February 12, 2017
By Request Extra: Challenge Grant Issued By Eisner Foundation For New Lucy Caswell Research Award
According to this press release over at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, a new research award named after the best friend comics ever had, Billy Ireland's founding curator Lucy Caswell, will get some help in the form of a challenge grant. That means that if the libraries can raise $35K, the other $35K will come from the Will And Ann Eisner Family Foundation and form the basis of an endowment to fund the awards for the rest of time.
The Billy does so much so well that we sometimes that a primary function for the place is research. In fact, comics has lacked in nice things since its inception so we sometimes forget that going to where material is held, that's a basic thing that academic areas of interest encourage. So this sounds much needed to me just in terms of pushing the art form's attending culture in the right direction. And it's named for a titan of that culture. What's not to love? Open those wallets up. Everything counts twice.
posted 3:35 pm PST |
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