PAST EVENT
“This is Serious” exhibit at the Art Gallery of Hamilton
Gallery Show
Friday, June 21, 2019 to Sunday, January 5, 2020
11:00am
Doug Wright
Doug Wright (1917–1983) was a Canadian cartoonist whose weekly comic strip Doug Wright’s Family, a.k.a. Nipper, ran for more than thirty-five years in magazines and newspapers across Canada and the US.
June 27, 2019
Art Gallery of Hamilton features work of Chester Brown, Sylvia Nickerson, Kate Beaton and More!
Here’s an interesting art world experiment: type “are comics art?” into a search engine then tumble in...
October 17, 2012
AV Club praises D+Q’s Enfant line
The prestigious comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly has in recent years been in the business of making the kinds of k...
June 29, 2011
London Free Press delighted by NIPPER
Doug Wright’s comic-strip collection Nipper is an enchanting little book. Not only is it ideal reading for lovers ...
March 4, 2011
SEE recommends NIPPER 1963-1964 and TUBBY this holiday season
Given the last decade’s tremendous increase in comics publishing, an article like this shouldn’t come as a surprise ...
December 30, 2010
Nipper, Picture This, and Denys Wortman make Entertainment Weekly’s best of 2010 list
It was a good year for a wide array of comics collections and graphic novels. From superheroes to memoirs of old age to...
December 21, 2010
Robot 6 reviews NIPPER 1963-1964
Nipper 1963-1964 by Doug Wright. Utterly charming, inspired cartooning, done with a sharp eye for detail and drawn enou...
November 30, 2010
Newsarama reviews NIPPER, 1963-1964
Doug Wright’s Nipper acted as the Canadian equivalent to Bil Keane’s The Family Circus. There are many outward diff...
October 27, 2010
The Comics Reports suggests you read NIPPER 1963-1964 and see the world through DOUG WRIGHT’s eyes
There are a ton of things to recommend Drawn and Quarterly’s tiny gem of a reprint volume, Nipper: 1963-1964. The...