13 is Lucky Number for Tatulli
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How many times must a man be named before you award him the prize?
For Mark Tatulli it was 13.
Sarah Nicell at The Philadelphia Inquirer talks to the local cartoonist who finally took home NCS’s The Reuben (or here).
Mark Tatulli doesn’t know what made this year different from the last 12 times the National Cartoonists Society nominated him for one of the highest honors in his field.
But something did, since the creator of long-running comic strips Liō and Heart of the City finally won the biggest award of the annual celebration.
He had not expected his name to be called this time around, so the Gloucester County resident and Willingboro native didn’t bring his reading glasses for his acceptance speech. While it was an honor to have been nominated so many times, Tatulli said, he felt relieved to finally be off the docket.
“I’m looking forward to not being nominated this year and drifting back into the shadows,” Tatulli, 63, said…
Tatulli won the honor on his 13th consecutive nomination…
The Reuben Award — a bronze, abstract statuette designed by Goldberg — will live either on the mantle over his fireplace or down in his office, depending on where his wife wants it.
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