Jeff MacNelly - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

MacNelly won his second Pulitzer and a Reuben Award in 1978, and then a second Reuben in 1979.

MacNelly won the Thomas Nast Award and joined the select group of journalists who have won three Pulitzers in 1985. He also won a George Polk Award. He was the first cartoonist inducted into the UNC School of Journalism Hall of Fame in 1985. He said at the time of his induction: "I'm afraid if my mother finds out, I'll be in big trouble. She thinks I'm running numbers in Baltimore." MacNelly won "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year" from the National Cartoonists Society in 1978 and 1979.