The nominees for the 11th annual Doug Wright Awards, recognizing the best Canadian comic books and cartooning from the previous year, have been revealed.

A jury comprising cartoonist and teacher Fiona Smyth, Taddle Creek publisher and editor-in-chief Conan Tobias, and cartoonist Zach Worton chose the following shortlists from more than 200 submissions:

Doug Wright Award for best book

• Nina Bunjevac, Fatherland (Jonathan Cape/Random House Canada)
• Michael DeForge, Ant Colony (Drawn & Quarterly)
• Ray Fawkes, The People Inside (Oni Press)
• Jesse Jacobs, Safari Honeymoon (Koyama Press)
• Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, This One Summer (Groundwood Books)

Doug Wright Spotlight Award for artists deserving wider recognition

• Elisabeth Belliveau, One Year in America (Conundrum Press)
• Aaron Costain, Entropy #10 (self-published)
• Julie Delporte, Everywhere Antennas (D&Q)
• Meags Fitzgerald, Photobooth: A Biography (Conundrum)
• Simon Roy, Tiger Lung (Dark Horse)
• Sophie Yanow, War of Streets & Houses (Uncivilized Books)

Pigskin Peters Award for experimental comics

• Julien Ceccaldi, Comics Collection 2010—2013 and Less than Dust (self-published)
  
• Tings Chak, Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention (The Architecture Observer)
• Patrick Kyle, New Comics #3—5 (Mother Books)
• Henriette Vallum, Great Success! 1983—2013 (Crna Hronika)
• Connor Willumsen, “Swinespritzen” (Breakdown Press)

The winners will be honoured at a ceremony on May 9 at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival. As part of the awards, London Free Press editorial cartoonist Merle “Ting” Tingley will be inducted into the Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame.