The great Gilbert Hernandez is one of this year’s eight winners of a USA Fellows 2009 Literature grant of $50,000. Jim Woodring, Joe Sacco, and Chris Ware won grants in 2006.
Considering that Beto is, indeed, what you might call a national treasure, this is welcome news.
More context by Carolyn Kellogg here.
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Congrats to Gilbert, a true Las Vegas treasure (he lives here)!
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving cartoonist. I do hope that’s $50k per winner, not split 8 ways.
How did I miss this?!