Brian Crane, Rick Kirkman Share This Year’s Reuben Award




Alan Gardner is where I went for the news when I got up this morning. Brian Crane (Pickles) and Rick Kirkman (Baby Blues) will share this year's Reuben Award, the NCS award for Outstanding Cartoonist Of The Year. I thought it might be Kirkman's year as a well-liked veteran with a mega-successful strip; Crane's strip is extremely well-saturated into that market as well. The other nominee was Stephan Pastis. The last time the award was shared was in 1968 when it was split between Johnny Hart and Pat Oliphant.

The award and the NCS Divisional awards, were given out during a ceremony last night in Pittsburgh during the NCS annual meeting.

Bernie Wrightson, Chris Ware and Jen Sorensen were among division winners, which follow in bold:

TELEVISION ANIMATION
* Todd Kauffman, Executive Producer -- Sidekick
* Alberto Mielgo, Production Design -- Tron: Uprising
* Rich Webber, Director -- Aardman Animation Studios, DC Nation

FEATURE ANIMATION
* Rich Moore, Director -- Wreck-It Ralph
* Joann Sfar, Director -- The Rabbi's Cat
* Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Director -- The Secret World of Arrietty

NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION
* Mark Brewer
* Bob Rich
* Dave Whamond

GAG CARTOONS
* Roz Chast
* Sam Gross
* Mick Stevens
* Jack Ziegler

GREETING CARDS
* Bill Brewer
* George Schill
* Jem Sullivan

NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS
* Brian Basset -- Red and Rover
* Jeff Parker and Steve Kelley -- Dustin
* Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman -- Zits

NEWSPAPER PANEL CARTOONS
* Tony Carrillo -- F-Minus
* Dave Coverly -- Speed Bump
* Hilary Price -- Rhymes with Orange

ONLINE COMICS -- SHORT FORM
* Graham Harrop -- "Ten Cats"
* Jonathan Lemon -- "Rabbits Against Magic"
* Michael McParlane -- "Mac"

ONLINE COMICS -- LONG FORM
* Vince Dorse -- Untold Tales of Bigfoot
* Meredith Gran -- Octopus Pie
* Pat N. Lewis -- Muscles Diablo: Where the Terror Lurks

MAGAZINE FEATURE/MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION
* Barry Blitt
* Daryll Collins
* Anton Emdin

BOOK ILLUSTRATION
* John Manders
* John Martz
* Dave Whamond

EDITORIAL CARTOONS
* Clay Bennett
* Michael de Adder
* Jen Sorensen

ADVERTISING AND PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION
* Luke McGarry
* Ed Steckley
* Wayno

COMIC BOOKS
* Amanda Conner -- Silk Spectre
* Evan Dorkin -- House of Fun
* Bernie Wrightson -- Frankenstein Alive, Alive!

GRAPHIC NOVELS
* Derf -- My Friend Dahmer
* Joseph Lambert -- Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller
* Chris Ware -- Building Stories

I'm not sure if it's the first year it was done, but doing the nominations and the winners I kept noticing that comic books were split into "comic book" and "graphic novel" categories, while there was also a short-form and long-form division on on-line comics.
 
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