Awards and Recognition
Kelly has been compared to everyone from James Joyce and Lewis Carroll, to Aesop and Uncle Remus. He was elected president of the National Cartoonists Society in 1954, serving until 1956, and was also the first strip cartoonist to be invited to contribute originals to the Library of Congress.
- 1951: National Cartoonists Society, Reuben Award, Cartoonist of the Year
- 1972: National Cartoonists Society, Silver T-Square Extraordinary Service Award for "outstanding dedication or service to the Society or the profession".
- 1989: The Comic-Con International Inkpot Award (posthumous)
- Walt Kelly, an inductee into the National Cartoon Museum, (formerly the International Museum of Cartoon Art) is one of only 31 artists selected to their Hall of Fame.
- Kelly was also inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1995.
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