Doug Wright Awards

Our judges were holed up reading all winter but finally have emerged with their lists of nominees for the 20th annual Doug Wright Awards! The Doug Wright Award for best book Val-d’Or NeonOlivier Ballou (Self-published) A Guest in the HouseEmily Carroll(First Second) Harvey Knight’s OdysseyNick Maandag(Drawn & Quarterly) Naked: The Confessions of a Normal WomanÉloïse Marseille(Pow […]

It’s been a sad week for us here at the Doug Wright Awards since learning last Sunday, July 9th, that we’d lost Phyllis Wright Thomas, the widow of Doug Wright, at the age of ninety-three. We often referred to Phyllis as our biggest supporter, and that wasn’t hyperbole. Along with allowing us to use her […]

The winners of the 19th annual Doug Wright Awards were announced on Saturday, April 29th, at the historic Arts & Letters Club, in Toronto. The event was a featured event of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and was hosted by the cartoonist and frequent DWA M.C. Dustin Harbin to an at-capacity crowd of more than […]

Here they are—the nominees for the 19th annual Doug Wright Awards! The Doug Wright Award for best book DucksKate Beaton Drawn & Quarterly Time Zone JJulie DoucetDrawn & Quarterly ShelterbeltsJonathan DyckConundrum Press The FlamingoGuojingRandom House Studio KwändürCole PaulsConundrum Press You Know, SexCory Silverberg and Fiona SmythTriangle Square The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent Emily CarringtonOur […]

The winners of the 18th annual Doug Wright Awards were announced last night, Saturday, June 18th, at an outdoor ceremony held in Harold Town Park, in downtown Toronto. The show—a featured event of the 2022 Toronto Comic Arts Festival—was hosted by the film critic Richard Crouse, and featured appearances by past winners Jenn Woodall and David Collier (unscheduled), as […]

The Doug Wright Awards is pleased to announce the nominees for its 18th annual honours, selected from works published by Canadian creators during the 2021 calendar year. The Doug Wright Award for best book The Shiatsung ProjectBrigitte Archambault Conundrum Press Cyclopedia ExoticaAminder DhaliwalDrawn & Quarterly The Rock From the SkyJon KlassenCandlewick Press Stone FruitLee LaiFantagraphics Fictional FatherJoe […]

We’re looking for people interested in judging the 2022 Doug Wright Awards. Entries in each category are evaluated by a three-member jury. Each jury consists of at least one cartoonist, one judge with industry expertise (editor, publisher, reviewer, journalist, librarian, bookseller, academic, etc.), and a third judge who either falls into one of the previous categories […]

The Doug Wright Awards and the judges of its 2021 Egghead award recently made a donation to help Montreal’s homeless population, in light of the city’s eviction and dismantling of a homeless encampment in the Hochelaga neighbourhood. A similar eviction took place in Toronto’s Lamport Stadium Park shortly after. If you’d like to make a […]

Last night, Saturday, May 8th, the winners of the 17th annual Doug Wright Awards were announced, during a virtual ceremony (a featured event of the 2021 Toronto Comic Arts Festival), pre-recorded and livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. Don McKellar once again hosted this second pandemic edition of the awards, still trapped in his garage, though […]

The Doug Wright Awards are pleased to announce this year’s nominees, selected from works published by Canadian creators in the 2020 calendar year: The Doug Wright Award for best book Lonely BoysS. Bédard Pow Pow Press Familiar FaceMichael DeForgeDrawn & Quarterly ConstantlyGGKoyama Press Paul at HomeMichel RabagliatiDrawn & Quarterly Wendy, Master of ArtWalter ScottDrawn & Quarterly […]