Happy Valentine's Day from the Doug Wright Awards! (Nipper, by Doug Wright, February 15, 1969.)
This week is your last chance to enter the 2026 Doug Wright Awards! Entires close at 5 p.m. ET on Friday, January 9. dougwrightawards.com/submissions/
Happy Holidays From the Doug Wright Awards! (Wright family Christmas card, circa 1960s.)
The 2026 Doug Wright Awards submissions portal is now open! Visit our (soon to be redesigned) website to find out everything you need to know. dougwrightawards.com/submissions/
Submissions to the 22nd annual Doug Wright Awards open Monday, December 1! While you're waiting, you can get a handle on the submission guidelines and qualifications on our site.
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.
It is pretty funny.
Two heroes!
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.
Yikes! We'll work on this for next year...
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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!
