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Watch all nine hours of the 2020 NCSFest and Reuben Awards as presented on September 12, 2020 at your convenience on Youtube.The NCSFest schedule to adapt to your viewing.

Nominees and Winners for the Divisional Reuben Awards for work in 2019. EDITORIAL CARTOONING   winner:   MAGAZINE/NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION winner:   NEWSPAPER PANELS winner:  GAG CARTOONS winner:  ONLINE COMICS – SHORT FORM winner:  ONLINE COMICS – LONG FORM winner:  ONLINE ANIMATION winner:  ADVERTISING/PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION winner:  COMIC BOOKS winner:  GRAPHIC NOVELS winner:  FEATURE ANIMATION winner:  TELEVISION ANIMATION winner:  GREETING CARDS winner:  BOOK ILLUSTRATION winner:  VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT winner:  NEWSPAPER STRIPS winner:  Silver T-Square:Gold T-Square:Jay […]

December 20, 2019 Letter from the National Cartoonists Society calling for submissions. Note that membership is not a requirement to submit and be considered for the divisional awards and the submissions deadline is January 23, 2020. 

above: a wonderful seasonal drawing by the wonderful Arnold RothThe NYC Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society will be hosting the 2019 Holiday Bash.When: Wed, Dec 11, 7-10pmWhere: Society of IllustratorsE 63rd between Park & Lex, NYCDetails at the NCS site.Early registration pricing ends on December 4, so book now to save a few bucks.  […]

Updating some recent posts. The Knight Life Ends.Keith Knight uses The K Chronicles to confirm the ending of The Knight Life. The Knight Life Still RunsAbove is The Knight Life running in this weekend’s Stars and Stripes newspaper. It is a repeat of the first 2019 Sunday strip. I don’t know if other papers will also do […]

Cartoonist Emil Abrahamian was featured on the local news back in July 2019 when he was 92, since that time he has celebrated his 93rd birthday.Watch via YouTube.Looking Good, Emil! Below: Emil’s National Cartoonists Society mini-bio card.    to the NCS Twitter feed.    

Lee served as editor and then president of Universal Press Syndicate, now called Andrews McMeel Syndication. In his nearly four decades at Universal, he is credited with editing and developing some of the iconic comic strips of our time, including Calvin and Hobbes, Cathy, Cul-de-Sac, Doonesbury, The Far Side and For Better or for Worse. […]

 For 25 years, from 1983 to 2008, David Astor reported on the newspaper syndicates for Editor & Publisher. Alan Gardner, the creator of this Daily Cartoonist site, called David “the founding father of syndication reporting.”Every week David reported on comic strips and political cartooning and puzzles and columnists syndicated to newspapers, both upfront and behind […]

Notice from the National Cartoonists Society:In case you’re not aware, the Great NCS Popeye Auction is underway on the Heritage Auctions website and closes this Sunday! Our NCS Popeye pieces are part of Heritage’s weekly Sunday Auction which includes many other comic art and animation pieces, but here’s a link to just the NCS Popeye pieces.Cartoonists from […]

I was president of the NCS from June, 1999 to May, 2001, and I ran two “Reuben Awards” conventions. The first was held at the World Trade Center in Manhattan the year before the towers were destroyed, and the second in Florida at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. Much of the work of the […]

The National Cartoonists Society is celebrating Popeye‘s 90th year (and Olive Oyl‘s 100th) by auctioning off a number of specialty drawings and other art and comic books for the benefit of the National Cartoonist Society Foundation.The National Cartoonists Society is celebrating the jubilees of these two beloved comic strip and cartoon characters with an auction […]

National Cartoonists Society President Jason Chatfield has sent out a State of The Society message to members with a look to the future of the NCS – and the brand new website. With permission, here is Jason’s letter to the members: Hello, NCS! Well, here we are. Just another American job outsourced to an immigrant. In all […]

Comic Con International, more famously known as the San Diego Comic Con, mostly spotlights comic books and movies; but there are a few comic strip cartoonists spread among the attendees.The National Cartoonists Society has a booth with cartoonists showing up throughout the weekend. Also there are some panels featuring comic strips and NCS people. Thursday July […]

 Longtime MAD contributor Sergio Aragonés just can’t imagine a world without MAD. Aragonés sees MAD as a way of presenting people’s foibles and the world’s problems with humor. “Instead of crying, you laugh at it,” he said, suggesting the magazine’s influence has reached a swath of humanity that includes politicians lampooned in its pages. “They say, […]

 Bado posted the news about the Association of Canadian Cartoonists and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists joint convention for 2020.Per Bado:We are happy to announce that Ottawa will be hosting, next May 14-17, the 2020 conventions of both the Association of Canadian Cartoonists and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.I had a few reactions.1. […]