Your 2017 Doug Wright Awards Nominees



Cartoonist and journalist Katherine Collins of Neil The Horse fame is headed to the Giants of the North Hall of Fame as the Doug Wright Awards fires up its nominees slate for the 13th annual edition of its Canadian-comics awards program. Big names and DWA darlings such as Chester Brown, Michael DeForge and Julie Doucet are among this year's nominees.

DWA Administrator Brad Mackay made the announcement this morning via e-mailed press release. The DWAs are a featured event of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and are schedule for May 14 during that show.

As Arn Saba, Collins was a key journalist in the coverage of comics and a prolific cartoonist from the 1970s into the 1980s. Saba was the producer and host of CBC Radio's "The Continuous Art" in 1979, which featured cartoonists such as Jules Feiffer and Milton Caniff speaking to the cultural discouragement that surround the form during that era.

Collins' character Neil The Horse was a newspaper feature 1975 to 1982 and an indie-comics darling from 1983 to 1988 at Aardvark-Vanaheim and later Renegade Press. The animation and musical feel to the comic was unique for its -- and perhaps any -- time.

Collins will accept her award in person.

Here are the yearly-award nominees for this year's Doug Wright Awards.

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Doug Wright Best Book Award
(Best Book Published In Canada In English)

* Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Big Kids, Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Burt's Way Home, John Martz (Koyama Press)
* The Envelope Manufacturer, Chris Oliveros (self-published)
* Bird in a Cage, Rebecca Roher (Conundrum Press)


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Doug Wright Spotlight Award AKA "The Nipper"
(Canadian Cartoonist Deserving Of Wider Recognition)

* 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, an untitled story from š! No. 6 (kuš!), various web comics
* Steve Wolfhard, Cat Rackham (Koyama Press)

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Pigskin Peters Award
(Most Experimental, Unconventional Or Avant-Garde Comic)

* Carpet Sweeper Tales, Julie Doucet (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Draw Blood, Ron Hotz (self-published)
* Garbage, Matthew Reichertz (Conundrum Press)
* After Land, Chris Taylor (Floating World Comics)
* The Palace of Champions, Henriette Valium (Conundrum Press)

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The awards program is essentially double-juried: finalists were prepared by Sean Rogers, Joe Ollmann and Betty Liang. Winners will be decided by Dakota McFadzean, Sue Carter.

Admission to the awards is free but the seating is limited.

Congratulations to all the nominees and to Ms. Collins.

photo supplied by Brad Mackay; thanks, Brad

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