WOMEN WEBCOMICKER GRANT NAN RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED

WOMEN WEBCOMICKER GRANT NAN: 2006 Recipients

Blue Canary, Kit White YAY!

Chasing Daylight, Ann Kennedy

Circuit of Heaven, Julia Claire Begley (URL forthcoming)

Primary, Rachel Dukes

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.

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