What: The 2012 Doug Wright Awards
Where: Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario (Directions from TCAF)
When: Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30)
Admission: FREE!
The Poster: Poster Design for the Awards was done by previous Doug Wright Award winner Michael DeForge. Copies of the poster will be available for sale at the ceremony for the low, low price of $20.00 each.
The Details
- Geoff Pevere (by Chester Brown)
Hosted by writer, journalist and broadcaster Geoff Pevere, the ceremony will feature an on-stage discussion between writer and Toronto Star columnist Rick Salutin and political cartoonist Terry “Aislin” Mosher on the occasion of his induction into the Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartoonists Hall of Fame).
Nominees for the 2012 Wright Awards in attendance include: Seth, Chester Brown, Kate Beaton, Pascal Girard, Michael DeForge, Joe Ollmann, Zack Worton and many more! Come on out and help celebrate this once-a-year extravaganza of the best in Canadian comics and graphic novels.
Come see what everybody is talking about!
“The best awards presentation I’ve ever attended. For anything. Worth the trip to Toronto alone”
- Dan Nadel, PictureBox Inc.
“Two hours of pure comic book entertainment that kept the entire audience captivated. Quite, simply the best comic awards show in the world.”
- Peggy Burns, Drawn and Quarterly
“I wish there was an American comics awards that took itself as seriously as the Doug Wright Awards, but there isn’t.”
- Dustin Harbin, cartoonist
Below: Doug Wright Awards 2011 - Photo courtesy of Dustin Harbin
