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Comic Book Awards Almanac
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National Cartoonists Society Awards
The awards given by the National Cartoonists Society are the oldest and arguably the most prestigious American award purely concerned with comics and cartoons. Since 1954, the awards have been commonly known as the Reubens (named for Reuben "Rube" Goldberg, the society's first president and designer of the award statuette), though most properly that name only applies to the Cartoonist of the Year award; the other awards either have their own names, or are simply known as Division Awards. (Prior to 1954, the awards were called the Billy DeBeck Memorial Award--the Barneys, for short--and the recipient received an engraved silver cigarette box. In 1954, the award name was changed, and all of the prior winners were given Reuben statuettes.) Awards are for work done in the listed year, and are awarded the following May. (The society has not always been consistent in referring to an award by the year the work was done or the year the award was given. Since they seem to use the former more often than the latter, that is the pattern adopted here.)
Award known as: Reubens (1954-present), the Billy DeBeck Memorial Award (1946-1953), the Barneys (1946-1953)
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