Editing Mell Lazarus (section)

==Awards==
Lazarus won the [[National Cartoonists Society]]'s award for Newspaper Strip, Humor, in 1973 and 1979, both times for ''[[Miss Peach]]''.<ref name=ncsawards>{{cite web|url=http://www.reuben.org/awards/| title=NCS Awards| publisher=National Cartoonists Society|access-date= May 24, 2016|archive-date= March 25, 2016| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160325171614/http://www.reuben.org/awards/ | url-status=live}}</ref>

He won the [[Reuben Award]] for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year, for ''Miss Peach'', in 1981, and the organization's Silver T-Square Award in 2000.<ref name=ncsawards />

On January 23, 2016, Lazarus became the second recipient of the National Cartoonists Society Medal of Honor, established the year before.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reuben.org/2016/02/mel-lazarus-given-the-ncs-medal-of-honor/ |title=Mell Lazarus Given the NCS Medal of Honor |date=February 4, 2016 |publisher=National Cartoonists Society |access-date=May 24, 2016 |archive-date=May 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524215217/http://www.reuben.org/2016/02/mel-lazarus-given-the-ncs-medal-of-honor/ |url-status=live }}</ref>