2014 Reuben Awards Speakers

The official 2014 Reuben Awards brochure should be in members mailboxes by now! Here’s the speaker lineup for the big Reuben Awards weekend:

• Eddie Pittman– Animator, illustrator, creator of the online graphic novel Red’s Planet
• Chris Houghton– Animator, comic artist, illustrator, 2009 winner of the NCSF Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship
• Greg Evans– 2003 Reuben Award winning creator of the syndicated comic strip Luann.
• Suzy Spafford– Creator of Suzy’s Zoo, greeting card/product/licensing entrepenuer
• The Art of Rube Goldberg– with Rube’s grand daughter Jennifer George and Abram’s editor Charles Kochman
• Sandra Bell-Lundy– Creator of the syndicated comic strip Between Friends, which is celebrating 20 years in syndication.
• Bunny Hoest Carpenter and John Reiner– Recipients of the 2014 NCS Gold Key Award (The NCS Hall of Fame), creative team on the syndicated panel cartoon The Lockhorns
• Russ Heath– Comics legend and recipient of the 2014 NCS Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award

The Reuben Awards show will also feature:

• Tom Gammill– TV writer, producer on The Simpsons and the host of the Reuben Awards show
• “Weird Al” Yankovic– Grammy winning musician, humorist, winner of the 2014 NCS A.C.E. Award (Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinaire)

Along the way we’ll have some fun parties, sing some karaoke, draw during a public meet and greet aboard the USS MIDWAY and honor a few cartoonists with some awards.

The 2014 Reuben Awards Weekend will take place May 23rd-25th in San Diego, CA!