Thomas Denton over at the blog Say It Backwards is putting together a benefit auction for Candlelighters, an organization that helps out the families of kids with cancer. For Thomas, it’s personal, as his nephew had a cancerous brain tumor removed last June:
So Thomas is looking for artists to donate artwork to the auction:
Starting with official pals of SIB Thom Zahler and Jesse Farrell, I’m getting in contact with as many artists as I can for a charity project to help raise money to help the families of kids with cancer. Both of these brilliant fellows are donating commissions of their work to be auctioned off on ebay. (The candlelighters are part of ebay’s charity auction program. Ebay actually makes charity auctions really safe and easy, so I’m quite happy about that. They make it way more trustworthy than I.) I need your help in contacting other artists; professional, amateur, folks who like to doodle stick figures on post-its, to add their talents. Finished pieces, commissions, anything they’d like to contribute.
Other artists who have stepped up in addition to Zahler and Farrell include Chris Haley, Evan Dorkin, James Figueiredo and Alex Maleev.
If you would like to donate something, you can contact Thomas at sayitbackwards@gmail.com. If you send something, feel free to drop me a note, too, and I’ll do some sort of follow-up with links to your blog, website or project.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I really appreciate you spreading the word here. There are around a dozen volunteers already, including a few well-known comic pros. I’m really excited about this.