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Dave Blazek's Loose Parts comic receives third national award
The National Cartoonists Society presented the 77th annual Reuben Awards at a ceremony in New York on September 7. Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead, received the top honor, while the divisional winners included Phil Foglio in the Online Comics – Long Form category. Here is the complete list: NCS CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR
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'Loose Parts' cartoonist 'learned enough to bluff my way through it' Winning the Reuben Award – the top prize for comic-strip authors – wasn’t part of the plan for Dave Blazek, who attended Penn State Behrend. “I don’t really have a plan,” he says. Comic strips, like board games, never age. The best-known titles have always been there, it seems: The “Peanuts” gang first appeared in 1947, in a strip titled “Li’l Folks.” They’re older than Candyland. Dave Blazek’s “Loose Parts” is more like the board game Catan – a brainy upstart that reinvigorated the genre. In ...