The Field Nominated for Doug Wright Award

Dave Lapp’s graphic memoir The Field is nominated for the Doug Wright Award for best book! 🎉 📚 🎨

Heaps of congratulations to Dave and all the nominees of the 21st annual Doug Wright Awards. Taking place at the historic Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto, on Saturday, June 7, at 8 pm ET, the event will also be live streamed on YouTube.

“This might be the best story about childhood that I’ve ever read (or heard). It’s a masterpiece.” —Chester Brown

Dave Lapp’s memoir unpacks a long, hazy 1970s summer and reveals that when we look beyond nostalgia, childhood is complicated—and rarely innocent.

Dave’s on the verge of summer vacation and change is on the horizon. Developers have begun digging up a field on the edges of Dave’s universally familiar small town, presenting endless nooks and crannies for Dave and his fearless friend Edward to explore.

Over the course of the summer, while the town’s adults remain focused on their fractured marriages and neighbourly resentments, the children are allowed to run wild in the field, collecting caterpillars and tadpoles, catching field mice (which they smuggle home), and nursing a curious fascination with Dave’s mother’s matches and their potential for disaster.

As the summer meanders on, Edward brings a new friend into the circle. But Jack’s got a mean streak that’s strong enough to flip Dave’s world–and his place in it—upside down.

Pick up your copy of The Field here.