Doug Wright Award

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Doug Wright Award
Doug Wright Award trophy
Doug Wright Award trophy, designed by Seth, using an image from Doug Wright's Family
Awarded forAchievement in English-language Canadian comics
CountryCanada
Reward(s)Wood-and-glass trophy
Websitehttp://www.dougwrightawards.com

The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning (established in December 2004)[1] are literary awards handed out annually since 2005 during the Toronto Comic Arts Festival to Canadian cartoonists honouring excellence in comics (including webcomics) and graphic novels published in English (including translated works).[2] The awards are named in honour of Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright.[3] Winners are selected by a jury of Canadians who have made significant contributions to national culture, based on shortlisted selections provided by a nominating committee of five experts in the comics field.[4] The Wrights are handed out in three main categories, "Best Book", "The Spotlight Award" (affectionately known as "The Nipper"), and, since 2008, the "Pigskin Peters Award" for non-narrative or experimental works.[5] In 2020, the organizers added "The Egghead", an award for best kids’ book for readers under twelve.[6] In addition to the awards, since 2005 the organizers annually induct at least one cartoonist into the Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartoonist Hall Fame.[7]

The Wright Awards are modeled after traditional book prizes, with the intention of drawing attention to the comics medium from a broad range of demographics inside and outside of its traditional fanbase. The Wrights have garnered acclaim as well as earning the support of a diverse range of participating artists and jurors including Scott Thompson, Don McKellar, Bruce McDonald, Jerry Ciccoritti, Bob Rae, Andrew Coyne, Sara Quin, Greg Morrison, Chester Brown, Lorenz Peter, and Nora Young.[8]

Awards[edit]

The Best Book and The Spotlight awards are a large wood-and-glass trophies which are engraved with images from Wright's comic strip (the one difference being the images that are etched on the glass). The award was designed by the cartoonist Seth, who admitted to some embarrassment at being the inaugural winner of the trophy he designed.[9] The Pigskin Peters Award, named in honour of a character from Jimmy Frise's Birdseye Center, is a custom, tailored derby hat with its own unique plaque that doubles as a hat post. It was also designed by Seth.

Each recipient of a Doug Wright Award also receives a custom-bound copy of their winning work.

Nominees[edit]

Winners are indicated by ***.

2005[edit]

(Jurists: Chester Brown, Rebecca Caldwell, Nora Young, Jerry Ciccoritti and Don McKellar)

Best Book[edit]

Best Emerging Talent[edit]

2006[edit]

(Jurists: Justin Peroff, Alan Hunt and Ben Portis)

Best Book[edit]

Best Emerging Talent[edit]

2007[edit]

(Jurists: Bruce McDonald, Mark Kingwell, Judy MacDonald, Lorenz Peter and Jessica Johnson)

Best Book[edit]

  • Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle (D&Q)
  • This Will All End in Tears by Joe Ollmann (Insomniac Press) ***
  • Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni)
  • Gilded Lilies by Jillian Tamaki (Conundrum Press)
  • Nog-a-dod edited by Marc Bell (Conundrum Press)

Best Emerging Talent[edit]

  • Gray Horses by Hope Larson (Oni)
  • House of Sugar by Rebecca Kraatz (Tulip Tree Press) ***
  • Was She Pretty? by Leanne Shapton (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • Bacter-area by Keith Jones (D&Q)
  • Mendacity by Tamara Berger & Sophie Cossette (Kiss Machine)

2008[edit]

(Jurists: Katrina Onstad, Ho Che Anderson, Marc Glassman, Mariko Tamaki and Helena Rickett)

Best Book[edit]

Best Emerging Talent[edit]

2008 saw the introduction of a new category dedicated to works that fall outside the bounds of traditional storytelling. Named after a character in the classic Canadian comic strip Birdseye Center, the Pigskin Peters Award recognizes experimental and avant-garde comics.

Pigskin Peters Award[edit]

  • Milk Teeth by Julie Morstad (D&Q) ***
  • Little Lessons in Safety by Emily Holton (Conundrum Press)
  • Excelsior 1968 by John Martz (self-published)
  • Fire Away by Chris von Szombathy (D&Q)

2009[edit]

(Jurists: Bob Rae, Andrew Coyne, Martin Levin, Joe Ollmann and Diana Tamblyn)

Best Book[edit]

Best Emerging Talent[edit]

Pigskin Peters Award[edit]

  • Hall of Best Knowledge by Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics)
  • Ojingogo by Matthew Forsythe (D&Q) ***
  • All We Ever Do is Talk About Wood by Tom Horacek (D&Q)
  • Small Victories by Jesse Jacobs (self-published)

