List of Xeric grant winners
Cartoonists (and their work) awarded a grant from the Xeric Foundation, allowing them to self-publish their comics. The awards are broken down by year and grant cycle (March and September). In addition, recent years' awards list the total amount awarded during the respective grant cycle.[1] The awards were granted from 1992-2012.[2]
Winners[]
1992[]
- September
- for King Philip's War
- for "All Cotton Briefs"
- Jeff Nicholson for Lost Laughter
- and for Grey Legacy
1993[]
- March
- for Red River
- Megan Kelso for Girlhero
- David Lasky for Boom Boom
- September
- for True Swamp
- Jason Lutes for Jar of Fools
- for Killer Ape
- Adrian Tomine for Optic Nerve
1994[]
- March
- for Ritchie Kill'd My Toads[3]
- Tom Hart for Hutch Owen's Working Hard[3]
- for Strip Down[3]
- for The Hood: A Change from Within[3]
- September
- & for Mickey Death
- & for Health
- /Art Comics Daily for Bobby Ruckers [1]
- for When My Brother Was God
1995[]
- March
- and for Manya
- for It's All True
- Andy Hartzell for Bread & Circuses
- for Super Soul Puddin' Comics
- for The Rob Hanes Archives"
- September
- Jessica Abel for Artbabe
- for SPUD
- for Sidewalk Bubblegum
- for Steven's Comics
- Tom Pappalardo for Alec Dear (with Matt Smith)
- David Yurkovich for Death by Chocolate
1996[]
- March
- for Speedy
- for The King of Persia
- Linda Medley for Castle Waiting
- James Sturm for The Revival
- September
- for from Hungary
- for The Wiggly Reader
- for Most Likely to Succeed
- Rafael Navarro for Sonambulo: Sleep of the Just
- for Awakening Comics
- for Blue Hole
1997[]
- March
- Ellen Forney for I Was Seven in '75
- Jim Ottaviani for Two-Fisted Science
- for Sofa Jet City Crisis
- for Wahh
- Gene Yang for Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks
- September
- for Bomb Pop
- for Paper & Binding
- Robert Kirby for Curbside
- for Big Place Comics
- for Lumpophilia
1998[]
- March
- Aaron Augenblick for Tales from the Great Unspoken
- for Chilltown
- Alejandro Fuentes for Grasa del Sol
- for Saturday Nite
- Jason Little for Jack's Luck Runs Out
- for Bearskin
- Jay Hosler for Clan Apis: Transitions
- September
- for Paper Cinema
- for Little Red Hot
- for A Death in the Family
- for Cells
- for Fragile Honeymoon
- Dylan Williams for Reporter
1999[]
- March
- for Roland: Days of Wrath
- for Marco Solo
- David Choe for Slow Jams
- for Alternator
- Rhode Montijo for Pablo's Inferno
- for Sky & Mephistopheles
- for Jupiter
- September
- Nick Bertozzi for Boswash
- Leela Corman for Queen's Day
- for Under a Slowly Spinning Sun
- for Arm's Length
- Thomas Scioli for The Myth of 8-Opus
- Jason Shiga for Double Happiness
- for epic dermis
2000[]
- March
- for Best Western
- for Theater of the Meek
- Farel Dalrymple for Pop-Gun War
- for RPM Comics
- for Cynical Girl
- Anders Nilsen for The Ballad of the Two-Headed Boy
- John Pham for Epoxy
- Daniel Way for Violent Lifestyle Vol. 1
- Danijel Zezelj for Air Mexico
- September
- Santiago Cohen for The Fifth Name
- Friends of Lulu for Friends of Lulu: Storytime
- Julian Lawrence for Drippytown Comics #2001
- for Michael Neno’s Reactionary Tales
- for Schpilkes
- Leland Purvis for VOX
- Jen Sorensen for Slowpoke: Cafe Pompous
- for Content
- for A Bright Sunny Day
2001[]
- March
- for First World
- for Paper Theater
- Jordan Crane for Col-Dee
- Brian Ralph for Climbing Out
- for Dirty Boxes
- for Where Hats Go
- September
- Justin Hall for A Sacred Text
- Rachel Hartman for Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming
- for Cryptic Wit
- Troy Little for Chiaroscuro
- for Blanche the Baby Killer
- Hans Rickheit for CHLOE
- for Land of O
- for Tales from Birdbun Theatre
2002[]
- March
- Donna Barr for Seven Peaches: The First Seven Desert Peach Episodes
- and for XXX Live Nude Girls
- for The Tenacious Facts of Life of a Noman, Toc Fetch
- for Lumakick
- for Witch Doctor
- for Garlands of Moonlight
- September
- for End Times: Tiempos Finales
- Derek Kirk Kim for Same Difference and Other Stories
- Sonny Liew for Malinky Robot: Stinky Fish Blues
- for Tuesday
- Lauren Weinstein for Inside Vineyland
2003[]
- March
- for Grampa and Julie Shark Hunters
- for Tepid
- for Paper Museum
- for Angel
- for The Revenge of the Vampire Bed and Breakfast
- Julie Yeh for Poppie's Adventures: Serpents in Paradise
- September
- Alex Fellows for Canvas
- for Headstatic
- , editor, for Spark Generators II
- Neil Kleid for Ninety Candles
- for Along the Canadian
- Leslie Stein for Yeah, It Is!
- for Master Catfish
2004[]
- March ($24,889)
- for Full Color
- James Campbell for Krachmacher
- Leland Myrick for Bright Elegy
- Josh Neufeld for A Few Perfect Hours
- Karl Stevens for Guilty
- for The Collected Tales of the Closet, vol. I
- September ($27,765)
- for Coexisting
- and Fred Van Lente for Action Philosophers!
