Congratulations To Our 2016 NCS Reuben Award Nominees!
by The GoComics Team 
The National Cartoonist Society has announced its divisional nominees for the 2016 Reuben Awards and they're stocked with GoComics talent aplenty - in fact, GC creators swept several categories altogether!
Ruben Bolling (Tom the Dancing Bug), Michael Luckovich and Jen Sorensen were nominated for Editorial Cartoons.
Dave Blazek's Loose Parts, Nick Galifianakis' Nick and Zuzu and Mark Parisi's Off the Mark were nominated for Newspaper Panels.
Luke McGary (Lukey McGarry’s TLDR) and Dave Whamond (Reality Check) were nominated for Advertising/Product Illustration Work.
Maria Scrivan (Half Full) and Blazek were nominated under the Greeting Card category.
Online Comics - Short Form nominees include Sarah Andersen (Sarah's Scribbles), Bolling, and Dave Kellett (Sheldon).
Mike Lester, Mark Tatulli and Whamond all received nominations for the Book Illustration category.
Pickles by Brian Crane rounded out the massive GC creator presence with its nomination in the Newspaper Strips slot.
Winners will be announced on May 27th at the NCS Reuben Awards in Portland, Ore and we'll be following up in celebration.
You can read the full list of this year's nominees in each category, below:
EDITORIAL CARTOONS
NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION
Anton Emdin
Glen Le Lievre
David Rowe
FEATURE ANIMATION
Moana - Eric Goldberg
Zootopia - Cory Loftis
Finding Dory - Erick Oh
TELEVISION ANIMATION
The Simpsons - Eric Goldberg
Atomic Puppet - Steve Lambe and Alan Stewart
The Loud House - Chris Savino
NEWSPAPER PANELS
Nick and Zuzu - Nick Galifianakis
GAG CARTOONS
Pat Byrnes
Joe Dator
Will McPhail
ADVERTISING / PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION
Anton Emdin
GREETING CARDS
Deb Tomassi
COMIC BOOKS
Giant Days - Max Sarin and Liz Fleming
Locke & Key - Gabriel Rodriguez
Usagi Yojimbo - Stan Sakai
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Cousin Jospeh - Jules Feiffer
Black Dahlia - Rick Geary
The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia - Bryan Talbot
MAGAZINE FEATURE / ILLUSTRATION
Jon Adams
Teresa Burns Parkhurst
Peter Kuper
ONLINE COMICS – LONG FORM
Octopus Pie - Meredith Gran
Band by Band - Kathleen Jacques
OMG Check Please - Ngozi Ukazu
ONLINE COMICS – SHORT FORM
Sarah's Scribbles - Sarah Andersen
Donald and John - Ruben Bolling
BOOK ILLUSTRATION
NEWSPAPER STRIPS
Dustin - Steve Kelley & Jeff Parker
Pajama Diaries - Terri Libenson
LINK_O_NEAL about 6 years ago
WHAT??? they stiffed Bill Amend again only one of the funniest comic cartoonist ever!!!