference Library, during a ceremony hosted by actor Peter Outerbridge.

2009

(Jurists: Bob Rae, Andrew Coyne, Martin Levin, Joe Ollmann and Diana Tamblyn)

Best Book

Best Emerging Talent

  • WINNER - Kate Beaton for History Comics (self-published)
  • Caitlin Black for Maids in the Mist (self-published)
  • Jesse Jacobs for Blue Winter, Shapes in the Snow (self-published)
  • Jason Kieffer for Kieffer #2 (self-published)
  • Nick Maandag for Jack & Mandy (self-published)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • WINNER - Ojingogo by Matthew Forsythe (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Hall of Best Knowledge by Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics)
  • All We Ever Do is Talk About Wood by Tom Horacek (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Small Victories by Jesse Jacobs (self-published)

Winners of the 2009 Doug Wright Awards were announced on May 9, 2009 at the Art Gallery of Ontario during a ceremony hosted by actor and director Don McKellar.[16]

2008

(Jurists: Katrina Onstad, Ho Che Anderson, Marc Glassman, Mariko Tamaki and Helena Rickett)

Best Book

Best Emerging Talent

2008 saw the introduction of a new category dedicated to works that fall outside the bounds of traditional storytelling. Named after a character in the classic Canadian comic strip Birdseye Center, the Pigskin Peters Award recognizes experimental and avant-garde comics.

Pigskin Peters Award

2007

(Jurists: Bruce McDonald, Mark Kingwell, Judy MacDonald, Lorenz Peter and Jessica Johnson)

Best Book

Best Emerging Talent

  • WINNER - House of Sugar by Rebecca Kraatz (Tulip Tree Press) ***
  • Gray Horses by Hope Larson (Oni)
  • Was She Pretty? by Leanne Shapton (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • Bacter-area by Keith Jones (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Mendacity by Tamara Berger & Sophie Cossette (Kiss Machine)

2006

(Jurists: Justin Peroff, Alan Hunt and Ben Portis)

Best Book

Best Emerging Talent

2005

(Jurists: Chester Brown, Rebecca Caldwell, Nora Young, Jerry Ciccoritti and Don McKellar)

Best Book

Best Emerging Talent

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