Philly Fan-Addicts: The 2018 Reuben Awards Weekend
The glitz! The glamour! The chilling sight of alcohol-based life forms poured into tuxedos! As we do each year, we present our photo album of the National Cartoonists Society’s 2018 bacchanalia, held in the City of Brotherly Love over Memorial Day weekend. We especially want to thank the indefatigable David Folkman, who, besides being Hogan’s Alley‘s peerless art director, also took all of the following pictures. If you are pictured below and feel incriminated, it’s his fault (click a thumbnail to enlarge).
- Patrick McDonnell (l) and Nick Meglin
- NCS president Bill Morrison and his wife Kayre at the awards banquet
- CNN anchor Jake Tapper with his just-won ACE Award (Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinaire)
- Sergio Aragones
- The award banquet’s hardware, in advance of the evening’s events
- Another view of the awards prior to the banquet, with the Reuben Award
- Mike Peters
- Glen Keane holds his just-won Reuben Award.
- A view of the awards ceremony
- Ann Telnaes greets a fan.
- Tom Richmond sketches for a fan.
- Peaco Todd and Ed Steckley
- Kayre Morrison and Chad Frye
- Arnold Roth
- Isabella Bannerman, Bill Holbrook and Tom Heintjes
- Lonnie Millsap and David Stanford
- NCS board members Carolyn Belefski and Greg Cravens at the membership meeting
- Ray Billingsley (l) and Mike Luckovich at the awards banquet
- Two members of MAD’s usual gang of idiots: Bill Morrison (l) and Tom Richmond
- Bob East
- Brian Walker remembers his father, the late Mort Walker, at the welcome reception.
- Charles Brubaker (l) and R.C. Harvey
- Bruce Higdon (l) and Bob East
- Bunny Hoest
- Brendan Burford accepts the Silver T-Square award.
- Caroline Roth and Anne Morse-Hambrock
- Caroline Belefski
- Cathy Guisewite (l) and Lynn Johnston at a panel on women in cartooning
- John Rose
- Chad Frye
- Chance Browne
- C.J. Kettler moderates a panel on adapting comic strips to animation
- Crowden and Claire Satz
- Crowden Satz
- Cullen Murphy
- Nate and Kelsey Fakes
- David Apatoff (l) and Nick Meglin
- David Stanford
- Debbie Schafer and George Karalias pose with Beetle Bailey and Sarge Snorkel
- Andy Eng and Christine Krauss
- Derek Mainhart and Ali Solomon Mainhart
- Vince Dorse and a young fan
- Bill Schorr and Jane Mascorro
- Ed Steckley and Jennifer George discuss the book they collaborated on about George’s grandfather, Rube Goldberg.
- Brian Smales, Tom Stiglich and Adrian Sinnott (l-r)
- John Glynn and Lynn Johnston
- Jerry van Amerongen
- Ed Black (l) and R.C. Harvey
- At the event where the public could meet cartoonists
- Francis Bonnet (l) and John Bradley
- George Karalias
- Glen Keane, fresh off his Reuben Award win
- Helping to stuff the attendees’ goodie bags
- The goodie-bag-stuffing brigade
- Bill Griffith
- Attendees catching up with each other
- Maria Scrivan, Tom Gammill and Ann Telnaes (l-r)
- Polly Keener
- NCS board members John Hambrock, Maria Scrivan and Carolyn Belefski
- Lynn Johnston and Bill Griffith
- R.C. Harvey
- Hilarie and Joe Staton
- Bill Holbrook (l) and Bill Janocha
- Howard Beckerman and Doris Polansky
- CNN anchor Jake Tapper accepts the ACE Award at the Reuben banquet
- Bill Janocha
- Jeff Keane holds a seminar about his father Bil’s career
- Jeff Parker and Lynn Johnston
- Jerry Scott (l) and Rick Kirkman
- Jim Horwitz
- Michael Graessle and Kelley Hensing
- Gary Kopervas
- Patrick McDonnell (l) and James Allen
- Wayno addresses and NCS business meeting attendees
- Joe Staton sketches Dick Tracy for a fan
- John Reiner
- John Rose sketches for a fan.
- George Karalias (l) and Mark Evanier
- Patrick McDonnell (l) and Brendan Burford, newly minted recipient of the Silver T-Square Award.
- Julie Tait
- Jeff Parker
- Ann Telnaes and Sam Viviano at a seminar on carciature.
- Angie Jordan
- Karen and Bob East
- Ed Steckley
- Barbara Dale (l) and Ann Telnaes
- Karen and Greg Evans meet fans.
- Kayre Morrison and Lonnie Millsap
- Glen Keane (l) accepts the Reuben Award from Mike Luckovich
- Charles Brubaker (l) and Patrick McDonnell
- Barbara Dale, Jenny Campbell and Amy Sancetta (l-r)
- C.J. Kettler and Bill Morrison
- John Kovaleski
- Latisha Moore, the brains behind staging the weekend event
- Hilary Price
- Arnold Roth (l) and Bruce Higdon
- Lonnie Millsap
- Joe Staton
- C.J. Kettler
- John Lotshaw, Tom Heintjes and Bill Holbrook (l-r)
- Reuben Awards master of ceremonies Mike Luckovich
- Lynn Johnston with her just-won NCS Medal of Honor
- The reverse of the Medal of Honor
- The obverse of the Medal of Honor
- Marie and Tom Stemmle
- Frank Mariani
- Arnold Roth
- Maria Scrivan
- Karen and Greg Evans
- Marcia D’Angelo, Joe D’Angelo and Lynn Johnston (l-r)
- Partick McDonnell presents at the awards banquet
- Steve McGarry
- Nick Meglin, Arnold Roth and Wayno (l-r)
- Karen Evans
- Michael Graessle (l) and Jason Chatfield
- Ann Telnaes (l) and Linda Maloof
- Nate Fakes
- Nathan Archer
- Nick Meglin
- Mark Parisi, with his plaque for the Newspaper Panel division.
- John Hambrock
- Angie Jordan and Stephen Silver
- Pat Byrnes
- Arnold Roth and Amy Lago
- Lynn Johnston and Nathan Archer
- Ann Telnaes meets a fan at a public event.
- Frank Pauer
- Nate Fakes, Charles Brubaker and David Reddick (l-r)
- Paul Anderson and Cathy Guisewite
- Peaco Todd, Kristen Burke and Francis Bonnet (l-r)
- Polly Keener
- Ray Alma speaks as John Hambrock looks on.
- John Reiner (l) and Grant Geissman
- The Reuben Awards banquet room.
- Cathy Guisewite
- Tom Richmond
- Arnold Roth (l) and Kevin Segall
- Sally Lazarus with a plaque from the Berndt Toast Gang
- Sandra Bell-Lundy (l) and Jan Eliot on a panel about women in cartooning
- Bill Schorr, Tom Stemmle and Rob Rogers (l-r)
- Sergio Aragones can’t get a plate of food in peace.
- Brian Smales, Brian Walker and Adrian Sinnott (l-r)
- Zi Chen won the Jay Kennedy Scholarship Award.
- Tom Stemmle and Ann Telnaes
- Stephanie Rogers and Kevin Segall
- Rick Stromoski
- Tim Oliphant
- John Kovaleski (l) and Pat Byrnes
- Sam Viviano (l) and Sergio Aragones
- Cathy Guisewite (l) and Lynn Johnston at a panel on pioneering women in cartooning
- Women cartoonists attending the weekend gather for a group photo.
- Patrick McDonnell with the Reuben Journal, art directed by Hogan’s Alley’s own design maestro, David Folkman. Peace out until next year!