Cartoonists awarded a grant from the Xeric Foundation

Xeric Foundation

The Xeric Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation based in Northampton, Massachusetts, which for twenty years awarded self-publishing grants to comic book creators, as well as qualified charitable and nonprofit organizations...

, 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.

1992

September

• Robert Eaton for King Philip's War
• Michael Kasper for "All Cotton Briefs"
• Jeff Nicholson for Lost Laughter
• Wayne Wise and Fred Wheaton for Grey Legacy
  Grey Legacy
  Grey Legacy is a science fiction webcomic by Wayne Wise and Fred Wheaton that was originally published in print form. The comic is hosted on Drunk Duck. The comic was among the first ever to win a Xeric Award in 1992.-Cast:...
  
  

1993

March

• Stephen Blue for Red River
• Megan Kelso
  Megan Kelso
  Megan Kelso is an American comic book artist and writer.Kelso started working in the 1990s, with the minicomic Girlhero, which won her a Xeric Foundation grant in 1993. She has since published several other projects including Queen of the Black Black and The Squirrel Mother...
  
   for Girlhero
• David Lasky
  David Lasky
  David Lasky is an alternative cartoonist based in Seattle, Washington.After spending the bulk of his life in Virginia, and graduating from the College of William & Mary, Lasky moved to Seattle in 1992...
  
   for Boom Boom

September

• Jon Lewis for True Swamp
• Jason Lutes
  Jason Lutes
  Jason Lutes is an American comics creator. His work is mainly historical fiction, but he also works in traditional fiction...
  
   for Jar of Fools
• Greg Moutafis for Killer Ape
• Adrian Tomine
  Adrian Tomine
  Adrian Tomine , a popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his periodical illustrations in The New Yorker.- Biography :...
  
   for Optic Nerve

1994

March

• Scott Getchell for Ritchie Kill'd My Toads
• Tom Hart
  Tom Hart (comics)
  Tom Hart is an American comics creator best known for his Hutch Owen series of comics.-Career:Tom Hart began making mini-comics while living in Seattle in the early 1990s...
  
   for Hutch Owen's Working Hard
• Garret Izumi for Strip Down
• Stephen Townsend for The Hood: A Change from Within

September

• Kevin Dixon & Eric Knisley for Mickey Death
• David Tompkins & Jeff Tompkins for Health
• Bebe Williams/Art Comics Daily
  Art Comics Daily
  Art Comics Daily is a webcomic published since March 1995 by Bebe Williams of Arlington, Va. After Williams' comic strips were repeatedly rejected by newspaper syndicates, he brought them to the Internet where he had more artistic freedom. He also saw in webcomics the possibility to earn money from...
  
   for Bobby Ruckers http://xericfoundation.org/comicbooks/1994.html
• Jonathan Rimorin & Yong Yi for When My Brother Was God

1995

March

• Kris Dresen and Jen Benka for Manya
• Scott Gilbert for It's All True
• Andy Hartzell
  Andy Hartzell
  Andy Hartzell is a cartoonist that lives in Oakland, California. In 1995, he was awarded a Xeric Grant to publish Bread & Circuses. In June 2007, Hartzell published Fox Bunny Funny, which was reviewed favorably by the New York Times and the San Francisco Examiner. He has been a designer for the...
  
   for Bread & Circuses
• Mike Macropoulos for Super Soul Puddin' Comics
• Randy Reynaldo for The Rob Hanes Archives"

September

• Jessica Abel
  Jessica Abel
  Jessica Abel is an American comic book writer and artist, known as the creator of such works as Life Sucks, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, Soundtrack, La Perdida, Mirror, Window, Radio: An Illustrated Guide , and the omnibus series Artbabe.Abel has stated that her major work is not...
  
   for Artbabe
• Art Baxter for SPUD
• Clay Butler for Sidewalk Bubblegum
• David Kelly for Steven's Comics
• Tom Pappalardo
  Standard design
  Standard Design, aka Tom Pappalardo is a Northampton, Massachusetts graphic designer, cartoonist, illustrator, and animator best known for his animated TV ads , a grant-funded mural located in downtown Easthampton, Massachusetts, and his rock poster designs...
  
   for Alec Dear (with Matt Smith
  Matt Smith (illustrator)
  Matt Smith is a Cambridge, Massachusetts illustrator best known for his work in such children's magazines as Cricket, Highlights for Children, and Muse. He is also known for creating album cover art and concert posters for Minibosses and as a contributor to FORTY-3, The official Massachusetts...
  
