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Gahan Wilson wins
the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award
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Craig McCracken,
who won the divisional award for TV animation
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Pat Brady is greeted
by Jack Davis after his Reuben Award win
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Greg "Luann"
Evans, winner of last year's Reuben Award, prepares to give
another award this year
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Sergio
Aragones and Lalo Alcaraz at the pre-Reuben Award festivities
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Greg "Luann"
Evans and Jenny Robb of Ohio State University's cartoon library
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Gahan Wilson with
Arnold Roth
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Glenn McCoy wins
the divisional award for newspaper comic strip for "The
Duplex"
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Marcus Hamilton,
winner of the divisional award for newspaper panel ("Dennis
the Menace"), with Bil "Family Circus" Keane
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Jack Pittman won
the divisional award for magazine illustration
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Pat Brady poses with
the weekend's top prize, the Reuben Award
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Political cartoonist
Ann Telnaes and New Yorker cartoonist Mort Gerberg at the Reuben
Award banquet
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Mike Lester, winner
of the divisional award for advertising illustration, with his
wife, Regan
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Pat
"Rose Is Rose" Brady accepts the weekend's top prize,
the Reuben Award
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Greg
Evans, Gahan Wilson and Dave Coverly
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Pat
Brady addresses the hall during his Reuben win
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Chris "Hagar
the Horrible" Browne (left) and Mark Evanier, comic book
writer
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Brian "Beetle
Bailey" Walker, Marcus "Dennis the Menace" (dailies)
Hamilton and Ron "Dennis" (Sundays) Ferdinand
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Larry Katzman with
a richly deserved Gold Key Award for service to the NCS
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Patrick "Mutts"
McDonnell and his wife, Karen O'Connell
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Michael McParlane
won the divisional award for newspaper illustration
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Cathy "Cathy"
Guisewite prepares to give an award during the Reuben Award
banquet
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Glenn McCoy wins
the divisional award for greeting card illustration
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Veteran gag cartoonist
Don Orehek raises a toast to the award winners
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Two Georgia representatives
at the Reubens: Jack Davis and Stephanie Gladden
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Jack Davis gets into
the spirit of the Sergio Aragones roast
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Jack Davis cuts the
rug during the Sergio Aragones roast
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Jack Davis tattoos
the arm of an admiring (possibly psychotic) fan
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Roy Doty and Sergio
Aragones
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Sergio
Aragones and Jack Davis exchange greetings
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Sergio Aragones is
greeted by Cathy "Cathy" Guisewite
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Sergio
Aragones straightens Bill Amend's bookstore display
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Hogan's Alley art
director David Folkman with his socialite-to-the-stars gal pal,
Megan Kucker
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Animator Chad Frye
(left) with Chris "Hagar" Browne
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Animator Chad Frye
with Hilary "Rhymes With Orange" Price
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"La
Cucaracha" cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz and MAD man Sergio Aragones
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Sergio
Aragones and Nick Meglin, retired MAD editor, catch up with
each other
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Gahan Wilson discusses
his work at a seminar
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Comic book artist
Stephanie Gladden at a weekend panel
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Patty and Jef "Frazz"
Mallett flank Hogan's Alley art director David Folkman
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Comic book artist
Stephanie Gladden with her husband, film and animation historian
John Miller
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Mark Evanier interviews
Irwin "Dondi" Hasen
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Bill
Amend signs a book at a bookstore signing staged by the NCS
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Cartooning brothers
Glenn (left) and Gary McCoy
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Glenn McCoy gets
in the way of David "The Simpsons" Silverman playing
the tuba
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The comely Gloria
Calderon Kellett performs at the karaoke contest
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Gloria Calderon Kellett
performs Madonna's "Like A Virgin" at the karaoke
contest
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Political cartoonist
and Hogan's Alley columnist Steve Greenberg at a seminar
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Greg Walker of "Hi
and Lois"
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At
the bookstore signing put on by NCS memebers, Sergio Aragones
was one of the best customers
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Brian "Pickles"
Crane, Greg "Luann" Evans, and Jerry "Zits"
Scott prepare to gang up on Bil "Familly Circus" Keane
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Cathy "Cathy"
Guisewite and Jeannie Schulz, widow of "Peanuts" creator
Charles Schulz
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Greg Walker dances
with socialite-to-the-stars Megan Kucker
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Ashley
Smith, Dan "Bizarro" Piraro's wife
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Bruce Higdon (left),
president of the NCS' Southeast Chapter, and his family
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Bunny Hoest and MAD
Magazine illustrator Tom Richmond
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Patrick "Mutts"
McDonnell contributes to the jam drawing produced during a bookstore
signing
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The jam drawing done
at the bookstore signing in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Jane Mascorro takes
a break from the festivities and kicks off her heels
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Jay Kennedy, comics
editor for King Features Syndicate
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The father-son "Family
Circus" team: Bil (left) and Jeff Keane.
