Editing Chester Commodore (section)

== Awards and honours ==
Over the course of his career, Commodore won awards for his work as a comic strip artist and editor, and was nominated for a [[Pulitzer Prize]] 12 times.<ref name="Otfinoski p43" />
{| class="wikitable"
|+List of awards
!Year
!Award
!Association
|-
|1980
|Achievement Award
|[[Lu Palmer|Lu Palmer Foundation]]
|-
|1978
|Best Cartoon
|[[National Newspaper Publishers Association]]
|-
|1977
|Best Cartoon
|National Newspaper Publishers Association
|-
| rowspan="3" |1976
|Gold Medallion Award for Cartooning
|Cartoonist PROfiles Magazine
|-
|Best Cartoon
|National Newspaper Publishers Association
|-
|Achievement Award
|[[National Conference of Christians and Jews]]
|-
|1975
|Best Cartoon
|National Newspaper Publishers Association
|-
|1974
|Best Cartoon
|National Newspaper Publishers Association
|-
| rowspan="3" |1973
|Achievement Award
|Chicago Newspaper Guild
|-
|Best Editorial Cartoonist of the Year<ref name="Encyclopedia of Black Comics p102" />
|Cartoonist PROfiles Magazine
|-
|Best Cartoon
|National Newspaper Publishers Association
|-
|1972
|Best Cartoon
|National Newspaper Publishers Association
|}