2022
The Doug Wright Award (Best Book)
Winner
The Shiatsung Project
Brigitte Archambault
(Conundrum Press)
Nominees
Cyclopedia Exotica
Aminder Dhaliwal
(Drawn & Quarterly)
The Rock From the Sky
Jon Klassen
(Candlewick Press)
Stone Fruit
Lee Lai
(Fantagraphics)
Fictional Father
Joe Ollmann
(Drawn & Quarterly)
The Nipper (Emerging Talent)
Winner
Sami Alwani
The Pleasure of the Text
(Conundrum Press)
Nominees
Sofia Alarcon
Endsickness No. 1
(Self-published)
Brigitte Archambault
The Shiatsung Project
(Conundrum Press)
Alexander Laird
Sleemor Gank: Burg Land No. 1
(Self-published)
Kyle Simmers and Ryan Danny Owen
Pass Me By: Gone Fishin’
Pass Me By: Electric Vice
(Renegade Arts Entertainment)
The Pigskin Peters (Best Small- or Micro-Press Book)
Winner
Dwellings No. 2
Jay Stephens
(Black Eye Books)
Nominees
Endsickness No. 1
Sofia Alarcon
(Self-published)
Fruit/Soil
Kim Edgar
(Moniker Press)
The Northern Gaze
Akeeshoo Chislett, Chris Caldwell, Cole Pauls, Andrew Sharp, Juliann Fraser, Esther Bordet, Alison McCreesh, Keith Verbonac, Princess J, and Kim Edgar (editor)
(Hecate Press)
Sleemor Gank: Burg Land No. 1
Alexander Laird
(Self-published)
The Egghead (Best Kids’ Book)
Winner
Shirley and Jamila’s Big Fall
Gillian Goerz
(Dial Books for Young Readers)
Nominees
Simon and Chester: Super Sleepover!
Cale Atkinson
(Tundra Books)
Otter Lagoon
Mike Deas and Nancy Deas
(Orca Book Publishers)
Living With Viola
Rosena Fung
(Annick Press)
Over the Shop
JonArno Lawson and Qin Leng
(Candlewick Press)
Etty Darwin and the Four Pebble Problem
Lauren Soloy
(Tundra Books)
The Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame
Margaret Bloy Graham
(18th Doug Wright Awards poster by Elise Gravel)