Complex sentence: Doug Wright (1917--1983) was the English-born creator of the long-running comic strip "Doug Wright's Family", or "Nipper", and the namesake for the Canadian Wright Awards.
Split into simpler sentences: Doug Wright (1917--1983) was an English-born Canadian cartoonist. Creator of the long-running comic strip "Doug Wright's Family", or "Nipper", he is the namesake for the Canadian Wright Awards.