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• David Yurkovich
  David Yurkovich
  David Yurkovich is an independent writer and illustrator of comic books and graphic novels.Yurkovich began self-publishing in 1996 following receipt of a grant from Peter Laird's acclaimed Xeric Foundation...
  
   for Death by Chocolate

1996

March

• Warren Craghead for Speedy
• Walt Holcombe for The King of Persia
• Linda Medley
  Linda Medley
  Linda Medley is an American comic book author and illustrator, known for her Castle Waiting series of comic books and graphic novels.-Biography and early career:...
  
   for Castle Waiting
• James Sturm
  James Sturm
  James Sturm is an American cartoonist, Xeric Award-winner, and co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont...
  
   for The Revival

September

• Thomas Galambos for from Hungary
• John Kerschbaum for The Wiggly Reader
• Steve Matuszak for Most Likely to Succeed
• Rafael Navarro
  Rafael Navarro
  Rafael Navarro is an independent American comic-book artist best known for creating the Xeric Award winning series, Sonambulo, which cleverly blends elements of Lucha Libre and the noir genre. He has collaborated with Keith Rainville and has had work featured in Rainville's From Parts Unknown...
  
   for Sonambulo: Sleep of the Just
• Steven Peters for Awakening Comics
• Christine Shields for Blue Hole

1997

March

• Ellen Forney
  Ellen Forney
  Ellen Forney is a cartoonist and teacher based in Seattle, Washington, whose work has been published by Fantagraphics Books and The Stranger , among other publications. Her most recent collection is called Lust...
  
   for I Was Seven in '75
• Jim Ottaviani
  Jim Ottaviani
  Jim Ottaviani is the author of several comic books about the history of science. His best-known work, Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists, features biographical stories about Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Niels Bohr, and several stories about physicist Richard Feynman...
  
   for Two-Fisted Science
• Rhyan Scorpio-Rhys for Sofa Jet City Crisis
• Henry Wolyniec for Wahh
• Gene Yang
  Gene Yang
  Gene Luen Yang is an American comics artist whose graphic novel American Born Chinese was named a 2006 finalist for the National Book Award in the young people's literature category and was awarded the 2007 Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Literary Awards...
  
   for Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks

September

• Fawn Gehweiler for Bomb Pop
• Fred Hofheinz for Paper & Binding
• Robert Kirby for Curbside
• Kevin Quigley for Big Place Comics
• Sarah Thornton for Lumpophilia

1998

March

• Aaron Augenblick
  Aaron Augenblick
  Aaron Augenblick is a cartoon animator from the United States of America currently involved, among other things, in "Ugly Americans", a series on Comedy Central.-Biography:...
  
   for Tales from the Great Unspoken
• Leesa Dean for Chilltown
• Alejandro Fuentes
  Alejandro Fuentes
  Alejandro Javier Fuentes Riffo is a singer who finished third in Norwegian Idols third season in 2005.Later in 2005, he released the album Diamonds and Pearls, which reached gold by the end of the year....
  
   for Grasa del Sol
• Anson Jew for Saturday Nite
• Jason Little
  Jason Little (cartoonist)
  Jason Palmer Little is an American cartoonist.He grew up in Binghamton, New York, studied photography at Oberlin College, and now lives in Brooklyn with writer Myla Goldberg and their two daughters....
  
   for Jack's Luck Runs Out
  Jack's Luck Runs Out
  Jack's Luck Runs Out is a full-color one-shot comic book created by Jason Little. The book features playing cards as characters, where the title character is a jack. In March 1998, Little received a grant to help publish the book from the Xeric Foundation...
  
