Glen Keane honored with the Reuben as 2017’s ‘Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year,’ while John Allison and Gemma Correll win in the webcomics categories.

My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris and Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda continued their winning streaks this weekend, as the National Cartoonists Society honored both with divisional awards. Ferris’ work won for “Best Graphic Novel” while Monstress won for “Best Comic Book.”

In addition, John Allison was honored for his work on Bad Machinery in the “Online Comics – Long Form” category, while Gemma Correll won in the “Online Comics – Short Form” category.

The Daily Cartoonist reports that Academy Award-winning animator and Disney Legend Glen Keane won the 2017 Reuben Award, presented to the NCS’s pick for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.”

The Reuben Awards ceremony took place Saturday at the National Cartoonists Society’s annual get-together in Philadelphia. The complete list of nominees, with the winners in bold, can be found below:

Editorial Cartoons

Clay Bennett

Mike Peters (tie)

Michael Ramirez (tie)



Newspaper Illustration

Greg Cravens

Glen Le Lievre

Dave Whamond

Feature Animation

Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert (directors) – The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales

Nora Twomey (director) – The Breadwinner

Lee Unkrich (director) and Adrian Molina (co-director) – Coco

Television Animation

Alan Bodner (Art Director) – Disney’s Tangled, The Series

Rustam Hasanov (Art Director) – Dreamworks Trollhunters

Sean Jimenez (Art Director) – Disney’s Duck Tales

Newspaper Panels

Loose Parts – Dave Blazek

Harry Bliss – Bliss

Off the Mark – Mark Parisi

Gag Cartoons

Pat Byrnes

Joe Dator

Will McPhail

Advertising / Product Illustration

Farley Katz

Johnny Sampson

Dave Whamond

Comic Books

Paper Girls 15 by Cliff Chiang

Black Hammer Secret Origins by Dean Ormston

Monstress Vol. 2 The Blood by Sana Takeda

Graphic Novels

My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

Spinning by Tillie Walden

Home Time by Campbell Whyte

Magazine Feature / Illustration

Peter Kuper

Tom Richmond

Johnny Sampson

Online Comics – Long Form

John Allison – Bad Machinery

Vince Dorse – Untold Tales of Bigfoot

Ru Xu – Saint for Rent

Online Comics – Short Form

Gemma Correll – Gemma Correll

Lonnie Millsap – Bacõn

Mike Norton – L’il Donnie

Book Illustration

Ryan T Higgins – Be Quiet

Adam Rex – The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors

Ed Steckley – Rube Goldberg’s Simple Normal Humdrum School Day

Newspaper Strips

Terri Libenson – Pajama Diaries

Mike Peters – Mother Goose and Grimm

Mark Tatulli – Lio