Comments on: Mike Wieringo scholarship announced

By: michael

michael — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:07:47 +0000

cool idea, but wow! Art school is expensive. O.O

GA must need all that money for water expenses.

By: Chris Prievo

Chris Prievo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:49:23 +0000

Although this is a very good idea, I believe it would have better served to The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art Inc (which is specifically a 3 year college FOR comic books) rather than some basic art college that offers 1 or 2 classes a week. and The JKS is 1/2 the $ in tuition w/ ” in the field comic artists”

By: mario boon

mario boon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:26:34 +0000

Hi Matt!
I see now. Good luck with it, Mike is still sorely missed!

By: Matt Wieringo

Matt Wieringo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:11:52 +0000

Mario, the 30K includes room, board, supplies and tuition. That’s about right for any college. I see what you’re saying though. Took me 10 years to pay off my 3 years at VCU. Hopefully, Mike’s scholarship will ease that burden for some talented person.

Jimmie, we weren’t able to get the fund started early enough to announce it sooner. This all came together within the last month or so. We had originally intended to hold the announcement until the convention itself but Shelton Drum and I agreed it would be better if people knew about it beforehand.

Anyone interested in making donations can feel free to contact me (I’m easy to find on the internet) and I’ll be glad to send you a stamped, addressed envelope in which you can send your donations directly to SCAD.

Thanks, everybody. (Especially you, Heidi, for posting this.)

By: Jimmie Robinson

Jimmie Robinson — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:12:03 +0000

I so wish I was going to Heroes Con this weekend.
I wish this was announced earlier.
But no worries, I will have to make my donation from the West Coast.

Mike was a great guy and this is a wonderful idea that needs to be realized.

By: Kate Willaert

Kate Willaert — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:29:44 +0000

Would be worth it to get one year of serious comics classes paid for, and then drop out before wracking up much serious debt (speaking as a jaded art school graduate with much serious debt).

By: God is tired of DC too

God is tired of DC too — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:56:55 +0000

Me likey! Great job!

By: mario

mario — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:35:13 +0000

that’s a very noble initiative, but 30k for one year?
Yow! you’d better get an exclusive contract with Marvel or DC upon graduating to be able to pay back that tuition money!

30k to essentially be told: “draw, draw, draw” is alot of money!