  
• Gareth Hinds for Bearskin
• Jay Hosler
  Jay Hosler
  Jay Hosler is the author and illustrator of science-oriented comics. He is best known for his graphic novels Clan Apis, The Sandwalk Adventures, and Optical Allusions. Clan Apis follows the life of a honey bee named Nyuki; the story conveys factual information about honey bees in a humorous fashion...
  
   for Clan Apis: Transitions

September

• Don Bethman Jr. for Paper Cinema
• Dawn Brown for Little Red Hot
• Joe Chiapetta for A Death in the Family
• Scott Mills for Cells
• Olivia Schanzer for Fragile Honeymoon
• Dylan Williams for Reporter

1999

March

• Shane Amaya for Roland: Days of Wrath
• Shannon Brady for Marco Solo
• David Choe
  David Choe
  David Choe is an American painter, muralist, graffiti artist and graphic novelist of Korean descent. He achieved art world success with his "dirty style" figure paintings—raw, frenetic works which combine themes of desire, degradation, and exaltation...
  
   for Slow Jams
• Carrie Golus for Alternator
• Rhode Montijo
  Rhode Montijo
  Rhode Montijo is an American independent comic-book artist best known as the creator of Pablo's Inferno and co-creator of the Flash cartoon Happy Tree Friends.-Career:...
  
   for Pablo's Inferno
• Matthew Oreto for Sky & Mephistopheles
• Jason Sandberg for Jupiter

September

• Nick Bertozzi
  Nick Bertozzi
  Nick Bertozzi is an American comic book writer and artist, as well as a commercial illustrator and teacher of cartooning. His series Rubber Necker from Alternative Comics won the 2003 Harvey Awards for best new talent and best new series. His project, The Salon Nick Bertozzi (born May 26, 1970)...
  
   for Boswash
• Leela Corman for Queen's Day
• Marcel Guldemond for Under a Slowly Spinning Sun
• Mark Price for Arm's Length
• Thomas Scioli
  Tom Scioli
  Thomas Scioli is an American comic book artist and writer best known for working in a style similar to Jack Kirby.-Biography:Scioli's epic sci-fi/fantasy series The Myth of 8-Opus won a 1999 Xeric Grant and attracted mild industry attention, earning him a small part illustrating the Fantastic Four:...
  
   for The Myth of 8-Opus
• Jason Shiga
  Jason Shiga
  Jason Shiga is an Asian American cartoonist who incorporates puzzles, mysteries and unconventional narrative techniques into his work.-Early life:...
  
   for Double Happiness
• Michael Teague for epic dermis

2000

March

• Seth Berkowitz for Best Western
• Robyn Chapman for Theater of the Meek
• Farel Dalrymple
  Farel Dalrymple
  Farel Dalrymple is an American artist and alternative comics creator. He is best known for his award-winning comics series Pop Gun War.-Career:...
  
   for Pop-Gun War
• Rachel Masilamani for RPM Comics
• William Morton (cartoonist) for Cynical Girl
• Anders Nilsen
  Anders Nilsen
  Anders Nilsen is a popular artist and graphic novelist who grew up in Minneapolis and lives in Chicago, IL.He works on an ongoing comic series, Big Questions , which has been nominated several times for the Ignatz Award. In addition, his comics have appeared in the anthologies Kramers Ergot and Mome...
  
   for The Ballad of the Two-Headed Boy
• John Pham
  John Pham
  John Pham is a comic creator.John Pham was born in Saigon but was raised in the United States. He received a self publishing grant from the Xeric Foundation in 2000 for "Epoxy." His Sublife #2 from Fantagraphics Books was nominated for an Outstanding Artist, Outstanding Series, and Outstanding...
  
   for Epoxy
• Daniel Way
  Daniel Way
  -Career:Way received the Xeric Foundation's Xeric Grant in 2000 for his first publication, Violent Lifestyle #1. Through Violent Lifestyle, Way was introduced to Marvel Comics editor Axel Alonso, who hired Way for a Deathlok mini-series that was cancelled prior to publication.Way's first published...
  
   for Violent Lifestyle Vol. 1
• Danijel Zezelj
  Danijel Zezelj
  Danijel Zezelj is a Croatian comic book artist, painter and illustrator and author of a number of graphic novels.-Biography:Zezelj studied classical painting, sculpting and printing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia....
  
   for Air Mexico

September

• Santiago Cohen
  Santiago cohen
  Santiago Cohen is a cartoonist, animator, fine artist and graphic novel illustrator based in Hoboken, New Jersey.Santiago studied communication design in the Metropolitan University in Mexico followed by a MFA in Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY. His art appears constantly in dignified newspapers,...
  
   for The Fifth Name
• Friends of Lulu
  Friends of Lulu
  Friends of Lulu was a non-profit, national charitable organization in the United States, founded in 1994 to promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry...
  
