Announcing the 2020 Doug Wright Award nominees
Posted on 05. Apr, 2020 by Conan Tobias in Uncategorized
Here they are: the nominees for the 16th annual Doug Wright Awards!
The Doug Wright Award for best book
This Place: 150 Years Retold
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 Cursed Hermit
Kris Bertin, Alexander Forbes
Conundrum Press
Bezimena
Nina Bunjevac
Fantagraphics Books
Agnes, Murderess
Sarah Leavitt
Freehand Books
Death Threat
Vivek Shraya, Ness Lee
Arsenal Pulp Press
Bradley of Him
Connor Willumsen
Koyama Press
The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent
D. Boyd
Chicken Rising
Conundrum Press
Jason Bradshaw
Things Go Wrong
Paper Rocket
Sylvia Nickerson
Creation
Drawn & Quarterly
Ben O’Neil
Apologetica
Popnoir Editions
Cole Pauls
Dakwäkãda Warriors
Conundrum Press
The Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book
Boumeries, Vol. 9
Boum
Self-published
Gleem
Freddy Carrasco
Peow Studios
Baby in the Boneyard
Jesse Jacobs
Hollow Press
Curb Angels
Lisa Mendis, Christopher Ducharme, Lucas C. Pauls
At Bay Press
Dejects
Jay Stephens
Black Eye Books
The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids’ book
Brick Breaks Free
David Craig
Self-published
The Worst Book Ever
Elise Gravel
Drawn & Quarterly
Lunch Quest
Chris Kuzma
Koyama Press
Dakwäkãda Warriors
Cole Pauls
Conundrum Press
Alma and the Beast
Esme Shapiro
Tundra Books
Conundrum Press leads in nominations, with four, followed by Drawn & Quarterly and Koyama Press, with two nominations each.
This year, 151 books by Canadian authors and artists were submitted to the Doug Wright Awards, in four categories. Nominees and winners were chosen by a panel of three judges per category. A total of 36 publishers submitted entries, along with nearly three dozen self-published works.
Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees!
Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame
Last year, we instituted a new tradition of inducting one living and one deceased member of the Canadian comics community annually to the Giants of the North hall of fame. After consulting with this year’s living Giants nominee, we collectively made the decision to push their induction to 2021, when we return to staging a live public ceremony.
This year’s Giants of the North nominee is Walter Ball (1911–1995), the longtime Toronto Star cartoonist and art department supervisor, best known for the strip Rural Route.
The Ceremony
The 2020 Doug Wright Awards will be broadcast online on Saturday, May 9th, at 8 p.m. More info to come!
Judges
Our thanks to this year’s judges: Shanda Deziel, Deborah Dundas, Meags Fitzgerald, Jesse Jacobs, Calum Johnston, Alison McCreesh, Serah-Marie McMahon, Noah Van Sciver, Todd Stewart, Philip Street, Maurice Vellekoop, and Kat Verhoeven. You can read more about each of our judges on the Doug Wright Awards Web site.
Sponsors
Thanks as well to this year’s sponsors, the Beguiling/Little island/Page & Panel, Broken Pencil, and Taddle Creek, and our sponsor in absentia, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (come back soon!).
16th Annual Doug Wright Awards poster by Hartley Lin.
