Your 2015 Reuben Award Nominees





The National Cartoonists Society has announced its nominees for "Outstanding Cartoonist Of The Year" at its yearly awards program. This is the honor probably better known under the broader name of "The Reuben" -- it's the organization's big award, and thus bears the name of the awards-program entire. It's also one of the great two or three comics awards, period, a first-sentence-of-the-obit moment.

This year's nominees are

* Roz Chast
* Stephan Pastis
* Hilary Price

My hunch is that all three of those creators will be a Reuben winner at some point. It'll be closer than some people think between all three, although it's hard to look at the year Roz Chast has had behind Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? and not think of her as the front-runner. Still, it's an intriguing group. Congratulations to all three.

A win by Chast and Price would be the first by a woman in 23 years, and only I think the third in the award's history. Someone correct me if I'm wrong there.

The awards program also gives out several more honorary-type awards and a bunch of categorical ones, including this year Mort Drucker and Jeff Keane. The 2015 NCS meeting is the weekend including May 23, in Washington, D.C.
 
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