The Reuben: The National Cartoonist Society announces nominees for the 2024 Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year

The winner will be announced in August.

The National Cartoonist Society has announced six nominees for this year’s Reuben Award, their annual recognition of the cartoonist of the year for the previous calendar year.

The NCS typically nominates five cartoonists for the award, but due to a tie in voting this year, we have six.

The Reuben Award has been presented annually since 1954 and was named for Rube Goldberg. Past winners include Lynda Barry, Stephen Pastis, Al Jaffee, Matt Groening, Sergio Aragones, Roz Chast and Charles Schulz, to name a few who have taken home this prestigious award.

This year’s nominees include:

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Nominees announced for the 2025 Hugo Awards

The winners of the annual science fiction/fantasy awards program will be announced in August.

The nominees have been announced for the 2024 Hugo Awards, which includes a “Best Graphic Story or Comic” category.

Presented annually since 1955, the Hugo Awards recognize the best science fiction in books, comics, movies, TV and more. The Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story has been awarded since 2009, with previous winners including volumes of Saga, Ms. Marvel, Girl Genius, LaGuardia, Far Sector and Monstress, which is up for the award again this year.

And the nominees for 2025 are …

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Nominees announced for the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards

Comics by Gou Tanabe, Robin Ha, Beth Hetland, Patrick Horvath and Maggie Umber were nominated this year.

The Horror Writers Association has announced the final nominees for the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards, which includes a graphic novel category.

The annual awards recognize “superior achievement” in horror and dark fiction, with a category dedicated to graphic novels. Previous winners in the category include Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary Graphic Novel and Amy Chu and Soo Lee’s graphic novel Carmilla: The First Vampire.

The nominees for the “Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel” category are:

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Nominees announced for the 45th annual L.A. Times Book Prize

Books by Ram V, Filipe Andrade, Bhanu Pratap and more have been nominated in the graphic novel category.

The Los Angeles Times has announced the finalists for this year’s L.A. Times Book Prize, which includes a category for Graphic Novels/Comics. The prize recognizes books published in 2024.

The Los Angeles Times has given an award in the graphic novel category since 2009, when Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli took home the award. Other winners include The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez, Duncan the Wonder Dog by Adam Hines, Beverly by Nick Drnaso, Tillie Walden’s On a SunbeamThe Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis, R. Kikuo Johnson’s No One Else, and Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s Wash Day Diaries. A Guest in the House by EM Carroll won the award last year

The winners will be revealed on April 25. Check out the finalists for this year below.

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Nominees announced for the 36th Annual GLAAD Media Awards

This year’s list includes ‘Captain Marvel,’ ‘The Nice House by the Sea,’ ‘The Deep Dark,’ ‘Ash’s Cabin’ and more.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, have announced the nominees for the 36th annual Media Awards, which recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBTQ+ community and the issues that affect their lives.

The awards feature two comics-focused categories — one for comics books and one for graphic novels. Last year Marvel’s Doctor Aphra won in the comic book category, while Four-Color Heroes from Fanbase Press won for graphic novels. DC Comics, Marvel, Graphix and Harper Alley all received multiple nominations this year, with DC leading the field with five nominations.

Check out the lists for the two comics categories below, and you can find the complete list of nominees across more than 30 categories on the GLAAD website.

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‘Kill Your Darlings’ wins the 2024 Ignyte Award

Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan and Bob Quinn win in the “Outstanding Comics Team” category.

Congratulations to Kill Your Darlings creators Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan and Bob Quinn, who have won the 2024 Ignyte Award in the “Outstanding Comics Team” category.

The annual awards program “celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy and horror by recognizing incredible feats in storytelling and outstanding efforts toward inclusivity of the genre.” It’s sponsored by FIYAH Magazine, the quarterly Black speculative fiction magazine.

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Your 2024 Harvey Awards winners

The annual awards were presented last night in conjunction with the New York Comic Con.

Tonight the 36th annual Harvey Awards were given out across seven categories at an event held in conjunction with the New York Comic Con.

In addition to the awards, the Harvey committee also inducted five creators into their Hall of Fame: Dragon Ball Z creator Akira Toriyama, Uncanny X-Men artist Arthur Adams, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero writer Larry Hama, Groo the Wanderer co-creator Sergio Aragonés and longtime Marvel artist John Buscema.

Check out the full list of winners below.

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Mariko Tamaki, Jeff Smith, Elsa Charretier, ‘Monica’ + more win at the 2024 Ringo Awards

The winners were announced during a ceremony held at the Baltimore Comic-Con this weekend.

This year’s Ringo Awards winners were announced last night during a ceremony at the Baltimore Comic-Con.

