From: [a--co--c] at [cais.cais.com] (Bebe Williams)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 17:17:37 -0400
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Sender: [comix approval] at [world.std.com]

Here's the official announcement for the new winners of the Xeric Foundation:

Felease:  Immediate
Contact:  Christopher B. Miline
          Northampton, MA
          413-584-9121

The Xeric Foundation has announced its most recent grant recipients.  A
total of $15,620 was awarded to five comic book creators.

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 nationwide and qualified charitable and
nonprofit organizations in wester Massachusetts.  Unfortunately, artists
outside the United States are not at this time eligible to apply and
anthologies will not be reviewed.

The current grants cover the six-month period beginning August 1, 1994 and
ending January 31, 1995.  The next deadline and review dates are July 31,
1995 and September 1, 1995, respectively.  The charitable organization
grants were decided in June 1994 and announced separately.  The Foundation
has awarded in excess of $231,000 to comic book creators and non-profit
organizations since its first grant cycle in September 1992.

The artists receiving grants are as follows:

Mike Macropoulos - "Super Soul Puddin' Comics"
Andy Hartzell - "Bread & Circuses"
Kris Dresen and Jen Benka - "Manya"
Randy Reynaldo - "Adventure Strip Digest"
Scott Gilbert - "It's All True!"

For a brochure, write to the address below:

XERIC FOUNDATION
351 Pleasant Street, Box 214
Northampton, MA   01060

**Please contact the Foundation if there is an interest in publishing
samples of the recipients' artwork along with this announcement.
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Xeric Foundation home page:  http://www.cais.com/artcomic/xeric.html

Get your Bobby Ruckers #1 for only $2.95:

Art Comics
P.O. Box 3596
Arlington, VA   22203

Funded by the Xeric Foundation
Bebe Williams

http://www.cais.com/artcomic/home.html

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