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. [ [http://xericfoundation.org/comicbooks/index.html "Comic-book Self-Publishing Grants," Xeric Foundation.] Retrieved July 24, 2008.]

Winners

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"

1993

; March
* Stephen Blue for "Red River"
* Megan Kelso for "Girlhero"
* David Lasky for "Boom Boom"

; September
* Jon Lewis for "True Swamp"
* Jason Lutes for "Jar of Fools"
* Greg Moutafis for "Killer Ape"
* Adrian Tomine for "Optic Nerve"

1994

; March
* Scott Getchell for "Ritchie Kill'd My Toads"
* Tom Hart 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 for Bobby Ruckers [http://xericfoundation.org/comicbooks/1994.html]
* 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 for "Bread & Circuses"
* Mike Macropoulos for "Super Soul Puddin' Comics"
* Randy Reynaldo for "The Rob Hanes Archives"

; September
* Jessica Abel for "Artbabe"
* Art Baxter for "SPUD"
* Clay Butler for "Sidewalk Bubblegum"
* David Kelly for "Steven's Comics"
* Tom Pappalardo for "Alec Dear" (with Matt Smith)
* David Yurkovich for "Death by Chocolate"

1996

; March
* Warren Craghead for "Speedy"
* Walt Holcombe for "The King of Persia"
* Linda Medley for "Castle Waiting"
* James Sturm for "The Revival"

; September
* Thomas Galambos for "from Hungary"
* John Kerschbaum for "The Wiggly Reader"
* Steve Matuszak for "Most Likely to Succeed"
* Rafael Navarro for "Sonambulo: Sleep of the Just"
* Steven Peters for "Awakening Comics"
* Christine Shields for "Blue Hole"

1997

; March
* Ellen Forney for "I Was Seven in '75"
* Jim Ottaviani for "Two-Fisted Science"
* Rhyan Scorpio-Rhys for "Sofa Jet City Crisis"
* Henry Wolyniec for "Wahh"
* Gene Yang 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 for "Tales from the Great Unspoken"
* Leesa Dean for "Chilltown"
* Alejandro Fuentes for "Grasa del Sol"
* Anson Jew for "Saturday Nite"
* Jason Little for "Jack's Luck Runs Out"
* Gareth Hinds for "Bearskin"
* Jay Hosler 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 for "Slow Jams"
*Carrie Golus for "Alternator"
*Rhode Montijo for "Pablo's Inferno"
*Matthew Oreto for "Sky & Mephistopheles"
*Jason Sandberg for "Jupiter"

; September
*Nick Bertozzi for "Boswash"
*Leela Corman for "Queen's Day"
*Marcel Guldemond for "Under a Slowly Spinning Sun"
*Mark Price for "Arm's Length"
*Thomas Scioli for "The Myth of 8-Opus"
*Jason Shiga for "Double Happiness"
*Michael Teague for "epic dermis"

2000

; March
*Seth Berkowitz for "Best Western"
*Robyn Chapman for "Theater of the Meek"
*Farel Dalrymple for "Pop-Gun War"
*Rachel Masilamani for "RPM Comics"
*William Morton (cartoonist) 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"
*Michael Neno for "Michael Neno’s Reactionary Tales"
*Frederick Noland for "Schpilkes"
*Leland Purvis for "VOX"
*Jen Sorensen 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 for "Col-Dee"
* Brian Ralph 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: Belondweg Blossoming"
* Gerald Jablonski for "Cryptic Wit"
* Troy Little for "Chiaroscuro"
* Songgu Kwon for "Blanche the Baby Killer"
* Hans Rickheit for "CHLOE"
* Michael Slack for "Land of O"
* Dennis Tucker for "Tales from Birdbun Theatre"

2002

; March
* Donna Barr 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 for "End Times: Tiempos Finales"
* Derek Kirk Kim for "Same Difference and Other Stories"
* Sonny Liew for "Malinky Robot: Stinky Fish Blues"
* Henrik Rehr for "Tuesday"
* Lauren Weinstein 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 for "Ninety Candles"
* Joel Rivers for "Along the Canadian"
* Leslie Stein for "Yeah, It Is!"
* Michael Zittel for "Master Catfish"

2004

; March ($24,889)
* Mark Britt for "Full Color"
* James Campbell for "Krachmacher"
* Leland Myrick for "Bright Elegy"
* Josh Neufeld for "A Few Perfect Hours"
* Karl Stevens 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 for "Action Philosophers!"
* David Heatley for "Deadpan" #2
* Nicholas Jeffrey for "Centerfield"
* Craig McKenney and Rick Geary 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" [ [http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=12352 "Aliens Sifting Through Our Ashes: Cahill talks "Poison The Cure"] ," Comic Book Resources, November 8, 2007.]
* Zack Gardner for "Fauna"
* Debbie Huey for "Bumper Boy Loses His Marbles"
* Michael LaRiccia for "Black Mane"
* Jeff Lemire 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 just before Vining received Xeric acceptance letter. Therefore, Vining declined the grant money, but is still considered a Xeric winner. [ [http://xericfoundation.org/comicbooks/2006.html "Comic-book Self-Publishing Grants: 2006," Xeric Foundation.] Retrieved July 24, 2008.]
* 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 for "Fishtown" — Colden opted to publish his book online, on the webcomics collective, ACT-I-VATE, and declined the grant money, but is still considered a Xeric winner. [ [http://xericfoundation.org/comicbooks/2007.html "Comic-book Self-Publishing Grants: 2007," Xeric Foundation.] Retrieved July 24, 2008.]
* Erik Evensen for "Gods of Asgard"
* Sam Gaskin for "Pizza Wizard" #1
* Steve MacIsaac for "Shirtlifter" #2
* Tyler Page for "Nothing Better"
* Jeremy Smith (cartoonist) for "Ropeburn"
* Ryan Alexander for "Tanner - Television" #1

; September ($26,548)
* Colleen Frakes for "Tragic Relief"
* Geoff Grogan for "Look Out! Monsters!"
* Lars Martinson for "Tonoharu: Part One"
* Corinne Mucha for "My Alaskan Summer"
* Jaime "Jimmy" Portillo for "Gabriel"

References

* [http://xericfoundation.org/comicbooks/comicgrants.html Xeric Grants by year]

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