Your 2017 Doug Wright Awards Winners

First-time winners dominated at last night's Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning, as Rebecca Roher, Steve Wolfhard and Henriette Valium took home the top honors.

Rebecca Roher won the Doug Wright Best Book Award for her Bird In A Cage from Conundrum Press. Steve Wolfhard won the Doug Wright Spotlight Award, which the PR tells me is called "The Nipper" by some folks, for the Koyama Press effort Cat Rackham. The great Henriette Valium took home the Pigskin Peters Award -- given to experimental or avant-garde comic -- for the Conundrum-published The Palace Of Champions.

Katherine Collins was this year's inductee into the Giants Of The North Hall of Fame, celebrating Canadian creators that have made a "life-long contribution to the field." Collins was recognized for her cartooning with the Neil The Horse character and her pioneering journalism for the CBC.

This year's jury was Sue Carter, editor of Quill & Quire and the books columnist for Metro; Alison Lang, editor at Broken Pencil; and cartoonist Dakota McFadzean, a 2016 Doug Wright winner.

More information, including word of newly crafted awards, here.
 
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