Dave Lapp is a cartoonist who lives in
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
,
Ontario
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, Canada.
[Neil Gaiman, ed., The Best American Comics 2010 (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 322] He worked at a city
drop-in center
A drop-in center is a service agency for either the mentally ill, homeless people, teenagers, and other communities that offers a place where people can go to obtain food and other services. A mental health drop-in center can provide a friendly en ...
, but has been creating alternative comics for more than ten years.
Works
His ''Drop-In'' was nominated for the category of Outstanding Graphic Novel at the 2009
Ignatz Awards
The Ignatz Awards recognize outstanding achievements in comics and cartooning by small press creators or creator-owned projects published by larger publishers. They have been awarded each year at the Small Press Expo since 1997, only skipping a ...
["2009 Ignatz Award Recipients , Small Press Expo" http://www.spxpo.com/2009-ignatz-award-recipients, retrieved on June 12, 2011] and for Best Book at the same year's
Doug Wright Award
The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning (established in December 2004) are literary awards handed out annually since 2005 during the Toronto Comic Arts Festival to Canadian cartoonists honouring excellence in comics (including webcomics) ...
s.
[Mark Medley, "Finalists for the 2009 Doug Wright Awards announced,"
''The Afterword'' (''National Post'' books blog), March 17, 2009, http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/03/17/finalists-for-the-2009-doug-wright-awards-announced.aspx ] An excerpt from ''Drop-In'' was also chosen for the anthology ''The Best American Comics 2010''.
Lapp writes the newspaper strip ''Children of the Atom'' for ''
The Georgia Straight'' which has been published as a collection by
Conundrum Press.
[Gavin Lees, "Children of the Atom," ''The Comics Journal'', July 7, 2010. http://classic.tcj.com/alternative/children-of-the-atom-by-dave-lapp/]
References
Artists from Toronto
Canadian comic strip cartoonists
Canadian comics writers
Canadian comics artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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