Wednesday, January 28, 2015

3 of 8 speakers at NCS annual meeting from DC

Tom Richmond, president of the National Cartoonists Society has posted the following:

2015 Reuben Awards Cover Art and Speakers

2015 Reuben cover ArtClockwise from far left: Nick Galifianakis, Mort Drucker,
Brian Crane, Doug Mahnke, Mark Anderson, Jeff Keane,
Ann Telnaes and Juana Medina- (Clicky to Embiggen)

Members of the National Cartoonists Society will be receiving the official brochure for the 2015 Reuben Award Weekend in their mailboxes in the next week or so. My cover art above. With it goes the announcements of the speaker lineup and special award winners:

  • Mort Drucker- First recipient of the "NCS Medal of Honor"; Speaker
  • Jeff Keane- Recipient of the NCS "Silver T-Square" for outstanding dedication to the Society
  • Brian Crane- Reuben winning creator of the syndicated comic strip "Pickles"; speaker
  • Doug Mahnke- Superstar comic book artist; speaker
  • Mark Anderson- Gag cartoonist, "Andertoons.com"; speaker
  • Juana Medina- Illustrator, first recipient of the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship; speaker
  • Nick Galifianakis- Cartoonist, author, illustrator; speaker
  • Ann Telnaes, Pulitizer prize winning editorial cartoonist; moderating a panel on "Cartooning and Free Speech"

Medina, Telnaes and Galifianakis are local to us.

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