Happy Halloween from the Doug Wright Awards!

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And a few final shots from the 21st Doug Wright Awards. (Photos by Jeff Speed.)

Still more photos from this year's ceremony. (Photos by Jeff Speed.)

This year, we inducted Richard Comely to The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame. Comely is best known as the co-creator and driving force behind Captain Canuck, the iconic Canadian superhero celebrating his 50th anniversary in 2025.

Ceremony shots from this year's Doug Wright Awards. (Photos by Jeff Speed.)

Still more from this year's event. (Photos by Jeff Speed.)

More photos from the 21st annual Doug Wright Awards. (Photos by Jeff Speed.)

This year, we inducted Lou Skuce (1886–1951) to The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame. Known as Canada's Greatest Cartoonist, Skuce was known for his newspaper and advertising work, particularly in the world of sport. Read more at: www.taddlecreekmag.com/canadas-grea...

A few more scenes from the 21st annual Doug Wright Awards. (Photos by Jef Speed.)

Some shots from last Saturday's 21st annual Doug Wright Awards. More to come! (Photos by Jeff Speed.)

If you missed the Doug Wright Awards last weekend, you can watch them this weekend (or any time) on our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Yq...

This year’s best book award went to I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together, by Maurice Vellekoop, published by Random House Canada. Maurice was inducted into The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame in 2024. A showing of his work is currently showing at RAID Gallery, in Toronto.

Congratulations to Boum, the winner of this year’s Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent. Boum won based on her book The Jellyfish (the English translation of La méduse), published by Pow Pow Press. Her book Boumeries Vol. 9 was nominated for the Pigskin Peters award in 2020.

Congratulations to Patrick Allaby, the winner of this year’s Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book for his self-published Customer Service. Patrick's book The Life I Want was nominated for the Pigskin Peters in 2023.

This year's winner of the Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids' book was Lost at Windy River: A True Story of Survival, by Trina Rathgeber, Alina Pete, Jillian Dolan, published by Orca Book Publishers.

So the @dougwrightawards.bsky.social ceremony was also streamed online, and... this is what everybody saw when I went to do my acceptance speech. It's the funniest thing ever. I'm in tears.

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Here's a full list of this year's Doug Wright Awards winners. dougwrightawards.com/announcing-t...

We've got merch all weekend long (or at least until it sells out). Come see us at TCAF this weekend, 50 Carlton Street, Table 141!

This Saturday, we're back at the Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, for the 21st annual Doug Wright Awards! Doors (and bar) open at 7 and the show starts at 8. The bar is open after the show. This is a free event, open to everyone. No tickets; no R.S.V.P. See you there!

Find us at TCAF all this weekend (Table 141), selling copies of nominated books and awesome new merch, now at the Mattamy Athletic Centre (a.k.a. Maple Leaf Gardens), 50 Carlton Street. Sat.: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sun.: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

And here are the remaining three nominees for this year's Doug Wright Award for best book! 2/2

Quite the list of nominees for this year's best book award: a solid mix of the established and the new, as well as a record number of crossover titles with the Nipper. Find out who wins this Saturday, at the 21st annual Doug Wright Awards! Here are three of the nominees. 1/2

Small change to the trophies this year...

We're happy to have the writer, artist, and television producer Jay Odjick hosting the Doug Wright Awards for the first time this year! Come see him at this year's ceremony on June 7th at the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto.

Our second inductee to The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame this year is Richard Comely, co-creator or the iconic Canadian superhero Captain Canuck. Richard will be in attendance on June 7th to accept his induction.

Every year, The Doug Wright Awards inducts new members into the Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame. One of this year's inductees is Lou Skuce, known in the early 20th century as Canada's Greatest Cartoonist!

After a well-received test run last year, we're officially launching our new line of DWA merch! Bags, shirts—you can even get a button. Available only at our TCAF table (number to come) and at the awards ceremony. (Swag ad by Robb Mirsky.)

Nominees for the Eisner Awards (a.k.a. the U.S. Doug Wright Awards) were announced last week. We were happy to see four of this year's DWA-nominated titles make the cut. Congratulations to Boum, Dave Lapp, Sid Sharp, and Maurice Vellekoop! See the full list at www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

Here are the remaining nominees for this year's Nipper—the Doug Wright Award for emerging talent. Find out who takes home the trophy on June 7th.

The Nipper is the Doug Wright Award for emerging talent. Here are three of this year's nominees! Find out who takes home the trophy on June 7th. (Fun fact: A record three of this year's Nipper nominees are also up for the best book award.)

Meet the other two nominees for this year's Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book! 2/2

Meet three of the nominees for this year's Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book! Then meet the winner at the 21st annual Doug Wright Awards, June 7th, at the Arts & Letters Club, in Toronto. 1/2

Here are the remaining nominees for The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids' book! 2/2

Presenting this year's nominees for The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids' book. Who will win? Find out June 7th at the 21st annual Doug Wright Awards! 1/2

Here at last: the nominees of the 21st annual Doug Wright Awards! Congratulation to all of this year’s nominees. dougwrightawards.com/announcing-t...

As we get ready for this year's ceremony, here's the video of last year's awards, just to make sure you're all caught up.

Only two more days until we announce this year's nominees! Then, join us on June 7 at the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto, at 8 p.m. The 2025 awards, which will also be livestreamed on YouTube, will be hosted by Jay Odjick. (Fab poster by @mauricevellekoop.bsky.social.)

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A few photos from the recent opening of "Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration," a wonderful collection of original art (mainly cartoons) from across The New Yorker's 100-year history, curated by Liza Donnelly, on now until May 3, at the Society of Illustrators, in New York.