Thursday, August 16, 2007

The Wright Awards are Tomorrow!


The Doug Wright Awards are coming and ther's gonna be a shootout!

The 2007 Wright Awards take place in Toronto on Friday, August 17 at Innis College Town Hall (2 Sussex, @ St. George), 6:30pm-8:30pm. $5.00. Tickets available at the door.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

The Wright Awards Are Hard to Ignore



The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning are just 3 days away --this Friday at 6:30 pm in Toronto!

Aren't you just so excited about the Wright Awards that you can't sleep? Don't you feel like you could lose control and wet the bed or something? Do you feel the need to drink some water? The Wright Awards features only the hardest to ignore comics in Canada! And all this week Mystery Hoard is featuring classic comics by Doug Wright to celebrate --just click on the strip at left to see a Doug Wright strip starring the hard to ignore Nipper from a 1959 Weekend Magazine!

The nominees for Best Emerging Talent:

Gray Horses, Hope Larson (ONI Press)

House of Sugar, Rebecca Kraatz (Tulip Tree Press)

Was She Pretty?, Leanne Shapton (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)

Bacter-area, Keith Jones (Drawn and Quarterly)

Mendacity, Tamara Faith Berger & Sophie Cossette (Kiss Machine Presents...)


The 2007 Wright Awards take place in Toronto on Friday, August 17 at Innis College Town Hall (2 Sussex, @ St. George), 6:30pm-8:30pm. $5.00. Tickets available at the door.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

The Wright Awards: Celebrating the Best Smelling Comic Books in Canada!

doug wright cow brand baking soda comic strip cartoonist ad 1959


The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning are just 4 days away --this Friday at 6:30 pm in Toronto!

Are you tired of comics that stink? The Wright Awards features only the best smelling comics in Canada! And all this week Mystery Hoard features classic comics by Doug Wright to celebrate --just click on the strip at left to see an ad for Cow Brand Baking Soda from a 1959 Weekend Magazine!

I might even be there, and I have to drive 100 km to do it!

The nominees for Best Smelling Book:

Shenzen: A Travelogue From China, Guy Delisle (Drawn and Quarterly)

This Will All End in Tears, Joe Ollman (Insomniac Press)

Scott Pilgrim and The Infinite Sadness, Bryan Lee O'Malley (ONI Press)

Gilded Lilies, Jillian Tamaki (Conundrum Press)

Nog-a-dod, Marc Bell ed. (Conundrum Press)

The 2007 Wright Awards take place in Toronto on Friday, August 17 at Innis College Town Hall (2 Sussex, @ St. George), 6:30pm-8:30pm. $5.00. Tickets available at the door.

Monday, August 13, 2007

Countdown to The Wright Awards!


The Doug Wright Awards are just 5 days away!

Where will all the cool kids be this Friday night? At the Wright Awards, celebrating the best in graphic novels by both the seasoned pros and the sexy young newcomers of the elite and glamourous world of cartooning in Canada. The 2007 Wright Awards take place in Toronto on Friday, August 17 at Innis College Town Hall (2 Sussex, @ St. George), 6:30pm-8:30pm. $5.00. Tickets available at the door. If you're reading this, you're invited!

Get ready for the fireworks!

Juniper Junction comic strip by Doug Wright 1958

(Juniper Junction strip by Doug Wright, 1958)

Thursday, August 02, 2007

New Old Superman News

Some links about old Superman comic books:

1. A collector is offering for sale the correspondence between Jerry Siegel and National from the period of the first lawsuit over the ownership of Superman.

2. The website devoted to all things classic Superman, Superman Through the Ages, has a new home, supermanthrutheages.com

3. Joe Shuster once drew Batman.

4. You can watch the guy who wrote The Science of Superheroes talk about "Superman's boners" on youtube:



5. Clark Kent, DJ