The Big Night
The 2012 Doug Wright Awards Ceremony takes place on Saturday, May 5th this year at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall @ 7:00 PM.
Admission is FREE!
This year’s poster was designed by two-time Doug Wright Award winner Michael DeForge and will be available for sale at the ceremony for $20.00 (with proceeds going to The Doug Wright Awards).
Terry Mosher to be inducted to Giants of the North Hall of Fame
The Doug Wright Awards and TCAF are also pleased to announce that legendary political cartoonist Terry Mosher (“Aislin”) will be on hand at this year’s ceremony to be inducted into The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame.
This year marks Mosher’s 40th anniversary of publishing his acerbic and often hilarious cartoons in The Montreal Gazette. We are proud to have him in-the-flesh for an on-stage discussion about his colourful career and life with writer and Toronto Star columnist Rick Salutin.
Read more about the Giants of the North, Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame.
The Doug Wright Awards
The Doug Wright Awards were established to honour the legacy of the late, great Doug Wright by recognizing the best in Canadian comics and graphic novels. The prize is awarded annually to the author of the best Canadian work and the most promising talent published in English in the cartooning medium.
Nominated works must be published in Canada in the calendar year for which the awards are presented. To be eligible, a work must be a first edition full length or collection, written by a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada.
See the list of this year’s 2012 Doug Wright Award nominees.