Doug Wright Awards

Here at The Doug Wright Awards we’re always trying to make our Big Show as interesting and entertaining an event as possible. This year we added live music, courtesy of The Drowsy Chaperone composer Greg Morrison, who played the piano throughout the show. We also had an idea to get a cartoonist to live sketch […]

Erin Balser from CBC Books was kind enough to attend the Wright Awards this past weekend where she spent some quality time with this year’s winners: Pascal Girard, Michael DeForge and Alex Fellows. The results are now starting to appear online, as she rolls out a series of Q&As with the three cartoonists. Here’s her […]

Toronto, May 7, 2011 — The star power was sky-high at Toronto’s Jackman Hall tonight as Canada’s finest comics and graphic novels were honoured at the 7th annual Doug Wright Awards. Hosted by Tony Award-winning writer, actor and filmmaker Don McKellar, the event drew a capacity crowd of the cartooning world’s luminaries and fans, including […]

Filmmaker Don McKellar to host 5th annual Canadian comics awards at the Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, ON — March 16, 2009 – Representing everything from the funny and the forthright to the traditional and the avant-garde, the finalists for the 2009 Doug Wright Awards (DWAs) were released earlier today in Toronto. Founded in 2004 […]

 Ceremony will feature the official launch of The Collected Doug Wright Vol. One Toronto, ON — The 2009 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning will be handed out Saturday, May 9th at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall in Toronto, Ontario, as part of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF). Now in its fifth […]

Toronto, ON – June 26, 2008 – The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning are pleased to announce that Lynn Johnston, the award-winning cartoonist behind the long-running comic strip For Better or For Worse, will be the guest of honour at their 2008 awards ceremony. Organized in partnership with the Toronto Public Library, the free […]

The organizers of The Doug Wright Awards, Canada’s premier comics and graphic novels awards, are happy to announce that three of the country’s best-known cartoonists, Chester Brown, Seth and Dave Sim, have created one-of-a-kind original artwork to be auctioned off during their 2007 fundraising drive. Each an internationally respected cartoonist, Chester Brown (Louis Riel: AComicStripBiography, […]

The organizers of The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning are pleased to announce their 2007 nominees for Best Book and Best Emerging Talent. This year, the 10 nominees for Canada’s premiere cartooning award feature an eclectic mix of personal memoir and travelogue to short fiction and experimental graphic fiction—all from the pens of Canada’s […]

The 2nd annual Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning will take place on Sept. 14 in Toronto at the Ballroom of The Gladstone Hotel. The evening will kick off at 8 p.m. with an on stage interview of Chester Brown by Seth on the occasion of the softcover release of Brown’s best-selling Louis Riel: A […]

The organizers of the Wright Awards are pleased to announce the nominees for Best Book and Best Emerging Talent for work published by Canadian cartoonists in 2005. BEST BOOK * Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly Books) * Wimbledon Green by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly Books) * Dragonslippers: This […]