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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

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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 & Winners

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2024

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Source:[10][11]

The Doug Wright Award for best book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

  • WINNER - 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)
  • James CollierThe Lonesome Shepherd (Wig Shop)
  • 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

  • WINNER - Old Caves by Tyler Landry (Uncivilized)
  • Endsickness No. 2 by Sofia Alarcon (Self-published)
  • The Lonesome Shepherd by James Collier (Wig Shop)
  • 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

  • WINNER - Otis & Peanut by Naseem Hrab and Kelly Collier (Owlkids Books)
  • 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)
  • Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin (Emanata/Conundrum)

2023

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The Doug Wright Award for best book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • WINNER - Where Have You Been? by Ivana Filipovich (trans: Ivana Filipovich/Andrea Hankinson) (Self-Published)
  • The Life I Want by Patrick Allaby (Self-Published)
  • Assorted Baggage by Matthew Daley (Black Eye Books)
  • 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

  • WINNER - You Know, Sex by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth (Triangle Square)

2022

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The Doug Wright Award for best book

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

  • WINNER - Sami Alwani The Pleasure of the Text. (Conundrum Press)
  • Sofia Alarcon Endsickness No. 1 (Self-published)
  • 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

  • WINNER - Dwellings No. 2 by Jay Stephens (Black Eye Books)
  • 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)

The Egghead Award

  • WINNER - Shirley and Jamila's Big Fall by Gillian Goerz (Dial Books for Young Readers)
  • 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)
  • Over the Shop by JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng (Candlewick Press)
  • Etty Darwin and the Four Pebble Problem by Lauren Soloy (Tundra Books)

2021

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The Doug Wright Award for best book

The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent

  • WINNER - Veronica Post Langosh & Peppi: Fugitive Days (Conundrum Press)
  • Adam de Souza A Gleaming No. 2 Self-published
  • Kimberly Edgar The Space In Between Self-published
  • Courtney Loberg We Don't Go Through the Angelgrass I Self-published
  • Shannon M. Reeves Restless Bones Gytha Press

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

  • WINNER - The Noiseless Din Scott Carruthers Popnoir Editions
  • The Desecration Scott Carruthers and Sally McKay Self-published
  • A Gleaming No. 2 Adam de Souza Self-published
  • The Space In Between Kimberly Edgar Self-published
  • Awkward Pause Ryan Harby Renegade Arts Entertainment

The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids’ book

  • WINNER - A Slug Story Mandi Kujawa, Hana Kujawa, Claude St. Aubin, and Lovern Kindzierski Renegade Arts Entertainment
  • The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler (Tundra Books)
  • Okay, Universe: Chronicles of a Woman in Politics Valérie Plante and Delphie Côté-Lacroix (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • Grandmother School Rina Singh and Ellen (Rooney Orca Book Publishers)
  • Swift Fox All Along Rebecca Thomas and Maya McKibbin (Annick Press)

2020

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The Doug Wright Award for best book

  • WINNER - Bezimena Nina Bunjevac (Fantagraphics Books)
  • This Place: 150 Years Retold Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Jen Storm, Richard Van Camp, Katherena Vermette, Chelsea Vowel, Tara Audibert, Kyle Charles, GMB Chomichuk, Natasha Donovan, Scott A. Ford, Scott B. Henderson, Ryan Howe, Andrew Lodwick, Jen Storm, Donovan Yaciuk, Alicia Elliott (HighWater Press)

The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent

  • Jason Bradshaw Things Go Wrong (Paper Rocket)
  • Ben O’Neil Apologetica (Popnoir Editions)
  • Cole Pauls Dakwäkãda Warriors (Conundrum Press)

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

  • WINNER - Gleem Freddy Carrasco (Peow Studios)
  • Boumeries, Vol. 9 Boum (Self-published)
  • Baby in the Boneyard Jesse Jacobs (Hollow Press)
  • Curb Angels Lisa Mendis, Christopher Ducharme, Lucas C. Pauls (At Bay Press)
  • Dejects Jay Stephens (Black Eye Books)

The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids’ book

2019

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Doug Wright Best Book Award

Doug Wright Spotlight Award (a.k.a. The Nipper)

  • Al Gofa Dark Angels of Darkness (Peow Studio)
  • Victor Martins Stay and You Don't Have To be Afraid of Me
  • Sylvia Nickerson All We Have Left Is This
  • Eric Kostiuk Williams Our Wretched Town Hall (Retrofit Comics)

Pigskin Peters Award

  • Eggshell 2 (ddogg) William Dereume
  • Winter's Cosmos (Koyama Press) Michael Comeau
  • Promising Jupiter Ron Hotz
  • 310, 310 (Peow Studio) Mushbuh
  • Retomber Xiaoxiao Li

2018

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Best Book

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Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

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  • WINNER - Jenn Woodall, Magical Beatdown Vol. 2 and Marie and Worrywart
  • 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)

Pigskin Peters Award

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  • WINNER - 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

2017

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Best Book

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  • WINNER - Bird in a Cage by Rebecca Roher (Conundrum Press)
  • 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

Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

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  • WINNER - Steve Wolfhard, Cat Rackham (Koyama Press)
  • 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

Pigskin Peters Award

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2016

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Best Book

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Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

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

Pigskin Peters Award

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  • WINNER - New Comics # 6 & 7 by Patrick Kyle
  • Leather Vest by Michael Comeau
  • 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)

2015

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Best Book

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  • WINNER - Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac (Jonathan Cape/Random House)
  • Ant Colony by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
  • 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)

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Pigskin Peters Award

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  • WINNER - Swinespritzen by Connor Willumsen
  • 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)

2014

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Best Book

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Spotlight Award

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  • WINNER - Steven Gilbert for The Journal of the Main Street Secret Lodge
  • 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
  • Georgia Webber for Dumb #1–3

Pigskin Peters Award

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

2013

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Best Book

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Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

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Pigskin Peters Award

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2012

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Best Book

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Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper)

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  • WINNER- 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

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2011

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

Best Book

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Best Emerging Talent

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Pigskin Peters Award

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2010

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

Best Book

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Best Emerging Talent

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Pigskin Peters Award

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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.

2009

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

Best Book

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Best Emerging Talent

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Pigskin Peters Award

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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.[14]

2008

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

Best Book

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Best Emerging Talent

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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

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2007

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

Best Book

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Best Emerging Talent

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

2006

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

Best Book

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Best Emerging Talent

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2005

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

Best Book

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Best Emerging Talent

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See also

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References

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  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. ^ "Announcing the nominees of the 20th annual Doug Wright Awards!". April 2024.
  11. ^ "Past Winners & Nominees". May 2024.
  12. ^ "Announcing the nominees of the 19th annual Doug Wright Awards!".
  13. ^ "Announcing the nominees of the 18th annual Doug Wright Awards".
  14. ^ Wong, Jessica (May 10, 2009). "Outsider tale Skim, quirky History Comics nab cartooning awards". CBC News. cbcnews.ca. Retrieved May 22, 2009.
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