King Features' Reuben Award Nominees

King Features Congratulates Our Cartoonists on their 2021 Reubens Nominations!

Each year, the National Cartoonist Society bestows the industry’s highest honors, The Reuben Awards, to deserving artists. We’re proud to share that this year’s nominees include the artists of seven different King Features’ strips!

DIVISIONAL AWARDS NOMINEES

DARRIN BELL

Darrin Bell, the first African-American cartoonist to win the Pulitzer for Editorial Cartooning, produced some of his best work in 2020, as he covered the COVID pandemic, the 2020 election, and anti-Black violence in American with courage, relentlessness, and unsurpassed artistic skill.

STEVE KELLEY AND JEFF PARKER

Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker marked their tenth anniversary on Dustin in 2020, and their work only gets better. As Gen Z comes of age, their work continues to be a relatable commentary on how growing generation gaps and growing wealth gaps impact young adults and their families today.

LINIERS

Liniers is a relative newcomer to American comic strips, but he is a legend in Argentina, where his whimsical, optimistic comic, Macanudo, began. He pairs gorgeous watercolor artwork with a sense of wonder and hope that can get even the most cynical of us through a bad day.

CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

RAY BILLINGSLEY

Ray Billingsley’s Curtis shows us life through the eyes of the precocious, playful Curtis Wilkins, an 11-year-old African-American boy from Harlem. In 2020, Ray and Curtis tackled the COVID epidemic’s impact on kids and families, and especially Black communities, with humor and compassion.

TERRI LIBENSON

Terri Libenson brings the stories of ordinary women and girls to life. In 2020, she transitioned from print syndication in order to focus on writing bestselling graphic book series for young girls, and we are honored to continue represent The Pajama Diaries, a story about a working mom raising two daughters, on Comics Kingdom.

BILL GRIFFITH

Underground comics legend Bill Griffith first drew Zippy the Pinhead 50 years ago, and both Bill and Zippy are still going strong, bringing a pastiche of unabashed optimism, nonsense, and classic Americana to the funny pages. Bill has also created two stunning graphic nonfiction books, Invisible Ink and Nobody’s Fool.

HILARY PRICE

Hilary Price, the genius behind “Rhymes With Orange” is one of the funniest people we know. She’s taken Rhymes With Orange to new heights by collaborating with Rina Piccolo, and celebrated 25 years of Rhymes With Orange in 2020! Her work is the epitome of the single panel gag today, and is famed across workplace Slack channels.

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