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A Comic Shop Ice Buckets For Charity In Arizona This Weekend
By Alex Wilson Throughout the social media sphere you've probably seen your friends, relatives, and even a few notable celebrities take on the "ASL Ice Bucket challenge" to raise awareness and money to fight Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The comic book community has also taken note of this social media charity fad and one Arizona comic book shop[...]
Fanboy Rampage: Ulises Farinas Vs. Yale Stewart Over Charity Wallpapers(UPDATE)
Yale Stewart is the creator of the JL8 and Little League webcomics, featuring unofficial uses of the DC Comics characters as young children. It was so successful, Stewart got a Harvey Award nomination and was picked up by official licensors Capstone to write and draw The Amazing Adventures of Superman children's books featuring adult versions of the characters,[...]
Want To Play A Game Run By Monte Cook Or Bruce Cordell At Gen Con This Year?
By Christopher Helton Monte Cook Games is going to have a charity auction, giving away chances to play in a Numenera game run by Monte Cook or a game of The Strange run by Bruce Cordell at Gen Con 2014. [Monte Cook] Numenera is a science fantasy roleplaying game, set in a far future setting known as The Ninth World[...]
Comics Save The Apes – Panels For Primates Is Coming To ComiXology
In 2010-2011, the indie comics, prose, and illustration project Panels for Primates appeared on the creator-owned webcomics platform ActivateComix, with a goal in mind to support animal charity work focused on the Primate Rescue Center in Nicholasville, Kentucky Now, two anthologies of the digital project edited by Troy Wilson have been collected for sale on[...]
Superheroes For Hospice To Have Charity Comic Sale
What the promoters are calling the "Better Than Black Friday: Charity Comic Sale", the Superheroes For Hospice group has put together an event for Saturday November 9th that will have over 100,000 comic books on sale including high-end titles from the Silver Age This also marks the return of the Get Into Comics lecture series[...]
Wake Up And Draw! A New Event To Honor Kirby And Raise Money For The Hero Initiative
A gallery of the completed work will be available on-line at ComicArtFans.com and the originals will be auctioned off at a later date to raise money for the charity. The Hero Initiative, the charitable organization dedicated to helping veteran comic creators in medical or financial need, is working with the Kirby4Heroes campaign founded by Jillian Kirby, Jack's granddaughter[...]
Kick Ass 3 Raises $2800 For Children's Charities With eBay Auctions
Secret Service raised $5,100 to send kids from his old school to the big Christmas pantomime and Jupiter's Children raised over $3,500. In comparison, Kick Ass 3 has raised a smaller sum, which may be reflective of the wider economy and less prominent publicity this time (I only found out about it after it had finished)[...]
Jupiter's Children eBay Auction Hits $3,500 With Hours To Go
It both promotes the comic and raises money for charity Not a bad way to do business Mark Millar is currently auctioning off the naming rights to his upcoming comic with Frank Quitely, Jupiter's Children. Previous auctions from Millar have raised money for the school for disabled children at which his brother works, Kick Ass raised[...]
James Jean's Shoes For Auction
James Jean recently painted this pair of shoes, to be auctioned off tomorrow at Lane Crawford in the ifc Mall in Hong Kong to benefit the Changing Young
Mark Millar, Nemesis And The School Bus
That seemed to get wider. When promoting the comic books Nemesis and Superior, Mark Millar promoted a charity skydive being attempted by his brother and teacher, Dr Bobby Millar, to be carried out while dressed as the Nemesis character, to help raise money for a school bus for Rutherglen High School in South Lanarkshire, specialising in[...]
Buy Dan DiDio For A Thousand Dollars
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is appealing to raise $100,000 by the end of October, to pay for "urgent legal and education work." This includes the
The War Of The Savage Dragon Sketches
Image Comics employee Branwyn Bigglestone has been raising money for her participation in the AIDS Walk SF, to aid the Homeless Youth Alliance. As befits
Preview: Spirit Of Hope
I've written a short one page piece with artist Mike Collins for the upcoming Spirit Of Hope anthology from Comic Book Alliance, to raise money for
So Who Was That Unmasked Man In Batman Inc. #4?
And here he is, drawn by Chris Burnham. Looks like the charity work is now in Bat continuity! Nice one Aldrin! http://sexdrugsandcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2010/12/cba-auction-results-3000-and-rising.html This is Aldrin Stoja Recently he won the Comic Book Alliance auction for £1,127 to appear in Batman Inc #4, thanks to DC Comics and Grant Morrison Which came out on Wednesday[...]
Buy Frank Miller's Drawing Chair
It's a little battered and bruised. And it looks like someone's scribbled on it. But this chair, if you can call it that, is where Frank Miller drew Sin
The Smell Of Adam Hughes
This is the label art from a new perfume created to benefit the comics industry charity HERO Named Heroine, the perfume is made from Nepalese amber, East African patchouli, dark musk, apple blossom, petitgrain, aged leather, skin musk, and rhubarb. Mmmm, rhubarb… So either order online, or pop into you comic shore and ask f they can[...]