Columbus, Ohio | September 26-29, 2019 For its annual convention this year, the AAEC teamed up with Cartoon Crossroads Columbus and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.… Read More
LEE SALEM by Cathy Guisewite The package of scribbles my mother made me send to a syndicate in 1976 landed on Lee Salem’s desk. Any reasonable person would… Read More
June 12th, 2019 Re: Response to Editorial Page Editor, James Bennet’s statement: June 10th, 2019. On behalf of the membership of the National Cartoonists Society, the NCS board… Read More
Excellence in the fields of newspaper strips, online comics, newspaper panels, TV animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, book illustration, comic books, magazine feature/magazine illustration, and editorial cartoons, is honored in the NCS Division Awards, which are chosen by specially-convened juries at the chapter level. Read More
CONGRATULATIONS TO STEPHAN PASTIS, winner of the 2018 Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year. STEPHAN PASTIS is the creator of the daily comic strip Pearls Before Swine,… Read More
Each year, during the NCS Annual Reuben Awards Weekend, the Society honors the year’s outstanding achievements in all walks of the profession. The society’s greatest honor, the Reuben Award, is presented to the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. Cartoonists in various professional divisions are also honored with special plaques for excellence in the fields of newspaper strips, TV animation, gag cartoons, comic books and more.
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