Posted on: May 24, 2008

Shaun Tan was honored by the NCS in the category of Comic Books.

In the Category of Greeting Cards, Dave Mowder has been honored by the National Cartoonist Society.

Daryll Collins was honored with the NCS division award for best Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration.

Sanda Boyton has been honored by the National Cartoonist Society with their Milton Caniff Lifetime Acheivement. “When they called me to tell me I had won the award I was alone and so I sat down and thought about the honor and realized I might be older than I thought,” Sandra joked as she accepted […]

The National Cartoonist Society has awarded this year’s Silver T-Square to Stu Rees for his contribution to the organization in legal matters. His service has “saved the society an immence amount of money.” “Itâ??s been a real privilege to work for the NCS and individual cartoonists for the last 10 years now and I hope […]

Live notes during Sandra Boynton’s session who entitled her presentation as “Epistemological Foundations of Highly Erratic Image-Based Inquiry: the role of quasi discursive optimism in a vast and apparently indifferent realism” Sandra was born into a “government issued 1950’s family” and attended a quaker school. She went on to Yale (and learned all their fight […]

Notes taken live during Mort Gerberg’s presentation: When Mort began his career, he was told cartooning was a dying art, so he decided to diversify. Over the course of his career he did his magazine cartoons, editorial illustration, comic strips, cartoons for late-breaking news on television, appearances on children’s show, newspaper reporting, advertising designs, writing […]

I’m traveling today to New Orleans for the NCS Reuben Award weekend and won’t be actively blogging. I will be blogging throughout the weekend. If you go to my special Reuben Award 2008 page, you can see photos, as well as get the headlines and Twitter posts related to the big event this weekend.

While Wiley Miller opts to make his Reuben Award winner prediction in a retractable-less cartoon that’s set to print on Sunday – just hours after the formal announcement is made, Tom Heintjes, editor of “Hogan’s Magazine” has posted his predictions for all the division awards as well as the Reuben Award. NOMINEES FOR THE REUBEN […]

Normally I don’t post news over the weekend, but I’ll be attending this year’s Annual National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Awards weekend in New Orleans. The trip will be as much work as it will be pleasure. I’ll be posting photos and reporting on the speakers, awards and whatever on-the-record news items I discover throughout the […]

Today marks Scott Stantis’ 30 year mark from the first time one of his editorial cartoons was published. His first editorial cartoon was published in the San Pedro News-Pilot in 1978 for $10. I had actually sold the cartoon 10 days before but, for some reason, the editor held it. I was going out to […]

Cul De Sac creator Richard Thompson and Argyle Sweater creator Scott Hilburn will be featured on this week’s Washington Posts Meet the Comic Pages online chat. Washington Post Comics page editor Suzanne Tobin will be at this year’s National Cartoonists Society’s convention this year where the chat session will happen. You can send advanced questions […]

We can all decrement the count of staff cartoonists in the U.S. by one more as of yesterday. David Catrow has announced that he is leaving the Springfield News-Sun after 25 years as their editorial cartoonist to spend more time on illustrating children’s books and developing animated films. “It’s bittersweet,” Catrow, 55, said. “I really […]

Maumee Dearest © Kirk Walters Kirk Walter’s comic Maumee Dearest has turned 20. The weekly local political comic strip runs in the Toledo Blade (OH). Kirk explains how the feature came to be: It’s hard to believe that Maumee Dearest is now 20 years old. My editor at the time was Bernard Judy and I […]

From an interview with Brenda Bowen on the Publisher’s Weekly blog comes news that For Better or For Worse creator Lynn Johnston will publish a full-color children’s picture book that is scheduled to hit bookstores next summer. She says, In summer â??09, we also have a book by cartoonist Lynn Johnston, who is the author […]