HONOR

Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, awarded by the National Cartoonists Society. Originally called the Billy DeBeck Memorial Award, renamed in 1954 for contraptionist Rube Goldberg.

1946	Milton Caniff
1947	Al Capp
1948	Chic Young
1949	Alex Raymond
1950	Roy Crane
1951	Walt Kelly
1952	Hank Ketcham
1953	Mort Walker
1954	Willard Mullin
1955	Charles Schulz
1956	Herblock
1957	Hal Foster
1958	Frank King
1959	Chester Gould
1960	Ronald Searle
1961	Bill Mauldin
1962	Dik Browne
1963	Fred Lasswell
1964	Charles Schulz
1965	Leonard Starr
1966	Otto Soglow
1967	Rube Goldberg
1968	Pat Oliphant/Johnny Hart
1969	Walter Berndt
1970	Alfred Andriola
1971	Milton Caniff
1972	Pat Oliphant
1973	Dik Browne
1974	Dick Moores
1975	Bob Dunn
1976	Ernie Bushmiller
1977	Chester Gould
1978	Jeff MacNelly
1979	Jeff MacNelly
1980	Charles Saxon
1981	Mell Lazarus
1982	Bil Keane
1983	Arnold Roth
1984	Brant Parker
1985	Lynn Johnston
1986	Bill Watterson
1987	Mort Drucker
1988	Bill Watterson
1989	Jim Davis
1990	Gary Larson
1991	Mike Peters
1992	Cathy Guisewite
1993	Jim Borgman
1994	Gary Larson
1995	Garry Trudeau
1996	Sergio Aragones
1997	Scott Adams
1998	Will Eisner
1999	Patrick McDonnell
2000	Jack Davis
2001	Jerry Scott
2002	Matt Groening
2003	Greg Evans
2004	Pat Brady
2005	Mike Luckovich
2006	Bill Amend

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