Awards
Crane was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year in 1950, and their Story Comic Strip Award in 1965, both for Buz Sawyer. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin in 1969.
In 1965, he established the Roy Crane Award in the Arts at the University of Texas to encourage excellence and creativity in the arts among undergraduate and graduate students. In 1980, this award was given to Berkeley Breathed.
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