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John "Bo Nanas"
Kovaleski appears under assault from Hogan's Alley art director
David Folkman
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Socialite-to-the-stars
Megan Kucker with Marcus "Dennis the Menace" Hamilton
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Carla Ventresca and
comics historian (and Hogan's Alley writer) Ed Black
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
political cartoonist Mike Luckovich discusses his profession
as syndicated political cartoonist Ann Telnaes listens beside
him.
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Jef "Frazz"
Mallett (left) and multimedia producer Ron Evry.
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Comic book artist
Stephanie Gladden with Marcus Hamilton, who draws the daily
"Dennis the Menace"
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Fashionable Mark
Tatulli channels the spirit of Bobby Darin at the karaoke contest
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Dan "Bizarro"
Piraro and David Silverman of "The Simpsons"
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Bill
"FoxTrot" Amend compares suntans with Jenny Robb of
the OSU Cartoon Library
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Political cartoonist
Mike Ramirez (left), Jenny Robb and Bill "Beetle Bailey"
Janocha
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Bill
"FoxTrot" Amend
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"Beetle Bailey"
creator Mort Walker shows the young folks how it's done on the
dance floor
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Frank Pauer of the
NCS Cartoon!st magazine with Jack Davis
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Jeff "Family
Circus" Keane speaks to a local TV reporter at the bookstore
signing as "Luann" cartoonist Greg Evans looks on.
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Dan "Bizarro"
Piraro and his wife, Ashley Smith, take to the dance floor...
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Ashley
Smith cuts loose on said dance floor...
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And
then the aforementioned Ashley Smith takes a break from the
revelry
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Jenny Robb of Ohio
State University's cartoon library and Dan Bizarro of "Bizarro"
on the dance floor
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Comics historian
and Hogan's Alley writer R.C . Harvey (left) talks with veteran
cartoonist Roger Armstrong
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Sam Viviano of MAD
Magazine during the karaoke contest
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The "Baby Blues"
team of Jerry Scott (left) and Rick Kirkman
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David Silverman of
"The Simpsons" (left) and Chris Brown of "Hagar
the Horrible" prepare to share a special moment
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Ashley Smith, Erin
Friedrich and Jenny Robb (left to right) get chummy
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John "Bo Nanas"
Kovaleski, ahead of fashion trends as usual
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Frank Springer (left)
and Larry Katzman
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Rick Stromoski, Bill
Hinds, Jeff Keane, Rick Kirkman and Steve McGarry take to the
karaoke floor
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Stu Rees, cartooning
attorney, attends a seminar
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Darrin
"Candorville" Bell (left) and Lalo "La Cucaracha"
Alcaraz speak at a panel seminar
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Political cartoonist
Ann Telnaes and comic book artist Stephanie Gladden
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"The Neighborhood"
cartoonist Jerry Van Amerongen
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Gahan Wilson (left)
and "Tank McNamara" artist Bill Hinds
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Gahan Wilson at the
bookstore signing put on by NCS members
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Lucy Caswell of Ohio
State University's cartoon library and Greg Evans
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Patrick "Mutts"
McDonnell, Scott Shaw! and Sergio Aragones
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Outgoing NCS prez
Steve McGarry, Rick "Soup to Nutz" Stromoski and Jeff
"Family Circus" Keane croon during the karaoke contest
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Golden Age great
Jerry Robinson at a seminar
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Last but not least,
Hogan's Alley editor Tom Heintjes with Daniel, whose June 1
birth is the reason he was unable to attend this year's festivities
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