Daily Cartoonist: Thompson, Pastis, Piraro To Battle For ‘10 Reuben Award





Alan Gardner over at Daily Cartoonist has it on good authority that the three cartoonists that will be finalists for this year's Reuben Award are Stephan Pastis, Dan Piraro and Richard Thompson. That's a really solid group, although I'd put Pastis -- an extremely (and somewhat below the radar for many comics fans) popular and well-liked cartoonist at about the number of years into his strip as cartoonists seem to be when they win the Reuben -- as a clear front-runner. I also thought Thompson was a year or two away from making the finalists group, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.

The Reuben is the NCS cartoonist of the year award, and has over time become more of a combination right-now/career award given to top-flight cartoonists by their immediate, strip-dominant peer group. Along with the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning, it is the single most prestigious award given out to a cartoonist in North America, and past winners include every dominant, popular strip cartoonist just about ever. The award and division-by-division honors from the NCS are given out on their big Memorial Day weekend shindig/drink fest/shmooze-athon at a ceremony perhaps best known for all the guys dressing up in a tux and all the women being paid attention to by guys in tuxes. The last three winners were Bill Amend, Al Jaffee and Dave Coverly.
 
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