How to Get a Comic Artist Scholarship

You’re a talented young comic artist, but can’t afford art school. On the high end, tuition costs for schools like Rhode Island School of Design are more than $30,000 annually. On the low end, New York City’s School of Visual Arts’ tuition is more than $11,000, but living in the Big Apple can be expensive. Fortunately, if you have the talent and the need, there are well-endowed scholarships available specifically for comic artists.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• Talent
• Art portfolio
• Computer
• Internet connection

How to Get a Comic Artist Scholarship

1. What type of comic artist are you? Are you an editorial cartoonist, a graphic novelist, or a Marvel/DC-style comic book artist? This will determine which type of school and/or scholarship to aim at.
2. Go to the National Association of Comic Arts Educators’ website (see Resources below) to see the list of colleges and schools with a comic arts curriculum. Visit each college and school website. Almost all of these offer scholarships.
3. There are other comic artist scholarships sponsored by non-profit organizations independent of colleges and schools sponsorship. For example, Diamond, the largest comic book distributor, offers its Diamond in the Rough scholarship for the Center for Cartoon Studies. If you’re an editorial cartoonist, the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists offers the John Locher Memorial Award for student cartoonists.
   
   Also note that some scholarships are for entering students, while others are for students already matriculating. The Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship is sponsored by the National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCS is the organization that also gives out the prestigious Reuben Award every year, the equivalent to the Oscar for professional cartoonists.

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