 Many of characters appeared in both strip and comic book format as well as in other media.The word Reuben after a name identifies winners of the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, but many of leading strip artists worked in the years before the first Reuben and Billy DeBeck Awards in 1946.Webcomics are comic strips that exist only on the World Wide Web and are not created primarily for newspapers or magazines.