Visual Artist & Musician
Arnold David Clapman
16 Old Court Rd.
Weinberg House
Pikesville, MD 21208
United States
ph: 410-504-5022
alt: 831-239-9248 cell
arniedcl
COMIX BY KIDZ
Arnie Clapman self-published the first three issues of Comix By Kidz in Santa Cruz CA. About 100 copies were sold at local comic book stores but many more were donated to alternate education schools and outreach programs. Every Christmas 50 copies were donated to the local juvenile detention center.
Arnie brought the rest with him to Baltimore; about 200 copies of each of the 3 issues. He is trying to get a response from Diamond Distributors but would be more than happy to offer a deal to any comic book publisher out there who might be interested in distributing the rest as well as publishing a second printing of these comics. The artwork for a 4th issue of Comix By Kidz is waiting for the funding needed for printing and publishing. Hopefully it will someday materialize.
Arnie Clapman
410-504-5022 / 831-239-9248
arniedclapman@yahoo.com
One day back in 1995, I was scanning the shelves in Atlantis Fantasyworld, the venerable comic book store in Santa Cruz , California,and spotted a comic that I illustrated around 1984. I introduced myself to Joe Ferraro, the owner, and offered to sign the comic to make it a collectible. Instead, Joe gave it to me as a gift and a friendship began that has lasted for 15 years.
A week later, Joe recommended me as a comic book art instructor at the Children's Art Center of Santa Cruz. The class attracted a "Dream Team" of talented teenagers whose artwork inspired me to publish the first issue of Comix by Kidz.
When the center went out of business, I moved my students to Sash Mill and Arnie's Comic Book Art Classes was born. For 16 years, my students' artwork was displayed in galleries, restaurants, fairs and other venues throughout the county. Artwork also came from the at-risk and incarcerated teens that I worked with in various outreach programs representing a dramatic transition as graffiti artists with outstanding warrants channelled their talents into the legal and public forum offered to them by Comix by Kidz comic books.
We applied for and received numerous youth grants from the Santa Cruz Community Foundation along with the support of many local merchants. This support facilitated the publishing of two more issues of our comic book, Comix by Kidz.
On a very special day for me and my "Dream Team" our comic books and classes were praised by Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book artist and creator of the renown graphic novels, "Maus 1 & 2", during an event sponsored by the Santa Cruz Sentinel which took place at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Nuff said.
Arnold David Clapman
16 Old Court Rd.
Weinberg House
Pikesville, MD 21208
United States
ph: 410-504-5022
alt: 831-239-9248 cell
arniedcl