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Adjunct Professor Christopher Weyant receives Reuben Award from the National Cartoonist Society

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Adjunct Professor Christopher Weyant wins Reuben Award for 2022 Cartoonist of the Year in Gag Cartoons category. This is his second consecutive win in that category since winning in 2021.

The National Cartoonists Society is the world’s largest and most prestigious organization of professional cartoonists. It was founded in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops.

Today, the National Cartoonists Society roster included over 500 of the world’s major cartoonists working in many branches of the profession, including comic books, editorial cartoons, animation, webcomics and other online platforms, newspaper comic strips and panels, gag cartoons, greeting cards, advertising, magazine and book illustration and much more.

Each year, during the NCS Annual Reuben Awards Weekend, the Society honors the year’s outstanding achievements in all walks of the profession. The recipient of the profession’s highest honor is, the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year is chosen by a secret ballot of members.

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Christopher Weyant, is a cartoonist for The New Yorker and the Boston Globe, Chris’ work has been published worldwide in newspapers, magazines, books and online, and he has worked on numerous national advertising campaigns. His cartoons are in permanent collections at The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. In 2016, the Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard selected Weyant to be a Nieman Fellow, the second cartoonist to receive that honor in Nieman Foundation’s seventy-five year history.

The National Cartoonist Society awarded Chris Weyant the Silver Reuben Award for the Best Gag Cartoonist of the Year in 2022 and again, in 2023.

Chris’s work has been featured on “The Today Show,” “Meet The Press,” “ABC News With Diane Sawyer,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers”, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox.

He is the winner of the 2015 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for his illustrated children’s book, You Are (Not) Small, written by his wife, Anna Kang, and published by Two Lions Press. In that series written by Kang, he has also illustrated That’s (Not) Mine, I Am (Not) Scared, We Are (Not) Friends, It Is (Not) Perfect & This Is (Not) Enough. Chris illustrated Eraser (Two Lions), Can I Tell You A Secret?, Will You Help Me Fall Asleep? (HarperCollins) and My Pillow Keeps Moving! written by Laura Gehl (Penguin). His latest book, Marker (Two Lions), written by Anna Kang, was published in 2023.
For more information about Christopher Weyant, please visit his website.