Concept (for the newish folks)

[Ben Rollman]

The idea behind the 100 Artists Project came from the 1000 Journals Project. The idea of getting a large number of people involved was appealing and so it was brought up on the comic art creation message board Penciljack as a way to possibly collect art and donate the funds from the sale of the art to charitable organizations.

The charities for the first volume were the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and The Hero Initiative. Both these foundations help comic book and cartoon artists and they are both non-profit.

Here are the current projects.

• 100 Artists Single - 100 pieces that are mailed in, supporting the CBLDF. This is a repeat of the one that generated volume one of the 100AP (on sale). There's no theme but please stay away from copyrighted material. Draw, paint, ink, anything you'd like. Page dimensions should be something between 8.5x11 and 9x12. Mail it in, and you're done!
  
  
• 100 Artists Big - One sketchbook sent to 100 people, supporting the Hero Initiative. The first version of the sketchbook is still traveling around. Another will go out soon. This one will take a while as each artist has to receive the book, add to it, then mail it to the next person. For example, we're up to about 30 people now and the books been in circulation for roughly fifteen months.
  
  
• 100 Artists Youth - 25 piece mail in. Auction and book sales supporting the International Child Art Foundation. Must be 18 or under to qualify for this. This is the same as the 100 Single but for kids (youth, young adults.) Just draw something and send it in.
  
  
• 100 Artists Digital - 50 piece digital art only books supporting the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Educaiton. This will be digital files going straight to print. Since they are going to be printing in a graphic novel format (likely) please try and keep them in the traditional comic book size at whatever ratio for the original. Feel free to send any type of file, but psd or eps would be best, that way I can convert it to whatever file type the printing requires. There are large file transfer sites like YouSendIt.com will allow you to transfer certain sized files.
  
  
• 100 Artists Moleskine - One small moleskine book mailed around supporting the Center for Cartoon Studies Scholarship Fund. Once we get enough signed up for this one, I'll send the "sketchbook with the oilskin cover" out. (Quotes because I can't pronounce the word.) Since this one IS for a cartoon school, cartoons would be great, but it's not restrained to that.
  
  
• 100 Artists Writers - 20 writers. Up to 3,500 word short stories supporting The Office of Letters and Light. 2,500 words at roughly 250 a page would be 10 pages. Formatting may alter that. Please don't go over 2,500. Feel free, however to remain well under that. Any type of short story is ok but it'd be especially cool to have some good science fiction, horror, or mystery. Oh yes, please stick to fiction. I won't necessarily turned down quantum physics papers or poetry but I'd rather get some good speculative fiction.
  

All mail in pieces can be sent to the following address.

100 Artists Project
15526 Sarahs Creek Dr.
Pflugerville, TX 78660

And you can email writing or digital files to [e-mail]


The idea is the art is worth more because it's traveled so far and the books are worth more because they are not just assemblings of different pieces of work, but work that's traveled a distance and done knowing that a good cause awaits them.

[uggabugga]

funny, she doesn't look newish.