Sustainable Art Foundation Award

This award will help support the Middle Grade Graphic adventure I’m currently working on as well as a memoir.

The Sustainable Arts Foundation supports writers an artists with children.

From the 2020 award announcement: “Chosen from a field of nearly 1,800 applicants, these twenty artists and writers come from eighteen U.S. cities, Costa Rica, and Turkey; they are parenting thirty-four children. The world closed down while we were reviewing their portfolios, but their creativity opened the world back up to us. We are now all the more eager for the day when we can return to bookstores, galleries, museums, libraries and all the other vibrant spaces where art happens. We hope you will seek out their work.”

I applied for this award many times over the years, gave up for a while, and early this year applied again. Grant applications are a way to describe and focus my projects for myself—as well as a jury. Most of my applications have not been successful—it’s amazing when they are. I’m so grateful for this support, especially now.

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Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre Review in the New York Times

This review in the New York Times one is the best yet! It appears in the print edition on Sunday Dec. 1st.

“This emotionally nuanced and visually stunning biography, illustrated in deft pencil strokes colored with moody shades of blue and featuring an insightful introduction written by Alison Bechdel, is the latest venture from the Center for Cartoon Stories…”

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