   for Friends of Lulu: Storytime
• Julian Lawrence
  Julian Lawrence
  Julian Lawrence is a Canadian cartoonist. He was born in England and raised in Quebec. He is an instructor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and part of the musical group July Fourth Toilet. Lawrence was awarded a Xeric Grant in 2000....
  
   for Drippytown Comics #2001
• Michael Neno for Michael Neno’s Reactionary Tales
• Frederick Noland for Schpilkes
• Leland Purvis
  Leland Purvis
  Leland Purvis is a comic book writer and artist, best known for his black and white series Vóx and Pubo.-Awards:Purvis was nominated for the 2004 Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent for his work on Suspended in Language...
  
   for VOX
• Jen Sorensen
  Jen Sorensen
  Jen Sorensen is an American cartoonist who authors Slowpoke, a weekly comic strip that often focuses on current events from a liberal perspective. The comic generally makes use of three recurring characters: Mr...
  
   for Slowpoke: Cafe Pompous
• Gia-Bao Tran for Content
• Daniel Warner for A Bright Sunny Day

2001

March

• Philip Bourassa for First World
• Ben Catmull for Paper Theater
• Jordan Crane
  Jordan Crane
  Jordan Crane is an American comics creator.Crane first emerged in 1996 with the anthology NON, which he edited, contributed to, and published. This anthology combines influences from Art Spiegelman’s RAW and newer comics artists...
  
   for Col-Dee
• Brian Ralph
  Brian Ralph
  Brian Ralph is a U.S. alternative cartoonist. His illustrations have appeared in Wired and the New York Post. His debut graphic novel Cave-In was nominated for three Harvey Awards, one Eisner Award, and listed as one of the Comics Journals "five best comics of 1999". His second graphic novel...
  
   for Climbing Out
• Jacob Weinstein for Dirty Boxes
• Kurt Wolfgang for Where Hats Go

September

• Justin Hall for A Sacred Text
• Rachel Hartman for Amy Unbounded
  Amy Unbounded
  Amy Unbounded is a comic book series by Rachel Hartman. Thirteen issues have been published by the creator's Pughouse Press from 1996 to date. It won the 1998 Ignatz Award for Best Minicomic. Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming, a trade paperback collecting issues 7-12, was published with the...
  
  : Belondweg Blossoming
• Gerald Jablonski for Cryptic Wit
• Troy Little
  Troy Little
  -External links:* – Troy Little's official website* – Troy Little's official BlogspotText interviews* at Comic Book Resources Video interviews from CBC from Eastlink TV...
  
   for Chiaroscuro
  Chiaroscuro (graphic novel)
  Chiaroscuro is a comic series developed by Canadian artist Troy Little between 2000 and 2005.-Publication history:Little began self-publishing in 2001 and after releasing two issue he received a Xeric in 2001 which allowed him to produce another five issues. Personal circumstances slowed progress...
  
  
• Songgu Kwon for Blanche the Baby Killer
• Hans Rickheit
  Hans Rickheit
  -Profile:Rickheit was originally a resident of Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He originally self-published minicomics which presented dark vignettes and short stories, many of them directly inspired by dreams. He also produced short films....
  
   for CHLOE
• Michael Slack for Land of O
• Dennis Tucker for Tales from Birdbun Theatre

2002

March

• Donna Barr
  Donna Barr
  Donna Barr is an American comic book author and cartoonist.She was born in Everett, Washington, the second child in a family of six siblings....
  
   for Seven Peaches: The First Seven Desert Peach Episodes
• Nikki Coffman and Laurenn McCubbin for XXX Live Nude Girls
• Toc Fetch for The Tenacious Facts of Life of a Noman, Toc Fetch
• Richard Hahn for Lumakick
• Kenjji for Witch Doctor
• Jai Sen for Garlands of Moonlight

September

• Sam Hiti
  Sam Hiti
  Sam Hiti is an independent comic book author and illustrator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.His works, including the first part in his projected nine-part series Tiempos Finales, are self-published under La Luz Comics, Hiti's own publishing company. Hiti was able to self-publish Tiempos Finales...
  
   for End Times: Tiempos Finales
• Derek Kirk Kim for Same Difference and Other Stories
• Sonny Liew
  Sonny Liew
  Sonny Liew is a Malaysian-born comic artist/illustrator based in Singapore. He is best known for his work on Vertigo Comics' My Faith in Frankie together with Mike Carey and Marc Hempel, and Marvel Comics' "Sense and Sensibility" adaptation....
  
