AUArts Alumni Kat Simmers, BDes '17, VCD and Ryan Danny Owen, BFA '17, Drawing have been nominated for the The Nipper: The 2022 Doug Wright Award for Emerging Talent.
This nomination is for their collaboration "Pass Me By: Gone Fishin'" and "Pass Me By: Electric Vice" (Renegade Arts Entertainment).
Winners will be announced at an outdoor ceremony in Harold Town Park in downtown Toronto on Sunday, June 19, 2022.
The Doug Wright Awards were founded in 2005 to celebrate excellence in the field of Canadian comics. The awards are named for Doug Wright (1917–1983), the creator of the long-running strip Doug Wright’s Family (a.k.a. Nipper), one of the most widely read and loved Canadian comics of the twentieth century.