Your 2016 Doug Wright Award Nominees

The Doug Wright Awards For Canadian Cartooning has announced the finalists for its annual awards program, a featured event at TCAF (Toronto Comic Arts Festival) held on its Saturday evening (this year May 14).

The Doug Wrights distinguish themselves from other popular comics awards program because they are made up of three categories -- all of which focus on Canadian cartooning. They are Best Book, which is self-explanatory; the Doug Wright Spotlight Award, also called "The Nipper" (by whom I'm not sure), which goes to a Canadian cartoonist deserving of wider recognition; and the Pigskin Peters award, which recognizes "experimental, unconventional, and avant-garde Canadian comics." There is also an entry into the Hall Of Fame, or as the awards program puts it, "the Giants of the North Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame."

This year's inductee is James Simpkins (1910-2004), the creator of Jasper the Bear.

The finalists as announced today are below. One thing that'a a bit difference is a big resurgence of finalists published by Drawn and Quarterly, whose presence had been surprisingly light at one or two of the recent programs.

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Best Book

* Dressing, Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
* Melody, Sylvie Rancourt (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Palookaville #22, Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Step Aside, Pops!, Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Stroppy, Marc Bell (Drawn & Quarterly)
* SuperMutant Magic Academy, Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)

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Doug Wright Spotlight Award (aka "The Nipper")

* Ted Gudlat for Funny Ha-Has (Roads Publishing)
* Dakota McFadzean for Don't Get Eaten By Anything (Conundrum Press)
* Rebecca Roher for Mom Body (The Nib)
* Sabrina Scott for Witchbody (Self-Published)
* Kat Verhoeven for Towerkind (Conundrum Press)

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Pigskin Peters Award

* Leather Vest by Michael Comeau
* New Comics #6-7 by Patrick Kyle
* Intelligent Sentient? by Luke Ramsey (Drawn & Quarterly)
* We Are Going To Bremen To Be Musicians by Tin Can Forest and Geoff Berner
* Agalma by Stanley Wany (Éditions Trip)

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