XERIC GRANT RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED

**MattBrady** · 11-01-2002, 11:09 AM

Press Release

The Xeric Foundation has announced its most recent grant recipients. A total of $20,174 was awarded to five comic book creators.

The Foundation has awarded in excess of $1,080,000 to comic book creators and non-profit organizations since its first grant cycle in September 1992. This year marks the 10th anniversary of giving.

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 next deadline and review dates are January 31, 2003 and March 1, 2003, respectively.

The charitable organization grants were decided in June 2002 and announced separately.

The artists receiving grants are as follows:

Sam Hiti End Times: Tiempos Finales

Derek Kirk Same Difference and Other Stories

Sonny Liew Malinky Robot: Stinky Fish Blues

Henrik Rehr Tuesday

Lauren Weinstein Inside Vineyland

Monkey in a Wheelchair · 11-01-2002, 07:27 PM

These guys have websites where I can see their stuff? Where could I buy the books?
-- chip

heeBGB · 11-02-2002, 01:39 PM

[quote]Originally posted by Monkey in a Wheelchair:
These guys have websites where I can see their stuff? Where could I buy the books?
-- chip

Courtesy Jeff Mason on another board:

Sam Hiti: http://www.samhiti.com/
Sonny Liew: http://www.sonnyliew.com/
Derek Kirk: http://www.smallstoriesonline.com
Henrik Rehr: http://www.denmark.org/portrait_Sep99/ (anyone have a better URL?)
Lauren Weinstein: http://www.vineyland.com/

Todd VerBeek · 11-03-2002, 10:07 AM

[quote]Originally posted by Monkey in a Wheelchair:
These guys have websites where I can see their stuff? Where could I buy the books?
-- chip

While it's not unusual for Xeric Grant recipients to already have stuff in print, these aren't awards (in the sense that we usually think of the term) for published books. People sometimes call them "Xeric Awards", which is misleading; they're closer in spirit to grants from the NEA (albeit less controversial because they're privately funded). So when the Xeric people announce the "winners", it can often be several months before the books in question actually exist for people to buy.

See the Xeric Foundation site for more info.

By the way, I've read some of Derek Kirk's "Small Stories" work, and it's worth a look.

Cheers, Todd

Darren J. Gendron · 11-03-2002, 04:46 PM

Be sure to check out Sam Hiti's stuff, too. His art is absolutely fantastic.

genetic freak · 11-05-2002, 05:08 AM

congratulations to those involved. It would seem that Derek's smallstories.com is already down, pitty. Derek Kirk and Sam Hiti, two of the few people who are master of the black and white. Lot's of promising indy or upstart artists today.
Becky Cloonan, Derek Kirk, Sam Hiti and Rob G, those names are sure to satisfy people like me who wants a regular fix of B&W art.