Dear Friends  –

After a great deal of deliberation and no small amount of soul-searching, we are very happy to introduce you to this year's Sponsored Artist for San Diego Comic-Con® International, Candice Broersma.

We'll have more to say on this topic very soon, but we know a great many people have been awaiting this official announcement.

For now, we want to congratulate Candice, and we also want to give our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to ALL of the amazing artists who applied for consideration:  you seriously made our job incredibly challenging!  That's the kind of problem we want to have, though, because that means there are a great many incredible, up-and-coming artists out there.

To quote Highlander, sadly, "there can be only one", but we encourage and invite everyone who submitted work this year to try again next year.

A special thanks also to this year's guest judge, artist and art instructor Dan Cooney.

To see more of Candice's beautiful artwork, please click here to visit her website.

Thank you again to everyone who applied - we hope to see as many of you as possible at Con!

All the best,

– Everyone at the Kevin Workman Foundation

Braving the irradiated, rusted, battered pre-apocalyptic wastes of downtown Los Angeles, our scavenger parties sought out new art, artists, cosplayers, contacts, boys of Pip and War varieties, women of Wonder, Cat, and other varieties, and answers to questions ranging from "How do we feel about the next Indy movie?" to "Who runs Bartertown?"

We found everything we were looking for, and more, at WonderCon 2016.

Friends:

As promised, an update on our Sponsored Artist Program for SDCC2016:

After considerable individual struggle and internal debate (seriously you guys - this was HARD!), we have arrived at our Final Three candidates.

We will be interviewing those artists by phone this week and then announcing our final decision shortly thereafter.

Whichever candidate is ultimately our final selection, we know you'll love his or her work.

Thank you, and stay tuned!

Greetings, Friends!

This message is to update you on the status of our 2016 SDCC Sponsored Artist selection process.
To say that narrowing the field has been challenging would be an understatement, but we are happy to announce that we have selected our Top Ten finalists!

We are also proud to announce that we have enlisted the assistance of professional artist and art instructor Dan Cooney to advise us in this final stage of the selection process.

Dan is the creator of the crime fiction comic book series VALENTINE, THE ATOMIC YETI, and the forthcoming graphic novel THE TOMMY GUN DOLLS, as well as the artist and author of the instructional books WRITING AND ILLUSTRATING THE GRAPHIC NOVEL and THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FIGURE DRAWING FOR COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS by BARRON'S. Dan is also an instructor for the Academy of Art University.

We know what we like, but Dan will provide a unique, professional perspective from the “other side” of the drawing board, and we look forward to his feedback.
Stay tuned for another update soon, and thank you for your continued interest and support!
To learn more about Dan and see some of his work, please visit his website: http://www.dancooneyart.com/