2021
The Doug Wright Award (Best Book)
Winner
Lonely Boys
S. Bédard
(Pow Pow Press)
Nominees
Familiar Face
Michael DeForge
(Drawn & Quarterly)
Constantly
GG
(Koyama Press)
Paul at Home
Michel Rabagliati
(Drawn & Quarterly)
Wendy, Master of Art
Walter Scott
(Drawn & Quarterly)
The Nipper (Emerging Talent)
Winner
Veronica Post
Langosh & Peppi: Fugitive Days
(Conundrum Press)
Nominees
Adam de Souza
A Gleaming No. 2
(Self-published)
Kimberly Edgar
The Space In Between
(Self-published)
Courtney Loberg
We Don’t Go Through the Angelgrass I
(Self-published)
Shannon M. Reeves
Restless Bones
(Gytha Press)
The Pigskin Peters (Best Small- or Micro-Press Book)
Winner
The Noiseless Din
Scott Carruthers
(Popnoir Editions)
Nominees
The Desecration
Scott Carruthers and Sally McKay
(Self-published)
A Gleaming No. 2
Adam de Souza
(Self-published)
The Space In Between
Kimberly Edgar
(Self-published)
Awkward Pause
Ryan Harby
(Renegade Arts Entertainment)
The Egghead (Best Kids’ Book)
Winner
A Slug Story
Mandi Kujawa, Hana Kujawa, Claude St. Aubin, and Lovern Kindzierski
(Renegade Arts Entertainment)
Nominees
The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt
Riel Nason and Byron Eggenschwiler
(Tundra Books)
Okay, Universe: Chronicles of a Woman in Politics
Valérie Plante and Delphie Côté-Lacroix
(Drawn & Quarterly)
Grandmother School
Rina Singh and Ellen Rooney
(Orca Book Publishers)
Swift Fox All Along
Rebecca Thomas and Maya McKibbin
(Annick Press)
The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame
Fred Kelly
(17th Doug Wright Awards poster by Robb Mirsky)