Kayla Nicole Cline, Cartoonist of the Future!

2011 CLAW Scholarship winner Kayla Cline

Every year The CLAW selects one lucky “at risk youth” (at risk of being seriously awesome) and awards them the YOUNG CARTOONIST OF THE FUTURE Scholarship consisting of a over-sized novelty check for photographic purposes and a large sum of money. This year The CLAW was able to AWARD $908.24 dollars to Ms. Kayla Nicole Cline, an art student at Memphis College of Art in Memphis, Tennessee.

2011 CLAW Scholarship winner Kayla Cline

While Kayla tries to hide behind her novelty check, we want you to see some of her amazing work at illustration art on her webcomic Slag Valley

Learn more about the CLAW scholarship and see past winners here.

Check out the printing process of this year’s CLAW poster.

Lance Kagey has been awarded FRIEND OF CLAW status by unanimous vote during a secret members-only meeting of the Cartoonists League of Absurd Washingtonians (the C.L.A.W.) I was picked or volunteered to craft his invitation/notice so this is how I chose to honor that commitment. It is no small secret that I am intensely jealous of other artists who are picked to work with Beautiful Angle on a wheat paste poster project… but that is a story for another time. What is important now is that we honor this work-a-day letter press savant by disparaging his main competition, namelyChandler OCD’leery and Jessica Spring Tide.   Today the Tacomic honors savage manliness; just look at these guys. They’re all stubble, ruddy and pot bellied… that’s REAL AMERICA folks.

Congratulations LANCE KAGEY: Friend of the CLAW!

You’re invited to..

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS TEMPLE
7PM, Monday January 3rd.

EVENT DETAILS: http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/have-you-received-a-personal-invitation-to-the-grand-yearly-ceremony-of-the-claw/