Winners of the 2009 Doug Wright Awards were announced on May 9, 2009 at the Art Gallery of Ontario during a ceremony hosted by actor and director Don McKellar.[10]

2010[edit]

(Jurists: Matthew Forsythe, Geoff Pevere, Fiona Smyth, and Carl Wilson)

Best Book[edit]

Best Emerging Talent[edit]

Pigskin Peters Award[edit]

  • Bébête by Simon Bossé (L'Oie de Cravan)
  • Dirty Dishes by Amy Lockhart (D&Q)
  • Hot Potato by Marc Bell (D&Q) ***
  • Never Learn Anything from History by Kate Beaton (self-published)
  • The Collected Doug Wright Volume One by Doug Wright (D&Q)

Winners of the 2010 Doug Wright Awards were announced on May 8, 2010 in the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in the Toronto Reference Library, during a ceremony hosted by actor Peter Outerbridge.

2011[edit]

(Jurists: Sara Quin, Michael Redhill, Anita Kunz, Marc Bell and Mark Medley)

Best Book[edit]

Best Emerging Talent[edit]

Pigskin Peters Award[edit]

2012[edit]

Best Book[edit]

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)[edit]

  • Ethan Rilly for Pope Hats #2 (Adhouse Books) ***
  • Emily Carroll for "The Seven Windows" (from The Anthology Project vol. 2), "Margot’s Room" and "The Prince & the Sea" (and other comics at emcarroll.com/comic)
  • Patrick Kyle for Black Mass # 5 – 6
  • Betty Liang for Wet T-Shirt #1, "It’s Only a Secret if You Don’t Tell Anyone" (in š! #9), "Anna Freud’s Recurring Dream" (and other comics at bettyliang.tumblr.com)
  • Zach Worton for The Klondike

Pigskin Peters Award[edit]

2013[edit]

Best Book[edit]

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)[edit]

Pigskin Peters Award[edit]

2014[edit]

Best Book[edit]

  • Palookaville #21 by Seth (Drawn and Quarterly)
  • Paul Joins the Scouts by Michel Rabagliati (Conundrum Press) ***
  • Science Fiction by Joe Ollmann (Conundrum Press)
  • Susceptible by Geneviève Castrée (Drawn and Quarterly)
  • Very Casual by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)

Spotlight Award[edit]

  • Connor Willumsen for "Calgary: Death Milks a Cow", "Treasure Island", "Mooncalf", and "Passionfruit"
  • Dakota McFadzean for Other Stories and the Horse You Rode in On (Conundrum Press)
  • Patrick Kyle for Distance Mover #7–12, New Comics #1–2
  • Steven Gilbert for The Journal of the Main Street Secret Lodge ***
  • Georgia Webber for Dumb #1–3

Pigskin Peters Award[edit]

  • "Calgary: Death Milks a Cow" by Connor Willumsen
  • Flexible Tube with Stink Lines by Seth Scriver
  • Journal by Julie Delporte (Koyama Press)
  • Out of Skin by Emily Carroll ***
  • Very Casual by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)

2015[edit]

Best Book[edit]

  • Ant Colony by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac (Jonathan Cape/Random House) ***
  • Safari Honeymoon by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press)
  • The People Inside by Ray Fawkes (Oni Press)
  • This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki (Groundwood)

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)[edit]

  • Aaron Costain for Entropy #10
  • Elisabeth Belliveau for One Year in America (Conundrum Press)
  • Julie Delporte for Everywhere Antennas (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Meags Fitzgerald for Photobooth: A Biography (Conundrum Press) ***
  • Simon Roy for Tiger Lung (Dark Horse)
  • Sophie Yanow for War of Streets and Houses (Uncivilized Books)

Pigskin Peters Award[edit]

  • Comics Collection 2010–2013 and Less than Dust by Julien Ceccaldi
  • Great Success! 1983–2013 by Henriette Valium (Crna Hronika)
  • New Comics #3–5 by Patrick Kyle (Mother Books)
  • Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention by Tings Chak (The Architecture Observer)
  • Swinespritzen by Connor Willumsen ***

2016[edit]

Best Book[edit]

  • Dressing by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press) ***
  • Melody by Sylvie Rancourt (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Palookaville #22 by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Step Aside, Pops by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Stroppy by Marc Bell (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)[edit]

  • Ted Gudlat for Funny Ha-Has (Roads Publishing)
  • Dakota McFadzean for Don’t Get Eaten By Anything (Conundrum Press) ***
  • Rebecca Roher for Mom Body (The Nib)
  • Sabrina Scott for Witchbody
  • Kat Verhoeven for Towerkind (Conundrum Press)

Pigskin Peters Award[edit]

