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MAy 24, 2008 – NCS Reuben Weekend!

by on May.24, 2008, under Cartooning, Other Travels

As usual there were many seminars and meetings at the annual Natioonal Cartoonists Society Reuben Weekend. Here’s a sketch of the back of of cartoonings greatest enthusiasts and such a kind man, Bill Wilson, at one of those meetings.  2008-0524-ncsbizmeetbwilson.jpg

That night was the annual Reuben Awards.

Here is the big winner: Al Jaffee of Mad Magazine won the ‘Cartoonist of the Year’ award. He has been creating art for the mag for nearly fifty years. His fold-ins are as great as ever.With his was the Master of Ceremonies: Mike Peters of ‘Mother Goose and Grimm’. 2008-0524-ncs-jaffeepeters.jpg 
The next big winner was cartoonist Sandra Boynton with receiving the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. 2008-0524-ncs-sandraboynton.jpg 
2008-0524-ncs-reestom.jpg Two other big winners: Cartoonists attorney, Stu Rees, who received the Silver T-Square Award for volunteerism. With Stu is best Advertising Illustration award winner Tom Richmond.
Here is New Yorker gag cartoonist and author, Mort Gerberg with his award for best Gag Cartoon. He was also part of our Habitat for Humanity crew. I can only hope that I will have as much energy next year as Gerberg does now.  2008-0524-ncs-gerberg.jpg
2008-0524-ncs-billschorr.jpg Bill Schorr won for best Editorial Cartoonist.
2008-0524-ncs-norton.jpg After the awards it became a room full of crazies in tuxedos. Here’s cartoonist and scientific illustrator, John Norton. 
Cartoonist and great influence on me with his ‘101 Pickle Jokes’ many years ago, Don Orehek wears his chapeau.  2008-0524-ncs-donorehek.jpg
2008-0524-ncs-kovalesky.jpg Finally we find cartoonist John Kovalesky declaring himself the Best Dressed Dude of the evening.


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