   for Malinky Robot: Stinky Fish Blues
• Henrik Rehr for Tuesday
• Lauren Weinstein
  Lauren Weinstein (comic book artist)
  Lauren R. Weinstein is an American comic book artist. Her surrealist alternative comics detail a complex world where a pall of mystery, sexual intrigue and violent death hangs over the animal kingdom, outer space and suburban America alike...
  
   for Inside Vineyland

2003

March

• Jef Czekaj for Grampa and Julie Shark Hunters
• John Hankiewicz for Tepid
• Jai Nitz for Paper Museum
• Bishakh Som for Angel
• Elena Steier for The Revenge of the Vampire Bed and Breakfast
• Julie Yeh for Poppie's Adventures: Serpents in Paradise

September

• Alex Fellows for Canvas
• Jay Hacker for Headstatic
• Jon "Bean" Hastings, editor, for Spark Generators II
• Neil Kleid
  Neil Kleid
  Neil Kleid is a U.S. cartoonist raised in Oak Park, Michigan, now living in Bronx, New York. He has received a 2003 Xeric Award grant for his graphic novella Ninety Candles ....
  
   for Ninety Candles
• Joel Rivers for Along the Canadian
• Leslie Stein for Yeah, It Is!
• Michael Zittel
  Michael Zittel
  Michael Zittel is a German stage, film, and television actor.-Biography:Michael Zittel was born in Mosbach, Germany. His father was a doctor and his mother was a housewife. He studied medicine for a few semesters but then trained at a playhouse in Heidelberg. He is one of Germany's best known and...
  
   for Master Catfish

2004

March ($24,889)

• Mark Britt for Full Color
• James Campbell
  Jim Campbell (comic artist/musician)
  Jim Campbell , a.k.a. "Angry Jim", is a U.S. comic artist and musician living in Brooklyn, New York.-Biography:While studying at the Kansas City Art Institute, he founded the band Ottomen with fellow Illustration students David Stevenson and George Garcia...
  
   for Krachmacher
• Leland Myrick
  Leland Myrick
  Leland Myrick is an author and illustrator. He was born in Missouri and currently lives in Pasadena, California. In 1999, he was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent for The Sweet Collection, and in 2004 he was awarded a Xeric Grant to create Bright Elegy. In 2006, he published a...
  
   for Bright Elegy
• Josh Neufeld
  Josh Neufeld
  Josh Neufeld is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel, and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone...
  
   for A Few Perfect Hours
• Karl Stevens
  Karl Stevens
  Karl Stevens is a graphic novelist and painter. His first book, Guilty, was published in 2004 with a grant from the Xeric Foundation. He is also the author of Whatever and The Lodger...
  
   for Guilty
• Ivan Velez for The Collected Tales of the Closet, vol. I

September ($27,765)

• Andrew Drozd for Coexisting
• Ryan Dunlavey and Fred Van Lente
  Fred Van Lente
  Fred Van Lente is an American writer, primarily of comic books and graphic novels.-Career:Van Lente is the co-founder, along with artist Ryan Dunlavey, of Evil Twin Comics, which produces his and Dunlavey’s non-fiction comic books, the first and most famous of which is Action Philosophers.Recent...
  
   for Action Philosophers
  Action Philosophers
  Action Philosophers! is a comic book series by artist Ryan Dunlavey and writer Fred Van Lente, which was awarded a Xeric Grant in late 2004, leading to Action Philosophers! # 1's publication in April 2005....
  
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• David Heatley
  David Heatley
  David Heatley is an American cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer and musician.- Education :Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, Heatley graduated from Teaneck High School in 1993. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000.-Comics:Though he studied painting and filmmaking at Oberlin,...
  
   for Deadpan #2
• Nicholas Jeffrey for Centerfield
• Craig McKenney and Rick Geary
  Rick Geary
  Rick Geary is an American cartoonist and illustrator.-Biography:Rick Geary was born on February 25, 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri. Geary was initially introduced to comics readers with his contributions to the Heavy Metal and National Lampoon magazines...
  
   for The Brontes: Infernal Angria #1
• Fay Ryu for HELLO
• Rob Sato for Burying Sandwiches

2005

March ($29,270)

