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Tyler Landry is Canadian cartoonist who is the 2024 Doug Wright Award winner for best small or micro-press book.
Tyler Landry is a cartoonist from Summerside, who lives and draws in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on the east coast of Canada. He creates alternative comics and works as a cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, and instructor. He has previously worked in video game production as game artist and art director. [1]
He started the Charlottetown Comics Club for people who want to work on comics to get together with each other and jam. [2]
His graphic novel Old Caves was the winner of the 2024 Doug Wright Award for best small or micro-press book. [3] It also made the 2023 Comic Crush 100 Comics We Love. [4]
| Title | Publisher | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Wanderer of the Wastes [5] | Conundrum Press | 2024 |
 | By the Lingering Light of a Slowly Dying Sun [6] | Strangers Publishing | 2023 |
 | Old Caves [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] | Uncivilized Comics | 2023 |
 | Ignoble Deaths [12] | Self-published | 2022 |
 | Dungeonoids Volume 1 [13] | Self-published | 2021 |
| Opal (Dagger Dagger anthology) [14] | Second at Best Publishing | 2021 | |
 | Trabajar para Sobrevivir [15] (Working for a Living) | AIA Editorial/Buen Gusto | 2017 |
| Shit and Piss [16] | Retrofit Comics / Big Planet Comics | 2016 | |
| The Coward's Hole [17] | Study Group/Floating World Comics | 2016 | |
| Lonesome [18] | Study Group/Floating World Comics | 2016 |
Tyler Landry’s Old Caves won the 2024 Doug Wright Award The Pigskin Peters Award for best small-or micro-press book. [19] [3] [20]
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