Melanie Anne Eggleston receiving the CLAW Student Scholarship for 2013

Each year The Cartoonist League of Absurd Washingtonians collects funds both from private donations and through its services to the community to bestow on one lucky art student. The dozen students that applied were reviewed by the CLAW membership via their applications that included previous history of awards, letters of recommendation, essays, and most importantly – samples of their cartooning skills. The competition for the scholarship was fierce with one vote deciding the outcome. The CLAW is please to announce that Melanie Anne Eggleston receives the vast sum of the 2013 CLAW Student Scholarship, $1,059.10, to spend on further education herself in the sequential arts.

RR Anderson says, “Extending the deadline is a good idea.”

In these times of economic hardship, it is hard to believe that starving art students are unwilling to fill out a form in the hopes of getting free cash. The CLAW has received no scholarship submissions to date. And attributes this not the complete lethargy of today’s youth, but rather on the fact that the word has not yet gone out that mulla is available. Students seeking to widen their knowledge of the mystical way of cartoons via recognized structures of formal learning may now rejoice in the knowledge that the CLAW Student Scholarship has been extended another 30 days to April 15th 2009. Please forward this link http://www.cartoonistsleague.org/scholarship to those young innocent faces who will be the sequential art leaders of tomorrow.