National Cartoonists Society:

Reuben Weekend 2005

We want to share our photo album of the annual bacchanalia held by the National Cartoonists Society with you. We especially want to thank the indefatigable David Folkman, who, besides being Hogan's Alley's peerless art director, also took all of the following pictures. If you are pictured below and feel incriminated, it's his fault.

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Gahan Wilson wins the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award

Craig McCracken, who won the divisional award for TV animation

Pat Brady is greeted by Jack Davis after his Reuben Award win

Greg "Luann" Evans, winner of last year's Reuben Award, prepares to give another award this year

Sergio Aragones and Lalo Alcaraz at the pre-Reuben Award festivities

Greg "Luann" Evans and Jenny Robb of Ohio State University's cartoon library

Gahan Wilson with Arnold Roth

Glenn McCoy wins the divisional award for newspaper comic strip for "The Duplex"

Marcus Hamilton, winner of the divisional award for newspaper panel ("Dennis the Menace"), with Bil "Family Circus" Keane

Jack Pittman won the divisional award for magazine illustration

Pat Brady poses with the weekend's top prize, the Reuben Award

Political cartoonist Ann Telnaes and New Yorker cartoonist Mort Gerberg at the Reuben Award banquet

Mike Lester, winner of the divisional award for advertising illustration, with his wife, Regan

Pat "Rose Is Rose" Brady accepts the weekend's top prize, the Reuben Award

Greg Evans, Gahan Wilson and Dave Coverly

Pat Brady addresses the hall during his Reuben win

Chris "Hagar the Horrible" Browne (left) and Mark Evanier, comic book writer

Brian "Beetle Bailey" Walker, Marcus "Dennis the Menace" (dailies) Hamilton and Ron "Dennis" (Sundays) Ferdinand

Larry Katzman with a richly deserved Gold Key Award for service to the NCS

Patrick "Mutts" McDonnell and his wife, Karen O'Connell

Michael McParlane won the divisional award for newspaper illustration

Cathy "Cathy" Guisewite prepares to give an award during the Reuben Award banquet

Glenn McCoy wins the divisional award for greeting card illustration

Veteran gag cartoonist Don Orehek raises a toast to the award winners

Two Georgia representatives at the Reubens: Jack Davis and Stephanie Gladden

Jack Davis gets into the spirit of the Sergio Aragones roast

Jack Davis cuts the rug during the Sergio Aragones roast

Jack Davis tattoos the arm of an admiring (possibly psychotic) fan

Roy Doty and Sergio Aragones

Sergio Aragones and Jack Davis exchange greetings

Sergio Aragones is greeted by Cathy "Cathy" Guisewite

Sergio Aragones straightens Bill Amend's bookstore display

Hogan's Alley art director David Folkman with his socialite-to-the-stars gal pal, Megan Kucker

Animator Chad Frye (left) with Chris "Hagar" Browne

Animator Chad Frye with Hilary "Rhymes With Orange" Price

"La Cucaracha" cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz and MAD man Sergio Aragones

Sergio Aragones and Nick Meglin, retired MAD editor, catch up with each other

Gahan Wilson discusses his work at a seminar

Comic book artist Stephanie Gladden at a weekend panel

Patty and Jef "Frazz" Mallett flank Hogan's Alley art director David Folkman

Comic book artist Stephanie Gladden with her husband, film and animation historian John Miller

Mark Evanier interviews Irwin "Dondi" Hasen

Bill Amend signs a book at a bookstore signing staged by the NCS

Cartooning brothers Glenn (left) and Gary McCoy

Glenn McCoy gets in the way of David "The Simpsons" Silverman playing the tuba

The comely Gloria Calderon Kellett performs at the karaoke contest

Gloria Calderon Kellett performs Madonna's "Like A Virgin" at the karaoke contest

Political cartoonist and Hogan's Alley columnist Steve Greenberg at a seminar

Greg Walker of "Hi and Lois"

At the bookstore signing put on by NCS memebers, Sergio Aragones was one of the best customers

