NEWS ABOUT LOOSE PARTS & DAVE
Dave & Loose Parts Win Reuben Award For 3rd Time!
(SEPT. 2023) Wow! Loose Parts has been awarded the National Cartoonists Society's coveted Reuben Award for Best Newspaper Panel. The award was given in early September in New York. This is the third time Loose Parts has won one of the most prestigious awards in the profession. The Reubens – often referred to as the 'Oscars' of cartooning – are voted on by hundreds of the best professional cartoonists, illustrators and animators working today. "It's both humbling and enthralling to be recognized by the cartooning world. And it's challenging in that I had to put on pants to go get the award," said Blazek. "Y'know, you spend all year just lobbing these ideas over the horizon, never being quite sure if you're hitting anything. It's good to know people actually enjoy catching them."
Loose Parts Wins
NCS Reubens Award
2 years in a row!
(SEPTEMBER 2020) Loose Parts and Dave Blazek was awarded the 2020 Silver Reuben Award for Newspaper Panels at the National Cartoonists Society virtual award show.
The National Cartoonists Society is the world's oldest and largest association of cartooning professionals. The award is voted on by hundreds of the best cartoonists, illustrators, animators and industry pros working today.
Loose Parts also won the award in the same category in 2019.
To see the entire Reuben Award Day, go to NCSFest.com. If you'd like to see Dave's acceptance speech, look right on this page.
"I'm not sure words, or pictures, can adequately express how simultaneously gratifying and humbling this award is," said Blazek. "As someone who only began cartooning in middle age, I'm in awe by the giants and other pros who wander around the NCS. To be recognized by them leaves me flabbergasted. Really, I had my doctor check. My flabbergast levels are off the charts."
Dave Blazek's Silver Reuben Award Acceptance Vid
CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT DAVE AND THE SILVER REUBEN IN THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER.
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See Dave on TV.
Dave recently was a guest on the PBS interview show Counter Culture with Grover Silcox. Blazek is interviewed in his studio. See the episode (Dave appears about 11 minutes in) at the link below.
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CLICK HERE TO SEE BLAZEK'S INTERVIEW ON THE PBS 'COUNTER CULTURE' TV INTERVIEW SHOW
Loose Parts Greeting Cards Now Available!
While Loose Parts greeting cards have been sold online through the fine folks at Nobleworks (nobleworkscards.com), I wanted to hand select a few of my own and offer them for sale right here on this site. So now you can get a 5-pack of LP card that you will find nowhere else in the universe but here. Just hop over to the Shop page to learn all about it.