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
  • 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
September

1994

March
  • Scott Getchell for Ritchie Kill'd My Toads[3]
  • Tom Hart for Hutch Owen's Working Hard[3]
  • Garret Izumi for Strip Down[3]
  • Stephen Townsend for The Hood: A Change from Within[3]
September
  • Kevin Dixon & Eric Knisley for Mickey Death
  • David Tompkins & Jeff Tompkins for Health
  • Bebe Williams/Art Comics Daily for Bobby Ruckers
  • Jonathan Rimorin & Yong Yi for When My Brother Was God

1995

March
  • Kris Dresen and Jen Benka for Manya
  • Scott Gilbert (comics) 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

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
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

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

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

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)
September ($27,765)

2005

March ($29,270)
  • Emily Benz and Summer McClinton for Thread
  • Alex Cahill for Something So Familiar[4]
  • 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 Spacebook 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]
  • 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 FishtownColden 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]
  • Erik Evensen for Gods of Asgard
  • Sam Gaskin for Pizza Wizard #1
  • Steve MacIsaac for Shirtlifter #2
  • Tyler Page for Nothing Better
  • Jeremy Smith for Ropeburn
  • Ryan Alexander for Tanner - Television #1
September ($26,548)

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 for 8-9-3
  • Jenny Jaeckel for Spot 12
  • Dave Kiersh for Dirtbags, Mall Chicks and Motorbikes
  • Alex Kim for Wall City
  • stef lenk for TeaTime
  • Justin Murphy for Cleburne
  • Felix Tannenbaum for The Chronicles of Some Made
November ($25,031)
  • Box Brown for Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing
  • Ed Choy Moorman for editing/compiling Ghost Comics: A Benefit Anthology for RS EdenFeaturing Kevin Cannon, Evan Palmer, Will Dinski from the Twin Cities comics scene, as well as Jeffrey Brown and Ed Choy Moorman himself. The anthology was created as a fundraiser for the RS Eden foundation for healthy Minnesota communities.[7][8]
  • 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
  • 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 for Young Lions
  • Lane Milburn for Death Trap
  • Stefan Salinas for Within the Rat
  • Nathan Schreiber for Power Out[9]

2010

May ($32,761)
  • Margaret Ashford-Trotter for Thunder in the Building #2
  • Jason Brubaker for reMIND
  • Jonathon Dalton 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 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 for Snow[10]

2011

May ($29,000)[11]
  • Seamus Heffernan for Freedom
  • Bernard Edward Mireault for To Get Her
  • Sam Spina for Fight
  • Breena Wiederhoeft for Picket Line

2012

July ($74,510)[12]
  • Liz Plourde and Randy Michaels for How i Made the World
  • Laurianne Uy for Polterguys
  • Max Badger for "Oak"
  • Arwen Donahue for "Old Man Gloom"
  • Marnie Galloway for "In The Sounds and Seas: Vol. 1"
  • Olivia Horvath for "Tiny Bangs"
  • Aidan Koch for "The Blonde Woman"
  • John Malta for "The Professor and The Paperboy"
  • Hazel Newlevant for "Ci Vediamo"
  • Shih-Mu Dino Pai for "Dear Beloved Stranger"
  • Benjamin Seto for "Usagi Jane and The Skullbunnies"
  • Darin Shuler for "Castle and Wood"
  • Caitlin Skaalrud for "Sea Change: A Choose-Your-Own-Way Story"
  • Bernard Stiegler for "The Reptile Mind"
  • Laura Terry for "Overboard"
  • Elaine M. Will for Look Straight Ahead
  • M. Young for "Wild Child"

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