Sunday, March 31, 2013

Reuben Rabbits


Last week, the National Cartoonist Society 2012 divisional awards for the Reubens were announced and incredulously, my little feature was named as one of the nominations for Best Online Comic - Short Form. It's truly a great honor to be nominated.  The other nominations are the incredible Ten Cats by Graham Harrop and the fabulous Mac by the uber-talented Michael McPharland so my chances of winning are minuscule but I hope to be in Pittsburgh to see them collect the award.  By a weird coincidence, all three of us hail from the British Isles, live in North America and are syndicated on GoComics!  Michael also has homefield advantage being a Gotham resident.

If you're curious about the nomination process for the Online Comics category, read this.

The full list of nominations is as follows:



TELEVISION ANIMATION
  • Todd Kauffman, Executive Producer, “Sidekick”
  • Alberto Mielgo, Production Design, “Tron: Uprising”
  • Rich Webber, Director, Aardman Animation Studios, “DC Nation”
FEATURE ANIMATION
  • Rich Moore, Director, “Wreck-It Ralph”
  • Joann Sfar, Director, “The Rabbi’s Cat”
  • Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Director, “The Secret World of Arriety”
NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION
GAG CARTOONS
GREETING CARDS
NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS
  • Brian Basset “Red and Rover
  • Jeff Parker and Steve Kelley “Dustin”
  • Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman “Zits
NEWSPAPER PANEL CARTOONS
  • Tony Carrillo “F-Minus”
  • Dave Coverly “Speed Bump”
  • Hilary Price “Rhymes with Orange”
ONLINE COMICS – SHORT FORM
ONLINE COMICS – LONG FORM
MAGAZINE FEATURE/MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION
BOOK ILLUSTRATION
EDITORIAL CARTOONS
  • Clay Bennett
  • Michael de Adder
  • Jen Sorenson
ADVERTISING and PRODUCT ILLUSTRATION
COMIC BOOKS
  • Amanda Connor “Silk Spectre”
  • Evan Dorkin “House of Fun”
  • Bernie Wrightson “Frankenstein Alive, Alive!”
GRAPHIC NOVELS
  • Derf- “My Friend Dahmer”
  • Joseph Lambert “Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller”
  • Chris Ware- “Building Stories”
REUBEN AWARD FOR “CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR”:
  • Brian Crane
  • Rick Kirkman
  • Stephan Pastis

2 comments:

john said...

congratulations and good luck:)

J. Lemon said...

Thank you John. It's a cliché but it's really just an honor to be nominated. I'm up against a better drawn strip and a more professional strip so I'm definitely the "also ran"!