 Whatsup everyone!
First off, a happy Friday to you all. Secondly this Saturday (tomorrow) morning is the very merry GRAND opening celebration of Salisbury's newest comic shop, PHOENIX RISING. I think I can speak for all of the sequential art fans of the area in saying "welcome". It's always nice to see another shop opening up, whether locally or elsewhere. In welcoming this new addition many, if not all, of the areas comics artists & companies will be supporting PHOENIX RISING by being on-location in the store for the opening. The fine fellows of PLB Comics and Trunk Novel Publsihing, along with Mr. Bradley Hudson and Jason McKee, as well as yours truly, will be setup doing sketches, selling comics, arm-wrestling and possibly breathing fire. We'll see. For sure though PLB's bringing out the big guns with their latest comic, The Fall: Vengence & Justice #3. And by latest I mean VERY latest. It's literally arriving from their printer THAT DAY. So don't miss it's big premiere. Also, Adam Timmons and Kevin Gravenor will be unveiling their debut comic, Charm City Chronicles. Along with these things of mighty coolness PHOENIX RISING will have food & beverages at noon. So feel free to partake. All creators will be setup for the opening at 10am tomorrow morning. If you have any questions you can contact PHOENIX RISING on their facebook page right HERE, or call them at 443-944-8207. Their address is... PHOENIX RISING Games & Comics 327B Civic Avenue Salisbury, MD 21804 A big thanks to Brooks Dorsey and Chris Miller, PR's founders, for having us all out. Can't wait. Thanks everyone, see you all out there! - Doug
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 Whatsup everyone! I wanted to pass along the excellent news that the 13th annual CCART Art Show is upon us. For those of you that may not know the Cavallaro and Cleary Visual Art Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in support of visual arts. The primary goal is to provide scholarships to talented high school seniors residing on the Lower Eastern Shore of Delaware, Maryland & Virginia seeking continuing education at their school of choice in the study of Visual Art. CCART also provides a venue for regional artists and art students to sell their work at the annual CCART fundraising art sale. 30% of each sale from the show goes directly to the Cavallaro and Cleary Visual Art Foundation. I've participated in the show for the last 3 years and it's been a pleasure to be a part of. The variety of work available is so vast there's literally something for everyone. From painting & drawing to sculpture & crafts, something will surely catch your attention. I'm also very excited as I'll have available for the show an extremely limited edition one-of-a-kind print. I've team-up with Baltimore's Archival Arts to create a fine art print using high quality archival watercolor paper and archival inks - a process known as Giclée, which enables the print to maintain it's current appearance by never fading, yellowing or changing in anyway. This is also an "artist proof", very limited and fully matted & framed. I'm happy to say as well that the print is of a piece done for The Country, a series of true real-life short stories. If you'd like to know a little more about those you can visit previous posts here, here and right here.  The reception for the show is this evening from 4-9pm with a Silent Auction from 4-8pm. It's was an absolutely wonderful time last year with wine, food, live music and of course, a bountiful display of artwork. And I imagine it'll be even better this year. All for the great cause of helping graduating high school students pursue the arts throughout college. Foundations like CCART are what enabled me to have the career that I myself enjoy today. Doesn't get any better than that.
If you'd like to visit the CCART website for more info such as hours & dates you can do so by visiting www.CCARTFoundation.org. Come join us for the annual "Lucky 13" CCART Art Show & Sale. See you there! - Doug |