Brian "Pickles" Crane, Greg "Luann" Evans, and Jerry "Zits" Scott prepare to gang up on Bil "Familly Circus" Keane

 

Cathy "Cathy" Guisewite and Jeannie Schulz, widow of "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz

Greg Walker dances with socialite-to-the-stars Megan Kucker

Ashley Smith, Dan "Bizarro" Piraro's wife

Bruce Higdon (left), president of the NCS' Southeast Chapter, and his family

Bunny Hoest and MAD Magazine illustrator Tom Richmond

Patrick "Mutts" McDonnell contributes to the jam drawing produced during a bookstore signing

The jam drawing done at the bookstore signing in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Jane Mascorro takes a break from the festivities and kicks off her heels

Jay Kennedy, comics editor for King Features Syndicate

The father-son "Family Circus" team: Bil (left) and Jeff Keane.

John "Bo Nanas" Kovaleski appears under assault from Hogan's Alley art director David Folkman

Socialite-to-the-stars Megan Kucker with Marcus "Dennis the Menace" Hamilton

Carla Ventresca and comics historian (and Hogan's Alley writer) Ed Black

Atlanta Journal-Constitution political cartoonist Mike Luckovich discusses his profession as syndicated political cartoonist Ann Telnaes listens beside him.

Jef "Frazz" Mallett (left) and multimedia producer Ron Evry.

Comic book artist Stephanie Gladden with Marcus Hamilton, who draws the daily "Dennis the Menace"

Fashionable Mark Tatulli channels the spirit of Bobby Darin at the karaoke contest

Dan "Bizarro" Piraro and David Silverman of "The Simpsons"

Bill "FoxTrot" Amend compares suntans with Jenny Robb of the OSU Cartoon Library

Political cartoonist Mike Ramirez (left), Jenny Robb and Bill "Beetle Bailey" Janocha

Bill "FoxTrot" Amend

"Beetle Bailey" creator Mort Walker shows the young folks how it's done on the dance floor

Frank Pauer of the NCS Cartoon!st magazine with Jack Davis

Jeff "Family Circus" Keane speaks to a local TV reporter at the bookstore signing as "Luann" cartoonist Greg Evans looks on.

Dan "Bizarro" Piraro and his wife, Ashley Smith, take to the dance floor...

Ashley Smith cuts loose on said dance floor...

And then the aforementioned Ashley Smith takes a break from the revelry

Jenny Robb of Ohio State University's cartoon library and Dan Bizarro of "Bizarro" on the dance floor

Comics historian and Hogan's Alley writer R.C . Harvey (left) talks with veteran cartoonist Roger Armstrong

Sam Viviano of MAD Magazine during the karaoke contest

The "Baby Blues" team of Jerry Scott (left) and Rick Kirkman

David Silverman of "The Simpsons" (left) and Chris Brown of "Hagar the Horrible" prepare to share a special moment

Ashley Smith, Erin Friedrich and Jenny Robb (left to right) get chummy

John "Bo Nanas" Kovaleski, ahead of fashion trends as usual

Frank Springer (left) and Larry Katzman

Rick Stromoski, Bill Hinds, Jeff Keane, Rick Kirkman and Steve McGarry take to the karaoke floor

Stu Rees, cartooning attorney, attends a seminar

Darrin "Candorville" Bell (left) and Lalo "La Cucaracha" Alcaraz speak at a panel seminar

Political cartoonist Ann Telnaes and comic book artist Stephanie Gladden

"The Neighborhood" cartoonist Jerry Van Amerongen

Gahan Wilson (left) and "Tank McNamara" artist Bill Hinds

Gahan Wilson at the bookstore signing put on by NCS members

Lucy Caswell of Ohio State University's cartoon library and Greg Evans

Patrick "Mutts" McDonnell, Scott Shaw! and Sergio Aragones

Outgoing NCS prez Steve McGarry, Rick "Soup to Nutz" Stromoski and Jeff "Family Circus" Keane croon during the karaoke contest

Golden Age great Jerry Robinson at a seminar

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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