Still plenty of spots open for all projects. The moleskine is going to go out soon and the sketchbook will be back in circulation. Still, I've only received one piece of work since the project relaunched on August 13th. So what's keeping you?

Not to steal from the fine community here, but I've also started a message board for contributors (or anyone) to come and discuss anything you'd like, network with people, post your art and that like.

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Help me keep the project rolling by participating. It only works if we have dedicated contributors, and you can be that.

Thanks all.

I know it's confusing, but someone mentioned I should post something for the wordsmiths.

The 100AP, hopefully you know by now, is running again and with a few new projects. One of those is the writing project. As of now I've set it up to be 20 writers and up to 10 pages maximum - all prose, no scripts. Time to get your sci-fi, horror, western, drama hats on and do some short stories.

Same as with the others, the book will be printed and sold through a POD, (likely Lulu or Blurb, I may do both.) The charity this time is the Office of Letters and Light. It's a small charity encouraging creative writing in children. I like that they're small because whatever we can do to help will mean a lot to them. They support larger groups as well.

Sign up page is ready to handle the new project, so feel free to get going and if you have any questions let me know. And yes you can submit something you've already written. The word limit is set to 3,500, that's ROUGHLY 10 pages depending on your format. It'll be printed as a perfect bound paperback.

All the details about submissions and such are on the site, please stop by.

Also, if you know other writers either not here or on most comic boards, please let them know. May not take long to get 20 writers, but you never know.

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Cheers!

After many months of promises and false starts, the second round of the 100AP is underway. Please visit the main site for all the details.

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What's New?

I've broken up the original projects and have added a few more. The mail in 100 now ties in to the CBLDF and the sketchbook goes to Hero. The new ones are the 25 piece youth project supporting the International Child Art Foundation, the 50 piece digital art supporting the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education and the Moleskine book supporting the Center for Cartoon Studies.

The sign up page is active and I'll be sending out emails to the charities as well as some studios to drum up interest. If you're part of this community already, you've probably submitted work for volume one and all I ask is that you help talk up the relaunch anywhere you can.

Thanks for your continued support.

Seen on Drawn! The Orphan Works Act of 2008 is set to go up tomorrow. Please read the information as this impacts artists of all types.

http://drawn.ca/2008/05/13/oppose-the-orphan-works-act-of-2008


Currently, copyright is granted the moment a work is created. This new Orphan Works legislation proposes a change in U.S. copyright that would (indirectly) require artists, illustrators, photographers, and any creative individual to actively maintain and defend their copyright by registering each and every work with privatized registrars. Failure to do so would leave everything you’ve ever created as an artist up for grabs by anyone who wanted to copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, or flat out steal your work since the act defines an “orphan work” as any work where the author is unidentifiable or unlocatable, and applies to both published and unpublished works, U.S. and foreign, regardless of age.



More information in the post including ways to contact your reps, an interview with Brad Holland about the issue as well as some other links. Please read, act and pass this information along.

The 100AP vol. 1 is now available at Indy Planet.

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Please spread the word. 100% of proceeds go toward the CBLDF and HERO.