The National Cartoonists Society, on May 26, 2018,
handed out awards at its annual Reuben’s Dinner.
Nominees for divisional awards with winners in bold.
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Editorial Cartoons
Clay Bennett
Mike Peters
Michael Ramirez
Newspaper Illustration
Greg Cravens
Glen Le Lievre
Dave Whamond
Feature Animation
Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert (directors) – The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales
Nora Twomey (director) – The Breadwinner
Lee Unkrich (director) and Adrian Molina (co-director) – Coco
Television Animation
Alan Bodner (Art Director) – Disney’s Tangled, The Series
Rustam Hasanov (Art Director) – Dreamworks Trollhunters
Sean Jimenez (Art Director) – Disney’s Duck Tales
Newspaper Panels
Loose Parts – Dave Blazek
Harry Bliss – Bliss
Off the Mark – Mark Parisi
Gag Cartoons
Pat Byrnes
Joe Dator
Will McPhail
Advertising / Product Illustration
Farley Katz
Johnny Sampson
Dave Whamond
Comic Books
Paper Girls 15 by Cliff Chiang
Black Hammer Secret Origins by Dean Ormston
Monstress Vol. 2 The Blood by Sana Takeda
Graphic Novels
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Spinning by Tillie Walden
Home Time by Campbell Whyte
Magazine Feature / Illustration
Peter Kuper
Tom Richmond
Johnny Sampson
Online Comics – Long Form
John Allison – Bad Machinery
Vince Dorse – Untold Tales of Bigfoot
Ru Xu – Saint for Rent
Online Comics – Short Form
Gemma Correll – Gemma Correll
Lonnie Millsap – Bacõn
Mike Norton – L’il Donnie
Book Illustration
Ryan T Higgins – Be Quiet
Adam Rex – The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors
Ed Steckley – Rube Goldberg’s Simple Normal Humdrum School Day
Newspaper Strips
Terri Libenson – Pajama Diaries
Mike Peters – Mother Goose and Grimm
Mark Tatulli – Lio
tip of the hat to Tom Heintjes
Do his gag writers get a portion of the award?