- David Heatley for Deadpan #2
- for Centerfield
- and Rick Geary for The Brontes: Infernal Angria #1
- for HELLO
- for Burying Sandwiches
2005[]
- March ($29,270)
- and for Thread
- for Something So Familiar[4]
- for Fauna
- for Bumper Boy Loses His Marbles
- for Black Mane
- Jeff Lemire for Lost Dogs
- Jesse Moynihan for The Backwards Folding Mirror
- September ($28,191)
- for Winter Beard
- for Don’t Cry
- for
- for HUSK
2006[]
- March ($21,406)
- for And How
- for Kids of Lower Utopia, vol. 6, no. 1 "Of Softdoor Scout Finnagain and Daffodil Dash Eleven"
- Joshua Hagler for The Boy Who Made Silence
- for Big Plans
- for First in Space — book was chosen for publication by Oni Press just before Vining received Xeric acceptance letter. Therefore, Vining declined the grant money, but is still considered a Xeric winner.[5]
- for Bronzeville
- September ($27,598)
- for Living Statues
- for La Primavera
- for NUMB
- for First Moon
- for The Sanctuary
- for Cut Flowers
- for Consider Everything in Bad Shape
2007[]
- March ($24,501)
- Kevin Colden for Fishtown — Colden opted to publish his book online, with the webcomics collective, ACT-I-VATE, and declined the grant money, but is still considered a Xeric winner.[6]
- for Gods of Asgard
- for Pizza Wizard #1
- Steve MacIsaac for Shirtlifter #2
- for Nothing Better
- for Ropeburn
- for Tanner - Television #1
- September ($26,548)
- Colleen Frakes for Tragic Relief
- for Look Out! Monsters!
- Lars Martinson for Tonoharu: Part One
- Corinne Mucha for My Alaskan Summer
- for Gabriel
2008[]
- May ($51,494)
- for Jazz: Cool Birth
- for Breakfast at Mimi's Doughnuts
- for Another Glorious Day at the Nothing Factory
- for Mine
- Jack Hsu for 8-9-3
- for Spot 12
- for Dirtbags, Mall Chicks and Motorbikes
- for Wall City
- for TeaTime
- Justin Murphy for Cleburne
- for The Chronicles of Some Made
- November ($25,031)
- Box Brown for Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing
- for editing/compiling Ghost Comics: A Benefit Anthology for RS Eden — Featuring Kevin Cannon, Evan Palmer, from the scene, as well as Jeffrey Brown and himself. The anthology was created as a fundraiser for the foundation for healthy Minnesota communities.[7][8]
- for I Still Live: Biography of a Spiritualist
- for Pope Hats
- for The Deformitory
- for Old Man Winter & Other Sordid Tales
2009[]
- May ($22,002)
- for Stuffed Animals: A Story in Paper Cutouts
- for I’m Crazy
- for !
- for Duncan the Wonder Dog
- for Haunted
- November ($32,042)
- for The Complete and Definitive Ouija Interviews
- for First Fight
- for Soldiers of God
- for Shi Long Pang, The Wandering Shaolin Monk
- Blaise Larmee for Young Lions
- for Death Trap
- for Within the Rat
- for Power Out[9]
2010[]
- May ($32,761)
- for Thunder in the Building #2
- for reMIND
- Jonathon Dalton for Lords of Death and Life
- for Lotus Root Children
- for Lone Pine
- for Zombre #2: The Magic Forest
- and for Francis Sharp in the Grip of the Uncanny! Book 1
- November ($31,158)
- for The Pterodactyl Hunters (in the Guilded City)
- for Much the Miller's Son
- for Streakers
- for Heaven All Day
- for Freddy Stories
- for Fantastic Life
- Benjamin Rivers for Snow[10]
2011[]
- May ($29,000)[11]
- Seamus Heffernan for Freedom
- for To Get Her
- for Fight
- for Picket Line
2012[]
- July ($74,510)[12]
- for How i Made the World
- for Polterguys
- for "Oak"
- for "Old Man Gloom"
- for "In The Sounds and Seas: Vol. 1"
- for "Tiny Bangs"
- for "The Blonde Woman"
- for "The Professor and The Paperboy"
- for "Ci Vediamo"
- for "Dear Beloved Stranger"
- for "Usagi Jane and The Skullbunnies"
- for "Castle and Wood"
- for "Sea Change: A Choose-Your-Own-Way Story"
- for "The Reptile Mind"
- for "Overboard"
- for Look Straight Ahead
- for "Wild Child"
References[]
Endnotes[]
- ^ "Comic-book Self-Publishing Grants," Xeric Foundation.[permanent dead link] Retrieved July 24, 2008.
- ^ "The Xeric Foundation Homepage". www.xericfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Xeric Foundation Announces Grant", p. 39. The Comics Journal, Seattle, May 1994.
- ^ "Aliens Sifting Through Our Ashes: Cahill talks Poison The Cure," Comic Book Resources, November 8, 2007.
- ^ "Comic-book Self-Publishing Grants: 2006," Xeric Foundation. Retrieved July 24, 2008.
- ^ "Comic-book Self-Publishing Grants: 2007," Xeric Foundation. Archived 2018-11-15 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 24, 2008.
- ^ "Blog@Newsarama >> Blog Archive >> Review: Ghost Comics," Newsarama.com. Archived 2009-06-12 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved June 9, 2009.
- ^ "RS Eden: Old Hands at New Beginnings" RSEden.org. Retrieved June 9, 2009.
- ^ http://www.xericfoundation.org/comicbooks/2009.html
- ^ http://www.xericfoundation.org/comicbooks/2010.html
- ^ http://www.xericfoundation.org/comicbooks/2011.html
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2012-07-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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