WOMEN WEBCOMICKER GRANT NAN RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED
WOMEN WEBCOMICKER GRANT NAN RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED
WOMEN WEBCOMICKER GRANT NAN: 2006 Recipients
Circuit of Heaven, Julia Claire Begley (URL forthcoming)
Lea Hernandez, October 24, 2006
The original press release for Women Webcomicker Grat NAN can be found at http://divalea.livejournal.com/343450.html
Before September 6th, for me to say I understood the reach of the Internet would mean that I knew it was an end run around many obstacles facing artists who wanted to share their work with the world. It’s an end run I have been making since 1991, a decade and a half of dodging and weaving, and in that, a bit more than ten as a webcomicker, one of the first to make the print-to-web transition with Rumble Girls: Silky Warrior Tansie. I started Women Webcomicker Grant Nan because I was challenged to do something about the problems I saw with comics, instead of just talking about them. Inspired by Peter Laird’s Xeric Grant for self-publishers and Dr. Keith P. Taylor’s Modest Needs foundation, which gives small gifts to people to help pay emergency expenses, I realized it was within my grasp to do something, and even a “small” something was still something.