  • Leather Vest by Michael Comeau
  • New Comics # 6 & 7 by Patrick Kyle ***
  • Intelligent Sentient? by Luke Ramsey (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • We Are Going To Bremen To Be Musicians by Tin Can Forest and Geoff Berner
  • Agalma by Stanley Wany (Éditions Trip)

2017[edit]

Best Book[edit]

  • Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Big Kids by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Burt’s Way Home by John Martz (Koyama Press)
  • The Envelope Manufacturer by Chris Oliveros
  • Bird in a Cage by Rebecca Roher (Conundrum Press) ***

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)[edit]

  • Jessica Campbell, Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists (Koyama Press)
  • GG, "These Days," "Lapse" (both from š! No. 25 [kuš!]), and an untitled story from Altcomics Magazine 3 (2dcloud)
  • Nathan Jurevicius, Birthmark (Koyama Press)
  • Laura Ķeniņš, Alien Beings (kuš!)
  • Brie Moreno, Dearest, Gift Shop 3D (Oireau), Missy, untitled story from š! No. 6 (kuš!), various web comics
  • Steve Wolfhard, Cat Rackham (Koyama Press) ***

Pigskin Peters Award[edit]

  • Carpet Sweeper Tales by Julie Doucet (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Draw Blood by Ron Hotz
  • Garbage by Matthew Reichertz (Conundrum Press)
  • After Land by Chris Taylor (Floating World Comics)
  • The Palace of Champions by Henriette Valium (Conundrum Press) ***

2018[edit]

Best Book[edit]

  • Hostage by Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • I’m Not Here by GG (Koyama Press)
  • Crawl Space by Jesse Jacobs (Koyama Press) ***
  • The Abominable Mr. Seabrook by Joe Ollmann (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Anti-Gone by Connor Willumsen (Koyama Press)

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)[edit]

  • Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes, The Case of the Missing Men (Conundrum Press)
  • Gillian Blekkenhorst, All-Inclusive Fully Automated Vacation and House of Strays
  • Eric Kostiuk Williams, Condo Heartbreak Disco (Koyama Press)
  • Jason Loo, The Pitiful Human-Lizard Nos. 12, 13 and 14 (Chapterhouse Comics)
  • Jenn Woodall, Magical Beatdown Vol. 2 and Marie and Worrywart ***

Pigskin Peters Award[edit]

  • The Dead Father by Sami Alwani ***
  • The Death of the Master by Patrick Kyle
  • Crohl’s House Nos. 1 & 2 by Alexander Laird, Jamiel Rahi and Robert Laird
  • Creation: The First Three Chapters by Sylvia Nickerson
  • Potluck by Wavering Line Collective

2022[11][edit]

Best Book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

  • Sofia Alarcon Endsickness  No. 1 (Self-published)
  • Sami Alwani The Pleasure of the Text. (Conundrum Press) ***
  • Brigitte Archambault The Shiatsung Project (Conundrum Press)
  • Alexander Laird Sleemor Gank: Burg Land No. 1 (Self-published)
  • Kyle Simmers and Ryan Danny Owen Pass Me By: Gone Fishin’ and Pass Me By: Electric Vice (Renegade Arts Entertainment)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • Endsickness No. 1 by Sofia Alarcon (Self-published)
  • Fruit/Soil by Kim Edgar (Moniker Press)
  • The Northern Gaze Akeeshoo Chislett, Chris Caldwell, Cole Pauls, Andrew Sharp, Juliann Fraser, Esther Bordet, Alison McCreesh, Keith Verbonac, Princess J; edited by Kim Edgar (Hecate Press)
  • Sleemor Gank: Burg Land No. 1 by Alexander Laird (Self-published)
  • Dwellings No. 2 by Jay Stephens (Black Eye Books) ***

The Egghead Award

  • Simon and Chester: Super Sleepover! by Cale Atkinson (Tundra Books)
  • Otter Lagoon by Mike Deas and Nancy (Deas Orca Book Publishers)
  • Living with Viola by Rosena Fung (Annick Press)
  • Shirley and Jamila’s Big Fall by Gillian Goerz (Dial Books for Young Readers) ***
  • Over the Shop by JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (Candlewick Press)
  • Etty Darwin and the Four Pebble Problem by Lauren Soloy (Tundra Books)

2023[12][edit]

Best Book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • The Life I Want by Patrick Allaby (Self-Published)
  • Assorted Baggage by Matthew Daley (Black Eye Books)
  • Where Have You Been? by Ivana Filipovich (trans: Ivana Filipovich/Andrea Hankinson) (Self-Published) ***
  • Butterfly House by Troy Little and Brenda Hickey (Pegamoose Press)
  • Thousand Oaks: Machine Mail (Part 3) by Blaise Moritz (Urban Farm Print and Sound)

