USA Fellows

United States Artists, an organization dedicated to supporting and developing the work of living American fine artists, awards fellowship grants to Amercian artists of all stripes. The nominations for possible fellowship candidates are made by an anonymous group of artists, arts leaders, critics, and scholars. While they are still in a three year pilot period, they have already awarded a few comics creators with fellowships including Joe Sacco, Chris Ware, and Jim Woodring. Chris Ware is even one of the artists featured in their Encounters: USA Fellows. There you can find this sazzy video.



Those Chris Ware savvy blog readers might have caught the story shown in the video is an excerpt from Jimmy Corrigan, Ware’s breakthrough graphic novel.

It is always nice to see comics creators get being honored and appreciated by arts community. Now, we can just hope that more comics creators win Fellowships in the years to come!

-Nick