The 78th Annual National Cartoonists Society Conference and Reuben Awards begins today August 22, 2024.
Some highlights include:
…charter buses for the short ride to the Comic Con Museum at San Diego’s famous Balboa Park. We will be treated to a delicious buffet-style lunch and enjoy private, docent-lead tours of the Museum.
…”Creative Collaboration: Muse Making Workshop,” hosted in the Comic Con Museum’s Conrad Prebys Foundation Art Studio. This hands-on workshop will have you doodling, coloring, and chatting together all in the spirit of creative collaboration.
…ComicLab’s dynamic duo Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar will record an in-person podcast in two parts, interviewing a cohort of guest creators to discuss what the second half of the 2020s has in store for cartoonists. How is the field evolving? What strategies still work and what new ideas are being pursued? Each guest will explore their career so far and share thoughts on what’s ahead. As an audience member, you’ll have the chance to submit questions for guests to answer live!
…Join the Co-Directors of San Diego State University’s Center for Comics Studies, Dr. Elizabeth Pollard and Librarian Pamela Jackson, and award-winning, Philadelphia-based artist and educator, Jamar Nicholas, to learn more about how comics are being used in higher education and preserved in academic library collections.
And much more including time for informal Attendee Networking and Meetups.
Culminating Friday evening with
…the 78th Annual Reuben Awards program begins, celebrating special honorees, remembering those we’ve lost, announcing this year’s winners for the Silver Reuben Divisional Awards and culminating with the announcement of the Reuben for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year!
A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
above: the NCS Playbill cover image by Ed Steckley featuring the Cartoonist of the Year Reuben Award nominees (clockwise from top left): Dana Simpson, Mark Tatulli, Will Henry, Darrin Bell, Daniel Clowes, and Hilary B. Price.
feature image by Johnny Sampson