The Egghead Award

2024[edit]

Best book

  • Val-d’Or Neon by Olivier Ballou (Self-published)
  • A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll (First Second)
  • Harvey Knight’s Odyssey by Nick Maandag (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman by Éloïse Marseille (Pow Pow Press)
  • Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • JAJ by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

  • James CollierThe Lonesome Shepherd (Wig Shop)
  • Vincy Lim When I was a kid I was taught how to die. Now that I’m an adult I’m learning how to live. (I love you.) and When She Set Fire to My Friends’ Houses (Self-published)
  • Syd Madia Syd Madia’s Dracula (Self-published)
  • Christopher Twin Bad Medicine (Emanata/Conundrum)
  • Kyle Vingoe-Cram Kettle Harbour (Conundrum Press)

The Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book

  • Endsickness No. 2 by Sofia Alarcon (Self-published)
  • The Lonesome Shepherd by James Collier (Wig Shop)
  • Old Caves by Tyler Landry (Uncivilized)
  • Power 9: Part One by John Little and David Little (Self-published)
  • Index by Sven, Rachel Evangeline Chiong, and Joyce Kim (Self-published)

The Egghead Award

  • ThunderBoom by Jack Briglio and Claudia Dávila (Kids Can Press)
  • Pluto Rocket: New in Town by Paul Gilligan (Tundra Books)
  • Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks (First Second)
  • Otis & Peanut by Naseem Hrab and Kelly Collier (Owlkids Books)
  • Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin (Emanata/Conundrum)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Howard, Dave (February 26, 2010). "Interview with Brad Mackay, Doug Wright Awards Co-Founder". davehoward.ca. Dave Howard. Retrieved May 4, 2020. The idea began in Spring 2004.
  2. ^ "The 2005 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning". Sequential: Canadian Comix News and Culture. 2005-08-04. Retrieved 2018-10-21.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Canadian cartoonists honoured in Toronto". cbc.ca. CBC News. 2005-05-30. Retrieved 2020-05-05. Named after one of Canada's most prolific cartoonists, the awards were established to honour excellence in artistic or alternative comics.
  4. ^ Howard, Dave (February 26, 2010). "Interview with Brad Mackay, Doug Wright Awards Co-Founder". davehoward.ca. Dave Howard. Retrieved May 4, 2020. We have a nominating committee, which we're in the process of putting together now. We have usually five people – an odd number – made up of people from across the spectrum. So we have Jeet Heer, Chester Brown, Jerry Ciccoritti, we have Sean Rogers who writes a comics blog for The Walrus, and then Bryan Munn, a retailer and critic from Guelph. So we have those guys on it for this year on the nominating committee.(...)And then from that point we choose our prize jury from a wider cross section of society and we throw them in "The Thunderdome" as we like to call it. We have another dinner with those people and they pick the winners. We tend to have two or three comics-based people on that jury and then the rest are kind of balanced off.
  5. ^ Wong, Jessica (2008-08-09). "Rising cartoonists, Lynn Johnston feted at comic book awards". cbc.ca. CBC News. Retrieved 2018-10-21. A new prize designed to recognize non-traditional or more experimental works, entitled the Pigskin Peters Award, went to Vancouver illustrator Julie Morstad for her first comic work Milk Teeth.
  6. ^ Munn, B.K. (2019-12-09). "Wright Awards Announces New Kids' Book Category". sequentialpulp.ca. Sequential: Canadian Comix News and Culture. Retrieved 2020-05-05. The award will be called "The Egghead", named for Doug Wright's preferred name for his Nipper character.
  7. ^ "Canadian cartoonists honoured in Toronto". cbc.ca. CBC News. 2005-05-30. Retrieved 2020-05-05. Organizers also inducted Wright and four other cartoonists into a hall of fame entitled Giants of the North.
  8. ^ Howard, Dave (February 26, 2010). "Interview with Brad Mackay, Doug Wright Awards Co-Founder". davehoward.ca. Dave Howard. Retrieved May 4, 2020. We try and reach out to the wider culture as much as possible in everything we do. This also extends to our ceremony, which we insist is "jeans-free" – at least for the organizers and presenters. So it's a costume-free zone. As a result, we've had some nice things said about us.
  9. ^ "Canadian cartoonists honoured in Toronto". CBC Arts. May 30, 2005. Retrieved September 20, 2006.
  10. ^ Wong, Jessica (May 10, 2009). "Outsider tale Skim, quirky History Comics nab cartooning awards". CBC News. cbcnews.ca. Retrieved May 22, 2009.
  11. ^ "Announcing the nominees of the 18th annual Doug Wright Awards".
  12. ^ "Announcing the nominees of the 19th annual Doug Wright Awards!".

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