Your 2018 Doug Wright Award Nominees; Duncan Macpherson To The Giants Of The North HOF



A slew of prominent cartoonists including Guy Delisle, Joe Ollmann, GG, Jesse Jacobs and Connor Willumsen sit on top of this year's nominees press release from the Doug Wright Awards. The wonderfully limited category program (three) also named the late Duncan Macpherson into its Giants of the North hall of fame.

Nominees are as follows.

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The 2018 Doug Wright Best Book Award, (best English-language GN published in Canada):

* Hostage (Drawn & Quarterly) Guy Delisle
* I'm Not Here (Koyama Press) GG
* Crawl Space (Koyama Press) Jesse Jacobs
* The Abominable Mr. Seabrook (Drawn & Quarterly) Joe Ollmann
* Anti-Gone (Koyama Press) Connor Willumsen (pictured above)

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The 2018 Doug Wright Spotlight Award / "The Nipper" (comics-maker or team deserving of wider recognition):

* Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes, The Case of the Missing Men (Conundrum Press) (pictured above)
* Gillian Blekkenhorst, All-Inclusive Fully Automated Vacation and House of Strays
* Eric Kostiuk Williams, Condo Heartbreak Disco (Koyama Press)
* Jason Loo, The Pitiful Human-Lizard Nos. 12, 13 and 14 (Chapterhouse Comics)
* Jenn Woodall, Magical Beatdown Volume Two and Marie and Worrywart

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The Pigskin Peters Award (experimental, unconventional, avant-garde):

* The Dead Father, Sami Alwani (pictured above)
* The Death of the Master, Patrick Kyle
* Crohl's House Nos. 1 & 2, Alexander Laird, Jamiel Rahi and Robert Laird
* Creation: The First Three Chapters, Sylvia Nickerson
* Potluck, Wavering Line Collective

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Duncan Macpherson (1924-1993) was an editorial cartoonist at the Montreal Standard, Toronto Star and at Maclean's. He was born in 1925, served during the Second World War. He studied art in Canada and the US. He began his career with the Montreal Standard in 1948. He won multiple awards for his work, including six National Newspaper Awards and the Royal Academy Medal. He died in 1993.

The nominating committee was Adrian Doran, Alexander Hoffman, Betty Liang, and Conan Tobias. This year's jury is Bo Doodley, Jim Muroe, Marc Ngui and Pamela Marie Pierce. The DWAs are held the evening of May 12 during TCAF weekend. Dustin Harbin is your host.

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