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 Doug Wright Award nominees.
Your 2011 DWA Award Winners
The 2011 Doug Wright Awards took place as part of the Toronto Comics Arts Festibal on May 7, 2011, at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall.
Hosted by writer, director, actor and comics fan Don McKellar, the ceremony also featured a live chat between Seth (Clyde Fans, George Sprott) and David Boswell (Reid Fleming: World’s Toughest Milkman) on the occasion of Boswell’s induction into the Giants of the North Hall of Fame.
David Boswell Inducted to Hall of Fame
Vancouver cartoonist David Boswell, creator of alternative comic Reid Fleming: World’s Toughest Milkman, will join the Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame, the Giants of the North, at this year’s Doug Wright Awards.
Boswell’s work influenced a generation of alt-comix cartoonists, blazing the trail for independent and Canadian publishing efforts for years to come and presaging the sort of absurdist humour that has shot the ‘Adult Swim’ cartoons to worldwide popularity.
Boswell will participate, sign, exhibit, and participate in programming at The Toronto Comic Arts Festival. He appears at TCAF with the support of The Doug Wright Awards and The Beguiling Books and Art.
Read more about the Giants of the North, Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame.