Matthew Badham has posted the first part of an interview with Jim Medway where, among other things, he gives some solid advice on how artists should go about trying to obtain a grant from the Arts Council, a task which seems pretty grueling but in Jim’s case at least, worthwhile: “It was just exhausting and very unrewarding, so I put together an Arts Council application based on this idea of professional development, teaching myself how to make comics but also how to teach comics to fund my own creative stuff. After six months of writing and tweaking this application and bouncing it back and forwards, I got this grant that was enough to keep me going for a year. It meant that I could do things like get a new laptop and do various experimental projects with groups.”
(a Barleycup the Goat strip from the early 90s, (c) Jim Medway, borrowed from his blog)
Tue, Mar 25, 2008
Comics and cartoons, Interviews