2024 Doug Wright Awards (1:28:54, 203mb)
Introduction by Brad Mackay, hosted by Dustin Harbin.
Winners are in bold
The Doug Wright Award for best book:
Val-d’Or Neon by Olivier Ballou (Self-published)
A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll (First Second)
Harvey Knight’s Odyssey by Nick Maandag (Drawn & Quarterly)
Naked: The Confessions of a Normal Woman by Éloïse Marseille (Pow Pow Press)
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
JAJ by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Douglas & McIntyre)
The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent
James Collier for The Lonesome Shepherd (Wig Shop)
Vincy Lim for When I was a kid I was taught how to die. Now that I’m an adult I’m learning how to live. (I love you.) and When She Set Fire to My Friends’ Houses (Self-published)
Syd Madia for Syd Madia’s Dracula (Self-published)
Christopher Twin for Bad Medicine (Emanata/Conundrum)
Kyle Vingoe-Cram for Kettle Harbour (Conundrum)
The Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book
Endsickness No. 2 by Sofia Alarcon (Self-published)
The Lonesome Shepherd by James Collier (Wig Shop)
Old Caves by Tyler Landry (Uncivilized)
Power 9: Part One by John Little and David Little (Self-published)
Index by Sven, Rachel Evangeline Chiong, and Joyce Kim (Self-published)
The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids’ book
ThunderBoom by Jack Briglio and Claudia Dávila (Kids Can Press)
Pluto Rocket: New in Town by Paul Gilligan (Tundra Books)
Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks (First Second)
Otis & Peanut by Naseem Hrab and Kelly Collier (Owlkids Books)
Bad Medicine by Christopher Twin (Emanata/Conundrum)
Comic book artist Maurice Vellekoop and publisher Deni Loubert were inducted into the Giants of the North Hall of Fame by Fiona Smyth and Michael Cherkas & Larry Hancock respectively.
Memorial Tributes were made to Joe Matt and Phyllis Wright Thomas, widow of Doug Wright by Chester Brown, Seth and Brad Mackay.
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