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Doug Wright Award nomination

Yesterday the nominations for the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning were announced. I’m thrilled to have my yearbook project, Excelsior 1968, nominated for the new Pigskin Peters Annual Award for Non-Narrative Canadian Cartooning (what a mouthful!).  The new award celebrates works that are experimental in nature, or don’t follow a traditional narrative structure.  Cool beans!

It’s an honour knowing that my work was selected by the likes of Seth, Chester Brown, and Jeet Heer to be included for consideration. I’m nominated alongside some tough competition: Emily Holton’s Little Lessons in Safety, Julie Morstad’s Milk Teeth, and Chris von Szombathy’s Fire Away—my book being the only self-published one in the group.  Wish me luck!  The ceremony is on August 14th here in Toronto.