Richard Thompson honored as Cartoonist of the Year

Alan Gardner May 29, 2011 1 minute 4 comments

Last night was the 2011 Reuben Award and division award. Richard Thompson took home the top honor of Cartoonist Of The Year for his feature, Cul de Sac. The other two nominees were: Glen Keane and Stephan Pastis.

In the division awards, the winners are:

TELEVISION ANIMATION
Dave Filoni ? Supervising Director / Production Designer, ?Star Wars: The Clone Wars?
Dan Krall ? Art Director, ?Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated?
Scott Wills ? Art Director, ?Sym-Bionic Titan?

FEATURE ANIMATION
Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, Directors, ?How to Train Your Dragon?
Glen Keane, Animation Director, ?Tangled?
Nicolas Marlet, Character Designer, ?How to Train Your Dragon?

NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION
Sean Kelly
Michael McParlane
Dave Whamond

GAG CARTOONS
Bob Eckstein
Zachary Kanin
Gary McCoy

GREETING CARDS
Jim Benton
Dan Collins
Teresa Roberts Logan

NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS
Brian Bassett ?Red and Rover?
Jeff Parker and Steve Kelley ?Dustin?
Richard Thompson ?Cul de Sac?

NEWSPAPER PANEL CARTOONS
Doug Bratton ?Pop Culture Therapy?
Chad Carpenter- ?Tundra?
Glenn McCoy ?Flying McCoys?

MAGAZINE FEATURE/MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION
Lou Brooks
Anton Emdin
Tom Richmond

BOOK ILLUSTRATION
Sandra Boynton ?Amazing Cows?
Jared Lee ?The 3 Wise Guys?
Mike Lester ?The Butt Book?

EDITORIAL CARTOONS
Bob Gorrell
Mike Lester
Gary Varvel

ADVERTISING ILLUSTRATION
Anton Emdin
Jack Pittman
Dave Whamond

COMIC BOOKS
Stan Sakai ?Usagi Yojimbo?
Chris Samnee ?Thor the Mighty Avenger?
Jill Thompson ?Beasts of Burden?

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Darwyn Cooke- ?The Outfit?
Joyce Farmer ?Special Exits?
James Sturm- ?Market Day?

Comments ⁴

Alex Hallatt

Yay, Richard and yay to Aussie cartoonist extraordinaire, Anton Emdin!

Daniel Boris

Way to go Richard Thompson, and all the Reuben recipients!
Congrats!

Phil Judd

Congratulations to Anton for a big achievement! Go the Aussies….:-)! And to Richard Thompson for are way overdue award. Well deserved. Here’s to many more years of Cul De Sac…

D. D. Degg

Don’t forget that Lucy Shelton Caswell, who recently stepped down as curator of the Ohio State Cartoon Research Library after 33 years, was awarded the Silver T-Square for outstanding service to the profession.
Also that R. O. Blechman received the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award because of his “lifetime of outstanding and accomplished work”.
And finally that Roy Doty joined a dozen other cartoonists in the NCS Hall of Fame when he was presented with the Gold Key Award.

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