The Collected Doug Wright is volume one in a two-book retrospective of the life and career of Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright who drew the popular Doug Wright’s Family aka Nipper.
The giant red book was edited by Doug Wright Awards organizer and journalist Brad Mackay with the help of Wright’s family, and designed by Seth, and it’s so shiny I can literally see my face in it.
The CBC has a fantastic slideshow of images from the book and some of Doug Wright’s cartoons. It’s great time to be a cartooning fan as we seem to be living in the Age of the Reprint Collection, and it’s particularly satisfying to now have a Canadian’s oeuvre represented in that lot.
Wright’s work is pure cartooning — concise, clever gags, all told without a single word of dialogue. Pantomime cartoons aren’t easy, and Wright managed to make a decades-long career out of it. Any cartoonist who feels they rely too heavily on dialogue owes it to themselves to study Wright’s work.
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Wow i didn’t know him or his work, i’m delighted, i’ve already pre-oredered it.