Doug Wright Awards

The 12th Annual Doug Wright Awards ceremony will be held at Toronto’s Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel this Saturday May 16, 2016 starting at 8:00 p.m. (a feature event of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival). This time around there are seven first-time nominees, many of which may not be well-known to Saturday night’s crowd. So in […]

The 12th Annual Doug Wright Awards ceremony will be held at Toronto’s Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel this Saturday May 16, 2016 starting at 8:00 p.m. (a feature event of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival). This time around there are seven first-time nominees, many of which may not be well-known to Saturday night’s crowd. So in […]

The 12th Annual Doug Wright Awards ceremony will be held at Toronto’s Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel this Saturday May 16, 2016 starting at 8:00 p.m. (a feature event of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival). This time around there are seven first-time nominees, many of which may not be well-known to Saturday night’s crowd. So in […]

The 12th Annual Doug Wright Awards ceremony will be held at Toronto’s Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel this Saturday May 16, 2016 starting at 8:00 p.m. (a feature event of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival). This time around there are seven first-time nominees, many of which may not be well-known to Saturday night’s crowd. So in […]

The 12th Annual Doug Wright Awards ceremony will be held at Toronto’s Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel this Saturday May 16, 2016 starting at 8:00 pm. This time around there are seven first-time nominees, many of which may not be as well-known to Saturday night’s crowd. So in anticipation of the Big Night we decided to […]

The 12th Annual Doug Wright Awards ceremony will be held at Toronto’s Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel this Saturday May 16, 2016 starting at 8:00 pm. This time around there are seven first-time nominees, many of which may not be as well-known to Saturday night’s crowd. So in anticipation of the Big Night we decided to […]

‘Jasper the Bear’ cartoonist James Simpkins to be inducted into Giants of the North Hall of Fame April 21, 2016, Toronto, ON — The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning, a feature event of the 2016 Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), is proud to announce their 2016 finalists. The nominees for the 2016 Doug Wright […]

May 10, 2015, Toronto, ON — The best and brightest of Canadian comics and graphic novels were honoured in Toronto last night at the 2015 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning. A feature event of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF), the 11th annual Wright Awards were handed out in a gala ceremony at the ballroom […]

We are pleased, pleased, pleased today to present the official poster for the 2015 Doug Wright Awards. Equal parts creepy/cool/pretty, it comes from the fertile mind of cartoonist (and 2012 Doug Wright Award nominee) Betty Liang. Betty is an MFA grad from Mount Allison University and has published many comics, including her DWA-nominated Wet T-Shirt […]

Toronto, ON, May 10, 2009 – The Doug Wright Awards are proud to announce their 2009 winners, which were handed out in a ceremony at the Art Gallery of Ontario last night: Best Book: Skim by Jillian & Mariko Tamaki Published by: Groundwood Books Best Emerging Talent: Kate Beaton for History Comics, katebeaton.com The Pigskin […]