The Doug Wright Awards Nominees Announced
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The nominees for the 2026 Doug Wright Awards and Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame inductees have been announced.
The nominees are:
Best Book
- Holy Lacrimony, Michael DeForge, Drawn & Quarterly
- Muybridge, Guy Delisle, Drawn & Quarterly
- Cannon, Lee Lai, Drawn & Quarterly
- Salt Green Death, Katarina Thorsen, Conundrum
- The Last Band on Earth, Elaine M. Will, Renegade Arts Entertainment
The Nipper (Emerging Talent)
- Mollie Cronin, Future Me Is Fat, Conundrum
- Jordana Globerman, Soul Machine, Annick Press
- Stefano Jun, Modern Asian Family: Straight Outta Busan, Renegade Arts Entertainment
- Alex Swift, The Connoisseurs, Frog Farm
- Lis Xu, Layover and Mad, Self-published & Raccoon Rescue, Gytha Press
The Pigskin Peters Best Small or Micro-Press Book
- Life After Life, Joshua Barkman, Self-published
- Soft Serve & Nosferatu, Matthew Daley, Self-published
- Old Souls, Jackarais, Cloudscape Comics Society
- Mobile Gang Fortress, Alexander Laird, Frog Farm
- Pass Me By: Lily, Kat Simmers and Ryan Danny Owen, Renegade Arts Entertainment
The Egghead (Best Kids’ Book)
- Way off Track, Carl Brundtland and Claudia Dávila, Kids Can Press
- Howler Reef, Mike Deas and Nancy Deas, Orca Book Publishers
- Fantastic Lou, Qin Leng, Tundra
- Paisley & Peck: Jurassic Farm, J. Torres and Mike Deas, Owlkids
- My Sister the Werebeast, Alina Tysoe, First Second
Additionally Emily Hearn (1925–2015) and Mark Thurman, the co-creators of The Mighty Mites, which appeared for many years in Owl magazine; and Arch Dale (1882–1962), an editorial cartoonist and the creator of The Doo Dads will be inducted into the The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame.
Winners will be announced June 6 in Toronto at their 22nd annual event. The event will also be streamed live on Youtube.
The Doug Wright Awards were founded in 2005 to celebrate excellence in the field of Canadian comics. The awards are named for Doug Wright (1917–1983), the creator of the long-running strip Doug Wright’s Family (a.k.a. Nipper), one of the most widely read and loved Canadian comics of the twentieth century.
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