Your 2008 Reuben Awards Winners



The National Cartoonist Society (NCS) gave out its yearly awards during its annual meeting, this year in New Orleans, Louisiana. Longtime MAD artist was considered by most observers to be an obvious and runaway winner of "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year," otherwise known as "the Reuben." I'm not cognizant enough of how the divisional votes tend to turn out for me to comment on any surprises in those categories. Divisions of interest to comics readers might include Shaun Tan's win in the "Comic Book" category for The Arrival and Jim (Monty) Meddick's win in "Newspaper Strips."

I do know that the Reuben and the NCS division awards have a reputation for 1) rewarding creators that have been around a while or that are seen as having properly paid their dues maybe more than first-time nominees or those early in their careers, and 2) rewarding creators in non-popular categories according to their better-known work. To be honest, I couldn't tell you if those two characterizations are deserved or not.

As noted in a billion places, Jaffee's win was considered such a foregone conclusion that Wiley Miller felt comfortable congratulating him in a strip submitted weeks ahead of the formal notification.

OUTSTANDING CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR
Dave Coverly
Al Jaffee
Dan Piraro

ADVERTISING ILLUSTRATION
Jack Pittman
Tom Richmond
Tom Stiglich

ANIMATION FEATURE
Brad Bird, Ratatouille
Sylvain Deboissy, Surf's Up
David Silverman, The Simpsons Movie

ANIMATION TELEVISION
Sandra Equiha & Jorge Guiterrez, El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
Stephen Silver, Kim Possible
Richard Webber, Purple and Brown

BOOK ILLUSTRATION
Nancy Beiman, Prepare to Board
Sandra Boynton, Blue Moo
Jay Stephens, Robots!

COMIC BOOKS
Nick Abadzis, Laika
Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
Shaun Tan, The Arrival

EDITORIAL CARTOONS
Gary Brookins
Michael Ramirez
Bill Schorr

GAG CARTOONS
Benita Epstein
Mort Gerberg
Glenn McCoy

GREETING CARDS
Gary McCoy
Glenn McCoy
Dave Mowder

MAGAZINE FEATURE/MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION
Daryll Collins
John Klossner
Tom Richmond

NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION
Drew Friedman
Sean Kelly
Ed Murawinski

NEWSPAPER PANELS
Chad Carpenter, Tundra
Glenn & Gary McCoy, The Flying McCoys
Kieran Meehan, Meehan

NEWSPAPER STRIPS
Paul Gilligan, Pooch Cafe
Jim Meddick, Monty
Richard Thompson, Cul De Sac

MILTON CANIFF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Sandra Boynton
 
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