Excellence in the fields of newspaper strips, online comics, newspaper panels, TV animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, book illustration, comic books, magazine feature/magazine illustration, and editorial cartoons, is honored in the NCS Division Awards, which are chosen by specially-convened juries at the chapter level.
Comic Book
Greg Smallwood – Vampironica
Graphic Novel
Peter Kuper – Kafkaesque
Book Illustration
Rafael Lopez – The Day You Begin
Newspaper & Magazine Illustration
Tom Bunk
Newspaper Comic Strip
Will Henry – Wallace The Brave
Newspaper Panel
Dave Blazek – Loose Parts
Gag Cartoon
Joe Dator
Greeting Card
Maria Scrivan
Editorial Cartoon
Rob Rogers
Advertising & Product Illustration
James Lyle
Variety Entertainment
Dave Klüg
Online Comics – Long Form
Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh – Barbarous
Online Comics – Short Form
Dorothy Gambrell – Cat and Girl
Animation – Feature
Justin K Thompson – Production Design, Spider-man: Into the Spiderverse
Animation – TV
Chris Mitchell and Keiko Murayama – The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
NCS membership is open to all creative professionals who earn a substantial part of their income working in the fields of cartooning, illustration, animation and graphic storytelling. We are an organization of esteemed peers and we welcome new members!
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