I’ve Been Given The Pewter Plate Award From Highlights Magazine

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This afternoon I received a package from Highlights! magazine. Inside was a letter informing me I’ve been chosen to receive the Illustrator of the Month Pewter Plate Award, and a shiny silver plate with my name inscribed. Very classy. I’m surprised and very honored. Every issue of Highlights is full of wonderful artwork from several very charming illustrators. It’s a real treat just to be published among them, much less singled out.

The award was for a three-page comic strip story I illustrated for the current issue (January 2013) of Highlights for Children, titled “The Chicken-and-a-Million-Veggies Report”. I can’t publish the entire story here but I can show you a little snippet of the artwork:

Highlights Sample

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2 Responses to I’ve Been Given The Pewter Plate Award From Highlights Magazine

  1. Wilson Williams Jr
    - January 16, 2013 Reply

    Congrats Cedric!

  2. Swiss
    - January 16, 2013 Reply

    Congratulations, Cedric! I have one of those (from 1988) sitting not more than five feet from me as I type this. My single-panel cartoon showed a cat with a large bandage on his tail…a saw on the floor…and a big black rocking chair with its rockers cut off.