Awards and Reprints
He received the National Cartoonists Society's Advertising and Illustration Award for 1960 and 1962. His Scorchy Smith strips were reprinted in Famous Funnies and in two collections published by Nostalgia Press in the 1970s. The end of his run was reprinted in Big Fun Comics (published by American Comic Archive) which also published Bert Christman's run on the strip. In 2008 IDW Publishing published Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles, which reprints the complete 1933-36 run of Scorchy Smith by Sickles. ISBN 1-60010-206-9
Sickles died in Tucson, Arizona October 3, 1982. Sickles was interred in Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio.
In 1983, Sickles was posthumously inducted into the Society of Illustrators hall of fame.
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