Kayla Nicole Cline, Cartoonist of the Future!

2011 CLAW Scholarship winner Kayla Cline

Every year The CLAW selects one lucky “at risk youth” (at risk of being seriously awesome) and awards them the YOUNG CARTOONIST OF THE FUTURE Scholarship consisting of a over-sized novelty check for photographic purposes and a large sum of money. This year The CLAW was able to AWARD $908.24 dollars to Ms. Kayla Nicole Cline, an art student at Memphis College of Art in Memphis, Tennessee.

2011 CLAW Scholarship winner Kayla Cline

While Kayla tries to hide behind her novelty check, we want you to see some of her amazing work at illustration art on her webcomic Slag Valley

Learn more about the CLAW scholarship and see past winners here.

Join CLAW at the Amocat Cafe (625 St. Helens Ave, Tacoma, WA) for the April

Open Swim (Wednesday, 27 April 2011 7:30 pm).  We’re cutting albums, well

drawing album covers.  Top 40, Punk, R&B, Funk, Metal–serious or parody–it

doesn’t matter.    Just make sure yours is number #1 with a bullet.

(Text submitted by Mark Monlux, AkA The Grand Poo Bah)

Wayzgoose was this last Sunday and The CLAW was well represented. I mere fifteen feet in from the front door if Kings Books in downtown Tacoma The CLAW was teaching those attending how to fold a ashcan comic from a single piece of paper. In attendance were RR Anderson, Mark Monlux, Anique Zimmer, Nick Butler with assistance for part of the day by James Stowe and Mark Brill. Those manning the table brought merchandise to sell to the unweary.

Come 1:30 our team’s time slot arrived for the poster printing. While our target was 10 posters, time only allowed six to be printed. One will be auctioned off to benefit Wayzgoose, another will be place in the Woolworth window (last time it was later returned to CLAW,) and those participating in the day has dibs on the remaining four. The print was a huge success.

When the message of the Robotic Overlords revealed, a cheer went up from the crowd.

Also, the CLAW Student Scholarship of 2012 received its first donation of $4 bringing the current total to $104. It was a most awesome day. Again, thanks to Stowe for coming down and helping us to set up and drawing caricature nameplates, and to Brill for being part of the team to oversee the printing of the posters.

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