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Scholarships you guys might want to apply for.




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Zade



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:08 pm Reply with quote
http://freshbrain.org/scholarship/graphic-novel-concept-scholarship
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littlegreenwolf



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:42 pm Reply with quote
You have to be younger than 18, and you only get 1500$ while they get full rights to your creation? Hell no.
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Zade



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:11 pm Reply with quote
So 1-4 drawn pages and a plot synopsis for $500-1500 is a bad deal?... Where do you even read they get full rights?

Also, I live near you, ever been to Perry?
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The Xenos



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:12 am Reply with quote
It's not a scholarship, but I know Emerson College in Boston has a fairly new graphic novel program for writers and artists.

http://www.emerson.edu/ce/programs/certificate/Graphic-Novel-Certificate.cfm
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Moomintroll



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:14 am Reply with quote
Zade wrote:
So 1-4 drawn pages and a plot synopsis for $500-1500 is a bad deal?


You only get the money if you win. They get the rights to your stuff whether you win or not.

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Where do you even read they get full rights?


Read the small print:

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FreshBrain shall have all rights to copy, edit, publicly display, publicly perform, broadcast, publish and use, in whole or in part, any Statement of Purpose and any other intellectual property protected or protectable materials submitted by applicant, in any manner without further compensation during and after the FreshBrain Scholarship Program entry period.


That's a terrible deal.
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The Xenos



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:26 am Reply with quote
Kinda like the deals TokyoPop tried to tie its creators down with. Which is pretty much what you had in the comics dark ages in this country, where the publisher maintained all the character rights. Only a handful of the most popular of those older creators ever got any rights. Hell, the families of Superman's creators are still in court over that. Nowadays there should be some better outlets even for creator owned work, even for neophytes.
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