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Video Update/Thank You for thee Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency fundraiser
More like this, @franksantoro!! I like learning more about the city and its non-comics related character.
franksantoro is starting a comicsworkbook residency next to his home/studio in Pittsburgh!
Check out his indiegogo here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-comics-workbook-rowhouse-residency/x/11961000#/storyand facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/ComicsWorkbookRowhouseResidency
Frank’s buying the house next door - he already raised the money but he doesn’t have the cash on hand yet because the crowdfund ends after closing on the house. So he’s borrowing from family and industry friends and paying them back. However now he’s trying push to get it fixed up - please share if possible!! We need eyeballs more than money right now.
WOOF xo
pittsburgh comics utopia xxx
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made for comics workbook
please check out our fundraiser to build a brick and mortar schoolhouse
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We go with THIS!!! NOW’s THE TIME!!! We have begun the IndieGoGo crowdfund to buy the house and turn it into our school. Click HERE! WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! If Comics Workbook means anything at all too you—or the idea of pushing the boundaries of the form and how the form is taught means anything to you—please consider making a contribution to our efforts. Come on over. Dinner’s ready. I’ll make you a plate. CHECK IT OUT HERE!!! #ucandoit The Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency
This video has got me so jazzed for this!
Please consider supporting thee Santoro School for Comics Book Makers drive to build the Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency. Come live and work in Pittsburgh PA . CHECK OUT THE AUCTION OF RARE COMICS HERE.
I scored some rare minis and a sammyharkham original through Frank’s auction! Sammy’s comic Poor Sailor first convinced me of the power of this medium and I’m so excited to have an original from him! You, too, could glimpse into the minds of your comics heroes through some of the items that Frank is auctioning off.
I have tapped out my resources but you could win some awesome stuff AND support a very interesting future opportunity for furthering the comic arts.
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Please consider supporting thee Santoro School for Comics Book Makers drive to build the Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency. Come live and work in Pittsburgh PA . CHECK OUT THE AUCTION OF RARE COMICS HERE.
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Howzitgoin? Good, good. Me? Good, thanks. I gotta tell ya though I’m sorry to bother you again, but y’see somethin’s been troubling me and I can’t stop thinking about it. Kept me up all night. and the dog too cuz he thought I was getting up to take him to Cincinnati. What’s that? Oh. Sorry. Cincinnati is what I call the park. Cuz if I say “park” or “walk” then he gets crazy. So we say Cincinnati around here. Yeah. So. Where was I? Oh yeah. This thing has been bothering me and it’s this thing about commodity form as community form. What’s that? Oh. “Commodity form as community form.” Yeah, it’s a mouthful. And sort of puzzle. What does it mean? I don’t know. Or I think I know. Either way, I keep thinking about it.
I’m helping out Frank to raise money for his comics schoolhouse/residency in Pittsburgh because taking his correspondence pushed me artistically and taught me to approach comics in a different way.
But then–perhaps what is more important for my continued, and hopeful long term, commitment to comics making–is that Frank folded me into the community of alumni who had taken his course. I feel that I can relate to every one of his former and future students because of the shared experience, even though, as he mentions here, many of us have not met in person. He gives all of his alumni access to the Comics Workbook tumblr and from that platform they can share their work, whatever level, together with established artists like Simon Hanselmann and Aidan Koch and others. It’s something special for a beginner comic artist to feel open to share in a forum together with comics luminaries like that. And it can be helpful in building an initial readership.
I haven’t posted to the CW tumblr in a while because I’ve been cooped up working on a year-long project. But that doesn’t matter. The invitation to the community doesn’t go away; I know that once I pack up the last artwork for this current gig, I can start drawing my own stuff again and post it to CW. I’m grateful to Frank’s embracing spirit and what his approach could do to improve the future education of comics art and the establishment of communities of comics creators around the U.S. I’m glad that he is doing it, because honestly, I think I (and other creators) can get a bit too wrapped up in their own creative work to look far outside themselves. I’m hoping to attend Frank’s residency once it’s established and hopefully get some insight into how I can make community building a more active part of my own relationship with comics.
I realize that this long-winded praise piece has just doubled the time you’ve taken to engage with this topic–if you read Frank’s post–but if you did take the time to read this, take the time to shoot Frank an email at [email protected] and check out what he’s auctioning. Whether you just want a piece of original art by a favorite cartoonist, or you believe in what he’s trying to achieve–I think it’s worth your time.
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NEW AUCTION STUFF is up at the private fundraising blog for the Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency. Check out the public face of the auction blog HERE. Email me santoroschoolATgmail if you want an invite. Over 150 rare comics and lots of original art for sale from many of the best cartoonists in the world including Vanesa R. Del Rey, Simon Hanselmann and Sammy Harkham. Please consider supporting the building of the Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency. Thanks! -FS
Don’t sleep in this sunday! Place your bids for some of this amazing work–originals by Simon Hanselmann, Jaime Hernandez, Aidan Koch, and more!! So many splendors for you budding art collectors!
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NewComics Course starting soon! Email santoroschoolATgmail for application guidelines. Get on the bus!!! Go to school!!!
all comix pups need training!
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