The National Cartoonists Society held their 65th Annual Reuben Awards dinner on Saturday at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Reuben Awards honor the year’s outstanding achievements in all walks of the profession.

Excellence in the fields of newspaper strips, newspaper panels, TV animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, book illustration, greeting cards, comic books, magazine feature/magazine illustration, and editorial cartoons, is honored in the NCS Division Awards, which are chosen by specially-convened juries at the chapter level.

The Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year is chosen by a secret ballot of the members of the National Cartoonists Society. The Reuben Award is the highest honor that the profession bestows. As with all the NCS awards, the winner need not be a member of the Society.

This year’s winners were:

THE REUBEN AWARD for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year:

Richard Thompson

TELEVISION ANIMATION

Dave Filoni - Supervising Director / Production Designer, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”

FEATURE ANIMATION

Nicolas Marlet, Character Designer (How to Train Your Dragon)

NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION

Michael McParlane

GAG CARTOONS

Gary McCoy

GREETING CARDS

Jim Benton

NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS

Jeff Parker and Steve Kelley “Dustin”

NEWSPAPER PANEL CARTOONS

Glenn McCoy “Flying McCoys”

MAGAZINE FEATURE/MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION

Anton Emdin

BOOK ILLUSTRATION

Mike Lester “The Butt Book”

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

Gary Varvel

ADVERTISING ILLUSTRATION

Dave Whamond

COMIC BOOKS

Jill Thompson “Beasts of Burden”

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Joyce Farmer “Special Exits”

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