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Harvey: NCS bias against non syndicated creators?
RC Harvey, writing over on The Comics Journal, raises a question about the bias of the National Cartoonist Society in awarding its top honor, the Reuben, to syndicated comic strip creators.
In this roster of the first 16 Reuben winners, only one cartooned outside of newspaper pages. Ronald Searle. All the rest were syndicated newspaper cartoonists. [...]
Posted on: Mar 9, 2010, Section: Awards, Comic strips, National Cartoonist Society, Reuben, Comments: 85 Comments
NCSF launches Help the Hodges fund-raiser
The charitable, not-for-profit arm of the National Cartoonists Society will be launching an online auction through e-Bay to raise money for the family of Tim Hodge, whose son, Matthew was involved in a car accident that resulted in him in a coma. His insurance has refused to pay for long-term recovery. Tim Hodge is an [...]
Posted on: Jan 20, 2010, Section: Auctions, National Cartoonist Society, Comments: 1 Comment
NCS Division Awards – Call for Entries
From Mike Lynch’s blog comes news the that National Cartoonists Society has announced their annual call for entries to their NCS category awards. This year, the professional cartooning association is adding a category for graphic novels. To be considered, the work must have been published between December 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009. Members of [...]
Posted on: Jan 11, 2010, Section: Awards, Contests, National Cartoonist Society, Comments: 0 Comments
Cartoonists groups respond to difficult times
Joe Strupp, writing in Editor & Publisher look at how the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) and National Cartoonists Society (NCS) are holding up in this struggling economy with membership numbers and conference attendance.
Rex Babin, president of the AAEC talks about membership in his organization:
“We are not solely a newspaper editorial cartoonists group,” says [...]
Posted on: Dec 17, 2009, Section: AAEC, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, National Cartoonist Society, Comments: 2 Comments
Jay Kennedy Scholarship deadline announced for 2010
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation has announced the deadline for the Jay Kennedy Scholarship for the best college cartoonist. Students in North America (Mexico, U.S., Canada) are eligible. Entries and samples must be postmarked by February 6, 2010. The winner is treated to the annual National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards weekend. Visit the NCSF website [...]
Posted on: Dec 15, 2009, Section: College cartoonists, National Cartoonist Society, Comments: 21 Comments
Richmond, Eliot, Cagle: reports from Middle East
We have three reports from cartoonists regarding their trips to the Middle East region. MAD Magazine artist Tom Richmond was part of the NCS/USO group that went to Iraq, Jan Eliot and Daryl Cagle went to Algiers for the 2009 Festival International de la Bande Dessinee d’Alger and then went on to Morocco (Eliot), Egypt [...]
Posted on: Nov 2, 2009, Section: Comic strips, International, Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, National Cartoonist Society, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 0 Comments
Cartoonist updates from the Middle East
Last week I reported that 10 National Cartoonist Society cartoonists were traveling to the Middle East with the USO to visit with troops. Due to security concerns, those cartoonists with blogs can’t identify their location, but some are reporting back their experiences.
Here’s the Stars and Stripes story about their stop at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center [...]
Posted on: Oct 20, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, National Cartoonist Society, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 1 Comment
NCS members visit USS Bonhomme Richard
Several members of the National Cartoonist Society boarded the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard to spend a day drawing cartoons for service men returning from pre-deployment certification exercises. Cartoonists in the group included Jeffrey Bacon (a retired Navy captain and the creator of the Navy Times’ Broadside and Marine Corps Times’ Greenside.), Chad Carpenter, [...]
Posted on: Sep 24, 2009, Section: National Cartoonist Society, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 2 Comments
Daryl Cagle: AAEC should date, not marry NCS
Among the discussion items at this year’s Association of American Editorial Cartoonists gathering in Seattle this week, is an item from current president Ted Rall who suggests the organization think about merging with the National Cartoonist Society. Daryl Cagle, who is a member of both and former president of the latter offers a few suggestions [...]
Posted on: Jul 1, 2009, Section: AAEC, Editorial cartooning, National Cartoonist Society, Comments: 6 Comments
Coverly, Tatulli interviewed about Reuben weekend
Tom Racine’s Tall Tale Radio podcast this last week featured Mark Tatulli and Dave Coverly, both winners at this year’s National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Awards Weekend. Tom takes the conversation into a post-Reuben wrap up and gets Dave and Mark’s reaction to the recent dust-up over Keith Knight’s cartoon over improving the NCS. Also appearing [...]
Posted on: Jun 16, 2009, Section: Comic strips, Controversies, Interviews, National Cartoonist Society, Comments: 13 Comments
Keith Knight on improving NCS; Cagle responds
Last week, Keith Knight posted a cartoon responding to his first time attending a National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben award weekend. In the cartoon he suggests various ways the NCS could improve the events which include: holding the conferences in smaller locales, being more inclusive to webcomickers and indie cartoonists, have more public events and organize [...]
Posted on: Jun 9, 2009, Section: National Cartoonist Society, Comments: 186 Comments
Reuben, NCS division awards results here live on Saturday
I’m closing shop down for the weekend to head to AZ for a family wedding. Thanks to Mary Anne Grimes at United Media and John Read of Stay Tooned! magazine, we’ll be able to bring you the results of the National Cartoonists Association’s Reuben Awards weekend. Mary and John will be texting me the results [...]
Posted on: May 21, 2009, Section: Awards, Blogs, National Cartoonist Society, Comments: 9 Comments
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