• Emily Benz and Summer McClinton for Thread
• Alex Cahill for Something So Familiar
• Zack Gardner for Fauna
• Debbie Huey for Bumper Boy Loses His Marbles
• Michael LaRiccia for Black Mane
• Jeff Lemire
  Jeff Lemire
  Jeff Lemire is a Canadian comics artist and writer. He is the author of the Essex County Trilogy, Sweet Tooth and The Nobody. Lemire is known for a his moody, humanistic stories and sketchy, cinematic, black-and-white art....
  
   for Lost Dogs
• Jesse Moynihan for The Backwards Folding Mirror

September ($28,191)

• Catherine Hannah for Winter Beard
• Lance Christian Hansen for Don’t Cry
• Melody Shickley for In the Hands of Boys
• Albert Benjamin Thompson for HUSK

2006

March ($21,406)

• Gregory Corso for And How
• Toc Fetch 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
• Aron Nels Steinke for Big Plans
• James Vining for First in Space — book was chosen for publication by Oni Press
  Oni Press
  Oni Press is an American independent comic book publisher based in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1997 by Bob Schreck and Joe Nozemack with the goal of publishing the kinds of comics and graphic novels they themselves would want to read...
  
   just before Vining received Xeric acceptance letter. Therefore, Vining declined the grant money, but is still considered a Xeric winner.
• Joel White for Bronzeville

September ($27,598)

• Emily Blair for Living Statues
• Alexis Frederick-Frost for La Primavera
• Joshua Kemble for NUMB
• Jason McNamara and Tony Talbert for First Moon
• Nate Neal for The Sanctuary
• Pat Palermo for Cut Flowers
• Mark Price for Consider Everything in Bad Shape

2007

March ($24,501)

• Kevin Colden
  Kevin Colden
  Kevin Colden is an Eisner Award-nominated, Xeric Grant winning American comic book writer and artist. Primarily known as a webcomics artist, his work has been published in print by Zuda Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Alternative Comics, and Top Shelf Productions.-Early life:Colden graduated...
  
   for Fishtown — Colden opted to publish his book online, with the webcomics collective, ACT-I-VATE
  Act-i-vate
  ACT-I-VATE is an American webcomics collective based on an original idea by Dean Haspiel and founded by Haspiel and seven other cartoonists. It started out on the blogging platform Livejournal, but has now moved to its own dedicated website....
  
  , and declined the grant money, but is still considered a Xeric winner.
• Erik Evensen for Gods of Asgard
• Sam Gaskin for Pizza Wizard #1
• Steve MacIsaac
  Steve MacIsaac
  Steve MacIsaac is a Canadian comics artist and creator living in Los Angeles. His work has been selected for several "Best of" anthologies.MacIsaac may be best known for working on Sticky with writer Dale Lazarov. However his work has appeared in a number of other places. He writes and draws a...
  
   for Shirtlifter #2
• Tyler Page for Nothing Better
• Jeremy Smith for Ropeburn
• Ryan Alexander for Tanner - Television #1

September ($26,548)

• Colleen Frakes for Tragic Relief
• Geoff Grogan for Look Out! Monsters!
• Lars Martinson
  Lars Martinson
  -Life:Lars Martinson was born in 1977 in Minnesota. From 2003 to 2006, he lived and worked in Japan as an assistant English teacher with the JET Program. In 2007 he received a Xeric Grant for Comic Book Self-Publishers that allowed him to work on his graphic novel Tōnoharu...
  
   for Tonoharu: Part One
• Corinne Mucha for My Alaskan Summer
• Jaime "Jimmy" Portillo for Gabriel

2008

May ($51,494)

• Gary Scott Beatty for Jazz: Cool Birth
• Marek Bennett for Breakfast at Mimi's Doughnuts
• Eroyn Franklin for Another Glorious Day at the Nothing Factory
• Jason Hoffman for Mine
• Jack Hsu
  Jack Hsu
  Jack Hsu is an American storyboard artist and creator of Way Out Comics, an independent publishers of comic books and graphic novels.-Early life:Hsu was born in Taiwan and raised in Japan and the United States....
  
   for 8-9-3
• Jenny Jaeckel for Spot 12
• Dave Kiersh for Dirtbags, Mall Chicks and Motorbikes
• Alex Kim
  Alex Kim
  Alex Kim is an American professional ice hockey center. He's playing in his second season for Anyang Halla. He previously played for rival High1. He has a two year contract with the team.-External links:*...
  
