Home from New Orleans
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
I’m home from another trip to the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards. This year the awards were held in New Orleans, and one of the highlights of the trip was spending a day building a house with Habitat for Humanity. There were plenty of jokes about the structural integrity of a house built by cartoonists, but at the end of the day I think we were all pleased with the effort we put in, and humbled by the entire experience. The subsequent tour through the devastated lower 9th ward where the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina was especially sobering.
It was great to catch up with all the friends I’ve made over the last few years, and spend time with some new faces as well. I was particularly glad to finally meet The Daily Cartoonist’s Alan Gardner, and Cul De Sac artist Richard Thompson.
There are some photo-rich updates from the weekend online from Mike Lynch, MAD’s Tom Richmond, and The Daily Cartoonist. Eagle-eyed viewers may spot a certain robot cartoonist in these links.
