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May 3, 2024: The Kubert School Academic Supervisor & Instructor Fernando Ruiz communicated with Inkwell Awards director Bob Almond regarding the recipient of the Inkwell Awards’ 15th scholarship award recipient of the Dave Simons Inkwell Memorial Scholarship Fund by 2nd year remote student David Sampson. Besides Ruiz, staff and guests in attendance included School owner & President Anthony Marques and Mike Zapcic of Kevin Smith’s comic shop, Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash (and The Comic Book Men). The store sponsored a scholarship this year and he was there to present it.
Bob stated: “The Inkwell Awards core committee wishes David Sampson the best regards for his senior yea
r and future prospects. School graduates have had a consistent record of breaking into the sequential art world as professionals and we have heard from several of them. Knowing that we have in any way helped some new, aspiring artists reach their dreams & goals is sincerely and infinitely rewarding to us.”