Suggestions for June tripping. Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2026 The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is taking place this weekend among the many special events will be the presentation of The 22nd Annual Doug Wright Awards. Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration holds its grand opening tomorrow June 5, 2026. We […]
The nominees for the 2026 Doug Wright Awards and Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame inductees have been announced.The nominees are:Best Book The Nipper (Emerging Talent)The Pigskin Peters Best Small or Micro-Press BookThe Egghead (Best Kids’ Book)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 […]
The Doug Wright Awards were held Saturday night in Toronto. A part of the ceremony there are cartoonists inducted into The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame. After 20 years of seating cartoonists into the Hall of Fame they finally got around to installing Lou Skuce, aka “Canada’s Greatest Cartoonist,” as […]