Final Xeric Award Recipients Announced
The final recipients of grants from the Xeric Foundation -- set up twenty years ago to provide financial assistance to up-and-coming comic creators looking to self-publish their work -- have been announced, bringing an end to something that has helped countless creators, from Jeff Lemire, Fred Van Lente and Daniel Way to Gene Luen Yang, Nick Bertozzi and Farel Dalrymple, concentrate on creating comics early in their respective careers.
Those projects are:
Oak by Max Badger
Old Man Gloom by Arwen Donahue
In The Sounds and Seas: Vol. 1 by Marnie Galloway
Tiny Bangs by Olivia Horvath
The Blonde Woman by Aidan Koch
The Professor and The Paperboy by John Malta
Ci Vediamo by Hazel Newlevant
Dear Beloved Stranger by Shih-Mu Dino Pai
How I Made The World by Liz Plourde and Randy Michaels
Usagi Jane and The Skullbunnies by Benjamin Seto
Castle and Wood by Darin Shuler
Sea Change: A Choose-Your-Own-Way Story by Caitlin Skaalrud
The Reptile Mind by Bernard Stiegler
Overboard by Laura Terry
Look Straight Ahead by Elaine M. Will
Wild Child by M. Young