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WE ARE CLEVER KAIJU

GREATER THAN THE SUM OF OUR ARTS

We are an artist-led organization that brings visual artists together to learn, develop, create, and share their work with the world. 

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Community

  • Events for visual arts, networking, and community-building

  • Discord community with demos, challenges, and opportunities

  • Growth groups on discord

  • Webstore, blogs, webcomics, and convention tables to share your work

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Clever Kaiju Labs

  • Virtual workshops taught by professional artists

  • Topics from painting to comic book visual storytelling

  • A platform where our community can teach, learn, and grow together

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A monthly, live art show, four years' running, with talented artists that take on the challenge of the month.

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Explore the Collection

  • From Clever Kaiju merch to art and books from our members. Support and represent!

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Events

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Our Story

It started in 2019 with a small decision to start a Sunday artists' brunch. Our backgrounds varied from comic book artists to animators, but we were more alike than different, and we were growing together. We realized that what we were doing was sorely needed and helping an ever widening circle of artists in our orbit. We formed the official organization, run by Ike Crawford, Gary Bedell, Nate Howard, and James Rutherford. All the pieces keep falling into place as we continue to construct this behemoth: a production studio, webcomics platform, YouTube channel, publishing house, education platform. The Kaiju keeps growing, made from the passion and talent of our members and becoming something that is greater than the sum of our arts.

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Meet the Founders

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The Mannequin: The Secret Skill to Drawing Comics Quickly with Brian Atkins.

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