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2006 Doug Wright Awards

The organizers of the 2nd annual Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning are happy to announce that this year’s awards will be held on Thursday, Sept. 14th at the Ballroom of The Gladstone Hotel (admission is free).

The evening will kick off at 8 p.m. with the official launch of the softcover of the best-selling graphic novel, Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown. The launch will feature an on-stage interview of Brown by his colleague and good friend Seth – who is also a nominee for a Wright Award for his latest book, Wimbledon Green.

The awards ceremony will follow, with the trophies for Best Book and Best Emerging Talent to be handed out by Phyllis Wright (widow of Doug Wright).

Canadian broadcasting icon Lister Sinclair will also be on hand to help induct his friend, the late cartoonist George Feyer (previously on Drawn!), into the ‘Giants of the North’ (aka The Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame.)