Congratulations to the 2018 NCS Divisional Award nominees for the 73rd Annual NCS Reuben Awards! The winners will be announced on May 18th, 2019 in Huntington Beach, CA.
Editorial Cartoons
Clay Bennett
Michael Ramirez
Rob Rogers
Magazine / Newspaper Illustration
Tom Bunk
Amy Kurzweil
Jim Woodring
Feature Animation
Shiyoon Kim (Character Design) – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Peter Ramsay (Director) – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Justin K. Thompson (Production Design) – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Television Animation
Samuel Deats (Character Design) – Castlevania (Netflix)
Scott Lewis (Character Animation) – Hilda (Netflix)
Chris Mitchell, Keiko Murayama (Character Design) – The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (Amazon Prime)
Newspaper Panels
Dave Blazek – Loose Parts
Mark Parisi – Off the Mark
Jerry Van Amerongen – Ballard Street
Gag Cartoons
Joe Dator
Pia Guerra
Amy Hwang
Advertising / Product Illustration
James Lyle
Luke McGarry
Johnny Sampson
Comic Books
Daniel Acuña – Black Panther
John Allison – Giant Days
Greg Smallwood – Vampironica
Graphic Novels
Rick Geary – Chester & Grace: The Adirondack Murder
Peter Kuper – Kafkaesque
Brenna Thummler – Sheets
Online Comics – Long Form
Vince Dorse – Untold Tales of Bigfoot
Tom Parkinson-Morgan – Kill Six Billion Demons
Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh – Barbarous
Online Comics – Short Form
Dorothy Gambrell – Cat and Girl
Lonnie Millsap – Bacon
Zack Weinersmith – Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Book Illustration
Genevieve Godbout – Mary Poppins
Eda Kaban – Even Superheroes Make Mistakes
Rafael Lopez – The Day You Begin
Newspaper Strips
John Hambrock – The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee
Will Henry – Wallace the Brave
Mike Peters – Mother Goose and Grimm
Variety Entertainment
James Allen – Mark Trail
John Graziano – Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Bucky Jones
Dave Klüg
Greeting Cards
Scott Nickel
Maria Scrivan
Dan Walsh
One of our new divisions, Online Animation, did not receive enough qualifying submissions, so we have excluded it this year. We will try it again next year with more publicity and clearer guidelines.
