Reubens on the Hudson pt 1







Well we're back!

In the interest of timeliness I will be posting about the weekend in stages as I get organized.

I'm going to start with the posed cocktail type shots because there are a boatload of those and I want to get them out of the way :-)

You will notice that most of these fall into the "John standing next to someone famous" category. This is because of all the cocktail parties that happen at the Reubens - I think I counted about 12. Well..... maybe only 5 but, still - it's a weekend with a lot of standing around drinking and talking.

And for me that usually includes high heels. I added it up and I spent total of 18 1/2 hours standing with a drink in my hand. That includes the marathon session on Saturday - about 2 hours before the awards ceremony and 5 1/2 hours after that. (This would be because all the hobnobbing carries on until 2-4 a.m. each night). Needless to say, my knees and feet are still recovering. (Would totally do it all over again, though!)

Here goes:


John with Lynn Johnston - I need to put a little explanation by this one: when John got his development deal with King Features, I contacted Ms. Johnston for guidance. She not only called John, but spent about an hour giving him some very important advice and also the name of Stu Rees, Intellectual Property Lawyer Extraordinaire. John knew at the time that this was a generous act on the part of Ms. Johnston, but now that he is in the trenches of producing a daily strip he really understands how hard an hour of non strip time is to come by. Thanks again to Lynn so much!


With Tom Richmond, winner of this year's NCS award for Best Newspaper Illustration


With Tom Stemmle


With Rocky Shepard - President of King Features


With Chad Frye - note how I have cleverly positioned them so that John appears to be wearing an illuminated mortar board.


With Bob Rich - nominee for Best Newspaper Illustration


With Frank Pauer - Editor of "The Cartoonist"


With Anne Gibbons


With Dan Thompson, Dave Blazek - nominee for Best Newspaper Panel Cartoon, and Bucky Jones


Sam Viviano (Vivainio), Frank Caruso, and Patrick McDonnell - another note - if you have not seen this video on how to get your work into Mad Magazine you must watch it right now!


Rocky Shepard and Rina Piccolo


Linda Houden and Amy Lago


With Norm Feuti - apologies John - I think I ran your hair through a blender before I took this one :-)


With Mark Parisi


With Caroline Roth


With Rina Piccolo

More pics on John's blog here and more to follow tomorrow!


4 comments:

  1. Sounds like great fun. Thanks for posting some pics. You'll win it next time!

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  2. How James Bond of you both. So many tuxes...so little time. I hope John gave you a deserved foot-rub for all that time in heels! (And where are YOU in these? Huh?)

    Wish I coulda gone...but next year, seems like it might be a road trip away...

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  3. Tom,

    Yeah, it's sort of like a James Bond convention around all those tuxes - I don't ever remember seeing Bond hold up the "Loser" L on his forehead, though :-) (see part two for that one)

    As to where am I - when I get nominated for color, (a division I'll be pushing for them to add as soon as possible) then he can take pictures of me :-)

    Seriously - we really missed you! Have you considered going to the OSU thing in the fall? You don't have to be an NCS member to sign up. http://cartoons.osu.edu/fca2010/

    So far I know for sure that Paul Gilligan, Terri Libenson, Sandra Lundy, Norm Feuti, Mike Cope, Rina Piccolo, Brendan Burford, Dan Piraro, and Matt Groening will be there. Oh, and us too :-)

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