The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning (established in December 2004) are literary awards handed out annually since 2005 during the Toronto Comic Arts Festival to Canadian cartoonists honouring excellence in comics (including webcomics) and graphic novels published in English (including translated works). The awards are named in honour of Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright . Winners are selected by a jury of Canadians who have made significant contributions to national culture, based on shortlisted selections provided by a nominating committee of five experts in the comics field. The Wrights are handed out in three main categories, "Best Book", "The Spotlight Award" (affectionately known as "The Nipper"), and, since 2008, the "Pigskin Peters Award" for non-narrative or experimental works. In 2020, the organizers added "The Egghead", an award for best kids’ book for readers under twelve. In addition to the awards, since 2005 the organizers annually induct at least one cartoonist into the Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartoonist Hall Fame .
32-556: The Wright Awards are modeled after traditional book prizes, with the intention of drawing attention to the comics medium from a broad range of demographics inside and outside of its traditional fanbase. The Wrights have garnered acclaim as well as earning the support of a diverse range of participating artists and jurors including Scott Thompson , Don McKellar , Bruce McDonald , Jerry Ciccoritti , Bob Rae , Andrew Coyne , Sara Quin , Greg Morrison , Chester Brown , Lorenz Peter, and Nora Young . The Best Book and The Spotlight awards are
64-703: A reality television program in Canada called My Fabulous Gay Wedding . Thompson defended Mordecai Richler 's novel Cocksure in Canada Reads 2006 . He has continued to tour, and act in numerous movies and on TV. He joined the other Kids in the Hall to tour as recently as 2014, guest-starred in two episodes of Reno 911! , and performed in the project Death Comes to Town (2010) with fellow KITH members Dave Foley , Bruce McCulloch , Mark McKinney , and Kevin McDonald . He had
96-483: A social democrat and a " recovering Catholic ." According to the Canadian Who's Who , he enjoys baseball, football, fly fishing, cricket, films, art collecting, and jazz, classical and pop music. He has two brothers: Sean and Steven. He was married to Gail Donaldson in 1988; the marriage ended in divorce in 2004. He married Molly Montgomery in 2008, and has two stepdaughters, Chloe and Clara. His nephew, Dylan Kingwell ,
128-715: A general assignment reporter and editorial writer at the Globe and Mail and a course instructor in Yale College. Kingwell joined the University of Toronto Department of Philosophy as an assistant professor in 1993 after teaching at York University in Toronto during his postdoctoral fellowship. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1998 then to full professor in 2002. He has served as both Associate Chair (Undergraduate) and Associate Chair (Graduate), as well as Placement Director in
160-1693: A hat post. It was also designed by Seth. Each recipient of a Doug Wright Award also receives a custom-bound copy of their winning work. Source: The Doug Wright Award for best book Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper) The Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book The Egghead Award Source: The Doug Wright Award for best book Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper) Pigskin Peters Award The Egghead Award Source: The Doug Wright Award for best book Spotlight Award (aka The Nipper) Pigskin Peters Award The Egghead Award The Doug Wright Award for best book The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent The Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids’ book The Doug Wright Award for best book The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent The Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids’ book Doug Wright Best Book Award Doug Wright Spotlight Award (a.k.a. The Nipper ) Pigskin Peters Award (Jurists: Sara Quin , Michael Redhill , Anita Kunz , Marc Bell and Mark Medley ) (Jurists: Matthew Forsythe , Geoff Pevere , Fiona Smyth , and Carl Wilson) Winners of
192-469: A large wood-and-glass trophies which are engraved with images from Wright's comic strip (the one difference being the images that are etched on the glass). The award was designed by the cartoonist Seth , who admitted to some embarrassment at being the inaugural winner of the trophy he designed. The Pigskin Peters Award, named in honour of a character from Jimmy Frise 's Birdseye Center , is a custom, tailored derby hat with its own unique plaque that doubles as
224-479: A recurring role in the NBC series Hannibal , playing Jimmy Price, an FBI crime scene investigator. Thompson published a humour book, Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole , and a graphic novel, The Hollow Planet , based on characters from The Kids in the Hall , and has written and performed two one-man shows. In 2014, Thompson, in character as Buddy Cole, did a series of reports on The Colbert Report as
256-524: Is a Canadian philosopher , professor and former associate chair at the University of Toronto 's Department of Philosophy. Kingwell is a fellow of Trinity College . He specialises in theories of politics and culture . He writes widely in both scholarly and mainstream venues, and addresses specific topics in social justice, discourse ethics, aesthetics, film theory, philosophy of architecture and urbanism, philosophy of technology, and cultural theory. Kingwell
