Vince Dorse wins Reuben Award for 'Best Online Comic'.

Last night, the National Cartoonists Society (NCS) presented the 67th annual Reubens awards at the Omni William Penn hotel in Pittsburgh. After the NCS had added the category 'Best Online Comic Strip' in 2011, this year the society had divided the Award for webcomics further into two different categories. It was Vince Dorse that had the honor of taking home the first Reuben Award for 'Best On-Line Comics Long Form' last night for his brilliant webcomic 'Untold Tales of Bigfoot'. Graham Harrop won the Award in the category 'On-Line Comics Short Form' for 'Ten Cats'.

Above: This year's official poster by Tom Richmond ( also current president NCS). From left to right the guest speakers: Mo Willems, Brad Anderson and Drew Friedman (top row) Terri Libenson, Joe Wos and Rob Rogers (left) with Jason Chatfield and Lee Salem (right) More about this poster on Tom Richmond's site.

Also nominated in the category webcomics long-form were Meredith Gran for 'Octopus Pie' and Pat Lewis for 'Muscles Diablo in Where Terror Lurks'. In the category short-form Jonathan Lemmon was nominated for 'Rabbits against Magic' and Michael MacParlane for 'Mac'. In all, there were 46 divisional award nominees in fifteen categories, along with three previously announced artists that were nominated for the 'Cartoonist of the Year' award (Brian Crane, Rick Kirkman and Stephan Pastis). For a full list of all winners Check here.

The NCS was founded on March 1, 1946 as The Cartoonists Society with Rube Goldberg as first president (hence the 'Reubens') and Milton Caniff as treasurer. The first Awards of the society were named the 'Billy DeBeck Memorial Award' aka 'the Barneys' (after Barney Google, DeBeck's popular comic character). 

Comic legends Alex Raymond, Milton Caniff, Al Capp and Chic Young were among the first recipients between 1946 and 1953. Since 1954 the award was named the 'Reuben' Awards.

Below: To speak with the words of another great comic legend, 'Lo and behold!' Vince holding his award for 'Best in On-Line Comic Strips Division, Long Form 2012' (click to enlarge). For more information and photo's check Vince's great website here and make sure to follow 'Untold Tales of Bigfoot' if you didn't already!