Walter Scott

Walter Scott (born 1985) is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, He is best known for the Wendy series of graphic novels, published by Drawn & Quarterly.

Background Scott is from Kahnawá:ke in Quebec. He attended the University of Guelph, where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts.

Wendy Comics Scott initially created the character Wendy as a doodle on a barmat, satirising the types of characters in the Canadian art scene. After initially being released as a zine, the first book in the series, Wendy, was published in 2014. In a review for The Walrus, Chris Hampton noted that "Though Wendy’s escapades are fiction, Scott’s economical and expressionistic black-and-white cartoons may be one of the most faithful representations of a young artist attempting to climb the Canadian art world, with its hobnobbery, esoteric granting systems, imperative side hustles, and—most Canadian of all—the dream of success abroad. Wendy is a bit of a mess, but that’s at least partly because the art world she’s trying to crack into is pretty messed up too."

The third book in the series, Wendy, Master of Art was published in 2020.

In 2024 he published The Wendy Award.

Filmmaking In 2023, he was named one of the inaugural recipients of the Jeff Barnaby Grant from the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, to fund a film project.

Organza's Revenge, his debut short film as a director, premiered at the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the 2025 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, where Scott won the award for Emerging Canadian Artist.