Matthew Dooley's Flake became the first graphic novel to win the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, "celebrating the novels that have really made people laugh in the past year." Dooley receives a jeroboam of Bollinger Special Cuvée, a case of Bollinger La Grande Année and a complete set of the Everyman's Library Wodehouse.
"Usually, the winner of the Wodehouse is also presented at the Hay festival with a pig named after their winning title," the Guardian noted, "but organizers said that 'with the current situation not allowing for a physical pig,' Dooley has drawn his own interpretation of what might have been."
Judge and publisher David Campbell said, "We had none of us, I think, expected a graphic novel to win, but we were all captivated by Flake." Judge Sindhu Vee called the book "a rare joy: a laugh out loud story with characters you want to meet again and again."
Noting that he was "surprised, overwhelmed and elated" by the news, Dooley said: "Flake was published on April 2, amidst a huge, bewildering global crisis. It's been a very strange experience. Winning the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize means it's just got stranger in the best possible way. Now, how on earth do you chill a bottle of champagne that big...?"