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THE OUTSTANDING
CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR
is chosen by a secret ballot of the members of the National Cartoonists
Society. The REUBEN AWARD is the highest honor that the profession
bestows. As with all the NCS awards, the winner need not be a
member of the Society.
The award was previously called the Billy DeBeck Memorial Award,
and the recipient received an engraved silver cigarette box.
The Reuben was introduced in 1954 and is named after longtime
Honorary President Rube Goldberg. The statue is based on one
of Goldberg's irreverent pieces of sculpture. The eight winners
who had received the "Barney," as the Billy DeBeck
Award was dubbed, subsequently received Reuben statuettes and
are termed Reuben winners in the Society's annals.
CLICK
HERE TO VIEW ARTWORK and
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE REUBEN WINNERS
Left: The Reuben
Statue
Right: "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening receives the
Reuben Award, San Francisco, 2003 |
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