Doug Wright Awards

May 13, 2018 | The winners of the 14th annual Doug Wright Awards, recognizing the best work and most promising talent in Canadian comics, were announced Saturday evening at a ceremony in Toronto. One of this year’s winners is a multiple Doug Wright Award nominee, and all three took home awards for the first time. […]

May 13, 2017 | Toronto —The winners of the 13th annual Doug Wright Awards, recognizing the best work and most promising talent in Canadian comics, were announced this evening at a ceremony in Toronto. One of this year’s winners was a first-time Doug Wright Award nominee, and all three are first-time winners. Doug Wright Best […]

Auction of original art inspired by the 75th anniversary of Archie Comics benefits non-profit Canadian comic organization An all-star roster of cartooning talent has come together to help raise funds for The Doug Wright Awards, a non-profit organization dedicated to honouring and celebrating the best in Canadian comics past and present. More than a dozen […]

The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning are pleased to announce that Katherine Collins, the pioneering cartoonist behind the comic Neil the Horse Comics and Stories and noted comics journalist, will be the 2017 Giant of the North Hall of Fame inductee. Ms. Collins was known as Arn Saba before transitioning into a woman in […]

For the past four or five years we’ve been fortunate to have RAW comics pioneer and Masterpiece Comics scribe R. Sikoryak document our annual awards show via one of the most hallowed ways we know how: live drawing. Sikoryak’s live-drawing skills are by now legendary, and he regularly perform them as part of his ongoing […]

“I still can’t believe we’re living in a world without Alvin Buenaventura.” – Jeet Heer, May 14, 2016, 12th Annual Doug Wright Awards, Toronto, Ontario Below is the audio of Jeet’s memorial of Alvin from the 2016 DWAs: Alvin Mark Buenaventura (1976 – 2016)

Last Friday night, as the entire DWA Team was putting the finishing touches on the awards ceremony, news broke that Canadian cartoonist Darwyn Cooke was in palliative care following a bout of aggressive cancer. It wasn’t long after that we learned that Darwyn had passed. Darwyn was an ever-present force in Canadian comics, and was […]

This speech, prepared for the occasion of James Simpkins being inducted into the Giants of the North Hall of Fame, was delivered by the cartoonist Seth at the 12th annual Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning, on May 14, 2016, as part of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival.You can also download a transcript of the […]

2016 Doug Wright Awards Jury appreciations: PIGSKIN PETERS For New Comics #6 + 7, by Patrick Kyle Delivered by Betty Liang, May 14, 2016, 12th annual DWAs This year’s Pigskin Peters award goes to Patrick Kyle’s New Comics in part because they so vividly live up to their name. They are a testing ground for […]

James Simpkins inducted into Giants of the North Hall of Fame; Darwyn Cooke and Alvin Buenaventura remembered at ceremony May 14, 2016, Toronto, ON — The best in Canadian comics and graphic novels were honoured this evening at the 2016 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning in Toronto, including first-time nods for Dakota McFadzean and Patrick […]