Spring 2007 Xeric Grant Winners announced
Unlike the last two batches, the latest bunch of Xeric Grant winners includes several people with actual track records — including Typer Page (Stylish Vittles), Steve MacIsaac (Sticky, Prism Comics) and all of them were easily Googled. A total of $27,235 has been awarded to:
Ryan Alexander-Tanner - Television #1
Sam Gaskin - Pizza Wizard #1
Tyler Page - Nothing Better Vol. 1: No Place Like Home
Jeremy Smith - ROPEBURN
Erik Evensen - Gods of Asgard
Kevin Colden - FISHTOWN
The press release notes that Colden “serialized his comic book online just before receiving the acceptance letter from Xeric. The feedback has been great! So, he’s decided to continue posting and decline the grant money - not an easy decision - but he’s still a Xeric winner!”
Established by Peter Laird, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Northampton, MA based foundation offers financial assistance to self-publishing comic book creators in the US and Canada and to qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations in western Massachusetts. The Foundation has awarded in excess of $1,825,000 to comic book creators and nonprofit organizations since its first grant cycle in September 1992.
The next deadline and review dates for comic book grants are July 31, 2007 and September 1, 2007, respectively. The charitable organization grants are decided annually in June and announced separately.games animated animal pornporn animated deamonflash animated porno cartoonsanimated possible porn kimmovies porn animatedporn animals fluffy animatedanimated porn emoticongay porn animated Map
05/9/07 at 1:26 am
Good for them and good for Xeric. It’s damn hard to get on in this biz, and no one has to help anybody, but they do. I feel good every time I see new winners. I see good will in this world.
05/9/07 at 5:04 am
[…] Ryan Alexander-Tanner, Kevin Colden, Erik Evensen, Sam Gaskin, Steve MacIsaac, Tyler Page and Jeremy Smith are the first winners of Peter Laird’s Xeric Foundation grants for 2007, and will split over $27,000 in funds earmarked for comics self-publishing efforts. Heidi MacDonald has links to the winners; you can learn more about the Xeric Foundation at its website. […]
05/9/07 at 12:11 pm
[…] And even more interestingly, (via Heidi MacDonald), we have Kevin Colden’s Fishtown: The press release notes that Colden “serialized his comic book online just before receiving the acceptance letter from Xeric. The feedback has been great! So, he’s decided to continue posting and decline the grant money — not an easy decision — but he’s still a Xeric winner!” […]
05/9/07 at 5:25 pm
[…] The rest of the Xeric Nominees for this year have been covered quite nicely by Heidi MacDonald at The Publishers Weekly Blog. Congrats to all of them too, but someone’s gotta give props to the Queer Canadian artists.
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05/10/07 at 11:29 am
[…] The Beat reports on this year’s Xeric grant winners, including links and samples of each person’s work. Among them is Kevin Colden, who is just fine with getting the honor, since he declined his grant money for the Fishtown comic that he just launched online. […]
05/10/07 at 4:10 pm
[…] I am one of 5 artists who have been awarded a 2007 Xeric Grant. The grant is given out twice per year by the Xeric Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Peter Laird, one of the creators of the ever popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Since the Turtles started off as a self-published comic book, the Foundation was founded in 1992 to support comics self-publishers by assisting with the printing and distribution costs of publication. […]