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National Cartoonists Society

American professional organization

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops. They enjoyed each other's company and decided to meet on a regular basis.

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“National Cartoonists Society” enters the record as american professional organization. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what National, Cartoonists and Society can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around National, Cartoonists and Society.
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“National Cartoonists Society” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, National, Cartoonists and Society provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1946.

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This entry incorporates text from “National Cartoonists Society” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.