This marks the eighth year for the awards program named for artist Mike Wieringo, the artist of Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Tellos and more who died in 2007.

Besides the Ringo Awards themselves, other awards were given out during the ceremony, including three from the Hero Initiative. Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort received The Dick Giordano Humanitarian of the Year Award, while artist Klaus Janson received the Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award.

Artist Tom Raney received the first Brogan Fidelity Award. According to the Hero Initiative,”this new award honors creators who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to the comic book medium and its fans, embodying the spirit of perseverance, passion and excellence, in the spirit of the late Dr. Kevin Brogan.”

 The Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Spirit Award went to the comic The Hunger and the Dusk, by G. Willow Wilson and Chris Wildgoose, and published by IDW. This award is selected every year by perennial jurors Todd Dezago, Craig Rousseau, Mark Waid and Matt Wieringo, Mike’s brother.

Congratulations to this year’s winners:

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Robyn Smith, ‘Roaming,’ ‘CosmoKnights’ + more win at the 2024 Ignatz Awards

The annual awards honoring excellence in independent comics, graphic novels and minicomics were presented last night at the Small Press Expo.

The annual Ignatz Awards, which recognizes the best in small press comics with a brick-shaped award, were presented last night as part of this weekend’s Small Press Expo festivities.

The Ignatz Awards have been presented since 1997 and celebrate the outstanding achievements of independent comics, graphic novels and minicomics. They are named for the brick-throwing mouse that appeared in the Krazy Kat comics by George Herriman.

The awards were presented during a live ceremony that included a keynote by cartoonist Jeffrey Brown. A replay of the livestream is available on YouTube:

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‘Monstress’ wins this year’s Dragon Award

Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s long-running title from Image Comics takes home another award.

Monstress, the dark fantasy comic that blends steampunk and Asian mythology by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, has won this year’s Dragon Award in the “Best Comic Book / Graphic Novel” category.

I’ve honestly lost count of how many awards Monstress and its creative team have won since Image Comics started publishing the title in 2015. A quick search reveals that the book and its creative team have won multiple British Fantasy Awards, multiple Eisner Awards, multiple Hugo Awards, a Harvey Award and a World Fantasy Award. Takeda just won another award for “Best Painter” at the Eisner Awards earlier this summer.

The award was presented at DragonCon in Atlanta this weekend, along with others in categories recognizing science fiction and fantasy books, movies, video games and more.

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Hilary B. Price wins the 2023 Reuben Award

Jay Stephens, Evan Dahm, Sarah Andersen and more win NCS divisional awards.

Hilary B. Price, creator of Rhymes with Orange and the youngest woman to ever have a nationally syndicated comic strip, has won this year’s Reuben Award.

The National Cartoonists Society presented the award last weekend at their annual conference in San Diego. Price was one of six nominees for the award this year, in a field that also included Daniel Clowes, Darrin Bell, Dana Simpson, Mark Tatulli and Will Henry.

Price launched the comic strip in 1995, and it’s remained an award-winning staple of the comics page ever since, winning multiple divisional awards from the National Cartoonists Society. She’s also been nominated for the Reuben Award multiple times in the past.

Rhymes With Orange has been my expressive outlet from my mid-twenties through my mid-forties,” Price told us back in 2018. “There’s a lot of change in that time – from sleeping on a futon to having a box spring and mattress, from negotiating roommates to negotiating a mortgage, from weddings to divorces. I remember a relative noting that when the strip first started, it was a window into the life of a twenty-something, but as I aged, the topics hit a broader audience. For example, more people are in the settled down phase than in the just starting out phase, so gags about long term relationships hit a wider mark than the hook-up at parties gags.”

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Annie Koyama will receive the 2024 Spurgeon Award

The curator of the the Koyama Provides grant program will be honored at this year’s Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival in September.

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, the annual comics festival that was co-founded by comics journalist and advocate Tom Spurgeon, has announced the recipient of this year’s Spurgeon Award.

Annie Koyama, the publisher of the well-regarded (and now defunct) Koyama Press and the curator of the Koyama Provides grant program, will receive the award during this year’s festival in Columbus, Ohio. Koyama Provides awards mini-grants to independent artists, providing them with funding to complete projects or start new ones.

Koyama received the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award in 2022, and at the time Comic-Con International said she had given out around $300,000 in grants. You can see many of the recipients on Koyama’s Instagram account, where she spotlights their work.

“I’m thrilled to have been chosen as the 2024 recipient of the Tom Spurgeon Award,” Koyama said. “I’m thankful to have found a way to stay connected to a community that I love, by directly supporting artists, especially cartoonists. Tom reached out to me in the early days of the press, when I had seemingly come out of nowhere and he continued to support the press and my plans beyond the press, for which I’ll always be grateful.”

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