288-531: Is a Canadian actor and comedian, best known as member of the comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall and for playing Brian on The Larry Sanders Show . Thompson was born in North Bay, Ontario and grew up in Brampton . Named for his uncle, he later dropped the name "John" to simplify his name for the stage. He is the second oldest of the five children in his family. He attended Brampton Centennial Secondary School , and
320-453: Is a Life Member; University of California at Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society; the University of Chicago's Neubauer Collegium; Stockholm University Faculty of Law; Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Escola da Cidade, São Paulo, Brazil; and Baruch College, City University of New York , where he held the title of Weissman Distinguished Professor of Humanities. From 2001 to 2004, he
352-517: Is well known for his appearance in the documentary film The Corporation . He has lectured to academic and popular audiences around the world, and has delivered, among others, the George Grant, Harold Innis, Munro Beattie, William Morris, Marx Wartofsky, Norman Kretzmann, and Larkin-Stuart memorial lectures. He was invited to give the 2024 Vincent Massey Memorial Lectures but withdrew after disagreements with CBC producers. Kingwell describes himself as
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#1732883489236384-531: The Portland Queer Comedy Festival . In 2018, Thompson launched Après le Déluge – The Buddy Cole Monologues , a one-man show in character as Buddy Cole. In 2000, Thompson was living with his boyfriend, French documentarian Joel Soler, in Hollywood . Soler had smuggled footage out of Iraq to make an E! News-style satiric political documentary comedy, Uncle Saddam , about the eccentricities in
416-512: The University of Edinburgh in 1987 supervised by R. W. Hepburn; and both his MPhil and PhD degrees from Yale University in 1989 and 1991 respectively. His doctoral supervisors were Georgia Warnke (Philosophy) and Bruce Ackerman (Law and Political Science); at Yale he also studied with Karsten Harries, G. R. F. Ferrari, Jonathan Lear, Maurice Natanson, and Ruth Barcan Marcus. He was awarded SSHRC doctoral (1988) and post-doctoral (1991) fellowships. During this period (1985-1991) he worked as both
448-478: The 1975 Centennial Secondary School shooting at his Brampton high school, led him to process incidents of terror on micro- and macrocosmic levels through his one-man comedy show The Lowest Show on Earth . Thompson went on tour with this show and secured a spot in New York, off-Broadway. The posters—featuring Thompson lying supine on the ground with a big wad of semen dripping down the side of his face—went up around
480-770: The 2010 Doug Wright Awards were announced on May 8, 2010 in the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in the Toronto Reference Library , during a ceremony hosted by actor Peter Outerbridge . (Jurists: Bob Rae , Andrew Coyne , Martin Levin , Joe Ollmann and Diana Tamblyn ) Winners of the 2009 Doug Wright Awards were announced on May 9, 2009 at the Art Gallery of Ontario during a ceremony hosted by actor and director Don McKellar . (Jurists: Katrina Onstad , Ho Che Anderson , Marc Glassman , Mariko Tamaki and Helena Rickett ) 2008 saw
512-617: The Empire State Building, Nearest Thing to Heaven , was a Globe and Mail Notable Book in 2006. Other writing honours include the 2020 Erving Goffman Book Prize for Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface , a Humanist of the Year award in 2010, and National Magazine Awards for both Essays and Columns out of six total nominations. Alain Roy's French translation of Kingwell's book on Glenn Gould
544-642: The Gordon Montador Prize for social commentary; In Pursuit of Happiness: Better Living from Plato to Prozac , a cultural and philosophical critique of happiness that was a Globe and Mail , Los Angeles Times , and Baltimore City Paper Top Ten book in 1998, also a finalist for the Gordon Montador Prize; and Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City , which was a finalist for both the Writers Trust and British Columbia Non-Fiction Prizes in 2008. His book about
576-657: The Hall , Thompson and his writing colleague Paul Bellini collaborated in a queercore punk band called Mouth Congress. During the mid-1990s Thompson ran an interactive website, developed by his younger brother Craig and called ScottLand. It had a live-chat area, voting and comedy espionage and sold Buddy Cole T-shirts and video tapes of comedy sketches. He also appeared regularly on The Larry Sanders Show as Hank Kingsley's personal assistant Brian, and made numerous guest appearances on other television series, including Politically Incorrect , The Late Show , Late Night with Conan O'Brien , and Train 48 . Thompson hosted
608-675: The Humanities , Wilson Quarterly , The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine , Utne Reader , Adbusters , The Walrus , Harvard Design Magazine , LA+ , Border Crossings , Literary Review of Canada , Canadian Art , Azure , Gray's Sporting Journal , Toronto Life , the Toronto Star , The Globe and Mail , and the National Post . In addition to public writing, Kingwell frequently appears on television and radio as well as on cultural and political podcasts, and
640-476: The United States, but moved to CBS for its fourth and fifth seasons. Openly gay, Thompson became best known on the show for his monologues as "alpha queen" socialite Buddy Cole , and his appearances as Queen Elizabeth II , secretary Cathy, businessman Danny Husk, suburban housewife Fran, actress Francesca Fiore, and the demented old man in the popular "Love and Sausages" sketch. Concurrently with The Kids in
