2025 Jay Kennedy Scholarships to Samantha Huyck/Abby McColgan
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The board of the National Cartoonists Society Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship: Samantha Huyck and Abby McColgan. Two recipients were chosen this year as the scholarship was not awarded in 2024.
Congratulations to Samantha Huyck and Abby McColgan on being awarded the $5,000 scholarships.
The Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship is an annual award established in memory of Jay Kennedy, the late King Features comics editor, from an initial grant from the Hearst Foundation/King Features Syndicate and additional generous donations from other prominent cartoonists. It is administered by the National Cartoonists Society Foundation [link added].
Since 2024 saw no scholarship given two were chosen this year.
Samantha is an Illustration major at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI, where she has been working on character and environment design/illustration as an aspiring visual development artist. She enjoys experimenting with the design and shape language a character can have, and how their colors and shapes can convey personality and tell a story. Her ambition is to do visual development for studios like Nickelodeon, the Cartoon Network and others.
Abby is a Sequential Art major at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga. She loves using the medium of comics to share her experiences and tell stories about her life, both comical and introspective. Her non-autobiographical comics range from lighthearted, down to earth stories that can be enjoyed by readers of all ages to more mature themes. Her dream is to publish her own graphic novels for middle grade and young-adult audiences.
Further details at the National Cartoonists Society Foundation’s page announcing the 2025 scholarship.
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