Xeric Foundation announces latest winners

The Beat has the list of the latest Xeric award winners. Congrats to:

• Catherine Hannah – Winter Beard
  
• Lance Christian Hansen – Don’t Cry
  
• Melody Shickley – In the Hands of Boys
  
• Albert Benjamin Thompson -- HUSK

The brainchild of Peter Laird, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Xeric Foundation offers financial assistance to self-publishing comic book creators. The next deadline and review dates are July 31, 2006 and Sept. 1, 2006, respectively. Visit their Website for more info.