Cousins and collaborators Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki have been nominated for the 2024 Doug Wright Award for his or her YA graphic novel Roaming.
Based in 2005, the Doug Wright Awards have been awarded yearly to rejoice the very best in comics throughout Canada. They’re named after influential Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright.
This 12 months, 200 entries had been submitted to be thought of in 4 classes: finest ebook, rising expertise, small or micro-press ebook and youngsters’ ebook.
Every winner will obtain a small money prize and the winner of the Nipper Award will obtain a week-long keep on the Valleyview Artist Retreat.
Roaming is nominated for the Doug Wright Award for finest ebook. It follows finest pals Zoe and Dani on a visit to New York Metropolis throughout their first 12 months of faculty. As a queer romance blossoms between Zoe and Dani’s classmate Fiona — who tags alongside — friendships get put to the check and all three women study extra about who they’re.
Jillian Tamaki is a Toronto-based cartoonist, illustrator and educator. Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki additionally co-created the YA graphic novel Skim, which received the Governor Normal’s Literary Award for younger individuals’s literature — textual content. One other collaboration, This One Summer season, received the Governor Normal’s Literary Award for younger individuals’s literature — illustration.
Mariko Tamaki is a author primarily based in Oakland, Calif. Her different books embody the YA novels (you) Set Me On Hearth and Saving Montgomery Sole. She’s additionally the writer of many superhero comics for DC Comics, Darkhorse and Marvel.
The Subsequent Chapter18:14Mariko and Jillian Tamaki on Roaming and exploring New York Metropolis with school pals
The Canadian cousins and artistic collaborators’ new graphic novel Roaming explores school pals getting a style of maturity within the Large Apple.
Alberta-based author and illustrator Christopher Twin earned nominations for each the Nipper Award for rising expertise and the Egghead Award for finest youngsters’ ebook. He’s acknowledged for his graphic novel, Dangerous Medication. Impressed by Cree folklore and trendy Cree life, it follows 5 teenagers who share chilling horror tales round a campfire.
Dangerous Medication was additionally on the 2024 Canada Reads longlist.
Twin is from the Swan River First Nations reservation in northern Alberta. At the moment primarily based in Edmonton, he does comedian work and illustrations as a freelancer.
Religion Erin Hicks, a comics creator primarily based in Vancouver, can also be nominated for an Egghead Award for Hockey Lady Loves Drama Boy.
In Hockey Lady Loves Drama Boy, a hockey participant named Alix is prone to shedding her alternative to play on the Ladies’s U18 crew when she loses her fast mood whereas confronting a impolite teammate. Alix asks Ezra, a relaxed and poised boy from the drama membership, to assist her management her anger. Via this course of, they get nearer and study extra about one another — might their relationship be greater than only a friendship?
The Doug Wright Award shortlist consists of:
The Nipper Award is granted to the very best rising expertise. The shortlist consists of:
The Pigskin Peters Award acknowledges the very best small or micro-press ebook. The shortlist consists of:
- Endsickness No. 2 by Sofia Alarcon
- The Lonesome Shepherd by James Collier
- Outdated Caves by Tyler Landry
- Energy 9: Half One by John Little and David Little
- Index by Sven, Rachel Evangeline Chiong and Joyce Kim
The Egghead Award is for the very best youngsters’ ebook. The shortlist consists of:
Nominees and winners are chosen by a panel of three judges per class.
This 12 months’s judges embody Christian Giroux, Emily Gordon, Chris Houston, Vivi Partridge, JoAnn Purcell, Salgood Sam, Graham Sigurdson, Cory Silverberg, Myriam Steinberg, Irene Velentzas, Georgia Webber and Elaine Will.
Writer Deni Loubert and cartoonist Maurice Vellekoop will probably be inducted into the Canadian Cartooning Corridor of Fame, Giants of the North.
The Doug Wright Awards winners will probably be introduced at an in-person and livestreamed gala occasion in Toronto on Might 11, 2024.
