Daily Cartoonist: The Reuben Award Finalists are Jaffee, Coverly and Piraro
Alan Gardner at The Daily Cartoonist is writing that he was tipped as to this year's finalist for the Cartoonist of the Year award by the National Cartoonists Society: one-time mainstream American comic book cartoonist turned MAD regular Al Jaffee (top art), Dave Coverly of Speed Bump (middle art) and Dan Piraro of Bizarro (bottom art). The award is known as "The Reuben," and is distinguished (not always successfully) from various divisional awards given out the same night (sometimes known as "a Reuben" -- although some might glare at you for saying so) and the awards program itself ("The Reubens"). Cartoonists know that other than maybe the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, there is no bigger honor in comics (or at least there's not yet one with this award's history and weight), and that no matter when it's earned it's a career-defining achievement.
