Previous Winners

The Doug Wright Awards were founded in May 2005 as a means of casting light on the wide range of cartoonists and comic artists working across Canada. The country's premier comic awards, The Wrights are named after Doug Wright (1917-1983) a cartoonist whose strip Doug Wrights Family (also known as Nipper) ran for more than 30 years across Canada and several other countries.

Read more about the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 nominees.

2009 Winners

• Best Book: Skim, Jillian & Mariko Tamaki (Published by: Groundwood Books)
• Best Emerging Talent: Kate Beaton, History Comics
• Pigskin Peters' Award: Matthew Forsythe, Ojingogo (Drawn & Quarterly)

Jury: Bob Rae, Andrew Coyne, Martin Levin, Joe Ollmann, and Diana Tamblyn.

2008 Winners

• Best Book: Ann Marie Fleming, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (Riverhead)
• Best Emerging Talent: Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Vols. 1 & 2 (Top Shelf)
• Pigskin Peters' Award: Julie Morstad, Milk Teeth (Drawn & Quarterly)

Jury: Katrina Onstad, Ho Che Anderson, Marc Glassman, Mariko Tamaki and Helena Rickett. 

2007 Winners

• Best Book: Joe Ollman, This Will All End in Tears (Insominiac Press)
• Best Emerging Talent: Rebecca Kraatz, House of Sugar (Tulip Tree Press)

Jury: Bruce McDonald, Mark Kingwell, Judy MacDonald, Lorenz Peter and Jessica Johnson.

2006 Winners

• Best Book: Paul Moves Out by Michel Rabagliati (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Best Emerging Talent: Lorenz Peter for Dark Adaptation (Pedlar Press)

Jury: Coming soon

2005 Winners

• Best Book: Seth, Clyde Fans, Pt I (D+Q)
• Best Emerging Talent: Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim I (Oni)
  

Jury: Chester Brown, Rebecca Caldwell, Nora Young, Jerry Ciccoritti and Don McKellar.

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