   for Wall City
• stef lenk for TeaTime
• Justin Murphy
  Justin Murphy (comics)
  Justin Murphy is an independent publisher and creator of comics and graphic novels. He is also a playwright and composer. He co-wrote a play which won most outstanding musical at the New York International Fringe Festival.-Southern Blood comic book:...
  
   for Cleburne
• Felix Tannenbaum for The Chronicles of Some Made

November ($25,031)

• Box Brown
  Box Brown
  Box Brown is an Ignatz Award-winning American cartoonist best known for the comic Bellen!.Winner of a Xeric Grant for the comic Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing....
  
   for Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing
• Ed Choy Moorman for editing/compiling Ghost Comics: A Benefit Anthology for RS Eden — Featuring Kevin Cannon
  Kevin Cannon
  Kevin Cannon is an American cartoonist and illustrator.-Life and career:Cannon first published work was Johnny Cavalier, published by Grinnell College Press, which included 100 pages of weekly strips that originally ran in the Scarlet and Black. While attending Grinnell, Kevin was often asked if he...
  
  , Evan Palmer, Will Dinski from the Twin Cities comics scene, as well as Jeffrey Brown
  Jeffrey Brown
  Jeffrey Brown is a comic book writer and artist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.-Biography:After growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a 25-year-old Jeffrey Brown moved to Chicago in 2000 to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute. By the time he finished his studies, he had abandoned...
  
   and Ed Choy Moorman himself. The anthology was created as a fundraiser for the RS Eden foundation for healthy Minnesota communities.
• Annie Murphy for I Still Live: Biography of a Spiritualist
• Ethan Rilly for Pope Hats
• Sophia Wiedeman for The Deformitory
• J.T. Yost for Old Man Winter & Other Sordid Tales

2009

May ($22,002)

• Joe Boruchow for Stuffed Animals: A Story in Paper Cutouts
• Adam Bourret for I’m Crazy
• Timothy Godek for !
• Adam Hines for Duncan the Wonder Dog
  Duncan the Wonder Dog
  Duncan the Wonder Dog is a lauded comic by Adam Hines and winner of a Xeric Grant and many book awards and reviews calling it, for instance, "ambitious, beautiful, mystifying."It is the first of a planned nine-book series.-See also:...
  
  
• Joshua Smeaton for Haunted

November ($32,042)

• Sarah Becan for The Complete and Definitive Ouija Interviews
• Bryan G. Brown for First Fight
• Sixta C. for Soldiers of God
• Ben Costa for Shi Long Pang, The Wandering Shaolin Monk
• Blaise Larmee
  Blaise Larmee
  Blaise Larmee is an American cartoonist, critic, and publisher, best known for his graphic novella Young Lions.His work has appeared in online and print media....
  
   for Young Lions
• Lane Milburn for Death Trap
• Stefan Salinas for Within the Rat
• Nathan Schreiber for Power Out

2010

May ($32,761)

• Margaret Ashford-Trotter for Thunder in the Building #2
• Jason Brubaker for reMIND
• Jonathon Dalton
  Jonathon Dalton
  Jonathon Dalton is a Canadian artist specializing in comics and webcomics. He was described by the National Post as one of Canada's "most under-appreciated comic artists working today".-Beginnings:...
  
   for Lords of Death and Life
• Wei Li for Lotus Root Children
• Jed McGowan for Lone Pine
• Ansis Purins for Zombre #2: The Magic Forest
• Brittney Sabo and Anna Bratton for Francis Sharp in the Grip of the Uncanny! Book 1

November ($31,158)

• Brendan C. Leach for The Pterodactyl Hunters (in the Guilded City)
• Steve LeCouilliard for Much the Miller's Son
• Nick Maandag  for Streakers
• John Martz  for Heaven All Day
• Melissa Mendes for Freddy Stories
• Kevin Mutch for Fantastic Life
• Benjamin Rivers
  Benjamin Rivers
  Benjamin Rivers is an independent game developer, illustrator, and comic artist. He was raised in Barry's Bay, Canada and is now based out of Toronto, Canada. He is a member of the Hand Eye Society and a graduate of the Artsy Games Incubator program...
  
   for Snow

2011

May ($29,000)

• Seamus Heffernan for Freedom
• Bernard Edward Mireault for To Get Her
• Sam Spina for Fight
• Breena Wiederhoeft for Picket Line

November