Last month, I attended a get together of the Berndt Toast Gang. The National Cartoonists Society chapter will have been in existence for sixty years in 2026. It will also be the 80th anniversary of the NCS. I was thinking about the NCS and its "Academy Awards for cartooning" that the group bestows every year. What do awards mean?
I'm
enough of a realist to feel that awards are all fine and good -- but,
in the cold, cruel world -- they do not give you any career protection. In other words, most editors won't hire you because of or in spite of an award. They'll
hire you because they think you're right for the job.
When
Charles Schulz was asked what award -- of the many awards he received
during his life and career -- meant the most to him, he answered:
"The Combat Infantry Badge."
Brian Hoag writes about Bill Mauldin and Charles Schulz at the McCook Daily Gazette Blog (This blog no longer exists, sadly):
"Schulz had a special appreciation for one of his fellow cartoonists ... Bill Mauldin. For years, Schulz would send Mauldin the original Veterans Day Peanuts cartoon (Here is an example... Snoopy, Willy, and Joe), and Mauldin finally got a chance to find out why. At a cartoonist convention, they ran into each other and Mauldin asked why? Schulz replied that he had been a machine gun squad sergeant with the 20th Armored Division in France and Germany in 1945. 'That's all he needed to say,' Mauldin was quoted as saying. He understood the rest."
Hat tip to Comics Reporter.
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