Events

The 9th Annual Doug Wright Awards
Hosted by Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall, Hannibal)
Saturday, May 11, 2013
7pm-9pm
Toronto Marriott Bloor Yorkville Hotel, 90 Bloor St E, Toronto, ON
Free Event

Founded in 2004, The Doug Wright Awards recognize the best in English-language comics (or translations of French) by Canadian cartoonists. The finalists for the 2013 Doug Wright Awards were chosen from a long list of more than 100 works and submissions published during the 2012 calendar year.

For full information on the nominees, judges, host, and the awards themselves, please visit http://www.wrightawards.ca/blog/.

The Poster: This year’s poster was drawn by 2012 Doug Wright Spotlight Award winner Ethan Rilly. Copies of the poster will be available for sale during TCAF and at the ceremony.

Come witness what everybody is talking about:

“The best awards presentation I’ve ever attended. For anything. Worth the trip to Toronto alone”
- Dan Nadel, PictureBox Inc.

“Two hours of pure comic book entertainment that kept the entire audience captivated. Quite, simply the best comic awards show in the world.”
- Peggy Burns, Drawn and Quarterly

“I wish there was an American comics awards that took itself as seriously as the Doug Wright Awards, but there isn’t.”
-  Dustin Harbin, cartoonist