The Doug Wright Awards 2025

From the Doug Wright Awards Facebook page.

This Saturday,  the Doug Wright Awards will be back at the historic Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, to present its 21st edition.

Doors (and the bar) open at 7 and the show starts at 8. (Get there early or end up in the overflow room.) 

The bar will remain open after the show, making it the perfect after-party for TCAF Day 1. 

This is a free event, open to everyone, whether you're involved in the comic industry or not. There are no tickets and no need to R.S.V.P. We hope to see you there.

UPDATE:

I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together, by Maurice Vellekoop, is the winner of this year’s Doug Wright Award for best book (Publisher: Random House Canada).

Boum is the winner of this year’s Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent, for The Jellyfish (translated by Robin Lang and Helge Dascher) (Publisher: Pow Pow Press).

Customer Service, by Patrick Allaby, is the winner of this year’s Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small or micro-press book.

Lost at Windy River: A True Story of Survival, by Trina Rathgeber, Alina Pete, Jillian Dolan, is the winner of this year’s Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids’ book (Publisher: Orca Book Publishers).

This year’s first inductee into The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame is Lou Skuce (1886–1951), the newspaper and advertising cartoonist.

This year’s second inductee into The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame is Richard Comely, the publisher, artist, and writer best known as the co-creator of the iconic Canadian superhero Captain Canuck.