672-495: The city on September 10, 2001. The following day, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center made the one-man show's difficult material impossible to talk about. In March 2009, Thompson was diagnosed with B-cell non-Hodgkin's gastric lymphoma . He completed six rounds of chemotherapy and one month of radiation and is now cancer free. Mark Kingwell Mark Gerald Kingwell FRSC (born March 1, 1963)
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#1732883489236704-630: The department. From 2013 to 2019 he served on the Board of Trustees of Trinity College. He has been a board member for the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, Amnesty International Canada, The Walrus Foundation, and Continuum Contemporary Music, among others; he currently serves on the PEN Canada Advisory Council. He has held visiting posts at institutions including: Clare Hall, University of Cambridge , where he
736-513: The home life of Saddam Hussein and his family, which bubbled behind Hussein's dictatorial façade. Thompson wrote the narration for the movie, which was read by actor Wallace Langham . Following the movie's release, Thompson and Soler's West Hollywood home was firebombed on November 1, 2000. Thompson has discussed the details of this incident in interviews with Jesse Brown of Canadaland and fellow Canadian comic Elvira Kurt , as being inspiration for his future show The Lowest Show on Earth . In
768-568: The interview with Kurt, he says of the attack, "We were sleeping and a group came to our home. They filled our giant garbage cans with gasoline and set them on fire on our front lawn. They had buckets of red paint. They covered the house with it so it dripped off like blood. They put a note in the front hall that said, 'In the name of Allah, the merciful and compassionate, burn this Satanic film or you will be dead'. They underlined "dead" just in case we weren't freaked out enough". This, along with many other incidents throughout Thompson's life, including
800-756: The introduction of a new category dedicated to works that fall outside the bounds of traditional storytelling. Named after a character in the classic Canadian comic strip Birdseye Center , the Pigskin Peters Award recognizes experimental and avant-garde comics. (Jurists: Bruce McDonald , Mark Kingwell , Judy MacDonald , Lorenz Peter and Jessica Johnson) (Jurists: Justin Peroff , Alan Hunt and Ben Portis) (Jurists: Chester Brown , Rebecca Caldwell, Nora Young , Jerry Ciccoritti and Don McKellar ) Scott Thompson (comedian) John Scott Thompson (born June 12, 1959), known professionally as Scott Thompson ,
832-556: The program's correspondent for the 2014 Winter Olympics . In 2015, Bellini and Thompson uploaded all of their Mouth Congress recordings to Bandcamp , and they reunited the following year for several live shows to promote the release. They launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary film about the band; that film, Mouth Congress , premiered at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival in 2021. Around this time, Thompson performed his Buddy Cole monologues at
864-452: Was a witness to the 1975 Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting . He enrolled at York University but in his third year was asked to leave for being "disruptive". He joined the comedy troupe The Love Cats, where he met Mark McKinney . In 1984, Thompson became a member of The Kids in the Hall , whose eponymous sketch comedy series aired starting 1989 on the CBC in Canada and on HBO in
896-474: Was awarded the Governor-General's Literary Award in 2012, and his essays have appeared in the annual Best Canadian Essays anthology three times. Kingwell is a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine , the now-suspended literary quarterly Descant , the political monthly This Magazine , and The Globe and Mail ' s books section. He was also a drinks columnist for the men's magazine Toro . He
928-566: Was born in Toronto but grew up on air force bases across Canada, including the Maritimes and Manitoba, where he graduated from St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg in 1980. He studied philosophy, English, and political science at the University of Toronto, editing The Varsity through 1983 to 1984 and the University of Toronto Review in 1984-85. He received his BA degree from St. Michael's College with High Distinction in 1985; his MLitt degree from
960-766: Was chair of the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum . He has been awarded the University of Toronto President's Teaching Award and the Faculty of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award, as well as a Faculty Research Fellowship at the Jackman Humanities Institute. In 2000 Kingwell received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design , for contributions to theory and criticism. In 2018 he
992-561: Was formerly a political columnist for Adbusters and the National Post , and a contributing editor and television columnist for Saturday Night . He now writes regularly for the Globe and Mail ' s Opinion section and the online magazine HiLoBrow . Kingwell's work has been translated into nine languages. His work on philosophy, art, and architecture has appeared in many leading academic journals and magazines, including The Journal of Philosophy , The Philosophical Forum , Ethics , Political Theory , Yale Journal of Law and
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1024-607: Was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . Kingwell has published more than two dozen books since 1995. Most notable are: A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism, which was awarded the Spitz Prize for political theory in 1997; Dreams of Millennium: Report from a Culture on the Brink , which was a Maclean's magazine Top Ten Book for 1996 and finalist for
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